Comments on: Snow White, Sacheen Littlefeather and Great Dance Numbers on the Holocaust https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/02/25/snow-white-sacheen-littlefeather-and-great-dance-numbers-on-the-holocaust/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: DougLathrop https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/02/25/snow-white-sacheen-littlefeather-and-great-dance-numbers-on-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-5006 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:30:53 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=527#comment-5006 I haven’t watched an Oscars broadcast in a number of years. They used to be worth their weight in snark material, if nothing else. Even the annual Parade of the Dead segment could provide an impromptu rendition of Jim Carroll’s “People Who Died” from me and my friends.

But now? It’s not just you, Tim — they’ve become mind-numbingly dull. The decline started when they 86’d the Debbie Allen dance numbers in the late ’90s. Then Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon stopped winning Oscars, and the art of self-aggrandizing political speechifying died a quiet death. Finally, Janet Jackson showed a boob at the Superbowl, and a fearful chill settled over the whole entertainment industry. What used to be a glorious celebration of everything tasteless and kitschy about Hollywood has turned into a dreary and furtive affair by an industry terrified of offending anyone.

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