Oscar stuph.
Jan. 2nd, 2004 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoThe ever-catty Gawker links to a New York Observer article about the Oscar race. The question is, why did she cut the last sentence from the paragraph she quotes?
"The conventional wisdom out here is that despite the all-out effort from Miramax to promote Cold Mountain, the Best Picture award this year will go to the final installment of The Lord of the Rings. But on the other hand, I wouldn’t put it past the beautiful minds in Hollywood to start an old-fashioned smear campaign—something to the effect that the film producers glossed over the fact that Aragorn was, in actuality, a homophobic bipolar anti-Semite. Not that anybody at Miramax would ever stoop to such a thing, of course. So let’s just paraphrase Howard Dean here: "I didn’t say I believe it. It’s just what I heard.""
"The conventional wisdom out here is that despite the all-out effort from Miramax to promote Cold Mountain, the Best Picture award this year will go to the final installment of The Lord of the Rings. But on the other hand, I wouldn’t put it past the beautiful minds in Hollywood to start an old-fashioned smear campaign—something to the effect that the film producers glossed over the fact that Aragorn was, in actuality, a homophobic bipolar anti-Semite. Not that anybody at Miramax would ever stoop to such a thing, of course. So let’s just paraphrase Howard Dean here: "I didn’t say I believe it. It’s just what I heard.""
