Why were Bonnie and Clyde even involved in the Oscars?
Especially during the last segment, and most critical category, of the evening: Best Picture.
You knew instantly as they BOTH attempted to walk to the microphone, that they shouldn’t have left their apartments next to the dog track. They could barely walk!
“Clyde” Beatty looked like he had soiled his trousers with a truckload of unnecessary debris, if you get my drift.
Plus, neither one of them can see any more…literally.
Watch history – the bad kind – being made last night…
This was a classic F’up during one of the penultimate moments in a entertainment professional’s life. In this case, we’re talking about multiple lives. UNBELIEVABLE…
Even for Hollywood.
After watching multiple times, several different clips of the last few minutes of the Academy Awards, nearly eclipsing the number of times I’ve watched the Zapruder Film, it’s way too bizarre to be infuriating. To my wife and me, it appeared that Beatty and “Bonnie” Dunaway were somehow [PricewaterhouseCoopers report to the principle’s office immediately] in possession of an incorrect envelope, containing NOT the best-picture winner, but the best actress, which had just been awarded to Emma Stone of La La Land. Opening the crimson envelope, 79-year-old Beatty seemed baffled, pausing briefly before handing it off to Dunaway, who announced “La La Land” as the winner.
They could NOT make out the printing on the envelope, as being a mistake…it’s very obvious as you watch any of the clips.
The most gut-wrenching aspect, really, was that mistake was NOT recognized immediately. Where was the production team? Already bitinging into steaks at Musso & Frank? Even Steve Harvey botching the prize for Miss Universe 2015 – the previous gold standard for bungled awards show finales – was faster to repair the damage of a winner incorrectly named.
Instead, the poor “La La Land” producers, cast and crew were allowed to arrive on to the stage, deliver speeches and experience the weightless feeling of capturing movie-making’s greatest honor. Think about this for a second: They really thought they had won!!! Everyone thought they had won!
Then, chaos becomes a fiasco of nerve-shattering proportions!
They’re close to wrapping up their acceptance speeches when, out of-the-corner of the lower right portion of your flat-screen, one sees an anxious-looking production person in headgear barreling around the stage…Oops!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even then, it is NOT an Oscars show producer, but a “La La Land” one, Jordan Horowitz, who steps up to bravely announce the mistake, and properly awards the golden statue to “Moonlight.”
Horowitz was the personification of class and dignity of the highest order.
It was a moment that could have unraveled quickly – and for which Horowitz bore NO responsibility – but, he could NOT have defused it with more grace. His class on this night will be long remembered.
I, for one, wish him a career filled with worthy redemption, and personal reward.
Lobster on the Prairie 