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March 14, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Oscars Recalibration

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Check 1, 2, 3. My friend, it is very difficult sometimes to convey to people what it is you're trying to say and have them Grasp it.
Especially when you are a freak.
When you are the only individual on the planet who apparently thinks like you do.
And I recognize that I am that person and one of many people.
I want you to listen to me.
And I want you to be able to tell what is changing in the world.
Whatever the platform is.
Your family, your job, the industry, the country.
I was listening over the weekend to a series of Vietnam, you know, LERPs versus LARPs and how the forward observers and the people in particular Had to notice what was different.
Like, they noticed.
You've got to know what's changing.
Sometimes they'd go into a village and they were saying, wait a minute.
Nobody's here.
Wait a minute.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
They left.
There's stuff being cooked.
Uh-oh.
And they realized the NVA was nearby or something.
You have to know what is changing.
You just can't read new stories and keep regurgitating them.
What's changing?
Where is the country and the people?
Where are they transmogrifying?
How does this thing work?
What's new?
If you don't see that, you're wasting your time.
And when I tell people this, Oftentimes, some people will say, oh, there you go again.
You're just hearkening back to some time that doesn't exist.
Let me give you an example.
Today, I have, coming out at about 3 p.m., one of my great, I'm sorry, newsletters.
It's a beaut.
And it gives you a kind of, it's a compilation of Social media observations and thoughts and little bits and ideas and amuse-bushes and all this stuff.
And there was a scene that I wanted to do because I was watching the, not watching, I was watching some of the highlights from, I guess, the big movie was everything, everywhere, all at once.
I didn't see it, but...
I'm sure it was just great.
Most people I know hadn't even heard of it.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
I'm not trying to say like, well, because I didn't hear of it, it must not have been any good.
I'm not saying that.
But I, and I quoted this morning on my Twitter, there's a scene from 1979 when Laurence Olivier receives the tribute or whatever it was, this special Oscar.
Cary Grant, let me just say this again, Cary Grant, It introduces him.
It's like being in some place and seeing James Madison and George Washington to see the founding fathers.
But not only were they great in terms of their acting or whatever it was.
Because there's sometimes, very frankly, there's some aspects of some things that Olivier did that I never thought was really...
As great as people thought they were.
There were other things he did that were really important.
Marathon Man was the most important.
He was very, very ill at the time.
He was trying to make as many movies at the end for his family.
Trying just basically to make bucks.
Make some coin, as the kids say.
And what he did was he would just become, you know, sell this guy.
And Dustin Hoffman, it was during the studio of 54 days, he would come in for the famous, is it safe scene, and he hadn't slept.
And he says, my boy, why don't you act?
Why are you not sleeping?
Because American acting had, of course, you know, we lived, right over there was the actors' workshop, and, you know, there was...
You know, the Stella Adler and those other people.
And he never understood.
He said, what are you doing?
And the Americans would say, no, I've got to feel.
I've got to know this.
I've got to, you know, Stanford, you know, Meisner.
These acting techniques.
The...
How do I say this?
You know, the Lee Strasberg.
By the way, there was a great joke one time.
They were doing a roast for Don Adams.
And Don Adams said, yeah, I'm studying with Lee.
Strasberg?
No.
Majors.
Anyway.
And the British school says, well, if you're going to be a king, You've never been a king before.
There's nothing to relate to.
Become.
Be a king.
Just do it.
What are you talking about?
Why must you suffer and feel in any event?
So this is Larry Olivier.
Listen to the speech.
Watch John Voight at the end.
And you're just panning through the audience.
This was Warren Beatty when he was with it.
When he was shampoo Warren Beatty.
When he was the wild man.
When he...
Just look at the...
Jane Fonda.
When they were at their peak.
This Hollywood.
Johnny Carson with a white tie.
Tails.
Beautiful.
Elegant.
Listen to Olivier speak.
Nobody speaks like this.
And now you've got Hugh Grant.
I don't know if he's an Etonian or if he's an Oxford, Cambridge.
He's one of the biggest.
And he shows a boorishness, which was different than anything like before.
There's no David Niven.
The idea of people, Noel Coward, this means nothing.
Christopher Hitchens, who?
Bill Buckley, Plimpton, Gore Vidal, who?
Who today?
Who is it?
It's just...
It's meaningless.
It's lost.
It's not there.
I'm telling you.
It's the saddest thing I've ever seen.
And I see this and I'm noticing it.
And you can say, well, it's not the Oscars per se.
It's just everything.
People don't also, they don't understand that the medium is changing and the media.
I just read something.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
you There we go.
There we go.
Do you see what's happening?
Do you see what's happening here?
I hope you do.
Everything is changing.
Now what's even more important is that politically, culturally, artistically, in terms of music, in terms of everything, you have to recognize this very, very simple thing.
And no matter what it is, no matter what the area is, whether it's the Silicon Valley Bank, whether it's bailouts, everything is changing drastically.
And nobody is talking about where things are going.
They're talking about, they're reacting piecemeal, bit by bit by bit by bit.
You either understand what I'm saying or you don't.
And I have no time for this.
Let's respond to each thing like a little cat chasing a...
Penlight or chasing something.
It's incredible.
We are losing our language.
We are losing...
I'm saying keep...
Add on to whatever we're doing, but don't lose something.
Don't lose the ability to speak.
I can't explain to you where movies are going or film.
That doesn't matter.
I would never be as presumptuous.
Or so presumptuous as to say, well, this is not what we're doing.
But let me just explain something.
You will never be able to extricate politics and social issues from film.
Never.
You will never be able to do that.
That's been like that since day one.
Since Frank Capra, since D.W. Griffith, since you name it.
Not everything, this is not a new phenomenon.
There's always going to be this.
Look at what's being injected.
And it's a matter of trying to make things, both trying to reflect society and change society.
Can you tell the difference?
When Bob Carroll, Ted and Alice came out in the 60s or 70s, carnal knowledge, oh my God!
People went crazy.
Deep Throat was almost like a comedy.
These were moments in our culture where film in particular, along with music, along with comedy, along with everything, this is where people really broke out of the 50s.
Remember, the 50s was beats, you know, and then the hippiedom came later on, and then this free love and whatever it was.
There's always been.
Easy Rider is one of the worst movies.
It is so nothing by today's standards.
But at the time, it was shape-shifting.
It's the most incredible thing anybody's ever seen.
It changed everything.
I'm telling you, one of the most important Events ever was Rocky Horror.
Event films where you would go every week to see something and participatory, nobody did that before.
Completely different.
Look what's happening right now in terms of entertainment with, well you don't know this, but in terms of Broadway, oh my gosh.
So I want you to pay attention to what's going on here.
Don't necessarily react.
If you're interested at all in the SVB notion, If this story is still, especially with a lot of the, you've got to ask yourself, why are certain people saying certain things?
Why are people advocating bailouts?
Can they themselves benefit from bailouts?
Does that make any sense to you?
Ask yourself this question.
What has changed?
Always question, why is he saying this?
What is the angle here?
Podcasting, and I'm going to say something, podcasting is going to hit critical mass if it already has it.
I am noticing an absolute, just an explosion, an overkill Of people, and I appreciate this, but we saw this, but there's just too many.
They're not very interesting.
They're not very good.
There are people who believe that they can do no wrong because, and they look at the metrics and go, it's all that counts, and fine, you're right about that.
But in terms of the quality, it's boring.
Because there are people who are not, there are people who are not really that, there's...
There's nothing that deep or interesting.
They're merely reacting.
Anybody can react to news.
It's different to be able to analyze it.
It's a little bit different.
That's all I'm saying to you.
But we're seeing right now in podcasting what we saw in the 80s with comedy.
In the 80s, when people like Bud Friedman...
Evening at the Improv, and then all of these comedy shows that opened up, these clubs that opened up all over the country, ha-has and he-he's and titters and Giggles and laughs and yuck-yucks and all this stuff.
There was this huge television.
Byron Allen, which put all of these conglomerations of comedy short.
Bloopers and whatever it was.
Very easy to do, but it was overkill.
And it destroyed.
It destroyed.
Because people say, hey, I'm kind of quirky.
I can do comedy.
Eh, whatever.
And comedy is something which is unregulated.
By the way, You've got to say something about film and you've got to say something about comedy and Broadway and theater and the like.
Sports is one thing.
Sports is about metrics.
Sports is how many points you put on the board and did you win and that sort of thing and that's fine.
When it comes to the idea of If a comic is funny or if he's topical or adipical, whatever it is, that's so subjective.
Who knows what that is?
So I can't tell you.
That is completely up to you to figure out how that works.
Because it's...
And I will never tell you, well, I think this is good and that's good.
It's not up to me to decide what's good and what's not good.
It doesn't work that way.
All I can do is tell you, this is what I'm noticing in terms of the changing.
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I was talking to a young man just yesterday, as a matter of fact.
The notion of EMP.
And he said, we're talking about what is it that you worry about?
I said, well...
I saw a lecture one time by James Woolsey.
Remember him?
He was head of the CIA or whatever.
And it was about what?
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Now, how do I say this again?
I can't watch TV, as you know.
I try my best to see different compilations of things.
And I spent...
A glorious time early this morning just listening to old C-SPAN and interviews and lectures on the NSA and surveillance and listening to old...
Don't ask me why.
I've been re...
just looking into Yates and slouching towards Bethlehem.
The Durkheim Constance.
And there's so much that makes more sense to me now than any of the usual dreck.
The breaking news and breaking news.
I don't know what happened to news as of late.
I don't know what it is.
I loved it before.
And the thing which is the most important, remember, The three people in my life that mean the most, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, they took the last train for the coast.
Barney Fife, Howard Beale, and Ted Baxter.
Barney Fife, of course, mythical, was the precursor to a future of the kind of a...
What's the word?
Kind of a RoboCop.
The type of the hyper-militarized police officer that Andy, the gentrified cop, never wore a gun during the 60s, always had to keep in check.
Very prescient, very vatic.
That's Barney fine.
Number two, Howard Beale.
Howard Beale was everything that everybody in news wants to be, thinks they are, you know.
Everybody always says, we're going to tell you what you need to know.
I'm here to...
And they don't.
They have people whose storylines are written by producers who are always the worst.
They're always a week late and there's no editing.
They don't really know what to say.
It doesn't really matter.
But it replicates and it looks like a news program.
But Howard Beale is what everybody wants to do.
And when I did TV, That's what I was.
And they didn't even know it.
Thank God nobody was paying attention.
Because it was wonderful.
Or maybe they weren't paying attention, just actually let me do what I wanted to do.
Either way, it was wonderful.
But number one, the most important person ever, and people miss it, was Ted Baxter.
Remember what was said, that politics is downstream from Entertainment.
This was Ted Baxter.
Came along at a time when Walter Cronkite was, I think he still had 10 years to go before he retired.
He was at the height of his game.
Not the height, the height.
And please, don't say Tijuana.
I don't know why people say Tijuana.
It's Tijuana.
T-I-J.
Not Tijuana.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana?
No!
Anyway.
How did they know?
How did the Mary Tanamore show know that, and this is before Ron Burgundy, that Ted Baxter was the future, was the pole star of the Rube, the whatever.
How did he know that?
And we're seeing it right now.
We're seeing it right now.
We are seeing it at levels that...
And it's worse than you can imagine.
And there are different versions of it.
If you walked in and say, you are a caricature.
Some people are a caricature of themselves.
Over the weekend I read this article that said that Rush Limbaugh's widow sold her property in Palm Beach for $150 million.
Rush Limbaugh was a great guy, but Rush Limbaugh...
And I don't say that.
He's dead, of course, which was a tragedy.
But his style, it's a different world.
It doesn't matter.
Howard Stern, it's an anachronism.
This is a different time.
You're not paying attention as to what's happening.
You're not paying attention.
I remember years ago somebody was saying, we need delis in New York.
Are you watching what people are eating?
The idea of some thick slab pastrami, I know it's great, but do you understand how people are not necessarily eating that as much as they used to?
Oh, I never thought about that.
We'll start thinking about this.
Look at what, when you go back and watch the highlights of the Academy Awards, look at what you're being told.
What does it say about the future of Hollywood?
What does it say about the future of anything?
Look at news.
Look at Ted Baxter.
He's alive!
It's an anachronism.
It's a parody.
With no parity.
Or committee, but comedy.
You know what I'm saying?
Are you following this?
Of course you are.
Pay attention.
Every single...
I swear to you, I say this, I'm thinking to myself, this is...
I see things on TV and I see, oh my God, look at this.
Look at all these.
Look at these stories.
Look at these hearings.
Look at this.
Oh my God.
Slashing and burning and look what they're saying.
Oh, you know what's going to happen?
Nothing.
Nothing.
It's not like a broken record.
But you're confusing theater with legislation.
What's going on here?
You know what's going on here.
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I realize that what I'm seeing...
Right now, it is completely antithetical to everything that you're going to be saying, because people are saying, hey, what about this, this, this, this, and this?
Okay, that's fine.
Let's push this down.
Let's look up.
What does all this mean?
Where are we going next?
That's what I want to talk about.
That's what I find fascinating.
And I recognize the fact that I'm kind of alone in this.
And I also understand that there was a time when things were different.
I understand that.
I understand that.
Movies, Academy Awards, times were different, and some of that was good, some of it wasn't.
Not all movies then were great.
Not all were terrific.
Some are.
And I recognize the fact that the fact that we've been making film is terrific.
There has always been an element of a political message.
During the 50s, especially during the Cold War, don't forget what Leave it to Beaver was.
Leave it to Beaver was, if ever there was a message of propaganda, it was then.
Absolutely.
From the days of Bernays, to Frank Capra, to name it.
Movies, especially during the Cold War, always impart a message other than just, here's just a story.
So don't ever think we're going to get into a period where we are removing from movies and film parts of our current way of thinking.
I think Silverado was one of the best Westerns because nobody really saw a Western.
Westerns are very difficult to make.
I think one of the most important and fascinating Directors is Quentin Tarantino.
Just because of the what is this?
Completely different.
With a style.
Scorsese.
Important to an appoint.
That Irishman.
Oh, God.
Here's something.
Editing.
Oh, here's something.
YouTube in particular.
A fascinating focus on, and I think it's hit overkill immediately, the mob, ex-members, maid members.
It has hit critical mass so fast.
What I mean hits critical mass is when something is overdone and there's no room for variation.
You know what I mean?
There's no room for it.
It's hard to think of a time when all of a sudden things...
Remember when Urban Cowboy came out, speaking of films, and all of a sudden it was Johnny Lee and Mickey Gilley and Looking for Love and all that stuff.
Mechanical Bulls and, you know, doing line dancing and all that.
That was a dark period in country music.
Horrible.
Because it tended to be kind of a parody of country music.
Not good.
So every now and then, that sort of happens.
There were some...
Remember Kentucky Fried Theater?
Groove Tube?
I remember Groove Tube was great!
In college, this is great!
When Star Wars hit, biggest thing anybody's ever seen.
I was very...
I would have liked to have seen, even though I did not care for the movie at all, Top Gun, because that's a return to theater.
Big theaters.
Big ticket stuff.
Dad didn't do that.
He didn't even show up.
Cruz.
I think James Cameron didn't really.
And I was glad to see Brendan Fraser win.
We knew that was coming, which is okay, I guess.
There's always that.
How about that Angela Bassett?
Not exactly too happy with that.
Hugh Grant.
You can go through the results.
Because today, Throw in social media.
Not only do we have the event, but then we have the reactions to the event and what happens on the event and the people and the parties and it's a different story.
So remember today, my friends, never look at just the story.
Always look at the top.
Go to the top of the mountain.
Look and see what's happening next.
Okay?
That's all.
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There's prose in writing.
Maybe there's a big word or two.
Never use the term a big word.
Do you ever use the word small words?
No.
Sometimes the small words are the big words.
Because my favorite words are real tiny words that nobody knows.
Think about that one.
All right, my friends.
Have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change and mean that sincerely.
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Thank you for your kindness, your courtesy, your consideration, and the like.
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