Oscars 2016

Actor Dustin Hoffman has jumped into the fray on the Oscar controversy, where the host Chris Rock accused the Academy of racism against blacks.

Three Asian children are the butt of a joke.

It was an emotional moment. Mostly because we all probably felt he deserved it, partly because we have felt something terrible might happened if he lost

Seven Rocky pictures. Which Stallone is pretty much solely responsible for. Which made Hollywood exactly $1,285,192,797. Just so we’re clear, that’s 1.3 billion U.S. dollars. In the words of John Malkovich’s Russian character in “Rounders,” “Give dat man his Mah-neee!” No, wait—that’s what Stallone gave Hollywood. So—“Give dat man his Oscar!” Enough said.

“As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. But the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly.”

Is there any connection between these two years in a row of #OscarSoWhite,“ the hundred or so repetitions of the ”N-word” in Tarantino’s latest N-word opus magnum, and republican right wing thinly-veiled politics of exclusion, fear, and racism? Any connection at all? Maybe so. Maybe not. One thing’s for certain though—the Oscars are an American institution.

Actor Dustin Hoffman has jumped into the fray on the Oscar controversy, where the host Chris Rock accused the Academy of racism against blacks.

Three Asian children are the butt of a joke.

It was an emotional moment. Mostly because we all probably felt he deserved it, partly because we have felt something terrible might happened if he lost

Seven Rocky pictures. Which Stallone is pretty much solely responsible for. Which made Hollywood exactly $1,285,192,797. Just so we’re clear, that’s 1.3 billion U.S. dollars. In the words of John Malkovich’s Russian character in “Rounders,” “Give dat man his Mah-neee!” No, wait—that’s what Stallone gave Hollywood. So—“Give dat man his Oscar!” Enough said.

“As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. But the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly.”

Is there any connection between these two years in a row of #OscarSoWhite,“ the hundred or so repetitions of the ”N-word” in Tarantino’s latest N-word opus magnum, and republican right wing thinly-veiled politics of exclusion, fear, and racism? Any connection at all? Maybe so. Maybe not. One thing’s for certain though—the Oscars are an American institution.