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Why I don't watch the Oscars, and don't care who wins
How did you spend your Sunday?
Me, I got up late, had lunch with my family, worked on some writing, finished playing "Call Of Duty: Black Ops," and then sat down to watch the same thing every other movie fan watched this Sunday evening.
My new Blu-ray of "Vampire Circus."
Wait… what? As I was Tweeting some thoughts on the film, I was getting bombarded by people asking me why I wasn't weighing in on the Oscars, and I realized that in all the time I've been here at HitFix, I've never formally explained my anti-Oscar stance, and since it seems like covering the Oscars is automatically expected of anyone and everyone who writes about films, maybe an explanation is due.
So why don't I watch the Oscars?
After all, HitFix has a blog dedicated entirely to awards season and coverage of all the stops on the way to the Oscars, and we've certainly benefited from some ad revenue this Oscar season. And I've done interviews with many of the nominated actors and directors and writers this year. Why wouldn't I take part in what many people consider to be the pinnacle of the year in movies?
For me, it started young. There was a time when I would spend months obsessing about the Oscars ahead of time. And I was deeply invested in the idea that winning the Best Picture Oscar meant something. Even though I was too young to see certain nominated films, I would read everything I could about the movies and root for my favorites. And the very first year I did that, I learned about bitter disappointment. That was 1977, and considering "Star Wars" made me want to make movies, I considered it the best film of that or any other year. And when they handed out Best Picture and called the name "Annie Hall," my first reaction was anger. But then I figured that the Academy knew better than I did, and that "Annie Hall" must be really amazing if it won the award over "Star Wars." I figured I needed to see more movies and learn more about what made a movie good, and I put "Annie Hall" on my list of films I needed to see in the future so I would understand what happened.
In 1981, "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" was nominated along with "Chariots Of Fire," "Atlantic City," "On Golden Pond," and "Reds," and I made sure to see all of the nominated films before the awards ceremony. That way, I knew for sure which one was best. In my mind, it was "Raiders," no question. And when "Chariots" won, I found myself heavily invested in being furious again. I railed for days. Weeks. I ranted to anyone who would listen. I even went to see "Chariots" again to see what I'd missed and ended up even angrier.
And for the next few years, it seemed like I just angrier and angrier. "Gandhi" beat "E.T." "Terms Of Endearment" beat "The Right Stuff." "Back To The Future" wasn't even nominated. And right around the time I started working at a movie theater, in 1986, and started seeing even more movies than I already managed to pack into a year, I realized something about myself.
I don't care what other people say about the films I like.
And I don't care if they win awards or not.
If I depended on the Oscars to justify my taste in movies, I would probably have a nervous breakdown. If I needed my favorite films to be the top of the weekend box-office every single time one of them is released, I would be so broken-hearted I'd never get out of bed. If I agreed with the mainstream every single time, I would probably not do what I do for a living now, because what would be the point? One of the reasons I first started writing about film and writing films is because my perspective is not fully satisfied by any other critic or filmmaker out there. I am arrogant enough and pompous enough to think that my opinion matters and that my voice deserves to be part of the mix.
But it's more than that. It's not just that my opinions aren't echoed by the Oscars. I dislike the entire culture around them. I dislike the campaigns. I dislike the way people attach significance to the awards. Let me ask you something… whatever your favorite film was last year, let's assume it was not "The King's Speech." Tell me… now that "The King's Speech" has an Oscar as Best Picture, does it change the way you feel about your favorite film?
If it does, then for the love of God, tell me why. Tell me why it matters to you what a group of people inside the industry who all have their own political agendas thinks about a movie.
And if it doesn't, then why watch at all? In the long run, a film will have a life totally independent of what awards it won or what box-office it earned, and the ubiquitous nature of home video has changed that relationship even more. Now movies can become hits years after their initial release. Cults spring up around films that were nominated for nothing, while movies like "Out Of Africa" are rarely watched or discussed anymore.
The real reason I don't like the Oscars and I don't watch the Oscars and I don't believe in the Oscars is because they narrow a conversation that I think deserves to be as limitless as possible. They reduce all of film during a given year to a list of a very small number of films, and that seems obscene to me. The beauty of movies is that so many different voices find ways to express themselves in films, and through movies, I've gone around the world and experienced places and people that would be impossible otherwise. I can watch a movie like "Pather Panchali" and I can imagine what a life was like that I might otherwise never experience. I can put on a film like "Brazil" and be transported by the experience completely. I can watch something as rowdy and bloody as "Conan The Barbarian" or as off-the-rails insane as "The Holy Mountain" or as down-the-middle funny as "Ghostbusters," and I can love the films for what they are, and the idea of "awards" never enters into it. I love movies because they offer me a connection to people around the world, people who share that experience, sitting in the dark somewhere else, and it's like we're connected by the movies we love. Movies unite us. Movies explain us. Movies speak to us and for us. Movies are a language that manages to supersede anything spoken, and at their very best, they pluck us from our daily reality and take us somewhere else.
I don't care about the Oscars precisely because I love movies so much.
On a day like today, when I'm getting e-mail and messages and Tweets asking me what's wrong with me and why I don't watch the Oscars, I'd turn that around and ask all of you, "If you love movies so much, then why do the Oscars matter?"
And if they do matter to you, then I hope you enjoy them when you watch them. I would just ask that you understand… loving the Oscars and loving movies are two totally different things. Feel free to storm around and scream about how angry you are that David Fincher didn't win, but realize... if you invest so much emotion in what didn't win, then you must really believe that it matters. You can't celebrate a win you agree with and dismiss the ones you don't. Either it's all important, and it all really means something, or none of it does. You can't have it both ways.
I know where my heart lies. And I know why. And I still say "Chariots Of Fire" is a load of crap.
Now I've got the last ten minutes of "Vampire Circus" to watch. Do me a favor. Don't tell me who wins. I'm rooting for the vampires.
Oscars, The Academy Awards, Gandhi, E.T., Annie Hall, Star Wars, back to the future, The Right Stuff, Terms of Endearment, Vampire Circus, David Fincher
(guest)There are people who listen to Howard Stern so they can be offended by him and that's sort of my relationship with watching the Oscars, watching it so I can be offended by it. Over the years my interest has waned a lot and I think Drew is right in not watching it at all. If ABC and the Academy were capable of producing watchable show it would be different. And this year's show was a trainwreck.February 28, 2011 at 1:22AM ESTReply to Comment
KilljoyI have to say, I really like James Franco as an actor, but he was terrible as a host. He almost seemed like he didn't want to be there.February 28, 2011 at 1:49AM EST
It seems like the producers of the Oscar telecast have to overthink everything. Just hire Steve Carrell and Tina Fey to host next year and be done with it.February 28, 2011 at 2:10AM EST
reedVery well said. I agree completely.February 28, 2011 at 1:33AM ESTReply to Comment
(guest)Amen.February 28, 2011 at 1:43AM ESTReply to Comment
Killjoy (guest)I still find it fun to watch. Of course there are upsets that make me shake my head, but there's also a part of me that really enjoys seeing the films that I love get rewarded. I don't put too much emotional investment into it, but I like the production. It's Show Business.
Has it evolved into a marketing machine? Yes. It's that same marketing, however,that has helped many great little films get seen by people just because they were recognized with a nomination or award.
Many of this year's best films will see an increase in attendance (or a bump in DVD sales) just because people want to check out what won or lost. I'm sure the studios and filmmakers of films such as Black Swan, The Fighter, and The King's Speech will be happy to get the extra support that films like Iron Man 2 and Eclipse didn't need. Isn't that really the point? Isn't that why you put together a "Best of..." list each year?February 28, 2011 at 1:44AM ESTReply to Comment
Paul (guest)My feelings exactly. Thank you, sir, for putting in words what I could not.February 28, 2011 at 1:46AM ESTReply to Comment
ray carney (guest)Do you realize you just used the words "taste" and "Oscars" in the same sentence? Doesn't that feel weird? Besides being the world's most boring TV show, the Oscars obviously have nothing to do with taste or artistry.
It's a three-hour commercial for bad movies. Actors who can't act, writers who can't write, and directors who can't direct get together and give each other little trophies congratulating themselves on how wonderful they all are. Hollywood is not about art. Art isn't made by committee or by testing different versions of something to see which one the audience responds to the best.
But that's old news. Everybody knows the accent falls on the second word in show business. What's inexplicable to me is that American film schools go along with the whole thing. They actually show schlock like Fatal Attraction, The King's Speech, Thelma and Louise, and Silence of the Lambs in film courses and invite the directors to speak to their students! I may be out of touch, but I was under the impression that the university curriculum was one thing that was not supposed to be up for sale to the highest bidder.February 28, 2011 at 1:50AM ESTReply to Comment
KilljoyYour second paragraph confuses me. If you're upset that Social Network or Inception didn't win, that's fine. I'm pretty sure I saw Fincher and Nolan at the ceremony, you know, participating in the event. Please explain what actors, directors, and films you consider "good" that abstain from events such as this.
Silence of the Lambs? Schlock? Really?February 28, 2011 at 2:05AM EST
ray carneyHollywood films offer "lite feelings," weightless emotions, low-impact emotional work-outs. We can feel good about feeling bad, without ever having to reassess our experience. Nobody ever really gets hurt or wounded. It's all set in a fantasy land off to one side of our real lives. Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg, and most Hollywood directors are masters at plugging into the emotional fad of the moment. They whip up the same sort of instant, artificial, stock emotions that the Super Bowl does, cycling the viewer through a series of predictable, clichéd feelings. But it's all just a bad simulation: The ideas are prefabricated, the experiences are formulaic, and the emotions are superficial. Which is why it's all forgotten a few hours later.
The superficiality of the experience is in fact what many viewers love about Hollywood movies. They take you on a ride. You climb into them, turn on the cruise control, and sit back. Not only are the events, characters, and conflicts entirely predictable (most movies are their trailers), but there is nothing really at stake for anyone –actor, director, or viewer– in any of it. It's an amusement park ride: a few programmed thrills and then all is well. When it is over, you leave the theater and go home untouched and unchanged. That's what Antonioni meant when he said Hollywood was being nowhere, talking to no one, about nothing.
These movies should be taken out of the arts and humanities and screened in the Business School where they belong. We should study how they were financed. Discuss how the casting, writing, and the ad campaigns were coordinated. Analyze them as wildly successful marketing coups, since that's what they are. Twentieth-century snake oil. And while we're at it, let's get the library to re-catalogue all those books about Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, and Ivan Reitman, so that they are shelved where they belong: next to the books on mass-marketing and public relations.February 28, 2011 at 2:11AM EST
Boy are you bitter. Its one thing to call the oscars pointless. But to call EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE MOVIES at the oscars bad is another thing entirely. By your logic, every movie that is nominated for an oscar is a bad movie. Instead of liking a movie because it won (or was nominated for) an award, your liking a movie because it WASN'T nominated for an award. I've got to say... that's pretty darn stupid and extremely short-sighted. Just because a movie receives acclaim or is popular with the masses doesn't make it bad.
As for film schools showing those films and discussing them, I think that might be because most of them are considered classics and well written, produced, and acted... but I'm just spit balling here.February 28, 2011 at 2:13AM EST
ray carneyYou're just making my point here: illustrating how Home Shopping Club values have replaced artistic ones. We don't measure Picasso's Guernica or Paul Taylor's Esplanade by how much money they rake in their first weekend.
So what if a movie is popular? The Big Mac is the most popular food item in America. Norman Rockwell is the most popular painter. Does that mean the English Department should dump Shakespeare and replace him with Stephen King?
As far as emotions go, if art was just about getting our feelings worked up, an auto accident or the cries of a baby would be more important than Hamlet. It's easy to get ANY viewer's emotions involved. Make a movie about a victim, especially a fashionable one: someone dying of AIDS or rounded up by the Nazis. Only slightly subtler, make a movie about a victim of some obvious social injustice.
Take an even easier route and rely on a suspense plot with constant threats of violence. Stir and serve. I've just described ninety percent of the movies made last year. That's not art, it's just playing games with our evolutionary past– duping our reptilian brain-stems into pseudo-fright/flight or maternal/protective responses.
Look, I'll admit that I have the same visceral responses everyone else does to Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction. I squirm. I cringe. I could hardly watch the screen while the Bruce Willis character in Pulp Fiction went back to his apartment. Even a no-brainer like Speed can leave you breathless with its propulsiveness. But what does that prove? These films are the best roller-coaster rides (in the case of Tarantino, the best haunted houses) ever made. But if that's what you want, you might as well go to an amusement park. I remember a conversation I had with a director over dinner a few years ago. He said his goal was to grab viewers by the guts with the first shot of his movie and not let them go for two hours. I asked him where he had developed such a bizarre desire. Why would he want to grab people by their guts? Why wouldn't he prefer to touch their minds and hearts?
February 28, 2011 at 2:20AM EST
chudleycannonfodderI really don't understand your hatred of American film schools. I've watched Silence of the Lambs (in several classes) for school and I thought it was a brilliant example of how editing works. The conversation between the lead and Hannibal - brilliant. The use of crosscutting to trick the viewer at the end - brilliant. The editing of the entire finale inside Buffalo Bill's house - brilliant. I'm really glad that I saw those clips in class because they helped me better understand how editing works. The fact that it had an Oscar Grand Slam didn't mean shit to my education; the fact that it was brilliantly constructed did. That film was picked by multiple professors because of the brilliant editing.
And I like that you chose those films and not something like Red, which is the only major motion picture where students in my class have met writers of. And even then we didn't think they were the greatest thing ever; we saw them as an example of one of the many ways to make a living in film. Everyone (us and the writers) recognized that they weren't making the highest art ever, but they were making some money (not much though) and were relatively happy with their lives, and as students that was what we needed.February 28, 2011 at 2:23AM EST
You made some valid points (some I agree with and some I wholeheartedly disagree with), but you also didn't address any of what I said. All you did was say that I proved your point and proceed to go off on an angry rant.February 28, 2011 at 2:25AM EST
Sorry. That last comment was directed at Ray, not Chudley.February 28, 2011 at 2:25AM EST
ray carneyAll Hollywood movies ultimately boil down to making the viewer feel good by flattering him/her. Every girl watching Titanic is allowed to see herself as Kate Winslett and every boy as Leonardo DiCaprio.
Who wouldn't want to think of themselves as being this noble, this glamorous, this heroic–this capable of love, self-sacrifice, or suffering?
It's a big lie of course. Life isn't like this, and no one's emotions are this pure and uncompromised. We're much more mixed, troubled, uncertain of ourselves. Real love isn't this self-sacrificing and unconditioned. It is mixed with unloving feelings like selfishness and pettiness and the desire for appreciation. Real suffering, sacrifices, and loss is not unconditioned and absolute, but laced with anger and resentment and self-justification. Real virtue is often critical and intolerant of others' deficiencies. And we lapse from virtue as often as we adhere to it.
We lie to ourselves constantly with self-justifying stories about how much harder we work, how much more we deserve success than others do.
One might say that the very appeal of Hollywood film is proof of our emotional imperfection. The only reason we crave these movies is because we are addicted to glamorizing our emotional states, to deluding ourselves, to telling ourselves comforting stories about ourselves. Their repressions are proof of our insecurity and desperation for flattery. Their purity is evidence of the impurity they deny.February 28, 2011 at 2:30AM EST
Killjoy"It's a three-hour commercial for bad movies. Actors who can't act, writers who can't write, and directors who can't direct get together and give each other little trophies congratulating themselves on how wonderful they all are."
I feel like you're evading the question of WHAT films and filmmakers you do respect. Would you like to illustrate the above point with specifics? I assume you are posting here in "Motion Captured" because you actually enjoy some films.February 28, 2011 at 2:36AM EST
ray carneyHere are my five favorite directors:
1. Robert Kramer is an important artist whose work is ideologically informed without being limited by the shallowness of ideological forms of understanding. His two masterworks, Ice and Milestones, take the limitations of ideological understanding as their subject by imagining groups of figures who have organized their lives around political analyses of experience, and who get into emotional trouble as a consequence.
2. John Cassavetes, whose central subject in all of his films is the exploration of sincerity and authenticity – what he called "phoniness" versus "honesty" or "truthfulness."
3. Mike Leigh, a British director who often organizes his character-driven films around series of contrasts based on class and temperament.
4. Mark Rappaport, the best-kept secret in American film, whose films are more hilarious than the Coen brothers', weirder than Hal Hartley's, deeper than Woody Allen's; he's an unclassifiable comic genius.
5. Jon Jost, the master of long-take shots.February 28, 2011 at 2:48AM EST
ray carneyAs for foreign directors whose films aren't in English: YasujirÅ Ozu, Pedro Costa, Michelangelo Antonioni, Carl Dreyer, and Abbas Kiarostami.February 28, 2011 at 2:56AM EST
KilljoyI must admit that a few people on this list I've never heard of. That's fine. The ones I have seen work from, Cassavetes and Leigh, have both attended Oscar ceremonies and have been recognized with nominations in the past, which contradicts your point about the Oscars being for all the "actors who can't act, directors that can't direct..." etc.
I'm not entirely sure why you're reading Drew's column if your taste is so narrow. No offense to you (or to Drew), but I have a hard time believing that those are your favorite filmmakers, but you still reading Drew's review of Hall Pass (on sites like Hitfix.com).
I'll check out some of those other filmmakers though. Always curious to expand my personal horizons.February 28, 2011 at 3:19AM EST
Ray, Ray, Ray. How sad you sound. Please do not try to argue that commercial work cannot by definition be art. Picasso and Shakespeare made a living by creating art. You don't think The Globe Theater marketed those plays? Come on. Get off your sanctimonious high horse. There's no denying that the Oscars are foremost a promotional vehicle for selling movies (as Melissa Leo mentioned during her acceptance, by the way). But that doesn't mean that worthwhile films are not coming out of Hollywood. It's true that most films are not great art. But neither is most of any type of artistic endeavor.
The movies you cite as examples are all cherry-picked to support your absurd argument. Are you going to tell me that 'Raging Bull' was made so the viewers could think of themselves as being noble, glamorous, heroic, capable of love, self-sacrifice, or suffering? How about 'Platoon'?
Real virtue is critical and intolerant? On what planet?
Art is subjective. You seem to think you're the best judge of great film artistry. What an arrogant thing that is.February 28, 2011 at 3:32AM EST
chudleycannonfodderRay, you do realize that you complain about saying the Oscars recognize only garbage, and then say that one of your favorite directors was nominated and his film was promoted at the awards.
Also, Shakespeare was pretty trashy at the time. Lots of raunchy jokes, bloodsport, and mashing up old stories. Honestly, I'd have to say Tarantino, a director you don't like much, is the closest filmmaker we have today who's work is similar to Shakespeare's.February 28, 2011 at 6:31PM EST
Biz (guest)Who do you know that's screaming about how angry they are? They have money on Fincher too.February 28, 2011 at 1:55AM ESTReply to Comment
(guest)Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of award season in any medium.
The only aspect that leaves me invested in the Oscars is that I want the films that I love (that get nominated) to be awarded as I feel they deserve and to be recognized by the mainstream public as the masterpieces that they are. I was a little upset tonight about "The Social Network" not winning Director or Best Picture because I feel like there are more than a few of the moviegoing public that might not give that film a chance if they hear that the Academy deemed "The King's Speech" to be "better". I know that this SHOULD NOT matter, but for some reason it does to me. I have a general personal problem of wanting public and mainstream verification that a film that I love is good. Is this me just wanting more people to see the movies that I love? Yeah, I think so... and Drew, I totally get the sentiment that there are hundreds of performances, films, etc. that I felt should have won but were dismissed due to the corporate and political structure of the Academy. However, I do feel that the Oscars can get things right and it is, at the very, very least a good way to get audiences to see films they might not see on a daily basis.February 28, 2011 at 2:05AM ESTReply to Comment
tgisThat's possibly the stupidest hat I've ever seen in my life. Congrats on being a hude douche.February 28, 2011 at 2:07AM EST
drew"The Social Network" was released by Sony. On thousands of screens. It's gotten media attention nonstop since September.
Do you really think that at this point in time, people are waiting to see it based on whether or not it adds one more award to the stack?
If the Academy reached deep outside the mainstream to nominate, your statements might carry some weight with me. But the films that are nominated are mainstream movies with mainstream releases that have mainstream marketing muscle behind them already.
I don't believe anyone has ever been about to step into a theater and said, "Oh, wait, this was nominated for Best Picture but didn't win. Maybe we should go see the Justin Bieber 3D film instead."February 28, 2011 at 2:13AM EST
ray carneyFans of films like Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan often claim that those films reveal new truths. But I can't see much difference between Spielberg's so-called serious movies and his "boy's book" movies. Saving Pvt. Ryan is a John Wayne "storm the trenches and carry out my buddy" movie with gore, grain, and a hand-held camera. Wow. That's sure profound.
Schindler's List simply rehashes Spielberg's inflatable, one-size-fits-all myth about how a clever, resourceful character can outsmart a system. Is that what the meaning of the Holocaust boils down to: Indiana "Schindler" Jones versus the Gestapo of Doom? Schindler is a Hollywood producer's self-congratulatory fantasy of how giving people a chance to work for you is doing them a big favor. What real courage did it take to make this movie? What new understanding of the Holocaust did it reveal? Spielberg could have made a really courageous film if he had dared to make a movie sympathetic to the SS, a movie that deeply, compassionately entered into the German point of view in order to reveal how regular people with wives and children could be drawn into committing or silently consenting to such horrors. Or how about a movie that showed that, at least potentially, we are them? A film that didn't locate the bad guys in an emotional and historical galaxy far away?
Of course, Spielberg could never make that film even if he tried to, because it would require too much insight on his part. And if he did make it, it would not win any Oscars. It would require viewers to think. And thinking, real thinking, is always dangerous. Audiences might be forced to confront truths that they would rather avoid. Instead of affording them another opportunity to revel in their own virtue, they just might be made to squirm a little.February 28, 2011 at 2:17AM EST
Actually Drew, I work at a movie theater that shows quote "prestige pictures" end quote, and when a movie wins Best Picture at the Oscars, that movie is moved from the smaller theater it was in to the biggest theater we have because it then becomes popular enough to warrant the move. When people here The Kings Speech won best movie and see we are playing it, I guarantee that we will sell more tickets.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying this is right. Its just the way it is.February 28, 2011 at 2:21AM EST
drewI understand that, Gregory, but the inverse is not also true. There's no rush of people who were about to go watch "The Social Network" who turned off the Oscars tonight and went, "Nope, forget that. I'll never see that movie now because it's a LOSER!"February 28, 2011 at 2:25AM EST
chudleycannonfodderWhat Gregory said; Oscars mean money. My art cinema lost three weeks of programing because we had planned to have three of the films that ended up being nominated for Oscars (which caused the chain theatre to decide not to ship us the film and hold on to it until after the Oscars). We also have no idea if we'll ever get The King's Speech since it's still doing well and the Oscar win will continue to keep it out of the 2nd run theatres for a long time. We may end up having to pass on it because by the time we can get it, it might be late April/early May and a PG-13 film.February 28, 2011 at 2:28AM EST
You're absolutely right... I sort of neglected to mention that I thought that my reasoning was in a small number of people that might do these things. And yeah the whole nomination process is the problem in the first part as we are limiting ourselves to just a few films when, as you say and I agree with, that film conversation is a "limitless" thing. I was just discussing what I felt to be the "good" of the ceremony in that there are people that will see these awarded films and rightfully so because it's a rare thing that any of these films are truly terrible and don't deserve a viewing. But yeah, the whole aspect, which I on rare occasion can fall victim to, that an audience needs validation from some insular group of voters is silly and not an indicator of the majority of real film lovers.February 28, 2011 at 2:34AM EST
I think that if you just imagined that "Awards Season" or the Oscars did not exist at all, then movies like "The King's Speech" or "Winter's Bone" would not get a fair shot at a mainstream audience. At least as opposed to the giant marketing strategies like the folks at Sony have, these smaller, but still relatively mainstream movies don't get quite as fair of a shot. This is sort of a Devil's Advocate approach as, on the whole, I really do agree with your sentimentsFebruary 28, 2011 at 2:47AM EST
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ray carneyTruth is messier and more complex than a trick. Art doesn't give us pre-cooked, pre-digested experiences, but raw, rough, unclassifiable ones. Real emotions defy verbal summaries. And they leave us more confused than analytic. In fact, if you can say what emotions you are feeling while you watch a film, you probably aren't having an emotional experience in the way I mean. Thinking in a new way is more likely to bewilder than to enlighten us, at least at first. If an experience is truly original, it puts us in places we've never been before and may not want to be. In this sense, art can point a way out of the traps of received forms of thinking and feeling. It reveals the emotional lies that ensnare us. It opens new and potentially revolutionary understandings of our lives.February 28, 2011 at 2:13AM EST
Barry ConvexRay, how are you sure that your new revolutionary understanding is not just a more rarified and pretentious emotional lie?February 28, 2011 at 9:49AM EST
Dana Scheelar (guest)Thank you for so eloquently explaining why I don't watch the Oscars either.February 28, 2011 at 2:20AM ESTReply to Comment
drewFor the record, my feelings are not the same as this Ray Carney dude, who seems to hate every movie you've ever heard of.
My issue is with the importance people place on this one ceremony and the impact it supposedly has on what is or isn't "good," not the entire phenomenon of commercial filmmaking.
That's just crazy.February 28, 2011 at 2:23AM ESTReply to Comment
ray carneyWe live in a culture of mass-production, and one of the products we manufacture the best is synthetic emotions and experiences. The Hollywood studios are brilliant at mass-producing stock feelings. They have perfected the art of canning them.
Velveeta-experiences are everywhere. It's done all the time in the human interest stories, on the evening news, or in the newspaper. Wall-to-wall fake feelings. Or look at what happened during the Gulf War: a whole nation was worked into a frenzy of pseudo-emotions. In fact, I sometimes think that Americans' obsession with live television – the Iran-Contra hearings or OJ's Bronco going down the freeway – is a reflection of how starved we are for real experiences. At OJ's trial, there is at least the possibility of some reality breaking through– of something unscripted and unplanned happening. The hope is that, if only for a second, something truly real will be visible.February 28, 2011 at 2:27AM EST
Lol. I burst out laughing when I read this comment.February 28, 2011 at 2:27AM EST
My last comment was referring to Drew's comment, not Ray's.February 28, 2011 at 2:28AM EST
chudleycannonfodderAh, now I understand Ray's posts. Sorry to everyone for me feeding the troll.February 28, 2011 at 2:29AM EST
Ray, you are simply delusional.February 28, 2011 at 3:36AM EST
Some people don't understand that the point of many movies is escapism; to find a reality that is not our own.
People aren't attracted to so-called "reality TV" because it's unpredictable, they're attracted to the drama. They don't obsess about Bobby McBachelor picking Madison over Kristyna because it wasn't expected, they obsess over it because the tabloids are going to have a field day with the "he said, she said" crap for about a month, and then move on to the drama alleged cheating scandal from a popular game show.
That being said, I love this article. I admit that I've never been into the whole awards thing, and my favorite move list runs the gamut from multiple award winners to box office flops. It's all subjective.February 28, 2011 at 4:15AM EST
Barry ConvexRay, I'm curious. What reality could have broken out at the OJ trial? Let's say that John Cassavetes directed the OJ trial. What would have happened differently?February 28, 2011 at 10:17AM EST
Barry ConvexRay Carney, why are you copying and pasting verbatim parts of a previous interview you gave?
http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/ray_carney_hacks_up_hollywood_3135March 1, 2011 at 12:24AM EST
ABRay, just go read some Baudrillard and continue enjoying how superior you are to all the foolish masses.March 2, 2011 at 3:26AM EST
temmink (guest)I thought that it was interesting that (whoever presented best picture, I am having a total mental blank, was it Spielberg?) went out of their way to point out the great films that didn't win the big one. This sort of references the idea that its not the best movie that wins every year, and that there are dozens of movies that would have won in a different year.February 28, 2011 at 2:25AM ESTReply to Comment
MilesI usually agree with some winners and disagree with others, but I don't let it bother me. I can still enjoy the show and be interested to see who the Academy deems the best film/actor/director, etc. And the Oscars do matter...The King's Speech winning best pictures doesn't affect how I view it, but it does affect how the public at large views it.February 28, 2011 at 2:26AM ESTReply to Comment
drewIn response to the e-mail I just got, sure... I'd care if I were nominated because of what it would mean to my ability to get other things made. The same way I'd care about box-office if it were my film in general release.
Personal investment seems like a pretty good reason to give a shit about these things.
But considering Stanley Kubrick and I are tied for Best Director Oscars right now, it seems unlikely that my personal standards are going to be tested by temptation any time soon.February 28, 2011 at 2:36AM ESTReply to Comment
Vince Watkins (guest)So you have juvenile taste in movies and boycott adulthood. Whatever. Grow up.February 28, 2011 at 2:40AM ESTReply to Comment
drewReading comprehension is your strong suit, isn't it?February 28, 2011 at 2:50AM EST
ray carneySchindler's List is no more mature a film than E.T.February 28, 2011 at 2:52AM EST
TXBIGDWow There seems to be a lot of hate here for the show which I can understand since I thought this was the worst Oscars I'd seen but lets just step back and look at this through a rational lens. Now I'm not saying what wins "Best Picture" is actually the best picture but some people on here need to think before they post. Ray, I agree with some of your opinions and I don't think you're juvenile or a child like the other poster but your posts come off as more of a rant than a rational argument. 1) You say Art isn't based on a test or committee yet you don't seem to realize art cannot be judged and you saying these movies are not art is hypocrisy. 2) I'm sure you didn't mean "all" movies when you said they don't have any emotional weight but since you used the word I must respond to it. There's no way you can tell me movies like Rocky(even though it's a feel good), Shawshank, and Terms of Endearment have no complex emotions attached to them. Of course movies tug on your heart strings, it's what makes a movie great. If movies were void of emotions then they wouldn't feel human, just lifeless characters talking for two hours. 3) I would love to hear your take on Goodfellas, The Godfather, and Citizen Kane(I'm asking in a sincere manner). 4) Comparing a movie like Schindler's List to E.T. is not only over the top but rather insulting.You've compared a movie about the Holocaust to a children's movie about a friendly alien, surely you see the rationale in that? 5)Let's stop complaining about people in Hollywood congratulating themselves. It makes us sound small and envious. Every profession has awards for its best and brightest: Academia, Medicine, Science, Education, Police. The only difference is that the Oscars is on TV and involves billions of dollars. 7) Lastly you say these people just make bad movies, can't write, or direct. This just sounds bitter to me. If they were really as bad as you say then they would be kicked out of the serious movie arena a long time ago. Don't confuse these people with the people who make Twilight or other teen movies. Once again, not saying I'm right or you're wrong, just my two cents.February 28, 2011 at 3:55AM EST
The Oscars are "adulthood?" For a system that is more akin to high school politics, that's a hilarious association.February 28, 2011 at 2:55PM EST
Vince WatkinsI'm afraid that whatever mild point I meant to make was lost in my bad attitude, for which I feel compelled to apologize.February 28, 2011 at 5:18PM EST
Robin Gage (guest)Well put my friend. You put into words what i was thinking. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. A big thank you.February 28, 2011 at 2:57AM ESTReply to Comment
James T. (guest)Having worked in film, I love the Oscars because I want to see a film I love or an old friend get an award for all the hard work that goes into making it. Besides, they call it Show "Business" for a reason. It's all about marketing and money because without it, there wouldn't be any film for anyone to review.February 28, 2011 at 2:58AM ESTReply to Comment
(guest)While I subscribe to most of your points and feelings on the subject, Drew, I still can enjoy the Oscar ceremony as an evening to share with friends trying to predict the winners and discussing the fairness of the awards in a most frivolous, shallow way.
It's more of a fun, shared ritual than anything else.February 28, 2011 at 3:13AM ESTReply to Comment
drewMakes sense, and I'd never bag anyone for enjoying an evening with their friends.February 28, 2011 at 3:14AM EST
In case I didn't make it clear enough, I couldn't care less about the Oscars or that whole awards mentality.
The merits of a film can be analyzed and discussed, even compared and put into context in a serious, critical way, but not quantified or measured in number of awards won. That has always be a non-factor to me.February 28, 2011 at 6:18AM EST
Oaktown GirlJust chiming in to say that before I even finished reading your piece here, I immediately went over to my NetFlix online to go look up "Vampire Circus". (I vaguely remember hearing that title before, but it was a long time ago). The title sounded just too fun to bypass. Good luck for me: it's available for online streaming! Thanks for the tip!
P.S. - The Oscars totally suck.February 28, 2011 at 3:15AM ESTReply to Comment
BananamanThe pointlessness of it all is staggering, especially the inane pre & post TV coverage. It's all utterly useless chatter about stuff nobody in their right mind should give a crap about. Think about the amount of tweets whirling around the planet about what such-and-such was wearing. Who effin' cares?!
I still watch 'The Oscar Bullshit', as I call it, because I know it's a load of old nonsense, and therefore I can enjoy it all from the perspective of an observer of human behaviour in the distinctly rarefied echelons of the 'Most (self)Important People on Earth!'
Still, cynicism for the event can be assuaged by glimpses of genuine humility and sincerity amongst all the tripe, which can signify the true character and motivations of those involved, and whether they're worthy of respect or not.
And also because I love seeing awkward moments or people making fools of themselves on live TV.February 28, 2011 at 3:17AM ESTReply to Comment
I. S. (guest)After the hosts' disastrous performance this year, I think I've seen my last Oscars - not because of their incompetence per se, but the way their appointment reflects Hollywood culture: its extreme difficulty in reading the popular mood, its false elevation of mediocrity, its grabbing for the audience's cash while holding them in utter contempt. Yes, all that is part of the "business", but keep it below the surface where it belongs, thanks.February 28, 2011 at 3:19AM ESTReply to Comment
I also don't watch the Oscars for some of the same reasons you don't.
But my main reason for not watching is I hate the whole cult of celebrity attitude. I'm turned off by the whole red carpet bullshit and the fact that people around the whole world are so interested in it.February 28, 2011 at 3:38AM ESTReply to CommentLike (2)Latest Likes:2 Anonymous
(guest)I'm not sure I've ever heard a postive review of an Oscar host or broadcast. Billy Crystal was well received for a while, deservedly so. I was a kid back then and looked forward to the Oscars. But I stopped watching in the mid 90s and every year the aftermath is how terrible the host was and also how some solid indie but still not great film swept.February 28, 2011 at 4:25AM ESTReply to Comment
Also. Thing about the Oscars is that people think of those awards as being sort of the awards of record. To me, it's just such a joke that neither Social Network nor Inception get the major awards, for best picture or director. The King's Speech in a year of those two films that all but promise to change how a lot of other movies are made in the next several years.February 28, 2011 at 5:07AM EST
Hulkster (guest)Reading Ray Carney actually makes me want to watch Transformers 2 while fucking a Big Mac and huffing gas. USA! USA! USA!February 28, 2011 at 5:03AM ESTReply to Comment
JoeKI give you credit for sitting it out and not engaging in what most every other outlet did - faux disinterest disguised as "needed" content. Twitter feed is lighter this morning. For myself it's like most anything, I really like the Oscars for what it gets right sometimes and what it gets wrong really doesn't bother me because if you can cut through the payola the intent is to celebrate moviemaking. In the past I'd watch the show with friends who couldn't be less interested because movies are no more important to them than muzak in an elevator. I don't know why people like that feel compelled to watch and comment in the first place.
In any case I was the same mindset as you all those years ago when my favorites were robbed but the bigger problem now is that the show is just pandering too much structurally. It's a schizo production too eager to play to people that are only watching to dismiss it anyhow.February 28, 2011 at 9:49AM ESTReply to Comment
Nic (guest)You totally hit the nail on the head. It's not about movies that people really enjoy, it's about a small, elitist club of high-brow or superficial films that tend to depress that always make the cut. Not that all of the films presented this particular year sucked (Inception was cool; The Fighter was interesting, etc.) but it does not reflect what the majority of people like or anything close to reality. When you're right, you're right, and you got it one hundred percent here.February 28, 2011 at 11:20AM ESTReply to Comment
chutneylixThis opinion makes total sense to me. But I also think there is a middle ground. I can enjoy the show as exactly what it is, a spectacle, like I do the Superbowl while not allowing it in any way to restrict my film bandwidth. Something like this shouldn't influence what films anyone sees, but I do believe that responsibility is more on the person themselves instead of anything industry does.February 28, 2011 at 12:43PM ESTReply to Comment
alex (guest)The Academy picking their favorite movie at the end of the year is no different than you doing your top 10 list at the end of the year. If the academy's pick for best picture changes your own opinion of what the best picture of the year was, then that's your own insecurities. They still do represent much of the best films of the year though and for me it's just another fun nostalgic look at the year's past. No need to take them so damn seriously ....February 28, 2011 at 1:31PM ESTReply to Comment
MegalodonThank you for making the most damn sense on this entire page. Every single profession has their own version of this. I'm in a tiny, specialized profession that requires talent, hard work, and good connections, and which almost no one has heard of. We have an "Association" and judge the work that we do and give out awards. But as someone else pointed out, it's not televised to billions with a huge budget behind it. As I see it, the Academy and the actors (etc) do this for themselves, and we who watch should remember that and not think less of them for it. It's nice to gather with your peers and colleagues and show your appreciation for each other. So they congratulate each other, and praise each other, SO WHAT? It really shouldn't be taken so damn seriously. Well said, Alex.February 28, 2011 at 6:50PM EST
studioplantI watched the Oscars last night for the first time in years. Interestingly enough, because I saw a commercial for it played on this site. I thought who cares about the results it should be an entertaining way to spend a Sunday evening. Wow, was I wrong. The commercial where James Franco and Anne Hathaway showed so much chemistry peeking my interest, turned into the two hours or complete and utter boredom. I should have left after one hour instead of two. Shame on me. Franco under compensating and Hathaway over compensating got real old real fast. Also, on a side note, COF winning was the last time I think the Oscars got anything right. We are officially not allowed to be friends Drew.February 28, 2011 at 3:46PM ESTReply to Comment
Guest (guest)Drew to a certain extent it sounds like you go out of your way to avoid the Oscars because you DO care about what wins, or more accurately what doesn't win. And you're mad that such an admittedly flawed system can create that kind of emotional investment. Or maybe that's just me projecting my own feelings onto your article.
Anyway I do watch the Oscars, usually with friends, and I generally enjoy it. A lot of the movies I'd pick don't win, and a lot of the movies I like aren't even recognized, but it's fun to stargaze and I also think it's interesting to see how people try to make sense out of the year in film based on what does make the cut. And if there's one positive beyond the ceremony itself, I'd say it does help get certain films a wider audience based solely on the prestige of being nominated, even if other movies that are just as deserving remain completely ignored. However I might have to agree with you that the Oscars are bad for movies in the grand scheme of things, for two (I think) important reasons:
1) The award becomes more important than the movie itself. This is sort of a semiotics issue, representation vs. reality. But without getting too deep into it let's just say that the Oscars exist (in theory) to recognize great cinema. Yet the Oscars have become an industry almost as important as cinema itself. Actors cry when they win, not because it proves they've been doing good work but because they have an OSCAR. Producers cancel parties out of vengeance if their films don't get nominated. This is the same thing that happens in sports. You can play well and get along with your teammates, but leave a city after a career's worth of memories because, historically speaking, none of it matters until you have a ring. And the desire to win a prize that should be secondary to the work motivates all the decisions you make. Which leads me to...
2) People choose films that they think will win them an Oscar. Certain actors, specifically, court Oscar shamelessly: Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman. And of course there are the Weinsteins. So caring more about the Oscar than the work you do seems backwards, but it doesn't necessarily have an effect on the product as far as moviegoers are concerned. Only it does, because we're all familiar with the term "Oscar Bait," and we're all familiar with the types of movies that would fall under that category. Some of these movies are pretty good (American Beauty), some of them are pretty not (The Soloist). When more and more of the calendar year is devoted to blockbuster films, the portion allocated to GOOD films takes a backseat to "Oscar" films. So actors and producers whose talents might be better spent on something more interesting, like Uncle Boonmee, end up making The Reader instead.February 28, 2011 at 5:10PM ESTReply to Comment


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Working on Internet of Things platform: Tata Teleservices
"TTSL is working on a platform for IoT and soon some announcements in this regard can be expected," TTSL Enterprise VP, South East, Avinash Gabriel told PTI.
Tata Teleservices subsidiary to raise Rs 3,000 crore from promoter
Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) will raise up to Rs 3,000 crore from its promoter Tata Teleservices through allotment of preferential equities.
Tata Teleservices to give 6-month maternity leave for increasing women workforce
Tata Teleservices has increased its maternity leave policy to six months paid leave and an additional six months of half day halfpay option.
Airtel, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices seeking spectrum liberalisation: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Telecom operators which were allocated spectrum before auctions were held in 2010 are required to pay market-determined rate to liberalise spectrum.
Idea, Vodafone, Airtel top MNP gainers; Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices on losing side
Quoting from TRAI data, Kotak Equities said incumbents Bharti, Vodafone and Idea are the only net gainers since MNP was launched in January 2011.
Tata Teleservices looks to offer 4G in enterprise segment
The telecom venture of the Tata Group feels offering 4G services will enable it to increase its share in the about million strong enterprise market in the country.
Enterprise biz growing at 17%: Tata Teleservices
Telecom major Tata Teleservices today said its enterprise business is growing at 17 per cent annually, double than the industry average.
Tata Teleservices favours cap on telcos' spectrum holdings
Tata Teleservices has opposed any relaxation of caps on the amount of spectrum that telcos can hold, breaking ranks with the industry.
Tata Teleservices, Telenor back early auction of 700 Mhz airwaves
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Videocon launches 4G smartphone at Rs.10,000
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Tata Trent likely to raise Rs 300 crore
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Tata Comm to sell Neotel to Liquid Telecom
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Tata Comm to sell Neotel to Liquid Telecom
Liquid Telecom, a privately owned, pan-African telecoms group, majority owned by Econet Wireless Global on Wednesday said that it has entered into an agreement to acquire South African communications network operator Neotel--owned by India's Tata Communications and Nexus Connexion--for ZAR6.55 billion.
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Starbucks extends Tata partnership beyond India
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Videocon d2h ties up with Vodafone m-pesa
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Videocon registers net loss of Rs 190 crore in March due to lower sales
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Tata Teleservices appoints Anuraag Srivastava as CFO
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Tata Communications shares surge 2% on selling arm Neotel for $293 mn
On the volume front, 4.51 lakh shares of the company were traded at BSE and more than 35.47 lakh shares changed hands at NSE during the day.
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Tata Communications to sell African subsidiary Neotel for $428 million
Liquid Telecom, majority owned by Econet Wireless Global, entered into an agreement to acquire Neotel, the company said in a statement.
Tata Chemicals to suspend DAP production at Haldia
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Sell Tata Elxsi with a target of Rs 1570
Buy Tata Motors, target Rs 545: CLSA
The import tariffs may apply on both legs post-Brexit, which would adversely impact JLR, said the CLSA report. A potentially weaker GBP post-Brexit could provide some cushion.
Lionel Messi's retirement will not impact our association: Tata Motors
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Tata Teleservices rallies, Tata Group offers to buy out Docomo stake
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Sell Tata Steel, target Rs 299: Mitesh Thacker
Sell Tata Steel with a target of Rs 299 and a stop loss of Rs 320
Tata Steel: How much steel will Brits buy now?
Brexit may entail a restructuring of the UK economy and if it has any impact of GDP growth rate, steel consumption will go down. If it forms a better policy, the impact could be contained to an extent.
Tata Teleservices wants airwaves freed for 4G services; initial application for four circles
Tata Teleservices is applying to liberalise its CDMA airwaves in at least four circles, a possible first step towards a spectrum trading pact with Telenor's Indian arm.
Tata Motors is my top pick right now: Sanjiv Bhasin, IIFL
This is a good buying opportunity but you will have to stay put for the next few months because volatility will not be on your side and that may dampen prices in a range
Thyssenkrupp, Tata steel close to steel merger MoU
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The price is on the higher side if we consider replacement value of Rs60m/MW, said the CLSA note. The global brokerage firm is of the view that Welspun assets can generate 9-13% levered return on equity (ROE).
Access to market, workforce key post Brexit: Tata Sons
Tata has 19 independent companies in the U.K., a Tata Sons spokesman said in the statement, including luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, Tetley Tea and steel plants.
Airtel in pact with Videocon Telecom to buy spectrum
Bharti Airtel said that it will acquire Videocon Telecom's spectrum in six circles for Rs 4,428 crore through a bandwidth trading deal. Bharti will acquire rights to use Videocon's spectrum in Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, UP (East), UP (West) and Gujarat. The spectrum is valid up to December 18, 2032.
Idea, Videocon Telecom terminate spectrum trading deal
The termination of the deal, which would have been the country's first such trading pact, is a setback for both parties.
Tata Motors hogs limelight in F&O, open interest zooms
Open interests on June and July futures contracts increased 11 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively, according to data compiled from NSE.


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The New England Patriots shot 26 white flares into the air during a moment of silence prior to Sunday night's game against the San Francisco 49ers to honor the 26 people killed in Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Team president Jonathan Kraft told 98.5 The Sports Hub before the game that the flares were "just a way to symbolically remember their lives and this horrific action." The Patriots also wore black-ribbon logos on their helmets as "a small way to tell the rest of the nation we're grieving along with everybody else tonight even though we are at a football game," Kraft said.
The Patriots' End Zone Militia -- a group dressed in colonial-era uniforms that has fired muskets into the air after a Patriots score since the late 1990s -- also did not have their muskets for Sunday night's game out of respect for the victims. Instead, they saluted the American flag, which was flying at half-staff, on any Patriots score.
Geoffrey Campbell, one of the leaders of the group, told ESPNBoston.com the Patriots requested they not carry their muskets Sunday night.
"The Patriots requested that we not carry arms tonight and we said 'Sure, that's not a problem whatsoever,'" Campbell said.
While Campbell said the militia could've made the same statement in different ways -- such as still carrying the muskets but holding them down to the ground and not firing them -- he believed it was a good idea.
"If you think about it, it's a rather powerful statement," he said.
The cheerleaders and mascot also wore black armbands. There were signs throughout the stadium showing their support, including one that read "Pats Nation Supports Newtown".
NBC cut from its coverage of Sunday's game at 8:35 p.m. ET to broadcast President Obama's remarks from Newtown. The game broadcast moved to CNBC and the NBC Sports Network until Obama's remarks concluded about 20 minutes later.
Earlier in the day, Kraft told NFL.com that the Patriots are pledging $25,000 to help Newtown, Conn. and the families affected by Friday's tragedy. A lone gunman killed 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"To me, the adults who lost their children in this are so important, the future of the school and how it moves forward is important, the town is important," Kraft told NFL.com. "It's not for us to make the decision on what to do with the money. But we're gonna help."
Kraft's father, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, said the fact that this tragedy occurred around the holidays will make it that much harder for the families affected.
"Something about losing children, it's unnatural," Robert Kraft said. "Just horrendous. And to think these young people will never be able to experience and do the things, I know how I feel around the holiday time. My heart goes out to those families. Just forget about this season, what's going to happen at the holiday period, but for many years to come it's just going to evoke these memories. It's just something that's hard to fathom why."
The Patriots see Newtown as part of their New England base, and had a direct connection with Friday's tragedy. The Kraft family, which owns the Patriots, also owns a box company, Rand-Whitney, that has a factory less than one mile from Sandy Hook Elementary School. Kraft explained that he had called the factory on Friday to pass along well-wishes to an employee that was retiring. He was instead informed of the tragedy, and that instead of a retirement party the company was holding counseling sessions and providing space to media members covering the school shooting.
"You've heard the people in the media describe it this way but it's really true. It's just a typical nice, suburban town, USA," Kraft told 98.5 The Sports Hub. "Quiet. Beautiful. Wooded. Not a place you'd expect to hear something like that happen."
Kraft also said that Friday's tragedy had an a noticeable impact in the Patriots' locker room.
"The players have been really affected by it, just hearing guys talk," he told NFL.com. "You never hear guys talk about current events, but the guys were talking about it on Friday afternoon and Saturday in the building. A lot of guys have young children. A lot of guys have guns. There was a lot of talk here."
Information from ESPNBoston.com contributor Jack McCluskey was used in this report.


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This week Contact Energy is notifying its customers that they will have to pay more from April 1, with an average 9.7 per cent rise for its 18,000 residential customers in Network Tasman's area and 9.3 per cent for businesses.
An average household uses around 8000kwh of electricity a year, which costs about $1950, so they will have to pay an extra $190.
Both Network Tasman and Nelson Electricity have announced increases in line charges from April 1 and these will show up in household electricity bills when retailers decide their increases.
TrustPower, which has 4000 customers in Nelson city, will decide its next increase in June, and for its 5100 Tasman customers in August.
Meridian, which put up its prices in December, said it had no immediate plans to increase its energy charges but would pass on the network charges. Genesis also increased its prices in December and said it would review them again later in the year.
Just Energy said it would pass on the network price increase from April 1. In Nelson where it has 1182 customers that meant a 1.48 per cent rise, or about $3 a month, and in Tasman its 2271 customers would have a 3.7 per cent rise, or about $8.50 a month.
Budget Advice Nelson manager Marina Gosnell said the increased power charges were significant, and she expected to get a lot more clients having their power cut off.
She already has five clients who are so far behind in paying their bills their electricity has been disconnected and other power companies "don't want to know them".
Another Nelson resident, who was $500 in arrears for power, has for three months over summer used electricity only to boil a jug in an effort to save enough money to pay off the debt. Ms Gosnell said the resident cooked by gas, used candles at night and went swimming to bathe.
Network Tasman publicly notified its increase today which will add about $56 a year to the lines charges in a household bill, blaming it largely on Transpower, the state-owned enterprise which owns the national grid.
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Network Tasman would increase its own distribution charges for its own customers by about 2 per cent, adding about $8 to a typical customer's bill. That makes a total $56 rise or by nearly 10 per cent for line costs for most consumers.
Mr Mackey said the increase was unfortunate, but the rise in transmission charges was out of his company's control.
Transpower had forecast major increases both this year and last year but Network Tasman had avoided the pain last year through lower than usual winter volumes.
"However this year the volumes are right back to normal levels effectively leaving us with two years of transmission bill increases."
Mr Mackey noted that Transpower was now well through a $2 billion upgrade of the national grid and that new investment was the key reason behind the rising transmission costs.
Nelson Electricity which distributes electricity to 9100 consumers will increase line charges by 4.6 per cent from April 1. For an average domestic consumer power bill using 8000kwh a year that would be an increase of 8 cents per day or 25 cents a month, said general manager Phil Goodall.
"While the line charges attributable to the costs of operating the local network are being held at the current levels, the cost of the transmission network provided by Transpower which accounts for 27 per cent of Nelson Electricity costs is increasing by 18 per cent for the year.
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