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Think YOUR job is difficult? Hey, there's a guy in Hollywood who has to hand the right envelope to the right person at the right time.
Oh, wait. That sounds really easy—yet it got screwed up.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are about to announce best picture, the culmination of entertainment's biggest awards show. Beatty opens a red envelope and looks at the card inside, giving a double-take. He looks inside the envelope to see if there's anything else there.
BEATTY: "The Academy Award..."
He pauses, looks at the envelope again.
BEATTY: "For best picture..."
He pauses again and looks offstage, then hands the envelope to Dunaway, who gives it a quick glance.
DUNAWAY: "La La Land."
The audience applauds, as the cast, crew, and producers of "La La Land" take the stage to accept what many had anticipated, the coveted honor of best picture. Producers Jason Horowitz and Marc Platt give speeches, but something seems amiss as Platt speaks. There's commotion among the people standing behind him as a man wearing headphones appears and checks red envelopes being held by producers.
[...] HOROWITZ: "There's a mistake. 'Moonlight', you guys won best picture. This is not a joke."
PLATT: "This is not a joke. I'm afraid they read the wrong thing."
[...] [Oscars host Jimmy] KIMMEL: "Guys. This is very unfortunate what happened. Personally, I blame Steve Harvey for this."
[...] KIMMEL: "Warren, what did you do?"
BEATTY: "I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said 'Emma Stone, La La Land'. That's why I took such a long look at Faye and you. I wasn't trying to be funny."
takyon: 89th Academy Awards
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bogsnoticus on Monday February 27 2017, @08:42PM (6 children)
They're paid just to read what's put in front of them.
If you honestly expect them to perform any critical thinking over what they're given to read, then most would be unemployed due to refusing to work with shite scripts full of plotholes and crap dialogue.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @08:49PM (3 children)
Jelly, jell-jell-jelly!
Awwww, you are important too bognosh!
Feel better, now?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday February 27 2017, @11:19PM (2 children)
It's a jelly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5bVm5qsbbM [youtube.com]
Now there's a movie that should have won an Oscar.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday February 28 2017, @03:21AM (1 child)
It won the Canadian equivalent, a Genie award.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/awards?ref_=tt_awd [imdb.com]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_Award [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 28 2017, @11:38AM
Did not know that!
:)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 27 2017, @09:13PM (1 child)
You could be talking about *any* broadcast show. I seriously don't get the celebrity news anchor thing in the USA. Some suitably attractive (female) or serious (male) looking actor reads off a prompter and exhibits faux outrage. And that is your real news, not even the fake stuff.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday February 27 2017, @10:07PM
But, but, they are "celebrites" (oops, "newscasters", "real newsmen" or whatever).
The *personality* gives the credibility. I'm sure some newspresenters on million-dollar salaries *want* to do "real" journalism and present in-depth analysis, but they all want the pay more.. Entertain, don't inform, you might make people think, and that will scare them away..
Actors just want the money (or the adulation, but pay them first)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex