Flashback to 1944’s 16th Academy Awards ceremony…

Cheers to the Golden Age of Hollywood

Best Picture
Casablanca (Winner)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven Can Wait
The Human Comedy
In Which We Serve
Madame Curie
The More the Merrier
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Song of Bernadette
Watch on the Rhine

Best Actor
Humphrey Bogart
Gary Cooper
Paul Lukas (Winner for “Watch on the Rhine”)
Walter Pidgeon
Mickey Rooney

Best Actress
Jean Arthur
Ingrid Bergman
Joan Fontaine
Greer Garson
Jennifer Jones (Winner for “The Song of Bernadette”)

Best Documentary Feature
Baptism of Fire
Battle of Russia
Desert Victory (Winner)
Report from the Aleutians
War Department Report

Best Documentary Short Subject
Children of Mars
December 7th (Winner)
Plan for Destruction
Swedes in America
To the People of the United States
Tomorrow We Fly
Youth in Crisis

Best Song
That Old Black Magic
Change of Heart
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe
My Shining Hour
Saludos, Amigos
Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There
They’re Either Too Young or Too Old
We Mustn’t Say Good Bye
You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To
You’ll Never Know (Winner)

Best Short Subject (One-reel)
Amphibious Fighters (Winner)
Cavalcade of the Dance
Champions Carry On
Hollywood In Uniform
Seeing Hands

Best Short Subject (Two-reel)
Heavenly Music (Winner)
Letter to a Hero
Mardi Gras
Women At War

Other Notables
Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform and ten tiers of seats rose up at the rear of the stage for the soldiers and sailors invited to attend the show. Their arrival got the most sustained applause of the night.

And contrary to the inconvenient truth of last night’s energy sucking extravaganza… because of war restrictions that year, only one spotlight was used outside Grauman’s Theatre. In addition, no parking service was provided which meant that guests were forced to *gasp* fend for themselves.

No War for Oil

Yannow, all snarking aside, it really does sadden me to see just how far Hollywood has fallen. I’m seriously beginning to wonder if our industry can ever again rise to the standards of ethics and brilliance it once possessed.

Is the Golden Age merely a dream remembered?

At this point, I’m afraid the answer is yes.

“I’ll squash you like the pus sack you are. Tipper too.”
RICH! Freakin’ RICH!

Thanks, Jimbo! Bless you for haulin’ your sick body out of bed and making us laugh! Didn’t you just KNOW that those narcissistic hollyweird clowns were going to give Al Gore, the whore, an “Oscar”. Absolutely no longer any credibility - these so-called “award” shows! Not one shred of credibility! Bob Hope must be rolling in his grave! What a bunch of nincompoops! Al Gore…an OSCAR! For Pete’s friggin’ sake! Snark!

Dear Al,

You were a busy guy 30 years ago, fighting global warming when everyone else was fighting global cooling. Don’t even THINK of making a movie about inventing the internet (which it seems you claim you were doing at about that same time).

Any movie about the internet with you as the creator will cause each computer you touch to mysteriously crash. I can find you where ever you try to hide online.

Sincerely,
One of the guys who really did invent the internet

Funny stuff.

; )