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re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day!

Posted by:	BrianJ 01:08 pm EDT 04/03/14
In reply to:	re: Happy 90th Birthday to Doris Day! - MikeR 11:44 am EDT 04/03/14

I think it made fine TV when the Oscars allowed people to accept them via video feed or satellite hookup or whatever, like Mary Pickford, Satyajit Ray, Myrna Loy, etc. Since I of course have no inside knowledge, I have no idea whether they ever felt Day out about this but she was not interested in appearing on camera even from Carmel, or if at some point around the time Day got old enough to be a likely honoree the Academy had made a decision to discontinue allowing these remote acceptances for the elderly honorary award winners, or what. I guess since the institution of the separate evening for Governors' Awards, they now no longer care whether people appear at all at the Oscars to wave on camera for three seconds (judging from Angela Lansbury's non-attendance this year), as long as they'll attend the separate non-televised ceremony in the fall. Oh, well. I bow to no one in the fervency of my desire for Doris Day to be an Honorary Oscar winner, but if Doris never cared enough to hop on a plane or (if she's afraid to fly) into whatever cushily-appointed limo the Academy would have sent her to make the five-hour drive down to pick up the award, it clearly doesn't matter much to her, so I guess I should let it go! The Kennedy Center policy makes complete sense to me, though. It's already (often) dull enough to watch the legendary honoree's material performed by (usually) lesser talents; if you didn't even at least have the legend's reaction shots to intersperse, it would be completely useless.

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