Sore Losers Suck — Page 3

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

Unrelated, but I wish Dench would have won.

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Unrelated, but I wish Dench would have won.

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

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."

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

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?????"

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.

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?

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

Cheap tranny hookers, that is.

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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.

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

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Ouch. The truth is brutal.

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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!