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!
J immy 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!
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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