The post-Weinstein Golden Globes was an exercise in hypocrisy

[mystery-ak]

Opinion
The post-Weinstein Golden Globes was an exercise in hypocrisy

By Maureen Callahan

January 8, 2018 | 12:45am

And the award for ultimate hypocrisy goes to . . . the Hollywood class of 2018.

This year’s Golden Globes were meant to be a defiant, vibrant celebration of a post-Weinstein industry, an awards ceremony about so much more than meaningless awards. We were promised a reckoning, the leveling of a male-dominated industry that institutionalized the rape, abuse and harassment of women for decades.

Like so much Hollywood product, advance buzz was greatly exaggerated. Not one actor or actress, on the red carpet or on stage, made direct reference to their industry’s greatest monster — the one they boast of slaying yet still want to appease.

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[Restored]

Heh. The "Poverty is Sexist" shirt sells for $380.

[sneakypete]

The post-Weinstein Golden Globes was an exercise in hypocrisy

It's Hollywood,so what else could it be with everyone playing a role to gain applause? You go with the flow in Hollywood,or you don't get jobs. If "the industry" (meaning the money boys) were to wake up one day next week and decide that the Nazi's had the right idea,most of Hollywood would be wearing leather and goose-stepping within days.

Those people have all the moral depth of a decal.

[sneakypete]

Heh. The "Poverty is Sexist" shirt sells for $380.

@Restored

I think that sums it up the deep philosophical convictions of the professional left nicely.

[Frank Cannon]

From what I saw, it looked like a funeral. I am guessing it was for their worthless dead industry.

[andy58-in-nh]

Hollywood has always had more than its share of con artists, parasites, and buyers and sellers of human flesh.

It is the geographical intersection of greed and ambition; a place where dreams go to be born, and consciences to die.  It is also especially, a magnet for hypocrites - those who demand near-perfection of others while giving themselves unlimited license in all manner of their behavior.   

I do not doubt therefore that over time, many women have been abused by powerful men in Hollywood as in other places. But I also know that some women in the entertainment industry have willingly allowed themselves to be abused in exchange for parts and roles, some of whom now act shocked and outraged, as though they had no supporting role in their own treatment.   

[goatprairie]

I haven't watched an award show, any award show, in more than thirty years.
As far as the movie industry, I noticed about twenty years ago that the movies I was seeing were mostly mediocre or lousy. And I was only going to flicks that were being given good ratings.
Now I because the wife and I get HBO and Showtime we can watch all the new, supposedly great movies coming out of Tinseltown.
I have to say I tremendously dislike even most of the top-rated ones.  Maybe it's just me. As I'm getting closer and closer to the old folks home, I just don't like much of anything new. I did like "Dunkirk" and plan to see the Churchill movie.
But I my impression is that 95% of the what comes out of Hollyweird is boring or awful.  That goes for the tv shows as well.  In the old days the rotten quotient was maybe only 75%.
One huge reason is that movies and tv have gotten more and more p.c. and more and more liberal/leftist propaganda. We now get stuff with plots involving "transgender" characters and the prerequisite homosexual characters.  All presented in a positive light.
I don't have to watch it, so I don't watch it. I simply don't care.

[sneakypete]

   
@andy58-in-nh


 

But I also know that some women in the entertainment industry have willingly allowed themselves to be abused in exchange for parts and roles, some of whom now act shocked and outraged, as though they had no supporting role in their own treatment. 

Well,it shouldn't surprise anyone that happens. After all,convincing yourself that you are someone else is the KEY to having a successful acting career. Seems like a lot of times many of them lose every connection they have to who they really are,and if they weren't wealthy and had handlers,chances are most of them would be living in mental health facilities or homeless.

I have a little sympathy for these people. They are for the most part just regular people,and most don't even seem to be of average intelligence. They then enter and live in an atmosphere where anybody can be anything they want to be,merely by wanting and pretending to be that. Almost sounds like a DNC recruiting poster,doesn't it?

To them,reality is just a semi-interesting theory.

[Frank Cannon]

[sneakypete]

@Frank Cannon

EVERYBODY loved Harvey!

Right up to the time he was no longer in a position to grant anyone multi-million dollar contracts for a few months of work. Then,suddenly,the same people who loved him started hating him for some odd reason.

Go figure!

[Sanguine]

Didn't they give an award to Kirk Douglas?  Wasn't he accused of raping a 16 year old Natalie Wood?

[jmyrlefuller]

Remember the dude who landed a space probe on a comet, and that shirt he wore?

If I'd've been nominated for one of those things, that's the shirt I'd want to wear. Wearing black is one of the most ridiculously empty gestures I've ever seen.

[mystery-ak]

Didn't they give an award to Kirk Douglas?  Wasn't he accused of raping a 16 year old Natalie Wood?

Oh really..didn't know that.

[sneakypete]

Didn't they give an award to Kirk Douglas?  Wasn't he accused of raping a 16 year old Natalie Wood?

Beats me. I never heard that,but I did hear a rumor that he made at least one homo porn short before getting his first "real" acting job.

And I don't need any attacks about this. I honestly don't give a damn if he did or he didn't.

[jmyrlefuller]

Oh really..didn't know that.

Yeah, I've never heard anything about that one, either.

[Sanguine]

Look it up.

[Machiavelli]

About That Golden Globes Fiasco

Kyle Smith
National Review
January 8, 2018

They should hand out awards for hypocrisy, preening, and lack of self-awareness.

On Golden Globes night, Hollywood preened in front of its black mirror as usual, but the degree to which it was blind to what was obvious to all observers was stranger than ever. It was like that time the pear-shaped Homer Simpson looked at his reflection and saw a torso rippling with musculature.

What was the most crystalline moment of self-unawareness?

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[EasyAce]

They should hand out awards for hypocrisy, preening, and lack of self-awareness.
By Kyle Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455252/golden-globes-fiasco-hypocrisy-preening-no-self-awareness

On Golden Globes night, Hollywood preened in front of its black mirror as usual, but the degree to which it was blind to what was obvious to all observers was stranger than ever. It was like that time the pear-shaped Homer Simpson looked at his reflection and saw a torso rippling with musculature.

What was the most crystalline moment of self-unawareness?

Was it when Seth Meyers, a white guy like almost every Globes host before him, set up the first two introducers on the NBC broadcast by saying, “Please don’t be two white guys, please don’t be two white guys”? Or when the actress Connie Britton paraded around in a “Poverty is sexist” sweater that retails for $380? How about when James Franco, winning an award for his satiric portrayal of the shlock filmmaker Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist, invited Wiseau up to the stage but then elbowed him aside when he dared to try to speak?

No, for me it was when the house rolled over for Oprah Winfrey, the nation’s most prominent retailer of quack medicine, the celebrity shill who made herself some $3 billion pitching supernatural wishful thinking and life-endangering crackpot pseudoscience to poor people and women, and NBC declared her our next president in a tweet. Oprah, friend to women and the oppressed, the coming anti-Trump? Say what you want about our president, but no one has linked him to a surge in whooping cough. Winfrey’s prominent place in the anti-vaccination movement is far more appalling than the behavior described in the Access Hollywood tape. If Trump kills, it’s only by tweet-induced apoplexy . . .

. . . [W]hen caught up in its most disturbing scandal since (at least) the Communist era, Hollywood’s rebuttal is exactly what Weinstein’s was: But we’re liberal! It may not be the case that liberalism and sexual abuse are linked — though nearly all of the men caught up in the pervnado in the last 90 days are strongly identified with the Left. But it is certainly the case that impeccable liberal and Democratic-party credentials did nothing to save Hollywood from a decades-long regime of sexual tyranny. What’s wrong with the entertainment industry won’t be cured by the quack remedies of Oprah Winfrey.

[WarmPotato]

Celebrities. Only good at pretending. Pretending to be other people, pretending to cry, pretending to CARE....

[EasyAce]

Celebrities. Only good at pretending. Pretending to be other people, pretending to cry, pretending to CARE....

The ones who actually do care don't seem to have the addictive need to hammer us over the head with it at every given opportunity.

[LadyLiberty]

Roseanne says she would be a better President than Oprah: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/368041-roseanne-says-shed-be-better-president-than-oprah] [url]http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/368041-roseanne-says-shed-be-better-president-than-oprah[/url]

[Smokin Joe]

The ones who actually do care don't seem to have the addictive need to hammer us over the head with it at every given opportunity.

True, that. They don't join an American critter group so they don't have to see Canadian seal hunts, either...(As if they actually went up north on the ice to see that).

[EasyAce]

Roseanne says she would be a better President than Oprah: [url]http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/368041-roseanne-says-shed-be-better-president-than-oprah]http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/368041-roseanne-says-shed-be-better-president-than-oprah] [url]http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/368041-roseanne-says-shed-be-better-president-than-oprah[/url]

@LadyLiberty
You know just how far this country has devolved when Roseanne would make a better president than Dope-rah Winfrey . . .

[EasyAce]

True, that. They don't join an American critter group so they don't have to see Canadian seal hunts, either...(As if they actually went up north on the ice to see that).

@Smokin Joe
I always wondered if any celebrities ever partook of the annual Polar Bear Club swim off Coney Island---or if any of the Polar Bears
themselves ever became celebrities.

[WingNot]

Celebrities. Only good at pretending. Pretending to be other people, pretending to cry, pretending to CARE....

That's why they call it Acting after all.