Holy Mackerel! I forgot the Oscars…
This year the Academy Awards were such a non-event in my life that I managed to forget all about last night’s big show, and this is particularly surprising since after Kathi and I got the kids to sleep last night I slumped down on the couch and turned on the TV. By then, I suppose, it was deep into the Barbara Walters special, but it just didn’t occur to me to look for coverage, funny out takes or interesting acceptance speeches. I only remembered a few minutes ago (it’s just before 6:00am here) when the daily barrage of newsletters and RSS feeds kept talking about movies.
Looking over the winners, the only movie I managed to see that was even nominated was “Ratatouille,” which I saw with my daughter last summer. We wanted to see “Juno,” but could never find a window when the combination of child and adult health and babysitting all aligned like the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
If you’ll forgive my navel-gazing, the weirdest thing about this is how little I care. I used to work in the movie business and back then I saw EVERYTHING. In previous years when I haven’t seen most of the nominated movies it has bothered me. This year, I didn’t have time and it strangely doesn’t bother me.
Which isn’t to say that I didn’t see any good movies: just not the ones the Academy seems to worry about.
2 Responses to “Holy Mackerel! I forgot the Oscars…”
1 Cynthia 29 February 2008 @ 6:16 pm
I too didn’t watch, didn’t see, and don’t care. Of course, I was never in the biz, though I did consider it at one time, and I no longer live in the southland where everyone lives and breathes it.
Then again, I cannot say I actually saw a movie in the theatre at all this past year. *That* I find I do care about. Damned lungs.
2 Julie, writer Surefirewealth.com 3 March 2008 @ 4:49 am
Funny. Back home, it was like Red Carpet Day. Everything I watched on television was related to the Oscars. And it was also on that day when a large group of rallyists mobilized and called for our government to start telling the truth about corruption issues.
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