Oscar Stuff

Today on Netscape:

"Nobody watches the Academy Awards to find out what the kids are into. It's not about celebrating trends, it's about placing new cultural products within the historical context of Old Hollywood, thus confirming a given movie's status as capital-A Art. To incorporate intentional, "ironic" amateurism into an institution designed to legitimize factory-produced mass entertainments undermines the entire enterprise."

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