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The always irrepressible Mickey Kaus has the deepest dish on how to guilt-trip the oh-so-social[ist] Academy of Motion Picture Arts members into voting for Brokeback Mountain and thus making Frank Rich’s hitherto undistinguished life worthwhile.
Mickey’s take goes thusly:
Anti-Brokebackbacklash: Nikki Finke claims it's not red state moviegoers who are avoiding Brokeback Mountain because they're "disgusted" by "the possibility of glimpsing simulated gay sex." It's the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences--even "baby boomers and younger Academy members." I'm skeptical, as one should always be regarding a Nikki Finke article. Surely some Academy members are viscerally averse to watching gay sex. (They have genes too.) But Finke's three-alarm charge of hypocrisy smells like a brilliant move to counter the mild anti-Brokeback backlash evident at the recent SAG awards. ... P.S.: You knew there would be an anti-homophobic guilt trip somewhere in this process. I didn't realize it would be directed at Hollywood liberals rather than moviegoers. But it makes sense--as Finke notes, guilt-trips work on them. ... P.P.S.: Many commenters have noticed the obvious--the Best Picture nominees are four left-messaged political films, plus a movie about Truman Capote! But if you read Finke's column, you realize it's really not that bad. It's worse! If she's even 50% on the mark, the Academy Awards are now hopelessly, pervasively, and openly politicized (and the politics are Hollywood Left). Maybe they should be carried on Daily Kos. ...:
Nominee for Best Euphemistic Attempt to Hide That the Five Nominated "Small Films With Deep Political and Social Themes" Were Actuallly Small Films With Liberal Political and Social Themes: Sharon Waxman of the New York Times, who also writes
Many nominees observed that Oscar voters seemed to be in a ruminative mood, perhaps reflecting the nation at large.
This hilarious flatulence is mirrored in her article, which could have been a series of quotations lifted out of a Sociology 101 term paper, it contained so many hysterically funny cliches about depth and communication and "difference" and tolerance.
And a few mandatory exhalations to French deconstructive philosophical flimflammery were also emitted. Steven Spielberg had a couple you might want to memorize for cocktail-party conversation stoppers!
Oh yeah, great flicks like Walk the Line, Cinderella Man, and any movie that was uplifting through redemption by reference to a higher power was not on the list.
Wonder why? Just look at this year’s diminishing grosses and you will realize that Hollyweird’s nihilistic themes are driving it into a Cheshire Cat disappearing act where eventually nihilism evaporates the annihilator.
Just watch. It’s in Coming Attractions.
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