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Robin Williams To Sing "Blame Canada" @ Oscars
mwillis was the first of those who deluged us with this story: Robin Williams is set to sing the South Park song "Blame Canada" at the Oscars. There's been some...discussion as to who would actually sing the song (I just can't understand why Anne Murray [?] refused *grin) but it appears Williams will be the man of the hour. I might even watch this time.
I'd bet that the guy from www.capalert.com, the ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture Reports. They're hilarious. Here is his review of South Park.
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I'm only slightly skeeved that I covered this story, flaming editorial and all, days ago and got nary a visitor ...heh.
I read this at first as Robbie Williams, and nearly lost my breakfast.
Also Canada doesn't censor their television. Maybe they don't suck so much after all. :)
Actually, Canada does censor it's television. The CRTC (Canada's equiqalent of the FTC) has a long list of DOs and DONTs. The only difference is the tolerance factor.
One example is nudity. We have more nudity than US television, but not to the point of showing genitals, unless in a non-sexual context like a murder scene.
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Hmm, I feel the other way, I am mildly amused by the show, but honestly it's never seemed to be even as clever as Beavis & Butthead were. The movie, on the other hand, was great, it had catchy music, an actual message, and enough vulgarity to shock anyone. Now don't get me wrong, I like the show, but it usually seems to be about what taboos they can break this week, rather than carrying a decent story line.
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Can we get Whoopie to do Uncle Fucker instead?
he's the type of guy who would be willing to include the profanity even though he's not supposed to. He'd be able to get away with it, too!
He has done some good movies, but only by branching out from the comedies. Bicentenial man was good, but my absolute favorite of his movies was What Dreams May Come. Don't assume that crap like Mrs. Doubtfire or Jumanji are all that he is capable of.
I may get tired of him as a comedian, but at least he's better than Jim Carrey.
They shouldn't let people who haven't actually ever seen the show write about it, yes? "...potty-mouthed South Park stars: Eric, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny." Ohmigod! They killed Stan! You bastards!
There's a pretty funny poll running at http://www.Filmindustry.com that's linking all of this year's Oscar weirdness (the stolen statuettes, the ballots lost in the mail etc) to "... an alleged conspiracy of angry Canadians."
"Energy fools the Magician."
Now that's the spirit! Imply that most of Slashdot are hopeless drug addicts, and tell everyone that since you don't find South Park and Robin Williams funny, nobody else should either. Oh, and that first sentence was pure brilliance - I am absolutely convinced now that termite666 is superior to any lousy Oscars-watching Slashdotter.
(sarcasm off)
So, enlighten me - if you care so little about all this, why'd you read this article?
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Here is some more info:
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http://www.canoe.ca/JamOscar2000/mar9_murray.ht
From the article:
"Far from being offended by the song's lyrics,
publicist Marlene Palmer said the singer was
amused by the song and would have performed at
the show, except it conflicts with a long-planned
holiday."
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Not Celine Dion?
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No matter what talent Robin might have he's become one of the biggest Oscar whores next to Meryl Streep and Jim Carrey (who's last two movies were obviously oscar ploys.) That makes him pretty distasteful to me.
The same kind of person who finds out that the word "Duke" is said 124 times during the oldies tune, "Duke of Earl."
I'm sure the censors know every *blip*in' potential hotspot in the movie. That's what they're paid to do. They likely have a spreadsheet with the SMPTE time code for every middle-finger or reference to scat in the movie.
Same goes for people who numb their minds with the trivia knowledge of how many home-runs some batter performs every season, though I'm sure *that* will get a reaction out of some people.
(How many Dukes of Earl does it take... =anagram>OK, OK, and somewhat easily refuted.)
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Robin Williams, though? Yuck. He's waaaaay to corporate, even though he represents as "wacky" and "out there". He's the perfect safe choice for an AMPAS that lost all credibility whatsoever long ago. What a disappointment.
My only hope is that Parker and Stone win and get up on stage and just rip into pretty much everything and curse up a storm and do Cartman voices. Trey Parker is a comic genius. Let's hope they win so there'll be some entertainment on the Oscars this year.
Actually Anne Murray really likes the song. _Some_ people actually do have a sense of humour. She turned down the offer to sing "Blame Canada" coz she's going on a golf vacation that she'd planned beforehand.
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Also, who the hell had the time to count that there were "399 bad words and 128 crude gestures"?
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Robin Williams was never particularly funny. He had a knack for acting weird and making people think they should be laughing at him. As he got older, he developed a knack for acting cute and making people think they should be laughing at him. He's the Salieri(sp?) of comedy.
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Will Cyber Patrol be blocking oscars.org?
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OK, to set the record straight, I, myself am Canadian. I was born here. Raised here. And live here. Now, I read posts and news stories about people thinking that the song "Blame Canada", and the South Park Movie in general offended us Canadians somehow. Let me tell you, that isn't true, at least from what I've seen.
;)
Sure, the film itself revolves around Canada attacking the US in stupid ways, (be afraid of our hockey sticks, dammit!) and I was laughing the whole way through it. My father, who watched it with me, and who HATES the series, was laughing just as much as I was.
Now, it's true that some Canadians (mostly the up-tight ones) will find offense to the song. But if they don't like it, they can just change the channel. However, I know that -I- will be front and center, singing along, and througly embaressing myself in front of all my friends! =)
(But only if I'm drunk
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If you skim to the end of the third paragraph, you'll see the phrase "...Canada-bashing...". What I want to know is:
What the heck sort of Canada bashing is done in that entire film? Sure Canadians were depicted as looking REAL odd... *hehe, do I really look like THAT?* but in general the only people that were poked fun at the whole time were americans... Looks like the writers at Yahoo need to open up...
Chris
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Just a thought. :-)
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