Starsky & Hutch? Has Hollywood completely given up on hiding the crack abuse?

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Jonathan Last takes the time out from committing HERESY!!!!! HERESY MOST FOUL, YES, MY PRECIOUS!!!!!

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Umm, right… anyway, he’s got an interesting article up about this years Oscars:

Four out of the last five years the award has been given to a beautiful woman who has bravely turned herself into a hag. This string–Hilary Swank, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, and now Charlize Theron–marks something of an evolution in vanity. It says something about Hollywood that not only are homely women unwelcome for the ingenue roles, but now they’re not even fit to play ugly. Somewhere at Smith College there is a womyn’s studies major honing a thesis on the subject, and what’s more, she has a legitimate gripe. [Emphasis mine]

Bet that you never thought you’d see that sentence in a Righty news magazine, huh? Anyway, the article’s got some nice bitterness about the Oscars (including a bit of finely-tuned outrage about Bill Murray), a good deal of snark about what they make movies out of these days and a couple comments about the final numbers of That Mel Gibson Flick; check him out before we burn him at the stake for being a heretic about The Preccciousssss.

5 thoughts on “<I>Starsky & Hutch?</I> Has Hollywood completely given up on hiding the crack abuse?”

  1. Starsky, et al: It’s a Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson movie, which means it will be hilarious and self-mocking. No crack.
    Charlize: Someone extremely brilliant (and I forget who and where) wrote: “Ugly is the new retarded”.
    On legitimately ugly people getting credit for it: This came up just last night as my wife and I watched Monk. We’re told onen detective’s mother is horrendous and unmarriable, then later we see her and she’s , at worst, averagely attractive. Hollywood is absolutely incapable of casting unattractive females. Unattractive males however. . .

  2. “it the biggest grossing movie of 2004, and thus make it impossible to ignore at next year’s Academy Awards.”
    Nah it will be easy to ignore, except for the chants from the right crowd of “Evil AFTRA,evil AFTRA”.
    Lot of stuff out there drawing huge crowds of specialty audiences. Microsoft Word instructional videos. Imax Bird watching. Jenna Jameson epics.
    Ignore them.

  4. Halle Berry wasn’t ugly in Monster’s Ball; she just wasn’t glamorous. She still looked pretty fine; a woman who looked like that would get plenty of attention for her looks.
    Nichole Kidman, also. Her makeup made her look like an average woman, albeit an average woman with stringy hair and flawless skin. It’s hard to compare it with Monster.

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