We had guests over last night to watch the Oscars.
As a result, we had to watch it live.
It started out great.
On the red carpet, I've never seen so many great low-cut gowns in one place.
But when you watch the whole show live, there's no fast-forwarding.
That made it tougher.
Chris Rock was hilarious.
A great choice, certainly under the circumstances.
None of the nominees did not necessarily not deserve to win.
I guess all those technical awards for "Mad Max" were warranted.
The actors were all worthy choices, {there was no stopping DiCaprio) and I take particular pride in singling out Mark Rylance.
The "In Memoriam" reel seemed particularly light on actors, but there were no significant omissions.
Except for Abe Vigoda, and my personal favorite since I was nine, Joan Leslie.
It was overloaded with cinematographers and publicists.
And Zsa Zsa Gabor is still alive.
Go figure.
I loved that there was a crawl underneath each winner declaring who they wished to thank, and then, the winners proceeded to thank them out loud anyway.
My wife made great food and that certainly helped.
That's all I got.
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Here are some of the other names that didn't get mentioned in the Memorial montage.
ReplyDeleteHow important they might have been, I'll leave to you.
My source is the monthly Obit feature in "Classic Images", compiled by Harris Lentz (I'm using February 2015 as a cutoff):
Richard Bakalyan
Richard L. Bare (director)
James Best
Gene Saks
Walter Grauman (director)
Jayne Meadows Allen
Betsy Palmer
Anne Meara
Dick Van Patten
Ron Moody
Patrick Macnee
Jack Carter
Diana Douglas
Donna Douglas
Coleen Gray
George Cole (British)
George Coe (American)
Yvonne Craig
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Betsy Drake
Fred Dalton Thompson
Laura Antonelli
Gary Owens
Jason Wingreen
Wayne Rogers
... and this just gets us to the end of 2015.
I don't recall offhand, but I believe that Richard Dysart and Geoffrey Lewis may also have been left out (correction welcomed).
The "mainly TV" argument doesn't hold here - or else how do you account for Stan Freberg getting in, with a fraction of the credits of some of the above-mentioned people?
Come to think of it, Bob & Ray were in more movies than Stan, and where was Bob Elliott?
Word has come that George Kennedy died Sunday morning.
Think they'll remember to put him in next year?
(Remember, no wagering.)
Except for Ron Moody and Gene Saks, these are predominantly TV names.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised at Stan Freberg's inclusion.
From the Irish Terrier:
DeleteI just spent the better part of an hour at YouTube, looking at past Oscar Memorial montages.
The oldest one I could find was for 1994.
Many, if not most, of the actors shown had at least as many TV credits as movies.
In more than a few cases, TV overbalanced movies by a fairly wide margin.
The year he passed, James Arness made it - and his career in features effectively ended when he started Gunsmoke.
Robert Young, Robert Culp, Raymond Burr, E.G. Marshall, Arthur Hill, David Wayne - these and many others had greater success in television than in theatrical films; all made it in to the Memorial reels.
The character guys - Dick O'Neill, Elisha Cook, Dabbs Greer, Charles Lane, Edward Andrews, John Fiedler, many others - they all made it in, while their peers on my list didn't.
In the past, you've called me a nit-picker.
I own that.
Check out any other blog I comment on.
My justification in this case is that the whole "predominantly TV" distinction has, in my view, always been a spurious one.
You need not take me at my word.
Just go to YouTube and check out 20-plus years of Memorial reels, and see for yourself.
** ... and be honest - since their greatest success was in TV as opposed to movies, do you omit Jack Klugman and Tony Randall? **
Enjoy Stupor Tuesday.
I'm not saying that any of these names you offer should be omitted, only that the obscure backstage costumers and publicists should take a back seat to all of them.
ReplyDeleteOK, Mark - there I'm with you all the way.
DeleteI wonder if there was thought to include David Begelman when his year came around ...
Sure....and why not O.J.?
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