Oscars: Backlash to the backlash
Honestly, this wasn’t unforeseen: A bunch of people are really hacked off that “Crash� beat “Brokeback Mountain� for the Best Picture Oscar. Guess that’s why they call it an “upset.�
A reader clued me into this, which offers a good overview of the controversy, wondering if Hollywood is as progressive as George Clooney proclaimed it to be and (inevitably) raising questions regarding lingering strains of homophobia in the industry:
another step toward irrelevance?
And then, there are the folks who just thought “Crash� was somewhere between undeserving of Hollywood’s highest honor and an unrelentingly overheated cheesefest. Here’s just one of many items from defamer.com, which in its live-blogging of the ceremony, concluded, “WORST. OSCARS. EVER.�:
If you agree and haven’t checked it out yet, defamer.com has plenty of amusing barbs blowtorching “Crash.�
