• Oscar necrology

    From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to alt.obituaries on Tue Mar 17 09:00:37 2026
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    Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy
    Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?
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  • From Mark Shaw@mshaw@panix.com to alt.obituaries on Tue Mar 17 18:52:03 2026
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    Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?

    See? Not even alt.obituaries cares about the Oscars!
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  • From SURNAME@SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com (J.D. Baldwin) to alt.obituaries on Tue Mar 17 19:30:12 2026
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    In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?

    I think I'm a pretty typical movie fan -- where by "movie fan" I mean
    I see movies in actual theaters more than once a week on average.

    Until maybe 2005, I watched the Oscars, recording them if I was going
    to be doing something. I cared a lot about the necrology and
    participated in predictive and dissective threads about it here every
    single year.

    2005-2015 I recorded it, zipped through to the montage des morts,
    watched that, maybe made comments here.k

    Since 2015 I don't even care about that. And I am the guy who
    rewatches about all of the TCM death montages roughly yearly. (Most or
    all of them are on YouTube.)

    The Oscars have always been easy to mock -- The Greatest Show on Earth
    as the Best Picture of 1952?!? -- but they have evolved into such
    self-parodic dogshit over the last few years that even the idea of
    glancing at five minutes of it is repellent to me. I would rather
    watch 2 Broke Girls. I would rather watch the new Star Trek. Okay, not
    that last thing, but I hate the Academy, is what I am saying.
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  • From Mark Shaw@mshaw@panix.com to alt.obituaries on Tue Mar 17 19:43:57 2026
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    J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:


    The Oscars have always been easy to mock -- The Greatest Show on Earth
    as the Best Picture of 1952?!? -- but they have evolved into such self-parodic dogshit over the last few years that even the idea of
    glancing at five minutes of it is repellent to me. I would rather
    watch 2 Broke Girls. I would rather watch the new Star Trek. Okay, not
    that last thing, but I hate the Academy, is what I am saying.

    Per the "diversity inclusion" quota:

    https://x.com/tedcruz/status/2033615772036067721

    Utter insanity. None of these prior winners would qualify:

    The Godfather (I & II)
    No Country for Old Men
    The Departed
    Chicago
    A Beautiful Mind
    Gladiator
    Braveheart
    Titanic
    Forrest Gump
    Schindler's List
    Unforgiven
    Amadeus
    Patton
    The Sound of Music
    My Fair Lady
    Casablanca
    Ben-Hur
    Gone with the Wind

    I note that "Shakespeare In Love," which robbed "Saving Private Ryan,"
    likely would have.

    F the Oscars.
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  • From Louis Epstein@le@lekno.ws to alt.obituaries on Sun Mar 22 23:24:15 2026
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    J.D. Baldwin <SURNAME@panix.removethispart.com> wrote:

    In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    Hey! Where's the annual thread condemning how disgracefully the Academy
    Awards handled the necrology reel and who was shunned?

    I think I'm a pretty typical movie fan -- where by "movie fan" I mean
    I see movies in actual theaters more than once a week on average.

    Until maybe 2005, I watched the Oscars, recording them if I was going
    to be doing something. I cared a lot about the necrology and
    participated in predictive and dissective threads about it here every
    single year.

    2005-2015 I recorded it, zipped through to the montage des morts,
    watched that, maybe made comments here.k

    Since 2015 I don't even care about that. And I am the guy who
    rewatches about all of the TCM death montages roughly yearly. (Most or
    all of them are on YouTube.)

    The Oscars have always been easy to mock -- The Greatest Show on Earth
    as the Best Picture of 1952?!? -- but they have evolved into such self-parodic dogshit over the last few years that even the idea of
    glancing at five minutes of it is repellent to me. I would rather
    watch 2 Broke Girls. I would rather watch the new Star Trek. Okay, not
    that last thing, but I hate the Academy, is what I am saying.

    I'm not sure when I last watched it...but for me the necrology
    became unwatchable when they muted the live audience soundtrack
    to make viewers listen to a musical guest performance.
    They didn't like the way that the audience reacted as they pleased
    as each decedent appeared on screen,and to me that's what made the
    event real.

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    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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