Comments on: The Oscars Could Be Cancelled! But, Do You Care? http://glosslip.com/2008/01/12/the-oscars-could-be-cancelled-but-do-you-care/ Celebrity gossip from our lips to yours Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:01:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: k http://glosslip.com/2008/01/12/the-oscars-could-be-cancelled-but-do-you-care/#comment-20188 k Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:46:27 +0000 http://glosslip.com/2008/01/12/the-oscars-could-be-cancelled-but-do-you-care/#comment-20188 Sorry about having to delete this article earlier, crazymom, but the software eated half my article. I had to repost. I do agree that it would be sad to have the ceremony cancelled because people can't manage to come to an agreement. I've done previous <a href="http://glosslip.com/2007/11/10/the-writers-strike-is-reaching-far-beyond-the-picket-lines/" rel="nofollow">posts</a> on just how important the writers are to a show and how when they aren't there, you just have a bunch of nicely-dressed people standing on a set, doing and saying nothing. An honest day's wages for an honest day's work. But an interesting thing to me is the guy back in the day who didn't pick up his Oscar because the writers were on strike...yet the ceremony was still held. Sorry about having to delete this article earlier, crazymom, but the software eated half my article. I had to repost.

I do agree that it would be sad to have the ceremony cancelled because people can’t manage to come to an agreement. I’ve done previous posts on just how important the writers are to a show and how when they aren’t there, you just have a bunch of nicely-dressed people standing on a set, doing and saying nothing. An honest day’s wages for an honest day’s work.

But an interesting thing to me is the guy back in the day who didn’t pick up his Oscar because the writers were on strike…yet the ceremony was still held.

]]> By: crazymom http://glosslip.com/2008/01/12/the-oscars-could-be-cancelled-but-do-you-care/#comment-20178 crazymom Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:23:30 +0000 http://glosslip.com/2008/01/12/the-oscars-could-be-cancelled-but-do-you-care/#comment-20178 In a way it'll be a letdown, because as Gil Cates said (and I paraphrase): "The Oscars has never in its history been cancelled, we've been through depressions, wars, and strikes but we've always had a show." It would be strange to think that not even the Nazis or 9/11 could stop the Oscars, but this time a writer's strike would. That just befuddles me for some reason. I feel for the writers -- theirs is the meat of any show, because without the words, without the content, there would be no shows. I'm guessing that if actors are anything like news anchors, they can't ad-lib worth a damn and need everything scripted. The writers deserve to cash in the same way everyone else associated with the shows does. It makes me sad that the studio heads can't seem to grasp that idea. In a way it’ll be a letdown, because as Gil Cates said (and I paraphrase): “The Oscars has never in its history been cancelled, we’ve been through depressions, wars, and strikes but we’ve always had a show.”

It would be strange to think that not even the Nazis or 9/11 could stop the Oscars, but this time a writer’s strike would. That just befuddles me for some reason.

I feel for the writers — theirs is the meat of any show, because without the words, without the content, there would be no shows. I’m guessing that if actors are anything like news anchors, they can’t ad-lib worth a damn and need everything scripted. The writers deserve to cash in the same way everyone else associated with the shows does.

It makes me sad that the studio heads can’t seem to grasp that idea.

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