While watching the Ultimate Olympic Ego Show last night...better known as The Oscars....I was quite pleased to see THE INSIDE JOB win for best documentary. I wrote a piece about that film when I saw it and suggested that it should be required viewing for all high school seniors. If The Oscar can increase the viewing public by 10 or 20 percent then that means a few more people will be asking the question that Charles Ferguson asked when he won the award.
Why has nobody involved in the 2008 financial meltdown been indicted or gone to jail?
The questions get much deeper when you realize where some of the major players in that fiasco.......now find employment.
Look at the present administration and then turn your attention toward a few of the great universities in America.
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS PROGRAM.
As for the actual Oscar telecast.
Why can't we just have Billy Crystal handle the situation until the next great master of ceremonies comes along? Maybe someday it will be Jimmy Fallon but right now nobody fits the bill better than Billy.
I'm not saying anything negative about James Franco and Anne Hathaway. They came, they looked good, they didn't embarrass themselves and then they went away.
The host of the Oscars has legendary status. Bob Hope and Johnny Carson set the bar and Billy Crystal has come the closest to reaching that bar.
I understand the youthful demographics but I am just a bit nervous that next year the producers of the show will give it to..............Justin Beiber.
Maybe those E-Trade babies would be a good choice.
Bring back the experienced host and let's up the anti on the dignified portion of the show.
But one thing that is good about all this......
THE AWARDS SEASON IS FINALLY OVER....
NOW LET'S ALL GET BACK TO WORK.
Michael Timothy McAlevey
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