About this time every year critics begin churning out their Worst Oscar Winners Ever list. In checking out a few I wound up reading blogger Edward Copeland's list from back in 2007. I give him points for not including Marisa Tomei in "My Cousin Vinny" which usually turns up on those lists and is so stupid and sickening and stale and tired I want to chase around anyone who ever writes it again with a snow shovel (?). I'm disappointed to see Hilary Swank in "Million Dollar Baby", a performance which, apparently, the masses don't like as much as me and that's perfectly fine. But that is also what confuses me.
I can honestly say I recall some but not such vitriol directed at her back at the time of her nomination and win. (His point about Ms. Swank not needing to possess two Oscars, though, is fairly accurate seeing as how I didn't think she deserved her Oscar for "Boys Don't Cry.") I also remember critics loving Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball" and now she's one of the Worst Oscar Winners ever? Did people just not like her speech?
Most puzzling to me, though, is Helen Hunt in "As Good As It Gets." Not that she deserved the Best Actress Oscar in 1997 because, my God, she did not, no chance, but because I do not recall this level of apathy toward her at the time. Back then, and now, I was firmly on the Kate Winslet Rose DeWitt Bukater bandwagon. (For crying out loud, I'm the guy who just called for a Rose DeWitt Bukater statue to be built.) That will forever be one of my absolute favorite performances of all time. I ranted and raved and raved and ranted and I got pissed when Hunt took the stage but no one else at the Oscar party I attended that year even rolled an eye. No one minded. The damn thing's got an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes so someone liked it. Hell, it was an NY Times Critic's Pick - Janet Maslin called Hunt's character "irresitible." Now everyone's backtracking?
Anyway, long story short, one of the fellow Hunt haters mentioned a quote by the "anti-feminist feminist" Camille Paglia, a name I've heard but with whom I'm pretty much unfamiliar. No longer! She's my homey! She has said what I've been saying - literally - for the past 13 years! Here's the quote:
"One of my personal crusades is to dog Hunt and her Hollywood clique forever for the atrocity of her winning the statuette over Kate Winslet, who single-handedly carried a worldwide blockbuster, 'Titanic,' through her virtuoso display of emotional power and athletic prowess (remember that ax in the rushing waters!). I wrote then in Salon.com, and I renew my call here, that anyone who sees Helen Hunt in the street or anywhere else should shout, 'Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!'"
On this very blog I have written: "For all it’s special effects wizardry and the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio it is Winslet that emerges the heart and soul of this film....Plain and simple, she makes the most successful movie of all time work." And: "Look at later how she runs around the lower decks of the sinking ship with the axe. She looks exactly like a teenage girl whose never carried an axe once her life running around the lower decks of a sinking ship with an axe. That is not easy."
My friend Daryl has been talking recently about how he wants to get in on the Protest Fever that's sweeping the globe. I mean, who doesn't want to get in on all this Protest Fever? But what to protest? It's gotta be something you believe in, ya know? Well, by God, I've found it! This is it! I'm buying a megaphone, making a picket sign and seeing if I can get Camille Paglia to meet me out at Hollywood Blvd with a megaphone and picket sign of her own. We'll chant it all night long! We believe! If you believe, this is your chance to join us! We can all make a difference! Let your voice be heard! Fight the good fight!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
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I can honestly say I recall some but not such vitriol directed at her back at the time of her nomination and win. (His point about Ms. Swank not needing to possess two Oscars, though, is fairly accurate seeing as how I didn't think she deserved her Oscar for "Boys Don't Cry.") I also remember critics loving Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball" and now she's one of the Worst Oscar Winners ever? Did people just not like her speech?
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| That is Kate The Great's Oscar, Hunt, not yours, so time to cough it up. |
Anyway, long story short, one of the fellow Hunt haters mentioned a quote by the "anti-feminist feminist" Camille Paglia, a name I've heard but with whom I'm pretty much unfamiliar. No longer! She's my homey! She has said what I've been saying - literally - for the past 13 years! Here's the quote:
"One of my personal crusades is to dog Hunt and her Hollywood clique forever for the atrocity of her winning the statuette over Kate Winslet, who single-handedly carried a worldwide blockbuster, 'Titanic,' through her virtuoso display of emotional power and athletic prowess (remember that ax in the rushing waters!). I wrote then in Salon.com, and I renew my call here, that anyone who sees Helen Hunt in the street or anywhere else should shout, 'Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!'"
On this very blog I have written: "For all it’s special effects wizardry and the presence of Leonardo DiCaprio it is Winslet that emerges the heart and soul of this film....Plain and simple, she makes the most successful movie of all time work." And: "Look at later how she runs around the lower decks of the sinking ship with the axe. She looks exactly like a teenage girl whose never carried an axe once her life running around the lower decks of a sinking ship with an axe. That is not easy."
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| She shimmyed with an axe in a flimsy dress through a flooded set while James Cameron likely screamed at her just off camera......and convinced. |
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!
Give back Kate Winslet's Oscar!Source URL: http://extravagancedeplumes.blogspot.com/2011/03/camille-paglia-is-my-new-hero-or-give.html
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