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Why offer Academy awards to best actor and actress? Why not best black act and best white act? Best straight act and best gay act? Why even supporting role designations? Ledger’s supporting roll was far more moving than most leads and might have rivaled any top performance.
On the other hand, he may have used performance enhancers. Would using deadly, illicit drugs to "get into a role" parallel Bonds' bringing himself to his world class peak at the ripe ole age of 40?
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Sean Penn just did it, too.
"Equal rights".
We have equal rights. What they should be striving for is decriminalization or something of the sort.
Oh, wait Sean. Why aren't you concerned about "equal rights" for male and female actors? They only get to be compared to actors of the same gender regardless of sexual orientation or race. What a shame.
I mean I can see a place for the LPGA or WNBA, but best Actress a separate category from Actor? Why don't they ever offer best Actress after best Actor? It implies Actor is the top rung.
And the GLBTA acts like this "equal rights" for homosexuals thing should be perceived as a no-brainer. They're as guilty as I for perpetuating this sexism at the Academy. It’s the same mentality they’re fighting tooth and nail.
Anyone who takes any kind of a moral stand can be branded a hypocrite.
All you have to do is associate their stand with something else they do in their private life. This is the foundation of the whole Hannity, Limbaugh, Air America programming logic.
Nothing resonates with people like hypocracy and unfairness.
Dude, turn off Limbaugh once a week and listen to Colin Cowherd on ESPN radio. The guy is Howard Stern without the sluts.
As for Bonds and MLB steroids/HGH, the public outrage just proves MLB is still America's past-time.
NFL players take it, we don't care (Merriman, Mcallister, Gold).
Movie stars take it (Pitt, McConaughey, Clooney) and we don't care.
Politicians take it (Schwartzenegger, Ventura) and we don't care.
Barry, Mac, Sosa, A-Roid take it, and there is a congressional hearing.
I don't think that it is as much Americas pasttime as it is the fact that roids have a greater effect on individual stats in baseball more than football. Baseball is the biggest individual, team, sport in the world this side of soccer.
Yeah I hear ya, Sev.
To take it a step further, baseball's most visible stars are the home run hitters. "Chicks dig the long ball." There is very little outrage directed at Pettite, Gagne, etc.
If you juice and throw cutters, no biggie. But if you juice and then hit homers, look out!
Football's most visible stars are quarterbacks like Brady, Manning, McNabb. When an NFL defensive back has his girlfriend killed, we don't even remember his his name. When a quarterback runs a dog fighting ring ...
If an NFL qb were connected to HGH, game over. Career over. Free lapdances over.
When its a defensive end on the West Coast - Who cares?
It really does make me wonder WHY fans care about performance enhancers an if the REALLY do at all. In sport there is inconsistent concern as you all have pointed out. It seems the concern is over the stats, no the drugs or examples they offer to children.
Beyond that, an actor dies from a drug addiction that might have been brought on by his use of Heroin to get into character for Dark Night and he's offered a posthumous award for it. What gives?
Hell, I’d like to see steroids perfected to the extent they are considered a fountain of youth if properly ingested. But never will there come a day when heroin will be considered a boon to society.
No doubt Bluto. If I could get a hold of some HGH I would use it right now.
I actually wouldn't mind if they allowed P.E.D.'s but they would need to separate the stats.
As for right now it is illegal and that makes them cheaters.
Now Hugh Jackman is doing it or Wolverine. He's eating chicken and working out he says. But what if it turns out he's juicin'?
Would they put an asterisk by any award he might win for the performance? (Not that he will. I heard it's a weak story)
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