Deja Vu

January 18, 2011

Going Too Far?

Tags:: acting,; actors,; Ancient Rome,; awards,; comedy,; insults,; poetry,; tv

2011: After Ricky Gervais used his bully pulpit as host of Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards to accuse the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of taking bribes and lampoon the partying habits of Charlie Sheen, the Internet was abuzz with rumors that he had been, or soon would be, fired. Even though the official HFPA line is that they "loved the show," there are still reports like this one from the Huffington Post floating around:

Rob Shuter of PopEater reports that one Hollywood Foreign Press Association (they put on and vote for the awards) told him that Gervais will not return as host—and won't ever get nominated for a Golden Globe, either.

“Ricky will not be invited back to host the show next year, for sure,” the HFPA member said. "For sure any movie he makes he can forget about getting nominated. He humiliated the organization last night and went too far with several celebrities whose representatives have already called to complain.”

93: Historians still debate how seriously to take early biographers’ claims that the Roman satirist Juvenal was exiled for mocking a pantomime actor who happened to be a favorite of the current emperor. In his introduction to Juvenal’s Sixteen Satires, Peter Green contextualizes the roast that possibly got Juvenal into hot water:

[I]n middle age Juvenal uttered a short pasquinade of a few verses satirizing Paris the pantomimus and his jobbing of commissions. There is no clear indication whether this Paris was the one who performed under Nero, or his successor at the court of Domitian: to confuse matters further, both were executed by their respective Imperial masters, the first in 67, the second in 83…The lines actually sited are the following:

What nobles cannot bestow, an actor will. Why bother
to appear in great patricians’ spacious reception-halls?
Prefects and tributes alike are appointed by ballet dancers.

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I didn't like what Ricky Gervais did and didn't think much of the Golden Globes hiring him to do it. The excuse making afterwards, blended in with all the other bickering on CNN turned what is left of my brain into pudding.

I do love a civilized man, with filters. I even enjoy watching an award show where I leave thinking about the MOVIES and which one I thought was best. Ricky Gervais defended himself as a brave elephant hunter at the Golden Globes. Elephant hunts are something else. Who would wear an expensive dress/tux to a damn elephant hunt? Who wants to go to an award show knowing the host has permission to shove the award up the winner's behind?

We have award show hosts defending themselves with every excuse in the book. We have politicians saying mean words caused the shooting in Arizona and yet they cannot stop the flow of mean words. Puffed with pride, ripping eachother new ones, shrunken with shame saying someone else made them do it, or that it was an urge caused by a parent who could never be proud of them when they were a child. Is it any wonder our money, our schools, our health care, our everything is so messed up and we seem to be drifting in and out with the tide, going nowhere?

On twitter I noticed Seti musing about if we should fear life from other galaxies. My first thought was that they would fear us? Would we appear like mad dogs with foam dripping from our bloody teeth?
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Posted by Jennifer Marshall on Thu 20 Jan 2011
We need more lampooning, not less and for more reasons than just cries of laughter and lashes of comeuppance, society has become rife with echelons of power - both real and imagined - being kept sacrosanct from any form of public criticism that does not come with a persona attached - Colbert - or is in some animated form - Family Guy, South Park. People unbidden to censorship should feel free to lambaste overpaid actors, directors and writers in tuxedos as easily as they would overfed Americans waddling through a Walmart super center. Neither, deserves any more respect than the other.

Posted by Rarian Rakista 28095 /2010/08/24/a-pro-choice-heroine/ on Sun 23 Jan 2011

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