TALES FROM THE BLINDSIDE: Why winning awards is not only not a blessing, but may even be a curse!
OP/ED By Jeremy Steele
"Meat parades — offensive, barbarous and innately corrupt".
No, these are not words used to describe the AVN or Xbiz awards. show. These were the words George C Scott used to to describe the Oscars.* (*In case any readers aren’t aware, the Oscars are mainstream’s version of the
AVN awards.)
In 1971 He was the first performer to turn down an Oscar. Two years later, Marlon Brando followed suit in turning down his Oscar for best actor in "The Godfather". In his place, Sacheen Littlefeather came on stage said that he disaproves of the treatment of Native Americans, thus telling the academy they can take their little golden men and shove ’em up their asses!
It seems that George and Marlon had read the handwriting on the wall, back then, Meanwhile, the current tabloids mention the so-called "love curse" of Oscar’s "Best Actress" winners in the last dozen years. Nearly every woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress has broken up with her husband, boyfriend or lover — some just months after thanking them from the award show stage.
The first who comes to mind, Sandra Bullocks (Star of "The Blind Side"): This is what happens when a woman dates a guy who was cheating on someone else in order to be dating her in the first place. You said on stage not to judge a child for where it comes from, Sandra. Well, how about that child you call your "Man"?
Kate Winslet, who won for playing a Nazi in "The Reader" in 2009, saw her marriage to director Sam Mendes go kaput this week– amid reports that he had grown close with actress Rebecca Hall.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck; Just two months after she accepted the award, the couple were broken up. Also on the list Hilary Swank, Julia Roberts and Halle Berre, the latter who won in 2002 for "Monster’s Ball, and then split up her husband the next year, after reports of his infidelity. Charlize Theron won in ’04 and split up this January. Reese Witherspoon; by the end of the year in which she won her oscar she was through with her busband.
The best I’ve read of is a past reciprient, Marlee Matlin, who won Best Actress for "Children of a lesser God". William Hurt broke up with her in the limo on the way home from the Oscars that night!
The only other two recent winners to escape heartbreak are Helen Mirren, who won for "The Queen" in 2007, and (her career’s wad shot high after getting naked in Caligula and Excalibur) and Marion Cotillard, who won for "La Vie en Rose" in 2008. They are both still with their significant others.
And speaking of Caligula, a movie which bridged mainstream and porn, begins with a quote from Matthew 16:26: "What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" Well the arena of voters have lost their soul, due to politics. Politics really makes porn look like Disneyland in comparison!
Now, considering the pitfalls and possible "curse" of mainstream oscars, should we expect any better fate for porn award winners?
The strangest case on the porn side I’ve witnessed is when Tony Tedeschi accepted his AVN porn acting award on stage and then announced to everyone that he’s broke and down to his last 5 bucks. I’d say that’s definitely a faster spiral downward than Marlee Matlin and William Hurt’s cab ride.
I haven’t been keeping tally so I have no idea how many former porn award winners are now pawn shop clerks, telemarketers or cashiers at Dennys. It would make an interesting study, I guess, although it’s ethically necessary to leave them alone (unless they ask for the attention).
If the Oscars are cursed, then perhaps it’s because too many people have been literally cursing them over the years, fed up with the fact that they never were nominated, or won, and the horrible academy picks, obviously controlled by sickening politics.
And when it comes to winning a porn award for best blow job or sex scene, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the winner’s personal life will get much better (think about it), or even their professional life.
Just as height attracts lightning, a female oscar winner’s on stage declaration of love for her man is a loudspeaker alert for every woman in the world that that’s a guy worth trying to get a hold of,
whether or not he’s taken.
Personally, I don’t think porn awards could ever reach the depths of patheticalness that the Oscars have. Both porn and mainstream performers both have in common the fact that their icons have been consecrated in vice. Both academys have prostitution at it’s core. Meanwhile, most people never get the acclaim they deserve. For those that do, that’s awesome! You’re part of a unique minority!
When it comes to porn awards, they can’t possibly be like having a bald and gold statue-man around the house. It’s not like you can display it in your living room when Grandma and the little curtain climbers come over to visit for Easter. You gotta hide those trophies like you do the whips, dildoes and lube, then just hope the kids don’t find them during the morning’s easter egg hunt.
Although the Oscars are generally less dull than porn awards shows, it certainly is more corrupt. The motion picture academy, year after year show how utterly pathetic they are, and picks winners for idiotic politicial or sentimental reasons. They give Martin Scorcese an Oscar for "The Departed" because he never won one before (as if this is why you give Oscars) when he’s made much better films that never won. But this excludes someone who deserves the award, who likely needs the award more to further his career.
As one puts it: "Political correctness is the number one villain in this tragedy. I definitely sense in countless movies of our present era a desperate need to prove one’s obedience to the masters of the zeitgeist. At best, their situation may only be one or two steps above of what was endured by the typical citizen of the former German Democratic Republic."
Kathryn Bigelow, only the fourth woman to be nominated for best director by the Academy of
Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, became the first woman to win an Oscar for directing "the Hurt Locker". It won over Avatar, which was seen and liked by many more people, but who’s controversial anti-war message and radical suggestion that "we" are the bad guys (when it comes to our "pre-emptive strike" and "shock and awe" campaigns) was politically incorrect, so Avatar had to not win!
If the Oscars are cursed is it because they are corrupt. And who wants to win a corrupted Icon? Millions do, of course. And, this is as it shall be, even as the yearly events continue to deteriorate in prestigious value.
But in the end, when all is said and done, an Oscar or a porn award will both carry about as much esteem as handing Henry Kissinger or Hussein Obama the Nobel Peace prize or giving Al Gore a Pulitzer. Kissinger is a war criminal. Obama, following his hope based peace prize, is now esculating wars abroad and his first employer in Washington happens to have been Henry Kissinger. Al Gore is a whore selling a lie about carbon emissions causing global warming in order to generate more tax revenues.
Awards are made of plastic, just like some of the people who win them or select those who do. And in a corrupt institution those idols perhaps carry a dark voodoo vibe to them.
Beware! Every vice has it’s price. Remember this and don’t ever allow those awards to take on any supernatural significance or they may come to do significant harm, just as some of those Oscar ladies are learning.
When you look at the mainstream entertainment, you’ll see how corruption, ugly divorces and treachery run amok. In my opinion, it’s mainly because when people get filthy rich and achieve worldwide fame, they portray a certain image of themselves in their mind, and feed that image with arrogance, greed and a highly inflated sense of self worth. That makes them difficult to communicate with, and pushes them further towards the isolation and loneliness. Some of the best examples in that case are Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Aniston; none of whom had ever won an Oscar.
In any event, the true tragedy is how mercilessly the tabloid machine in America grinds people to shit and strips them from their personal lives and privacy. Look a Sandra Bullock for instance: Three weeks ago, she was the queen of the box office and the triumphant Oscar winner. Today, she’s a nasty obsession with her close-up pictures on the cover of every trashy tabloid magazine in America with titles such as:
‘Sandra Bullock Married to a Monster.’
‘Poor Sandra Bullock Breaks Down in Stress.’
‘Sandra Bullock’s Life Falls Apart.’
It’s disgusting, sickening and plain, fucking wrong, but unfortunately good business. As I mentioned before, fat, lazy, stupid Americans have an unhealthy obsession with all things celebrity.
On a different note, when Marlon Brando refused to accept his Oscar for The Godfather and sent Sacheen Little Feather on stage to explain why, that created a controversy, because many claimed Sacheen Little Feather was not a native American. We may never know whether that was true or not; but one thing we do know about Marlon Brando, is that despite his incredible talent, he was a self destructive man who dedicated the last 20 years of his life to tarnishing his career and his image. Who can forgive or forget The Freshman, Don Juan DeMarco and The Island of Dr. Moreau? Shame.
Very interesting article. Who’s behind those important people? How do NWO leaders fit in this puzzle? What can we expect from future Entertainment Industry if awards’ reliability is in doubt?
Regards
I’m not sure either actor ever topped their performance(Scott or Brando), no matter what folks say about Brando as Kurtz in Apocolypse Now(the Redux). Scott did come damn close in the brillant but overlooked “The Hospital”, I never saw “Hardcore” to judge that performance. These two guys were actors that burned white hot, and their personal lives were messy. I have hard time believing that Campbell Scott seems so gentle considering the intensity of his parents(Scott and Colleen Dewhurst), their talent is obviously there. Rod Stieger, who I see as a peer to both these men was a horribly wasted talent, with many demons of his own. Actors and Actresses with great talent who experience waste or ignorance of their talent hurts to think about. Ben Kingsley has been extremely lucky, where as someone as Ralph Fiennes may get lost, greatest Oscar screw jobs of all time, when Fiennes was even forgotten for even a nomination for The Constant Gardener. I could go on forever, great post Steele.
nice work, steele.
i dunno about avatar though – a great spectacle, but was it the full package? it’s rare a best picture winner won’t have its screenplay in the best original, or best adapted category. the avatar screenplay didn’t get a nomination. might explain where it really sat.
Thanks for the comments. I also got a call from Brandon Iron telling me he really enjoyed the write up and to keep up the good work. This article was originally twice as long and was just continuing on and on without end in sight so I basically just cut it in half from where I left off. Awards in mainstream, including film festivals, is a subject that can be written about in book form.
“Who’s behind these important people? How do NWO leaders fit in this puzzle? What can we expect from future Entertainment Industry if awards’ reliability is in doubt?”
Politics (being “politically correct” instead of just correct) is a symptom of the “order” or NWO. The sinister system of control through various forms of reward and punishment is what keeps the movie making machine churning out product based on a familiar mold.
One of the ways to beat the system is to to recognize it’s more or less all bullshit and thus become less concerned about it’s ceremonies and verdicts. In certain crude ways, at least, we’ve been progressing in the battle for free expression with the popularity of “unrated” versions which properly flip off the oligarichal MPA ratings system.
Once they know that we know it’s all bullshit and they see that’s the attitude we have then maybe we will progress beyond their means of control and influence.
The true awards/rewards come from the process and completion of creating something that you’re proud of, that means something, regardless of accolades.
Maybe they should have Oscars for sales and most viewed movies. That would, for better or for worse, reveal the popular opinon.
Thanks Jeremy, I do appreciate your answers.
Regards
Thankyou Susana.
Btw, if anyone is wondering what really causes global warming, it has to do with solar warming; increased massive solar flares.
But for political/economic reasons, “An Inconvenient Truth” was created to promote a convenient lie.
Most environmentalists have no technical or scientific credentials whatsoever. What they have are major news outlets ready and willing to publicize their every utterance regardless of whether or not they are backed up by scientific proof.
The energy output of the Sun is far greater in one second than human activity could produce in a million years.
OMG this is one of the best story’s I have ever read! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I thought it was great, AWARDS SUCK, and the mindless stupid people whom need that kind of greatness are ‘so’ one demensional…
A stupid award ‘is’ not going to make you a better performer, it’s not going to make you more money, its not going to make you a super-star, its not going to do shit! It’s not even going to make you millions more, so whats the point? Jeremy is so right, no award can ever validate any human existance, so whats the point? If no ones going to remember who won what, even a year or two from now, do those awards even matter? Do they matter to anyone besides the winner?
My thing is, everyone was born between piss and shit, we are all the same, and only skin and blood makes anyone a little diffrent.
Awards are lame, and the people whom need them are shallow.
Look if Sandra Burn somthing, was alright looking, but as the years moved on – she has had every kind of facial surgery, why? EGO? Ego kills, and we allow so many of our friends, co workers and loved ones, to kill themselves with their egos. Why?
We could tell are friends, no award is ever going to make you a better person. No award will ever make me like you better. And no, I dont care about your awards? Its yours, not mine, and you still suck!
I would like to read the full original version of the article. No matter how long it may be. Is it possible?
Jeremy, I’d suggest you edit and post the part of the article which you cut out, that’ll be an interesting read.
By the way, the topic of secret societies and their influence on mainstream entertainment is a fascinating and vast topic. I can’t compress my thoughts on that topic into a comment; I’ll write an article about it in the next couple of days.
CNN is gonna look at Scientology this week, wish there would be more out there about Masons and some of those crazy ass Catholic sects. Why wouldnt I be surprised if some of this pedophilia is related to the “tacit” acceptance of this problem until the legal system got involved.
“Tacit” acceptance because of some of these secret Catholic societies.
Stay tuned. I was still working on it when I stopped and focused on finishing up the half that I sent, but Cindi has given me the go-ahead and the rest will show up as a new article.
Glad to have such a good response.