Comments on: Bart and Guber on the Oscar paradox http://cultureby.com/2007/01/hollywood_down_.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Thu, 17 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Virginia Postrel http://cultureby.com/2007/01/hollywood_down_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3383 Virginia Postrel Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:24:36 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=544#comment-3383 The same hypercontrol and overrehearsal is what makes political debates, and pundit shows, so meaningless (or meaningful only once decoded from their calculated banalities) and boring as well. Pros are trained to repeat the same carefully formulated message over and over and never to say anything spontaneous or revealing. The same hypercontrol and overrehearsal is what makes political debates, and pundit shows, so meaningless (or meaningful only once decoded from their calculated banalities) and boring as well. Pros are trained to repeat the same carefully formulated message over and over and never to say anything spontaneous or revealing.

]]> By: brian kenny http://cultureby.com/2007/01/hollywood_down_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3382 brian kenny Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:10:51 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=544#comment-3382 You wrote: "The best moments on the Oscar were the moments of spontaneity, when stuff happens that plays against form, when actors play against type..." ... Like when Jack Palance die one-armed push-ups during the show in 1991. Jack Valenti never did that, but didn't we all secretly wish that he might someday lighten up and give it a try... You wrote: “The best moments on the Oscar were the moments of spontaneity, when stuff happens that plays against form, when actors play against type…”

… Like when Jack Palance die one-armed push-ups during the show in 1991. Jack Valenti never did that, but didn’t we all secretly wish that he might someday lighten up and give it a try…

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