OSCAR? ROUNDUP….OK, I was 20 minutes off, but the show still ran 35 minutes “long.” Why the scare quotes? Because it’s pretty obvious that the show lasts exactly as long as the producers want it to. Consider: (a) it runs long every year, (b) every other award show ends within a few nanoseconds of the scheduled time, (c) the networks sell advertising time based on the length of the show, and (d) these guys are pros and know exactly how to time a show like this.
So since it’s obvious that they know how long it will go, my question is this: why pretend it’s a 3-hour show? Why not just schedule it for 3? or 4 hours or whatever? What cachet do they think it gives them to have the show run long every year? Inquiring minds want to know.
And while we’re on the subject, don’t you just love Michael Moore? I mean, short of awarding an Oscar to Hillary Clinton, is there anything more they could have done to send every conservative in the country into a blinding, sputtering rage? And Roman Polanski too! Depravity is the winner this year!
I can’t wait to see the conservative blogosphere register their terminal disgust over all this. Monday should be good fun. I think I’ll start off at The Corner.
