I rarely pay much attention to the Academy Awards. I’m not enough of a movie fan to have strong opinions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhard to have opinions without seeing more than one film in a category\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there’s too much bullshit interfering with the stated purpose of the awards: sympathy votes for beloved actors nearing death, for example, or apology votes for actors unfairly overlooked the previous year.<\/p>\n
But I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: Inside Job<\/em> will beat out Exit Through the Gift Shop<\/em> for documentary, even though Eileene and all her friends are rooting for Exit<\/em>. We watched the lattter, and I have to agree it was very good. We didn’t watch Inside Job<\/em>, but that’s supposed to be excellent, too. (I dare not watch it because it will just work me into an impotent rage.)<\/p>\n So why is my money on Inside Job<\/em>, a movie I haven’t even seen? Because I expect the basic message \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bankers have been screwing America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to play better with the Academy’s sympathies than the basic message \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the art community is full of frauds.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Just a hunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I rarely pay much attention to the Academy Awards. I’m not enough of a movie fan to have strong opinions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhard to have opinions without seeing more than one film in a category\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there’s too much bullshit interfering with the stated purpose of the awards: sympathy votes for beloved actors nearing death, for example, or apology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}