Hollywood Schmollywood
: MTV‘s Kurt Loder on the Oscars, the lack of antiwar statements, the paranoid belief of stars that they have to shut up (no, we just want them to shut up), and the reaction to Michael Moore:
First of all, how relieved were you not to be subjected to three-and-a-half hours of preening anti-war moral instruction from a parade of Malibu millionaires? Even Barbra Streisand, that lovable, out-of-control diva, limited herself to praising the American tradition of free speech, “even for artists.”
(There appears to be a widespread delusion within the celebrity community that somebody has passed a law prohibiting them from declaiming their political opinions at every possible podium. Until the right-wing talk-show harridan Ann Coulter becomes president, this probably won’t happen.)…
Moore’s spittle-flecked ululations were so over-the-top, that even the Oscar crowd
