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I Made The Mistake Of Watching "a.i." On Cable The Week They Showed It About 792 Times, And I Ended Up Watching It Every Time It Was On.

They'll Give You An Oscar If They Think You're About To Drop Dead. The Problem With The Oscars Is, The Average Age Of The Academy Is 84. They Wheel Those People In From Palm Springs And Hook Up Their Ivs And They Vote. The People That Go To Movies Are Under The Age Of 28, For The Most Part, So There's This Total Disconnect Between What The Academy Thinks Is A Great Movie And What The Audience Actually Wants To See.

In Some European Theaters, It's Still Not Uncommon To Have A Late Start And Three Long Intermissions, Because People Actually Eat And Drink And Converse During The Intermissions.

The Movies That Are Honored At The Oscars Are Always A Certain Type: Old-fashioned. It's A Bunch Of Well-made, Old-fashioned Movies That Support Our Idea Of Ourselves. They Uplift The Human Spirit. That's Why Horror Films Never Even Get Nominated.

The Italians Always Made Good Wine, But You Had The Impression They Were Friendly Guys In Straw Hats Running Family Vineyards With Slaves Or Something So That The Vino Was Never More Than Ten Bucks A Bottle.