Sore Losers Suck- Page 3

[kjklo]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 12:15am

I've always felt that if you know you're not capable of losing gracefully then you shouldn't bother to attend an awards presentation for which you're a nominee. No one is a guaranteed winner. No matter how sure something appears to be, there are always upsets. If you know that you're incapable of staying the whole show, smiling graciously and applauding for someone else, then stay home. Otherwise, you risk causing offense and hard feelings, and even if you don't particularly care about that, you also end up making yourself look very bad. It's the kind of poor behavior that tarnishes a reputation and is not soon forgotten. Easy to avoid by honestly determining whether or not you're a good sport, and if you're not, skipping the ceremony with a polite excuse.
Updated On: 2/27/07 at 12:15 AM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 12:17am

At least he showed up! That horrible Judi Dench didn't even bother to show her face. Knee surgery my butt! That's what they make wheelchairs for. If she truly cared about her craft, her castmates, her fans and her career, she would have been there with an IV stuck in her arm. Look at poor Judy Garland. She was in the hospital and yet she made sure that she was wired just in case she won. And poor Joan Crawford, sick as a dog, when she won, opened her door to thank her wellwishers. Darn British cheek!!

Updated On: 2/27/07 at 12:17 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 12:18am

Unrelated, but I wish Dench would have won.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 12:21am

"Unrelated, but I wish Dench would have won."

They always award impersonations:
Mirren - Queen Elizabeth
Forest - Amin
Blanchett - Kate Hepburn
Spacek - Loretta Lynn

[broadway86]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 12:21am

Unrelated, but I wish Dench would have won.

Me, too. Mirren was my (close) second choice.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:39am

Sore losers do suck...but does anyone truly know why Eddie left? Did he smack Arkin on his bald head before he left?

Wasn't the whole Schwartz storming out thing explained right after it happened? He got an emergency call or something. Did I dream this? If I did, I am worried about myself.

...but his toup is indeed ridiculous.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 10:52am

Margo is absolutely right, but I'll add to it... Even before the Oscars were televised and turned into an endless epic of a ceremony, people were known to have walked out or left after their award category was announced. Some (like Olivia de Havilland losing for GWTW) have been notorious.

But now that it's 4-hours of ceremony plus another 2-3 just to get there and then get out of Hollywood again... it's really more like 10 hours of Oscar, if you attend... and that's not including the time it takes to get ready.

Eddie is also a very private man by nature, and that's nothing new. For those of you who say you watched the Barbara Walters special, you might recall how he mentioned that he doesn't do the "Hollywood scene" very well, and never has. He doesn't attend the big parties or events. He keeps to himself, and there have been other "big players" in Hollywood who have felt the same way he does.

I'm sure Eddie's losing played into his early exit to some extent. I don't think anyone should assume he's a sore loser, though, and wishes Alan Arkin any ill will. Mr. Murphy was touted as the frontrunner for this award. Everyone has been thrusting mics into his face, telling him for the past few weeks that he was going to win an Oscar, and he didn't. He is only the second actor thus far (Lauren Bacall being the first) to win both the SAG award & the Golden Globe award, and not the Oscar. Will he get over it? Of course! He's been in this business for 25 years. He "gets it," and he's had huge successes and also his share of failures along the way. He will move on, and very quickly.

But I also think, after all the set-up and hoopla, he's entitled to his own private moment of, "Aw, sh*t."

Updated On: 2/27/07 at 10:52 AM

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:01am

They always award impersonations

Tell that to Angela Bassett.

[erikaamato]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:01am

Yay, b12b! That's exactly how I feel about it. And just because one US reporter decided to use the inflammatory phrase "stormed out" does not make it true. He left. I'm sure he was depressed and disappointed, and he chose to leave early rather than put himself through agony for several more hours and then have to endure the reporters all trying to catch him on the way out saying, "Were you surprised you lost?????"

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:51am

I still don't understand at all him not staying to support Jennifer Hudson in her category and then all the Dreamgirls in their performance.

[erikaamato]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 11:59am

Actualy, STP, Now that I think about it, I have to admit I agree with you there. Stay for that, THEN leave if you just can't take it anymore.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 12:01pm

I've come to see all of the points in it being fine leaving early.

But not RIGHT after. And not before the events mentioned in my post above.

[DG]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 2:54pm

Has there been ANYTHING written about this except for a mention in that 'upstanding' rag? Do we KNOW that an emergency didn't arise? Or does any of that really matter?

[robbiej]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:10pm

'You are there to encourage your peers and celebrate their work.'

Not me. I'd be there to collect my award. And should I lose (or, for that matter, win), I'd leave me seat and go to the Ladies' and do blow with Sally Kirkland.

And I'm just barely kidding.

[DG]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:13pm

I'd go to the Men's with Hugh Jackman and . . . well, blow.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:15pm

B*tch please. Kidding? You know that's EXACTLY what you'd do -- and I'd either be right there with you or back in the hotel ordering up cheap hookers.

Updated On: 2/27/07 at 03:15 PM

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:20pm

Cheap tranny hookers, that is.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:21pm

Hell, I'd get 'spensive hookers who act cheap!

If I won, that is.

[robbiej]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:31pm

You caught me. I put 'kidding' cause I'm afraid the Po Po are watchin!

I would do my best to be relatively sober to accept an award...but after that? LESS THAN ZERO.

[DG]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:35pm

"relatively sober"

Relative to what? Nicholson?

[robbiej]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 3:42pm

Somewhere between Nicholson and Abigail Breslin. I like to leave myself a wide margin of error.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 4:09pm

More like somewhere between Paula Abdul and Britney.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/27/07 at 4:10pm

Ouch. The truth is brutal.

[DG]

Posted: 3/1/07 at 8:25am

K2503 - that was a joke - they don't really feel that way about her.

[VoiceAntonio2]

Posted: 3/1/07 at 8:27am

They were all coked out of they're gords - No one really feels anything in that town that they didn't pick up from drama school.

Good for Eddie to walk out! Show sucked!