By Jason Apuzzo. As reported at Deadline Hollywood, Michael Moore (along with Kathryn Bigelow, and Lawrence of Arabia editor Anne Coates) has been elected to the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors.
Forgive me, but the election of this Riefenstahl-in-a-fat-suit is repulsive. Utterly contemptible, divisive – and richly evocative of the climate of fear that currently pervades an industry in which dissent from the left-liberal line is not tolerated. I could not be more disgusted by this.
What most people don’t know is that at least one of the Motion Picture Academy’s Board of Governors is a conservative. But I can’t say who it is – because of course, I don’t want this person getting in trouble. That’s the way this town really works.
I don’t even know where to begin on this one, folks. The ongoing ruination of what was once a special institution continues unabated, apparently with no adults around to stop it.
[Update: The LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein links to this post today (7/7) in his own piece on Moore’s election. I’d like to respond to one point in Patrick’s article:
Inside the industry, reaction was more muted, with one screenwriter musing: “If the academy has any brains at all, they’d better frisk Moore before every meeting to make sure he doesn’t try to bring a hidden camera. If you thought Wall Street and General Motors were fat targets for muckraking, that’s nothing compared to the academy.”
This is actually the first thing I thought of when I heard about Moore’s election – not so much that he would bring a camera into board meetings (a droll idea, by the way), but that he would grandstand in public over matters that might otherwise be kept in-house. The basic métier of people like Moore is to turn everything into a public, political controversy – essentially a circus spectacle, with him as ring master. It’s all too easy to imagine this sort of thing happening in the case of, say, the awarding of honorary Oscars. An acquaintance of mine on the Board, for example, was involved some years back in the controversial decision to give Elia Kazan an honorary Oscar. What would Moore have made of that? Would he really have kept his mouth shut?]
Posted on July 7th, 2010 at 12:55pm.
This is completely disgusting and utterly predictable. The left is out to destroy Hollywood, and there are no adults in charge.
Thanks for alerting us to this. I hadn’t even heard about this anywhere else.
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I’m completely appalled. I didn’t think it was possible for the Academy to stoop any lower, but now they have. This is what happens when you allow the left to completely take over Hollywood. Conservatives really need to start taking the movies and the culture more seriously and fight back. You guys are doing it, but I don’t see a lot of other people making a serious effort.
When will it end?!!! When will this guy go away or just explode?!!!
Yeah. Thanks for venting, Powder. Come back again.
The inmates are truly in charge of the asylum, now.
I can’t tell you what a bad message this sends. In so many ways, both symbolic and practical, this is now a nightmare.
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
Feel free to quote.
And here’s our Twitter address:
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I’ve already tweeted about this issue, so feel free to retweet.
This is so hideous I don’t even know what to say. I never want to watch the Oscars again. The disgusting thing is, Moore will now be on the Academy board forever, and will be no doubt abusing that authority to push an ever more divisive and radical leftist agenda into an organization that should be above partisan politics.