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All of you with hearts aflutter over the Oscar nominations, please raise your hands

What?? No hands in the air?? What kind of Americans are you people anyway, if you can't even get excited about this morning's Academy Award nomination announcements.

Okay, perhaps I'm being too cynical. Perhaps many of you really are interested in Hollywood's political and celebrity awards shenanigans. Personally, I haven't gone to a theater to watch a movie in something near two years. It's just so much easier and more "user-friendly," to let Netflix send me the films I want to see. A heck of a lot cheaper, too.

As a result of my sheltered lifestyle sitting in front of this computer instead of munching over priced popcorn in an uncomfortable theater, I really know almost nothing about the Oscar nominees. I've heard or seen trailers on TV about "No Country for Old Men" and "Sweeney Todd." I'm a Johnny Depp fan (who isn't) and I'm a Tommy Lee Jones BIG TIME fan, so I'm happy they got the nod for best actor contenders. I'm delighted that Laura Linney got a best actress nomination. She's one of those actresses about whom I've always said, "Oh, yeah, HER ... yeah, she's really good, isn't she?"

As for all the rest of it, I simply don't know or don't care. Crass of me, I guess. I've always enjoyed Hollywood as a concept, especially when I was growing up in rural Nebraska and movies were my only window on the world. But I've never lost a minute's sleep over what Hollywood thinks I think entertainment should be. Good luck to all you Oscar nominees out there. For what that's worth.
[tags]Oscar nominations, Hollywood and our culture, entertainment news, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]