My wife and I were enduring the leaden Oscar ceremony, and as we approached the pentultimate moment, I prophesied that if Sean Penn won, everybody could count on The Master Thespian of Marin making an especially obnoxious acceptance speech...something heavily tinged with in-your-face left-wing politics...
Sure enough, I called it...from the opening syllables, Spicoli unleashed a surly peroration largely bereft of grace (aside from the nice salute to Mickey Rourke...sorry Mickey, once you spoke well of Dubya, you were cooked with the Academy) and delivered with all the delicacy of a barbed-wire enema...crude, heavy-handed, abrasive, and largely unnecessary...
Contrast Spicoli's approach with that of Tom Hanks when he won for "Philadelphia," in '94...
Telling people that they should be ashamed of themselves is not a winning strategy for changing minds, gaining votes, or getting people to see your movie...
How are those box office grosses for "Milk?" Pay for the catering yet?
Anonymous on February 22, 2009 at 11:53 PM
I was watching that w/ a couple of guys here at work....I made the EXACT same prediction (though nowhere near as eloquently), and sho 'nuff, he didn't disappoint.
What would Mr. Hand say about Spicoli's predictable diatribe?