AND LET’S KEEP THE GOWNS MODEST TOO, OK?….I spent the last few days with a friend (Grayson’s pet human) who is so disgusted with George Bush that he could hardly stand to have the TV news on. So despite his 60-inch-monster-cabled-10-speaker-surround-sound home theater system, which surely would have been just the ticket for watching Shock and Awe?, by the time I got home last night I knew that the war had started but not much else.
In particular, I was unaware that the traditional pre-show festivities had been cancelled by the organizers of the Academy Awards, allegedly because it would be a bit tacky for life to go on as usual while our troops are in harm’s way. Virginia Postrel has an alternate explanation:
The red carpet survived World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, not to mention September 11, but it can’t survive Iraq? I suspect a different motive: the commercial powers that be have wisely concluded that interview after interview with antiwar stars would turn off the American viewing public.
That sounds about right to me.
