It’s simple really.
And, yes, also sad.
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Awards Shows
Is This the Story That the “Deserved” Oscar Deserves?
Awards Shows, Journalism, Movies
Well, I’d like to think so. (For Yahoo!)
Spike Lee Would Laugh at Why Joan Crawford Didn’t Go to the Oscars
Awards Shows, Journalism, Movies
Fear of losing. Fear of flying. Fear of, I guess, getting fired from Jaws: The Revenge. I run down 20 cases of Oscar night no-shows for Yahoo!
Latest Podcast: Jennifer Lopez’s Cape, Amy Schumer’s Pockets, Mozart in the Jungle, Batman ’66
Awards Shows, batman, david bowie, golden globes, Podcast, pop culture, R.I.P., TV
“The cape is a start, but we need turtlenecks. On cold awards-show nights, I call on actors of the female persuasion to go with more capes and pockets–but really more jackets and turtlenecks.” Me, slightly paraphrasing me on the latest Joal Ryan Thing podcast.
As an added bonus, I commemorate Tuesday’s 50th anniversary of the premiere of the 1966-1968 Adam West–Burt Ward TV series, Batman, with a discussion with comic-book writer Jim Beard, editor of the anthology, Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters.
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Whatever Happened to Miss America?
Awards Shows, Media, Miss America, pop cultureThe answer was and wasn’t as succinct as I expected. No, Miss America is not the celebrity that it was. But, yes, it’s survived reports of its demise for nearly as long as it’s been around—and it’s been around for nearly a century.
The 95th anniversary edition of the pageant is tonight. The story I wrote for Yahoo! posted today. (Yay, synergy!)
By the by, when I was young and (more) full of snark, I once covered the pageant for E! I remember being struck by the crowd outside the convention, its faces full of young hopefuls and their mothers. Men might have run the operation, but women and girls powered it. It was and is the way of the world, not just Miss America.
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