Sunday, March 4, 2018

The 90th Awards Ceremony

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Tonight is the Academy Awards where the stars assemble to collect awards. What makes a star a star anyway? This year there are directors who didn’t make a lot of movies up for awards but are they really stars if they are unknown artists yet? There is that place called The Hollywood Walk of Fame where folks get an actual star imbedded in the sidewalk for fans to view. Do they even realize that dogs will poop and people will spit on a star with your name on it? Nevertheless, it is an honor to get a star and an even bigger honor that validates your career if you can get the best awards like an Oscar, Grammy, Tony or Emmy. Some “stars” like Whoopi Goldberg have received all four major awards in the entertainment field.
There are other “stars” that are so well known that they have one name like Beyonce.  Why doesn’t she have a star on that Walk of Fame sidewalk? Soon Mark Hamill and Rupaul will be getting their sidewalk stars this month. Beyonce does have a star with her group called Destiney’s Child but she has done so many things solo since the trio. It is the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce who decides who should get a star and the entertainer needs to APPLY for a star. Aren’t stars used to getting things given to them? It’s insane that Beyonce has to apply for anything but rules are rules. Did you know there are requirements for a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star?
The rules are that you need at least five years in Radio/Film/TV/Recording/Live Performance Industries.
Have received awards or nominations.
Must do philanthropic work like have a foundation for a cause.
You must pay a $40,000 onetime fee that goes towards the maintenance, repair and the ceremony.
Why is buying a star in the sky cheaper than buying a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Tonight we will see where Hollywood’s biggest stars will gather at the Dolby Theatre for the 90th Academy Awards. Yes we are generations of people that have grown up with the influence of the movies on our lives. They are even programing 90 years of movies into computers to help them figure out the human spirit of emotions and drama that is told only too well in the movies we love.  Tonight the movie called The Shape of Water leads the pack of films with 13 nominations. The rater R movie is about a janitor who has a love affair with a strange sea creature in captivity. OKAYYYYYY!
Jimmy Kimmel will host again for the second year in a row despite having to oversee the envelope mix-up that saw La La Land accidentally named best picture last year instead of Moonlight. I thought that was the most interesting part of last year’s festivities. I just didn’t like seeing the wrong envelope being snatched out of the hands of those elegant older acting greats like it was their old age mess up. I hope they will be back and announce the wrong winner again just for the fun of it all.
We all know that movie making is more about how much money the film made than the art of it all in many cases. The top box office gross of all time (adjusted for inflation) is Gone With The Wind made in 1939, That grossed $ 1,854,769,667 . Yes almost 2 billion dollars. The lowest grossing film in history is something called ZYZZYX Road filmed in 2006. That made $30 dollars. Really!

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