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Chuck Grassley, played by cast member Alex Moffat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In walks a shouting, sniffing Judge Brett Kavanaugh, in an appearance by Matt Damon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm gonna start at an 11, I'ma take it to about a 15 real quick!\" he yells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRJecfRxbr8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He talks a lot about beer. \"I'm usually an optimist, I'm a keg is half-full kind of guy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing the real Kavanaugh's statement that \"you'll never get me to quit,\" Damon's judge notes, \"I'm not backing down ... I don't know the meaning of the word stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aidy Bryant played Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor brought in to question Ford, who says, \"I'm here mostly for Twitter.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on in the scene, Kate McKinnon, who can do a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/20/612751096/tina-fey-hosts-star-studded-snl-season-43-finale\">good impression\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/05/518601702/kate-mckinnon-mocks-sessions-as-forrest-gump-on-snl\">pretty much anybody,\u003c/a> channeled the indignation of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who lashed out on Thursday at Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You put this man on the Supreme Court now,\" McKinnon's Graham says. \"No vote, no discussion. You give him a damn robe and you let him do whatever the hell he wants. Because this right now, this is my audition for Mr. Trump's Cabinet. And also for a regional production of \u003cem>The Crucible.\u003c/em>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmCX0R7Tqg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weekend Update had its usual digs at the week in politics, beginning with the Ford and Kavanaugh appearances. \"A classic debate of she said, he yelled,\" as Colin Jost described it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kate McKinnon was back (again!) as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, giving her take on Kavanaugh and his calendars. Today on Ginsburg's agenda: \"Don't die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kanye West was the night's musical guest. He performed three times, the first of which was ... in a costume of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1046254473063075840\">bottle of Perrier.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ended the show with a song performed while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. West is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/06/02/616402658/two-sided-trying-to-hear-kanye-wests-new-album-ye-through-all-the-noise\">noted fan of President Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday afternoon, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1046443996074127361\">tweeted\u003c/a> about first show of the season, saying \"Like many, I don't watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it) - no longer funny, no talent or charm. It is just a political ad for the Dems. Word is that Kanye West, who put on a MAGA hat after the show (despite being told \"no\"), was great. He's leading the charge!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show is back live next week with host \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639670914/crazy-rich-asians-star-awkwafina-has-always-aggressively-been-myself\">Awkwafina\u003c/a> and musical guest \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/07/636278850/travis-scott-rides-a-fire-breathing-dragon-in-stop-trying-to-be-god-video\">Travis Scott.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. 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Today on Ginsburg's agenda: \"Don't die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kanye West was the night's musical guest. He performed three times, the first of which was ... in a costume of a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1046254473063075840\">bottle of Perrier.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He ended the show with a song performed while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. West is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/06/02/616402658/two-sided-trying-to-hear-kanye-wests-new-album-ye-through-all-the-noise\">noted fan of President Trump.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday afternoon, President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1046443996074127361\">tweeted\u003c/a> about first show of the season, saying \"Like many, I don't watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it) - no longer funny, no talent or charm. It is just a political ad for the Dems. 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To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Matt+Damon+Is+A+Sniffing%2C+Shouting+Brett+Kavanaugh+On+%27SNL%27+Season+Premiere&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/106122/matt-damon-is-a-sniffing-shouting-brett-kavanaugh-on-snl-premiere","authors":["byline_pop_106122"],"categories":["pop_3"],"tags":["pop_222","pop_88","pop_322","pop_1228"],"featImg":"pop_106123","label":"pop"},"pop_96702":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_96702","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"96702","score":null,"sort":[1507752787000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"even-when-matt-damon-is-apologizing-he-gets-it-wrong","title":"Even When Matt Damon is Apologizing, He Gets it Wrong","publishDate":1507752787,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Matt Damon is confusing. He might have built his personal reputation around being a down-to-earth everyman who uses his celebrity status to help out people less fortunate than himself, but in recent years, he's more closely resembled an over-privileged smug dude with an empathy problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon's confounding behavior has been present since the start of his career. Remember how heart-warming it was when he and Ben Affleck won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RIS5GJqAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academy Award for Best Screenplay\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, while their mothers watched from the audience? The BFFs were adorable that night, and the world wished them well. About five minutes later though, Damon appeared on the \u003cem>Oprah Winfrey Show\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/matt-damon-broke-minnie-driver-oprah-171709131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promptly dumped his co-star\u003c/a> and girlfriend of over a year, Minnie Driver, on the air. Driver, in an extraordinarily restrained move, called the incident \"fantastically inappropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cruel incident was the first indication the world got that Matt Damon might be a giant douchelord, but everyone kind of forgot about it, thanks to his outspoken liberalism, charity work (\u003ca href=\"https://water.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Water.org\u003c/a> is a cause particularly close to his heart), and undeniable penchant for comedy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfoF6MhgLA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years though, it's the insensitive nonsense that pops out of his mouth that's overshadowing the good stuff. There was the September 2015 interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/27/matt-damon-i-think-you-are-a-better-actor-the-less-people-know-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which Damon suggested that gay actors should keep their sexuality quiet, lest they lose roles. \"I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you, period,\" he said. \"And sexuality is a huge part of that. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anything about your sexuality because that’s one of the mysteries that you should be able to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quote was positioned almost directly beneath a photo of Damon and his wife on the red carpet, captioned \"Family man: with his wife, Luciana, whom he met while filming in Miami in 2003.\" The message was clear: Matt Damon feels just fine about taking his heterosexual relationship to red carpets all over the world (no mystery required!), but gay people shouldn't do the same thing in case they lose roles. Damon made this statement two years after playing a gay man himself in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291580/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, despite his many years committed to being an open heterosexual. The hypocrisy was jaw-dropping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WL7IC5unXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearing on \u003cem>Ellen \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and attempting to clarify his \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> statements, Damon managed to make things worse. He told DeGeneres that, post-\u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, people had asked if he and Ben Affleck were gay. He stated: \"I'm not going to throw my friends under the bus who are gay, and act like it's some kind of disease.\" In what way is confirming your sexuality the same as treating homosexuality as an illness? And why does Damon only care about his gay friends, rather than the wider LGBTQ community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with Damon is that, one minute he is outspoken in ways that are totally right on (when Ben Carson said that the Presidential office was no place for a Muslim, Damon publicly \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called the statement\u003c/a> \"horrible,\" \"offensive,\" and \"wrong\"), the next he is seemingly incapable of recognizing his own privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very same month as that disastrous \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> interview, during an episode of \u003cem>Project Greenlight, \u003c/em>Damon talked over and interrupted successful producer, Effie Brown, to tell her that diversity isn't needed behind the camera, as long as people of color show up on screen. He did so in the middle of Brown suggesting that racial and gender-based insensitivity onscreen can occur when there are only white men in charge of production. Because: OBVIOUSLY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prepare to cringe:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehL7GVQ89mk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After social media blew up in response, Damon \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/matt-damon-project-greenlight-diversity-apology-1201595189/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apologized\u003c/a> (\"I believe deeply that there need to be more diverse filmmakers making movies\"), but proved to have missed the point almost entirely when, a year later, he starred in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034800/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Great Wall\u003c/a>—\u003c/em>a movie set in China that still, somehow, managed to have white people dominating the story. Constance Wu, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3551096/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, said on Twitter: “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world.” David Sims accurately noted in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> that the movie put \"a white American actor at the center of another culture’s story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/matt-damon-great-wall-whitewashing-response.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended his role\u003c/a> with yet another tone-deaf apology, by saying: \"I didn’t take a role away from a Chinese actor… it wasn’t altered because of me in any way... Although it was developed for commercial purposes, I felt there was room for me to play and put many elements of Chinese culture into it.” Hard not to roll your eyes at that last part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2015, Damon displayed some insidious misogyny when he blamed Jennifer Lopez for Ben Affleck's image problem during their much-publicized 2002-2004 relationship. \"It was like he was being cast in a role, that he was a talentless kind of meathead, with his whole relationship with Jennifer Lopez,\" Damon told \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"He just got cast as this person that he wasn’t... It was painful to be his friend, because it wasn’t fair, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's extremely difficult to side with Damon's version of events, given the fact that Affleck's on-camera behavior during that period including \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41589352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually assaulting an MTV host\u003c/a> while TV cameras rolled, and repeatedly talking about the breasts of a Canadian TV host, also while on the air. During that last interview, Affleck also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/348091/ben-affleck-get-them-titties-out-2004/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impersonated someone with Cerebral Palsy\u003c/a> and used the r-word. Affleck's behavior was clearly odious, without any input from J-Lo whatsoever. It seems like it's easier for Damon to blame a woman than it is to question his best friend's conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent Damon-related screw up concerns ex-\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> journalist, Sharon Waxman, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/damon-crowe-reportedly-helped-kill-nyt-weinstein-article.html?utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/matt-damon-russell-crowe-harvey-weinstein-sexual-allegations-fired-killed-story-a7991981.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made claims\u003c/a> that a 2004 article she worked on to expose Harvey Weinstein's alleged penchant for sexual harassment and assault was buried after Russell Crowe and Matt Damon called the newspaper to defend their producer pal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon strongly denied Waxman's claims, telling \u003ca href=\"http://deadline.com/2017/10/matt-damon-harvey-weinstein-russell-crowe-sexual-abuse-scandal-interview-1202185574/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Deadline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: \"My recollection was that it was about a one minute phone call. Harvey had called me and said, 'They’re writing a story about Fabrizio [Lombardo, of Miramax]... and it’s really negative. Can you just call and tell her what your experience with Fabrizio was? So I did, and that’s what I said to her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon also offered his thoughts on the allegations against Weinstein, saying: \"Everybody’s saying we all knew. That’s not true. This type of predation happens behind closed doors, and out of public view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then: \"Even before I was famous, I didn’t abide this kind of behavior. But now, as the father of four daughters, this is the kind of sexual predation that keeps me up at night.\" Because, apparently, it is impossible to understand the horrors of sexual assault until you've co-created some female children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more questionable elements of Matt Damon's worldview just keep emerging. Even when he's trying to apologize, the actor frequently just digs himself deeper into a hole. As it stands in 2017, no matter how much we once loved him, it feels an awful lot like he is the epitome of the liberal nice guy who still has a hard time understanding the viewpoints of anyone who isn't white, male, and heterosexual—and it's getting too hard to ignore anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Damon is that liberal guy who just cannot understand viewpoints that aren't white, straight, and male. And it's too hard to ignore anymore.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634328354,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1313},"headData":{"title":"Even When Matt Damon is Apologizing, He Gets it Wrong - KQED Pop","description":"Damon is that liberal guy who just cannot understand viewpoints that aren't white, straight, and male. And it's too hard to ignore anymore.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"96702 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=96702","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/10/11/even-when-matt-damon-is-apologizing-he-gets-it-wrong/","disqusTitle":"Even When Matt Damon is Apologizing, He Gets it Wrong","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/pop/96702/even-when-matt-damon-is-apologizing-he-gets-it-wrong","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Matt Damon is confusing. He might have built his personal reputation around being a down-to-earth everyman who uses his celebrity status to help out people less fortunate than himself, but in recent years, he's more closely resembled an over-privileged smug dude with an empathy problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon's confounding behavior has been present since the start of his career. Remember how heart-warming it was when he and Ben Affleck won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RIS5GJqAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academy Award for Best Screenplay\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, while their mothers watched from the audience? The BFFs were adorable that night, and the world wished them well. About five minutes later though, Damon appeared on the \u003cem>Oprah Winfrey Show\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/matt-damon-broke-minnie-driver-oprah-171709131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promptly dumped his co-star\u003c/a> and girlfriend of over a year, Minnie Driver, on the air. Driver, in an extraordinarily restrained move, called the incident \"fantastically inappropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cruel incident was the first indication the world got that Matt Damon might be a giant douchelord, but everyone kind of forgot about it, thanks to his outspoken liberalism, charity work (\u003ca href=\"https://water.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Water.org\u003c/a> is a cause particularly close to his heart), and undeniable penchant for comedy:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eSfoF6MhgLA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eSfoF6MhgLA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In recent years though, it's the insensitive nonsense that pops out of his mouth that's overshadowing the good stuff. There was the September 2015 interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/27/matt-damon-i-think-you-are-a-better-actor-the-less-people-know-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which Damon suggested that gay actors should keep their sexuality quiet, lest they lose roles. \"I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you, period,\" he said. \"And sexuality is a huge part of that. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anything about your sexuality because that’s one of the mysteries that you should be able to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quote was positioned almost directly beneath a photo of Damon and his wife on the red carpet, captioned \"Family man: with his wife, Luciana, whom he met while filming in Miami in 2003.\" The message was clear: Matt Damon feels just fine about taking his heterosexual relationship to red carpets all over the world (no mystery required!), but gay people shouldn't do the same thing in case they lose roles. Damon made this statement two years after playing a gay man himself in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291580/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, despite his many years committed to being an open heterosexual. The hypocrisy was jaw-dropping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WL7IC5unXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearing on \u003cem>Ellen \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and attempting to clarify his \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> statements, Damon managed to make things worse. He told DeGeneres that, post-\u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, people had asked if he and Ben Affleck were gay. He stated: \"I'm not going to throw my friends under the bus who are gay, and act like it's some kind of disease.\" In what way is confirming your sexuality the same as treating homosexuality as an illness? And why does Damon only care about his gay friends, rather than the wider LGBTQ community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with Damon is that, one minute he is outspoken in ways that are totally right on (when Ben Carson said that the Presidential office was no place for a Muslim, Damon publicly \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called the statement\u003c/a> \"horrible,\" \"offensive,\" and \"wrong\"), the next he is seemingly incapable of recognizing his own privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very same month as that disastrous \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> interview, during an episode of \u003cem>Project Greenlight, \u003c/em>Damon talked over and interrupted successful producer, Effie Brown, to tell her that diversity isn't needed behind the camera, as long as people of color show up on screen. He did so in the middle of Brown suggesting that racial and gender-based insensitivity onscreen can occur when there are only white men in charge of production. Because: OBVIOUSLY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prepare to cringe:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ehL7GVQ89mk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ehL7GVQ89mk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>After social media blew up in response, Damon \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/matt-damon-project-greenlight-diversity-apology-1201595189/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apologized\u003c/a> (\"I believe deeply that there need to be more diverse filmmakers making movies\"), but proved to have missed the point almost entirely when, a year later, he starred in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034800/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Great Wall\u003c/a>—\u003c/em>a movie set in China that still, somehow, managed to have white people dominating the story. Constance Wu, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3551096/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, said on Twitter: “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world.” David Sims accurately noted in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> that the movie put \"a white American actor at the center of another culture’s story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/matt-damon-great-wall-whitewashing-response.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended his role\u003c/a> with yet another tone-deaf apology, by saying: \"I didn’t take a role away from a Chinese actor… it wasn’t altered because of me in any way... Although it was developed for commercial purposes, I felt there was room for me to play and put many elements of Chinese culture into it.” Hard not to roll your eyes at that last part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2015, Damon displayed some insidious misogyny when he blamed Jennifer Lopez for Ben Affleck's image problem during their much-publicized 2002-2004 relationship. \"It was like he was being cast in a role, that he was a talentless kind of meathead, with his whole relationship with Jennifer Lopez,\" Damon told \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"He just got cast as this person that he wasn’t... It was painful to be his friend, because it wasn’t fair, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's extremely difficult to side with Damon's version of events, given the fact that Affleck's on-camera behavior during that period including \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41589352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually assaulting an MTV host\u003c/a> while TV cameras rolled, and repeatedly talking about the breasts of a Canadian TV host, also while on the air. During that last interview, Affleck also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/348091/ben-affleck-get-them-titties-out-2004/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impersonated someone with Cerebral Palsy\u003c/a> and used the r-word. Affleck's behavior was clearly odious, without any input from J-Lo whatsoever. It seems like it's easier for Damon to blame a woman than it is to question his best friend's conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent Damon-related screw up concerns ex-\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> journalist, Sharon Waxman, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/damon-crowe-reportedly-helped-kill-nyt-weinstein-article.html?utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/matt-damon-russell-crowe-harvey-weinstein-sexual-allegations-fired-killed-story-a7991981.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made claims\u003c/a> that a 2004 article she worked on to expose Harvey Weinstein's alleged penchant for sexual harassment and assault was buried after Russell Crowe and Matt Damon called the newspaper to defend their producer pal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon strongly denied Waxman's claims, telling \u003ca href=\"http://deadline.com/2017/10/matt-damon-harvey-weinstein-russell-crowe-sexual-abuse-scandal-interview-1202185574/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Deadline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: \"My recollection was that it was about a one minute phone call. Harvey had called me and said, 'They’re writing a story about Fabrizio [Lombardo, of Miramax]... and it’s really negative. Can you just call and tell her what your experience with Fabrizio was? So I did, and that’s what I said to her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon also offered his thoughts on the allegations against Weinstein, saying: \"Everybody’s saying we all knew. That’s not true. This type of predation happens behind closed doors, and out of public view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then: \"Even before I was famous, I didn’t abide this kind of behavior. But now, as the father of four daughters, this is the kind of sexual predation that keeps me up at night.\" Because, apparently, it is impossible to understand the horrors of sexual assault until you've co-created some female children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more questionable elements of Matt Damon's worldview just keep emerging. Even when he's trying to apologize, the actor frequently just digs himself deeper into a hole. As it stands in 2017, no matter how much we once loved him, it feels an awful lot like he is the epitome of the liberal nice guy who still has a hard time understanding the viewpoints of anyone who isn't white, male, and heterosexual—and it's getting too hard to ignore anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/96702/even-when-matt-damon-is-apologizing-he-gets-it-wrong","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_51"],"tags":["pop_212","pop_222","pop_3084","pop_1517"],"featImg":"pop_96703","label":"pop"},"pop_5003":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_5003","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"5003","score":null,"sort":[1369141230000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"8-reasons-to-get-excited-about-hbos-new-liberace-movie","title":"8 Reasons to Get Excited about HBO's New Liberace Movie","publishDate":1369141230,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqAC1yiIROw&w=560&h=315]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Before Elton John, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Marilyn Manson, Lady Gaga and their epic stage and personal antics, there was Liberace, aka Mr. Showmanship, the original too-much celebrity, marinated in his own eccentricities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, May 26 HBO premiers \u003cem>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/em> (so titled because of Liberace's trademark candelabra that he kept on his piano during shows), a film by Steven Soderbergh of Scott Thorson's notorious, just re-released tell-all about his life as lover and plaything of the world famous pianist. The film, starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Thorson, took almost half a decade to produce but looks well worth the wait. The book is so filled with weird, jaw-dropping revelations about the over-the-top celebrity lifestyle Thorson shared with Liberace (matching fur capes and gold plated Rolls Royces to start... have I piqued your interest?) it's almost not to be believed. Thankfully, our celebrity culture has evolved since the death of Liberace in 1987 to the point where we'll believe just about anything (thank you, TMZ). Thorson met Liberace when he was 17 and was quickly brought into the 47 year-old entertainer's entourage and personal life. Thorson quotes Liberace as saying he wanted to be \"Father, brother and lover\" to the younger man... guess which one took precedent? Here are some of the things we're most looking forward to Sunday night when Soderbergh's film premiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Matt Damon in a Speedo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The books details quite a lot of Thorson and Liberace's sexual relationship; a more accurate title might actually be \u003cem>Beneath the Candelabra \u003c/em>if you get my hint. The preview includes a few shots of Matt Damon, towheaded like we haven't seen him since \u003cem>Good Will Hunting, \u003c/em>getting out of one of Liberace's Roman-bath-by-way-of-Palm-Springs pools in a very tiny speedo. So, clearly, let's get more of that and I predict Emmy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Debbie, Dearest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds (\u003cem>Singin' in the Rain \u003c/em>and mother of Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher) was a friend of Liberace's in real life (they shared an agent for their Vegas engagements) and now plays his domineering, religious mother Frances in the film. The icon of old show business razzle dazzle is dramatically unrecognizable in the role sporting a frumpy gray wig, glasses and not a sequin in sight (we assume all sequins in North America were diverted to Douglas's wardrobe). If Reynold's role is anything like Mama Liberace is portrayed in the book the 81 year-old glamour girl has a great Faye Dunaway opportunity to chew scenery. As Thorson says of Mrs. Liberace: \"when she died, Lee (Liberace) didn't shed a single tear but went to pieces a few months later at the death of one of his many poodles.\" Don't even bother chewing, Debbie: just swallow the scenery whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Speaking of Sequins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7Tj55bGEg&w=560&h=315]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>No movie about Liberace would be complete without recreations of some of those famously understated costumes from his stage wardrobe (see also his collection of hairpieces). Beads, ruffles, feathers, velvet, satin, sequins, furs, jewels: the man made Cher look like a Shinto nun by comparison. Also, apparently the rule for men wearing capes is as follows: capes are only allowable if you are a superhero \u003cem>or\u003c/em> a world famous concert pianist. Here's the best part of the Liberace wardrobe: in a head-to-toe white satin and ermine ensemble bedecked with more mirrors than the a NASA telescope, the man insisted on publicly playing it straight until the day he died from AIDS complications. I fear that for an entire generation of women over 80 this movie will be a rude awakening about the private life of a man they may still be holding torches for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Making an Entrance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dioRwB4RvrQ&w=420&h=315]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Liberace was just as famous for his elaborate entrances (like the one above where he's driven onstage by the real Scott Thorson in a rhinestone studded Rolls Royce) as he was for his befurred and bejeweled wardrobe. Also, we hear he played the piano! We've never exactly been sure what all this has to do with Chopin and Beethoven but we're excited to find out!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Michael Douglas As We've Never Seen Him Before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy Award winning actor hasn't had a role this good in years (thanks for trying, team behind \u003cem>Wall Street\u003c/em> sequel but no thanks) and has never played so far against type. Over-the-top antics aside, Liberace was an enormously talented musician and captivating personality and we're looking forward to seeing how Douglass channels his own brand of charisma into the role. We're also seriously hoping his wife, fellow Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta Jones, gave him some pointers on just how to do that diva strut across the stage to his piano bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. The Soundtrack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asGuLKxWfi0&w=420&h=315]\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Like I said, somewhere in all of this is the story of a gifted musician. For proof of the talent behind the tacky, listen to Liberace playing the \"14th Hungarian Rhapsody\" by Liszt; he never would have had the opportunity to get that tacky if he hadn't been that talented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Rob Lowe Unable to Blink\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5043\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/05/21/8-reasons-to-get-excited-about-hbos-new-liberace-movie/behind-the-candelabra-rob-lowe-03-jpg_152817/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5043\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-5043\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/05/Behind-the-Candelabra-Rob-Lowe-03-jpg_152817-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"Behind-the-Candelabra-Rob-Lowe-03-jpg_152817\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HBO/Behind the Candelabra screen grab of Rob Lowe\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The very handsome Rob Lowe underwent migraine inducing makeup (lots of pulling and scotch tape, we imagine) for his role as plastic surgeon to the stars, Dr. Jack Startz. Seriously, take a look, that's Rob Lowe in there. Startz plays an important role in the book and we hope to see a lot of him in the film version. Well, maybe not see... don't look directly at him, children. Startz allegedly told a young Thorson that cocaine was not addictive and allowed him to trade expensive pieces of jewelry for painkillers. And you thought your prescription drug plan was bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. The Couple that Facelifts Together...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, in the case of Liberace and Thorson they do not actually stay together. Apparently, the relationship went sour around the time Thorson underwent some surgery by Dr. Startz at Liberace's insistence that was supposed to make Thorson more closely resemble a young Liberace. I'm just going to repeat that so it can sink in: Liberace made his lover get plastic surgery on his face so he would look like him. I know, it doesn't get any less weird the more you say it. Terrible to live through (I can only imagine) but fabulous to read about and hopefully see on screen! How fame and wealth corrupt and pervert even the gentlest of souls; and how the scorned heart seeks vengance, especially when the scorned is half of a celebrity coupling. Let's just hope that Soderbergh's film takes us on as wild a ride as its source material. I've got my sequined cape all ready for Sunday night!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/movies/behind-the-candelabra/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>premiers Sunday, May 26 on HBO\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Candelabra-Life-With-Liberace/dp/0525246533\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Behind the Candelabra: My Life with\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> Liberace\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by Scott Thorson is available through Tantor Media online and in stores now\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Before Elton John, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace, aka Mr. Showmanship, the original too-much celebrity and his biopic is going to be awesome.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1369196513,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1267},"headData":{"title":"8 Reasons to Get Excited about HBO's New Liberace Movie | KQED","description":"Before Elton John, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace, aka Mr. Showmanship, the original too-much celebrity and his biopic is going to be awesome.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"5003 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=5003","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/05/21/8-reasons-to-get-excited-about-hbos-new-liberace-movie/","disqusTitle":"8 Reasons to Get Excited about HBO's New Liberace Movie","path":"/pop/5003/8-reasons-to-get-excited-about-hbos-new-liberace-movie","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QqAC1yiIROw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QqAC1yiIROw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Before Elton John, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Marilyn Manson, Lady Gaga and their epic stage and personal antics, there was Liberace, aka Mr. Showmanship, the original too-much celebrity, marinated in his own eccentricities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, May 26 HBO premiers \u003cem>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/em> (so titled because of Liberace's trademark candelabra that he kept on his piano during shows), a film by Steven Soderbergh of Scott Thorson's notorious, just re-released tell-all about his life as lover and plaything of the world famous pianist. The film, starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Thorson, took almost half a decade to produce but looks well worth the wait. The book is so filled with weird, jaw-dropping revelations about the over-the-top celebrity lifestyle Thorson shared with Liberace (matching fur capes and gold plated Rolls Royces to start... have I piqued your interest?) it's almost not to be believed. Thankfully, our celebrity culture has evolved since the death of Liberace in 1987 to the point where we'll believe just about anything (thank you, TMZ). Thorson met Liberace when he was 17 and was quickly brought into the 47 year-old entertainer's entourage and personal life. Thorson quotes Liberace as saying he wanted to be \"Father, brother and lover\" to the younger man... guess which one took precedent? Here are some of the things we're most looking forward to Sunday night when Soderbergh's film premiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Matt Damon in a Speedo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The books details quite a lot of Thorson and Liberace's sexual relationship; a more accurate title might actually be \u003cem>Beneath the Candelabra \u003c/em>if you get my hint. The preview includes a few shots of Matt Damon, towheaded like we haven't seen him since \u003cem>Good Will Hunting, \u003c/em>getting out of one of Liberace's Roman-bath-by-way-of-Palm-Springs pools in a very tiny speedo. So, clearly, let's get more of that and I predict Emmy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Debbie, Dearest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds (\u003cem>Singin' in the Rain \u003c/em>and mother of Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher) was a friend of Liberace's in real life (they shared an agent for their Vegas engagements) and now plays his domineering, religious mother Frances in the film. The icon of old show business razzle dazzle is dramatically unrecognizable in the role sporting a frumpy gray wig, glasses and not a sequin in sight (we assume all sequins in North America were diverted to Douglas's wardrobe). If Reynold's role is anything like Mama Liberace is portrayed in the book the 81 year-old glamour girl has a great Faye Dunaway opportunity to chew scenery. As Thorson says of Mrs. Liberace: \"when she died, Lee (Liberace) didn't shed a single tear but went to pieces a few months later at the death of one of his many poodles.\" Don't even bother chewing, Debbie: just swallow the scenery whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Speaking of Sequins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Rk7Tj55bGEg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Rk7Tj55bGEg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>No movie about Liberace would be complete without recreations of some of those famously understated costumes from his stage wardrobe (see also his collection of hairpieces). Beads, ruffles, feathers, velvet, satin, sequins, furs, jewels: the man made Cher look like a Shinto nun by comparison. Also, apparently the rule for men wearing capes is as follows: capes are only allowable if you are a superhero \u003cem>or\u003c/em> a world famous concert pianist. Here's the best part of the Liberace wardrobe: in a head-to-toe white satin and ermine ensemble bedecked with more mirrors than the a NASA telescope, the man insisted on publicly playing it straight until the day he died from AIDS complications. I fear that for an entire generation of women over 80 this movie will be a rude awakening about the private life of a man they may still be holding torches for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Making an Entrance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dioRwB4RvrQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/dioRwB4RvrQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Liberace was just as famous for his elaborate entrances (like the one above where he's driven onstage by the real Scott Thorson in a rhinestone studded Rolls Royce) as he was for his befurred and bejeweled wardrobe. Also, we hear he played the piano! We've never exactly been sure what all this has to do with Chopin and Beethoven but we're excited to find out!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Michael Douglas As We've Never Seen Him Before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academy Award winning actor hasn't had a role this good in years (thanks for trying, team behind \u003cem>Wall Street\u003c/em> sequel but no thanks) and has never played so far against type. Over-the-top antics aside, Liberace was an enormously talented musician and captivating personality and we're looking forward to seeing how Douglass channels his own brand of charisma into the role. We're also seriously hoping his wife, fellow Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta Jones, gave him some pointers on just how to do that diva strut across the stage to his piano bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. The Soundtrack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/asGuLKxWfi0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/asGuLKxWfi0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Like I said, somewhere in all of this is the story of a gifted musician. For proof of the talent behind the tacky, listen to Liberace playing the \"14th Hungarian Rhapsody\" by Liszt; he never would have had the opportunity to get that tacky if he hadn't been that talented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Rob Lowe Unable to Blink\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_5043\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/05/21/8-reasons-to-get-excited-about-hbos-new-liberace-movie/behind-the-candelabra-rob-lowe-03-jpg_152817/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5043\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-5043\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/05/Behind-the-Candelabra-Rob-Lowe-03-jpg_152817-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"Behind-the-Candelabra-Rob-Lowe-03-jpg_152817\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HBO/Behind the Candelabra screen grab of Rob Lowe\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The very handsome Rob Lowe underwent migraine inducing makeup (lots of pulling and scotch tape, we imagine) for his role as plastic surgeon to the stars, Dr. Jack Startz. Seriously, take a look, that's Rob Lowe in there. Startz plays an important role in the book and we hope to see a lot of him in the film version. Well, maybe not see... don't look directly at him, children. Startz allegedly told a young Thorson that cocaine was not addictive and allowed him to trade expensive pieces of jewelry for painkillers. And you thought your prescription drug plan was bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. The Couple that Facelifts Together...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, in the case of Liberace and Thorson they do not actually stay together. Apparently, the relationship went sour around the time Thorson underwent some surgery by Dr. Startz at Liberace's insistence that was supposed to make Thorson more closely resemble a young Liberace. I'm just going to repeat that so it can sink in: Liberace made his lover get plastic surgery on his face so he would look like him. I know, it doesn't get any less weird the more you say it. Terrible to live through (I can only imagine) but fabulous to read about and hopefully see on screen! How fame and wealth corrupt and pervert even the gentlest of souls; and how the scorned heart seeks vengance, especially when the scorned is half of a celebrity coupling. Let's just hope that Soderbergh's film takes us on as wild a ride as its source material. I've got my sequined cape all ready for Sunday night!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/movies/behind-the-candelabra/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>premiers Sunday, May 26 on HBO\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Candelabra-Life-With-Liberace/dp/0525246533\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Behind the Candelabra: My Life with\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> Liberace\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by Scott Thorson is available through Tantor Media online and in stores now\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/5003/8-reasons-to-get-excited-about-hbos-new-liberace-movie","authors":["2436"],"categories":["pop_7","pop_51","pop_3"],"tags":["pop_803","pop_807","pop_805","pop_271","pop_802","pop_222","pop_804","pop_806"],"featImg":"pop_5089","label":"pop"},"pop_1589":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_1589","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"1589","score":null,"sort":[1361394303000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons","title":"Why Argo Might Win the Oscar for Best Picture (for All the Wrong Reasons)","publishDate":1361394303,"format":"aside","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-title-real/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1608\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1608\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real.jpeg\" alt=\"argo title real\" width=\"642\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real.jpeg 642w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real-400x247.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\">\u003c/a>Well fellow cinephiles, this could be 2006 all over again. Has it been seven years since (that \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQs7WbVse8\">train wreck\u003c/a> of a movie) \u003cem>Crash\u003c/em> beat out the elegant favorite \u003cem>Brokeback Mountain\u003c/em>? Each week up until about mid-January the Oscar race for Best Picture flip-flopped from movie to movie. Before \u003cem>Les Miserables\u003c/em> even hit the screen, it was hailed as the movie to beat and then everyone went to see it on Christmas and walked out of the theatre confused and pretty sure they could \u003ca href=\"http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Your-Consideration-Les-Miserables-Lost-Best-Picture-Moment-Russell-Crowe-Opened-His-Mouth-35824.html\">sing better\u003c/a> than Russell Crowe. Now \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, the Ben Affleck-director-political-suspense-thriller-based-on-a-true story is the front-runner that’s here to stay. In a race where the other eight nominated films have the honest qualities of a true winner, it could all end up in the hands of \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>. Here are a few potential reasons why \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> might end up taking home that little golden dude:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-1-edit/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1597\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 1 edit\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit-400x244.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Because it’s a bro’s bro.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“So, have you seen \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> yet?” the frat dude says as he leans into her at the bar, his breath smelling of Red Bull and disdain. As if! \u003cem>Zero Dark Thirty\u003c/em> has quite the package: suspense, action, foreign intrigue, even torture, but what it’s lacking is, of course, a strong male lead like Ben Affleck. It’s a shame the strength and competence of \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxvwq8cKaT1qz9xvjo1_r4_500.gif\">Jessica Chastain\u003c/a>’s character Maya cannot compete with Affleck’s Tony Mendez, otherwise \u003cem>ZDT\u003c/em> would be a shoe-in for the boys of \u003ca href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SZCgRYVhgvI/AAAAAAAACfQ/LaijRaIYR54/s320/revenge-of-the-nerds.jpg\">Alpha Beta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1598\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 2\" width=\"702\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2.jpeg 702w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2-400x247.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Because it’s like \u003cem>The DaVinci Code\u003c/em> the book version.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDisclaimer: I have never read \u003cem>The DaVinci Code\u003c/em> nor have I seen the movie. However, I have paged through the book and what I do know is that it is compiled of very short, easy-to-read chapters that leave the reader wanting more. It is unlikely a film like \u003cem>Amour\u003c/em> can hold a candle. In \u003cem>Amour,\u003c/em> we glide through Georges and Anne’s home listlessly unearthing layers of wood and light: lives lived and love had. \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is the pleasure principle in its finest form, like a great pop song or the Kardashians (I still think \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv2zigvVNX1qzb62zo1_500.gif\">Kourtney\u003c/a> and Khloe have yet to really \u003cem>take\u003c/em> Miami); you want bubblegum and it delivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1600\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31-400x232.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Because it’s Hollywood talking about Hollywood.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Artist \u003c/em>took the award last year and deservedly so. The Academy might be on a streak. In \u003cem>Argo, \u003c/em>Affleck has made a movie within a movie. It’s all very meta but done in a very conventional manner. Instead of showing us what Hollywood can do, we are given \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, a movie showing us what Hollywood already does. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> would be the perfect example of what it’s like to take cinema to an ultra-cinematic level. The shots are breathtaking: aerial views that \u003ca href=\"http://cdn1.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Life-of-Pi-Ending-Explained.jpg\">isolate the ship \u003c/a>from our main character and a horizon where it is impossible to distinguish where the sky ends and the water begins. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> is a truly lavish cinematic experience. The closest we get in \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is when scenes from the movie are set side-by-side with actual archival footage as though Affleck is saying: Look at how perfectly I recreated this, not a hair out of place!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/django-real/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1609\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg\" alt=\"django real\" width=\"650\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real-400x268.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Because it’s already nabbed the Golden Globe and the BAFTA.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe past four years the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf8uDTUVx3Y\">BAFTA\u003c/a> has predicted the winner but the past four years there have been arguably clear winners. The Golden Globes are notorious for surprises and lucky for last year’s \u003cem>The Descendants\u003c/em>, the Globes split their best films into comedy and drama categories. But let’s jump back to another one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKK2mskvtg\">biggest snubs\u003c/a> of Oscar history, \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em> winning over \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em>. Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck are basically \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfan3psl611qb6180o1_500.jpg\">the same person\u003c/a>, handsome and likeable. Quentin did not win with \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em> and will not win for \u003cem>Django Unchained\u003c/em>: too much witty dialogue, too much violence, too much outstanding acting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1602\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 5\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5-400x267.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Because Ben Affleck somehow turned into The Little Engine That Could.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe all remember when he and Matt Damon jumped on the stage way back in 1997 and thanked Southie or whatever. It was cute and we were happy and they were Hollywood nobodies that became \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RIS5GJqAg\">Hollywood somebodies\u003c/a> at that very moment. But that was like thirteen years ago and now Affleck has been denied a Best Director nomination and the world is in mourning. (I will not mention Kathryn Bigelow here.) Turn to \u003cem>Beasts of the Southern Wild\u003c/em>, note the modest budget, the non-actor actors, the no-name filmmakers, the huge courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1603\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 6\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6-400x258.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Because it tackles a declassified government secret and that’s exciting.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhat a caper! One of the most exciting things about \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is that while you’re watching it, you feel like you’re privy to this huge secret that the rest of world (in the movie) doesn’t know about. It was a secret and now it’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/12/argo_true_story_the_facts_and_fiction_behind_the_ben_affleck_movie.html\">talked about\u003c/a> but only after government permission. That’s not going to bode well for \u003cem>Silver Linings Playbook\u003c/em> where they deal with the still very taboo topic of mental illness in a charming and funny way. And not since \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY\">\u003cem>Annie Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has a true and nervous comedy won Best Picture and it has since become epic, in a subtle and graceful way. Perhaps they are hoping the same for \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, but like epic in more of a humdrum sort of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1604\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1604\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 7\" width=\"743\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7.jpeg 743w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7-400x208.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Because it makes you proud to be an American.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“This is the best bad idea we have, sir,” Tony Mendez tells his superior in \u003cem>Argo. \u003c/em>To disguise the hostages as filmmakers scouting locations for an upcoming sci-fi flick might just be crazy enough to work. It’s an out-of-the-box scheme that leaves you feeling happy you live in a country whose government allows for such creativity. The past two years have been somewhat Euro-centric with \u003cem>The King’s Speech\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Artist \u003c/em>taking home the top prize, it’s about time the Academy picks a good-ole-fashioned stars-and-stripes-waving \u003ca href=\"http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Entertainment/0/371/Armageddon.JPG\">piece of our history\u003c/a>. But what about \u003cem>Lincoln\u003c/em> you ask? Perhaps it is too well known a story or perhaps the plan is to dole out awards to Daniel Day Lewis, Stephen Spielberg, and Tony Kushner, leaving room for \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, cozy American \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-8/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1605\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 8\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8.jpeg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8-400x276.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. Because its flame is still burning hot.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere’s no denying \u003cem>Argo’s\u003c/em> momentum. \u003cem>Les Miserables \u003c/em>was just as hot to trot (they’re singing live! \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y4yxsRRnvkE\">Anne Hathaway\u003c/a> is brilliant!) in December but fizzled out by January. It’s a classic case of backlash and then backlash to the backlash and so on and so forth. Meanwhile \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> quietly held its ground. No one has had very many issues with the actual content of the film, where movies like \u003cem>ZDT\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Django\u003c/em> made the news on a daily basis. Perhaps controversy will get you attention but won’t win you awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is the huge favorite and I’ve accepted that. I’m not saying I will denounce the Oscars or award shows if \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> wins. I mean, I’ll probably throw my hands in the air and give a big eye roll while shoving hummus into my mouth. But I suppose what’s oddly great about the Oscars is that no one was expecting \u003cem>Crash \u003c/em>to win in 2006, and it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a race where the other eight nominated films have the honest qualities of a true winner, the Academy Award for Best Picture will probably go to Argo.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1361394529,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1277},"headData":{"title":"Why Argo Might Win the Oscar for Best Picture (for All the Wrong Reasons) | KQED","description":"In a race where the other eight nominated films have the honest qualities of a true winner, the Academy Award for Best Picture will probably go to Argo.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"1589 http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/?p=1589","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/","disqusTitle":"Why Argo Might Win the Oscar for Best Picture (for All the Wrong Reasons)","path":"/pop/1589/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-title-real/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1608\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1608\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real.jpeg\" alt=\"argo title real\" width=\"642\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real.jpeg 642w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real-400x247.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\">\u003c/a>Well fellow cinephiles, this could be 2006 all over again. Has it been seven years since (that \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQs7WbVse8\">train wreck\u003c/a> of a movie) \u003cem>Crash\u003c/em> beat out the elegant favorite \u003cem>Brokeback Mountain\u003c/em>? Each week up until about mid-January the Oscar race for Best Picture flip-flopped from movie to movie. Before \u003cem>Les Miserables\u003c/em> even hit the screen, it was hailed as the movie to beat and then everyone went to see it on Christmas and walked out of the theatre confused and pretty sure they could \u003ca href=\"http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Your-Consideration-Les-Miserables-Lost-Best-Picture-Moment-Russell-Crowe-Opened-His-Mouth-35824.html\">sing better\u003c/a> than Russell Crowe. Now \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, the Ben Affleck-director-political-suspense-thriller-based-on-a-true story is the front-runner that’s here to stay. In a race where the other eight nominated films have the honest qualities of a true winner, it could all end up in the hands of \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>. Here are a few potential reasons why \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> might end up taking home that little golden dude:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-1-edit/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1597\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 1 edit\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit-400x244.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Because it’s a bro’s bro.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“So, have you seen \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> yet?” the frat dude says as he leans into her at the bar, his breath smelling of Red Bull and disdain. As if! \u003cem>Zero Dark Thirty\u003c/em> has quite the package: suspense, action, foreign intrigue, even torture, but what it’s lacking is, of course, a strong male lead like Ben Affleck. It’s a shame the strength and competence of \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxvwq8cKaT1qz9xvjo1_r4_500.gif\">Jessica Chastain\u003c/a>’s character Maya cannot compete with Affleck’s Tony Mendez, otherwise \u003cem>ZDT\u003c/em> would be a shoe-in for the boys of \u003ca href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SZCgRYVhgvI/AAAAAAAACfQ/LaijRaIYR54/s320/revenge-of-the-nerds.jpg\">Alpha Beta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1598\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 2\" width=\"702\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2.jpeg 702w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2-400x247.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Because it’s like \u003cem>The DaVinci Code\u003c/em> the book version.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDisclaimer: I have never read \u003cem>The DaVinci Code\u003c/em> nor have I seen the movie. However, I have paged through the book and what I do know is that it is compiled of very short, easy-to-read chapters that leave the reader wanting more. It is unlikely a film like \u003cem>Amour\u003c/em> can hold a candle. In \u003cem>Amour,\u003c/em> we glide through Georges and Anne’s home listlessly unearthing layers of wood and light: lives lived and love had. \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is the pleasure principle in its finest form, like a great pop song or the Kardashians (I still think \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv2zigvVNX1qzb62zo1_500.gif\">Kourtney\u003c/a> and Khloe have yet to really \u003cem>take\u003c/em> Miami); you want bubblegum and it delivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1600\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31-400x232.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Because it’s Hollywood talking about Hollywood.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Artist \u003c/em>took the award last year and deservedly so. The Academy might be on a streak. In \u003cem>Argo, \u003c/em>Affleck has made a movie within a movie. It’s all very meta but done in a very conventional manner. Instead of showing us what Hollywood can do, we are given \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, a movie showing us what Hollywood already does. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> would be the perfect example of what it’s like to take cinema to an ultra-cinematic level. The shots are breathtaking: aerial views that \u003ca href=\"http://cdn1.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Life-of-Pi-Ending-Explained.jpg\">isolate the ship \u003c/a>from our main character and a horizon where it is impossible to distinguish where the sky ends and the water begins. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> is a truly lavish cinematic experience. The closest we get in \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is when scenes from the movie are set side-by-side with actual archival footage as though Affleck is saying: Look at how perfectly I recreated this, not a hair out of place!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/django-real/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1609\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg\" alt=\"django real\" width=\"650\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real-400x268.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Because it’s already nabbed the Golden Globe and the BAFTA.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe past four years the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf8uDTUVx3Y\">BAFTA\u003c/a> has predicted the winner but the past four years there have been arguably clear winners. The Golden Globes are notorious for surprises and lucky for last year’s \u003cem>The Descendants\u003c/em>, the Globes split their best films into comedy and drama categories. But let’s jump back to another one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKK2mskvtg\">biggest snubs\u003c/a> of Oscar history, \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em> winning over \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em>. Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck are basically \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfan3psl611qb6180o1_500.jpg\">the same person\u003c/a>, handsome and likeable. Quentin did not win with \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em> and will not win for \u003cem>Django Unchained\u003c/em>: too much witty dialogue, too much violence, too much outstanding acting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1602\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 5\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5-400x267.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Because Ben Affleck somehow turned into The Little Engine That Could.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe all remember when he and Matt Damon jumped on the stage way back in 1997 and thanked Southie or whatever. It was cute and we were happy and they were Hollywood nobodies that became \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RIS5GJqAg\">Hollywood somebodies\u003c/a> at that very moment. But that was like thirteen years ago and now Affleck has been denied a Best Director nomination and the world is in mourning. (I will not mention Kathryn Bigelow here.) Turn to \u003cem>Beasts of the Southern Wild\u003c/em>, note the modest budget, the non-actor actors, the no-name filmmakers, the huge courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1603\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 6\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6-400x258.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Because it tackles a declassified government secret and that’s exciting.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhat a caper! One of the most exciting things about \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is that while you’re watching it, you feel like you’re privy to this huge secret that the rest of world (in the movie) doesn’t know about. It was a secret and now it’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/12/argo_true_story_the_facts_and_fiction_behind_the_ben_affleck_movie.html\">talked about\u003c/a> but only after government permission. That’s not going to bode well for \u003cem>Silver Linings Playbook\u003c/em> where they deal with the still very taboo topic of mental illness in a charming and funny way. And not since \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY\">\u003cem>Annie Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has a true and nervous comedy won Best Picture and it has since become epic, in a subtle and graceful way. Perhaps they are hoping the same for \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, but like epic in more of a humdrum sort of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1604\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1604\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 7\" width=\"743\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7.jpeg 743w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7-400x208.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Because it makes you proud to be an American.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“This is the best bad idea we have, sir,” Tony Mendez tells his superior in \u003cem>Argo. \u003c/em>To disguise the hostages as filmmakers scouting locations for an upcoming sci-fi flick might just be crazy enough to work. It’s an out-of-the-box scheme that leaves you feeling happy you live in a country whose government allows for such creativity. The past two years have been somewhat Euro-centric with \u003cem>The King’s Speech\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Artist \u003c/em>taking home the top prize, it’s about time the Academy picks a good-ole-fashioned stars-and-stripes-waving \u003ca href=\"http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Entertainment/0/371/Armageddon.JPG\">piece of our history\u003c/a>. But what about \u003cem>Lincoln\u003c/em> you ask? Perhaps it is too well known a story or perhaps the plan is to dole out awards to Daniel Day Lewis, Stephen Spielberg, and Tony Kushner, leaving room for \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, cozy American \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-8/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1605\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 8\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8.jpeg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8-400x276.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. Because its flame is still burning hot.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere’s no denying \u003cem>Argo’s\u003c/em> momentum. \u003cem>Les Miserables \u003c/em>was just as hot to trot (they’re singing live! \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y4yxsRRnvkE\">Anne Hathaway\u003c/a> is brilliant!) in December but fizzled out by January. It’s a classic case of backlash and then backlash to the backlash and so on and so forth. Meanwhile \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> quietly held its ground. No one has had very many issues with the actual content of the film, where movies like \u003cem>ZDT\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Django\u003c/em> made the news on a daily basis. Perhaps controversy will get you attention but won’t win you awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is the huge favorite and I’ve accepted that. I’m not saying I will denounce the Oscars or award shows if \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> wins. I mean, I’ll probably throw my hands in the air and give a big eye roll while shoving hummus into my mouth. 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