Post-Oscars 2014

The best part was when she later claimed that she didn't know what jigaboo meant or that it was even a word.

Then there was this foolishness from Shonda Rhimes.

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The "In Memorium" segments run from last year's Oscar showing to the current year's Oscar show, not from calendar year to calendar year. I found this out when I was flabbergasted that Philip Seymour Hoffman was left out of this year's segment (he died in February of 2014), and tried to find out how/why that could possibly happen -- unless the Academy really did want to commit a glaring, major mistake of a snub.

Hoffman actually anchored the In Memorium segment of last year's Oscars. (He died right before them, in February of 2014).

 

You know, he actually does, now that you mention it.

 

Turns out there just wasn't enough time to include Rivers:

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, an Oscar rep explained the decision to not include the iconic comedian. "Joan Rivers is among the many worthy artists and filmmakers we were unfortunately unable to feature in the In Memoriam segment of this year's Oscar show," reads the statement. "She is, however, included in our In Memoriam gallery on Oscar.com."

 

I swear they are selling In Memoriam spots. Joan Rivers doesn't make it but a half-dozen "marketing executives" do?

 

Driving people to the web site? When did the Oscars get bought out by Gannett?

 

The Joan Rivers snub doesn't really bother me. Aside from Muppets Take Manhattan, she has very few live acting credits in feature films (though her voiceover work as Dot Matrix in Spaceballs was awesome).

I get that she's associated with the Oscars, but she's associated with the fashion of the event, not with the films. Let the Emmys honor her.

 

For those who were wondering what was up with Terrence Howard's odd presentation at the Academy Awards, he explained it pretty hilariously on Fallon. He decided he wanted to memorize the segment, rather than read off the teleprompter, and he choked.

 

I suppose I could post this in the NYPD Blue thread, but Howard played a kind of helpless skell in an episode that ran in May of 1998. It was run Tuesday night on the continual running of the show on DirecTV's Audience Network.