Kirstie Alley slams new Oscars
inclusion rules: 'This is a
disgrace to artists everywhere'
Yahoo! Entertainment,
by
Taryn Ryder
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/9/2020 10:19:00 PM
The Oscars have announced new representation and inclusion standards for eligibility in the Best Picture category, and it’s not sitting well with some members of the Academy. Kirstie Alley railed against the initiative calling Hollywood “so far left.” “This is a disgrace to artists everywhere ... can you imagine telling Picasso what had to be in his f****** paintings. You people have lost your minds. Control artists, control individual thought ... OSCAR ORWELL,” she tweeted on Tuesday. To be eligible for the top prize, a film must meet at least two standards across four categories: “Onscreen Representation, Themes and Narratives,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/9/2020 10:29:18 PM (No. 536129)
She equates being an actress with Picasso? LOL However, she and her buddies are now getting a taste of how it feels to be a normal American getting lambasted daily by a bunch of ham actors and who we vote for. Not a nice feeling, is it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 9/9/2020 10:32:42 PM (No. 536130)
Kirsten is one of the Good Guys. She’s a lot more conservative than people realize.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
singermom9 9/9/2020 10:32:46 PM (No. 536131)
Not so happy about this stupidity when it affects you are you?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fayebeck 9/9/2020 10:37:06 PM (No. 536134)
#2 as you can see even several on this site don't get it. Would they say the same about James Woods?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hermoine 9/9/2020 10:40:35 PM (No. 536135)
Good for Kirstie! However, I doubt there will be more like her. Just like the NFL, NBA and MLB, Hollyweird is on a suicide mission.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SALady 9/9/2020 10:42:15 PM (No. 536136)
All 6 people that still watch the Academy Awards every year are fully in agreement with this rule change..
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Faithfully 9/9/2020 10:56:48 PM (No. 536144)
So no host, no musical numbers and no comedy skits but for sure PC preaching and virtue signaling. No thanks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Grateful 9/9/2020 10:57:39 PM (No. 536145)
The make-believe acting Industry from the alternate universe of self-importance is frantically trying to appear relevant to the common people by creating set asides and preferences for the phony Oscar. "awards."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mushroom 9/9/2020 11:16:14 PM (No. 536153)
Although I have read about these exclusions, I have *not* read it fro Yahoo. a site I don't partake.
I respect Ms Alley and her opinions. As an insider she speaks directly to her craft. And she speaks it clearly. Hey, face it.,if we didn't pay anything she and all the other actors would be as it was 90ish years ago, hand to mouth.
What possible benefit is there to apply Affirmative Action to a skills based award? There is no dignity in winning such an award if you aren't up against the absolute best!
Ms Alley gets that and is honest enough to point it out using some of her well earned chits in the business. For that I deeply thank her.
I welcome all honestly heal beliefs that can be backed up with fact and evidence. James Woods is as close to a conservative saint as there can be in Hollywood. Consider the vast number of jobs that haven't even been offered because of his political stance. Ms Alley faces the same hinderment. How many of us would be willing to turn down a paycheck for our political belief? The warehouse workers, the fast food folks...it isn't happening because we can't afford to lose our gig. Me, like so many other here are retired. But I still need to protect family and loved ones. God Bless you Ms Alley, and Mr Woods. Thank you for standing up when so many of us are still shackled by the employers that don't want any controversy and accept the smallest minority as the vocal definer of what is 'right'.
Please forgive my terse words. Cancer is back in the picture of the woman I love and I'm not compromising....I just hope my wife doesn't find out. :)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 9/9/2020 11:54:26 PM (No. 536170)
Agree with Kirstie. How true it is. Hollywood can burn.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/10/2020 12:00:40 AM (No. 536175)
Vote for any demonrat and this is what you get.
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Wasn't Kirstie (a scientologist) the one who raised eyebrows many years ago for thanking God while accepting her Emmy "because She made this possible"?
(Regardless, she was great in Drop Dead Gorgeous.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
coyote 9/10/2020 12:37:47 AM (No. 536204)
The Oscars are dead.
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Sometimes people change when it hits "them" in the pocketbook. Good for Kristie.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 9/10/2020 1:52:23 AM (No. 536223)
The industry that chaffed under the production codes of the Hays Commission from the 1930's to the 60's has come full circle. As Kristy delicately put it, "Hollywood you’re swinging so far left you’re bumping into your own a**."
This is a valuable case study of the Communist march through institutions. By the time the end game comes around the current crop of commies are in direct contradiction of those sixty years before them. In the early days of movies, including the silents, it was a wide open, wild west atmosphere of human creativity which also provided a wide path to perdition. (Think today's internet.) By the early 1930's public sensibilities had been outraged enough to demand the Hays Commission and a production code based on the bedrock Judaeo-Christian values of our culture.
Hollywood was a target of Communist infiltration and the House hearings on "unAmerican" activities had valid concerns. The enemedia made "civil rights" heroes out of these traitors and the, eventually successful, push to revoke the Hays production code began in earnest. Freedom of speech! By the 1960's, perversion was "progressively" pushed into main stream films. Sixty years later the New Left is eager to once again restrict speech, now that its the speech of their enemies that is to be restricted. Indeed, Hollywood is "swinging so far left you’re bumping into your own a**."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/10/2020 2:24:44 AM (No. 536239)
It's just as much of a disgrace to mandate this foolishness in the workplace where job skills continue to become more narrowly focused. When you need a good electrical engineer or computer technician you need to be concerned about his or her color and sexual habits? It's not proper anywhere.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
radrelic 9/10/2020 2:36:37 AM (No. 536242)
So for diversity can we ask for a mix if minorities that match our national diversity mix? Asians, native Americans, Hispanics, etc?
The token good guy black man in every movie has resulted in a canned pattern of propaganda IMO. I am already immune to Hollywood political pronouncements from high school dropouts. Commie activists there and in BLM street gangs have a warping effect?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kathleentexas 9/10/2020 9:27:56 AM (No. 536453)
If I had no fingers, I could still count the number of Oscar nominated films that I have seen in the last 10 years. Snore.
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