Erich is probably correct if you're talking about one's marketability in Hollywood, but we're talking about a TV show, whose ratings keep slipping every year. I suspect they're slipping because frankly Generation X doesn't watch TV and couldn't care less about the Oscars. Gearing the program entirely to the new crop of actors is a mistake because it conflicts with the demographics of those actually watching the show. FRANC
-----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Halegua Comic Art Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] Where is everybody?--- Not on the Oscars!! Erich Von Stroheim said it best: If you live in France and you have written one good book, or painted one good picture, or directed one outstanding film, 50 years ago, and nothing ever since, you are still recognized as an artist and honored accordingly . . . In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture. If you didn't have one in production in the last three months, you're forgotten, no matter what you have achieved ere this. It is that terrific, unfortunately necessary, egotism in the makeup of the people who make the cinema, it is the continuous endeavor for recognition, that continuous struggle for survival and supremacy, among the newcomers, that relegates the old-timers to the ashcan At 01:18 PM 3/10/2010, Kirby McDaniel wrote: Joe, et al If the movie business was reliant on people your age and my age to pay the bills, it would fold overnight. That's why the Academy decided -- after a terrible year last year - to emphasize younger performers. The unspoken truth here, too, is that other than cineastes like the folk that inhabit this list, even the older audience are interested in the new blood. It's only us that wants to see Lauren Bacall trotted out there or Jack Nicholson sit on the front row and grin. Sure that's fun. But the Academy has a vested interest in keeping things vital. We need to guard against sounding like those older folk in the 1970s who decried the Oscars because the classic stars of the 1930s and 40s were not such a big deal anymore. K. On Mar 10, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Joseph Bonelli wrote: Nathalie, didn't you notice??? EVERYTHING from "The Past" was totally excised from this Oscar show. The "young" people don't want to see it! They'll change the channel! Joe --- On Wed, 3/10/10, Steven Yafet <[email protected]> wrote: From: Steven Yafet <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOPO] Where is everybody? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 2:30 AM Still reeling from the horror movie homage so charmlessly introduced by those two twilight duds. Obviously more appropriate people were not available ;) If you blinked, you missed the one or two seconds of classic horror. What was this supposed to accomplish? Nathalie On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Doug Taylor < <http://us.mc1136.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] m> [email protected]> wrote: Am I missing something? There seems to have been virtually no MOPO traffic the last few days.not even the normal running dialogue trashing the Oscar presentation. Whatup? DBT Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasbtaylor> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com <http://www.filmfan.com/> ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] <http://us.mc1136.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] n.edu> In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
