Taking a bite of Oscar bloggers

Daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic best picture predictions UNITE!

The fact, dear readers, is that blogs like Gold Rush, Gold Derby, Thompson on Hollywood, In Contention and the like are under attack. Attack! Today's sucker punch is courtesy of L.A. Times columnist (and brand new blogger!) Patrick Goldstein, who says we've hijacked the film business, lost our minds and killed his kitten, or something.

He especially takes issue with a couple blog posts this week that claimed Barack Obama's election would be good for "The Dark Knight" and Prop 8's passage could similarly buoy "Milk" in the Oscar best picture race. We failed to see the logic there, too, and said so yesterday.

But Goldstein goes much further, painting all Oscar predictors with the same broad Bozo brush with such pearls as, "Oscar watchers are so obsessed by, well, their obsession with the awards racket that they assess every event through the golden statue prism."

This from a guy who just wrote an exhaustive (and exhausting) column about what an Obama presidency means to his pal, filmmaker Joe Roth's Seattle soccer team under the headline, "Would Obama's election make soccer a major league American sport?"

Really, making tenuous connections between current events and entertainment is OK if you do it, Goldstein, and certainly if there's a suck-up opportunity in there for you.

But perhaps no one works harder than Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil to defend the honor of all us colorful onesy-wearing bloggers. (Bless you, sir!) He points out that Goldstein once had a bit of a monopoly on Oscar prognosticating in our fair city and the guy wasn't so good at it. See some of his track record here.

In other words, Goldstein is basically taking a wee in the pool so no one else can enjoy a swim. Ain't that sweet of him?

We expect this battle to continue to provide chuckles all around for some time to come. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have a fright wig fitting.

 

Comments

[UGLY PUNK GURL!]

haha. I heard about his attack on you guys on Hollywood Elsewhere. methink somebody's a little too emotional, yeah?

but there's nothing wrong with being a "clown"! as T.E Lawrence famously said, "we can't all be lion tamers."