Word: hollywood
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...Oscars, the fresh-faced stars of the Irish movie Once seemed as if they had just rolled into Hollywood straight from busking on a Dublin street-corner. Hardly...
...telecast. Hansard and Irglova's stripped-down, honest performance stood in stark contrast to the glitzier production numbers of the other nominees. When Irglova had the unprecedented experience of getting a second shot at an Oscar acceptance speech after the orchestra played her offstage, she expressed something rare in Hollywood - sincere gratitude. "This is such a big deal," said Irglova, the only woman in the Kodak Theater who appeared to have gotten ready without the help of a staff of 12. "Not only for us, but for all other independent musicians and artists that spend most of their time struggling...
...painting supposedly of a nude woman descending a staircase, which had no woman visible, just strange, machine-like, abstract forms. All three artists did parody paintings, mocking taste. Ray painted in a bright, cheerfully kitsch style recalling décor in the background of middle-class apartments in old Hollywood movies. Picabia painted textured abstracts that had nothing but a few primitive dots on them resembling enlarged points of light. (In 1950, the art critic for TIME said they had "all the monotony and none of the scientific interest" of astronomical photos.) And he painted gaudy, figurative scenes of absurd...
...compete with the mass media in its impact and pizazz. So they produce objects that tend to be lurid. It is as if the whole endeavor of art cannot be taken seriously unless the artists lead celebrity lifestyles, and unless their output has the packaging and sheen of Hollywood movies or expensive cars. Duchamp's circle lived for outrageous gestures, yet there was no sense of an already streamlined system for them to operate within professionally, as there is today. Or, where there was, they instinctively undermined...
...clips of acceptance speeches from decades ago provided a glimpse into what the Academy Awards were like in the bygone days, before Nicholson was given his perma-spot in the front row. It’s surprising to see the ceremony then as a quiet dinner, where Hollywood came together to privately celebrate the achievements of the previous year. That’s because the Oscars we know are a beast of a different species. The whole point of the Academy Awards is to celebrate and commend the best of the best in filmmaking. We might take the ungodly glitz...