ReOscar Worthy

Dear Mr. Robin Williams,

As you are no doubt aware, this Sunday evening the majority of the nation will be wrapped up in yet another Oscar ceremony. While we are no doubt disappointed that your turn as Wizard in August Rush did not earn you another nomination, we are still quite caught up in the fanfare of it all. As a result, we here at If I Blog It They Will Come have been reading all of the Oscars articles we can just so that we are well versed for the event.

One of the more shocking articles we read came from Time Magazine's Richard Corliss. In this week's Time Magazine, Mr. Corliss apparently had so much "Time" on his hands that he took it upon himself to redo the Oscars for 1998. The most distressing part of his re-examination of the events of ten years ago is that he stripped you, Mr. Robin Williams of your Best Supporting Actor win for Good WIll Hunting in favor of Burt Reynolds.

Now, we're all for taking a stroll down memory lane, we do it all the time, but the fact remains, there's no do overs as far as Oscar is concerned, especially when it's done with such flimsy reasoning as Corliss implies here by saying "every once in a while an Oscar goes to a comedian playing a serious role. That's the only explanation for Williams' win here," and with that a great performance is unjustly smeared. Mr. Corliss, the 1998 Oscar pool ended a long time ago and you obviously lost. How about giving a little credit where credit is due. I haven't seen Mr. Corliss so skillfully stalk a stage and keep people in stitches on such a consistent basis, nor have I seen him reach through the screen and tear an audience's heart to pieces.

Meanwhile Corliss' reasoning for his re-awarding the oscar to Reynolds is equally as paper-thin, stating "...Reynolds deserves an award for his enduring popular appeal. Sometimes the Oscars should be the Golden Globes." Really, we thought the Oscars were for honoring acting, not a popularity contest...though we did honestly like Reynolds as Jack Horner in Boogie Nights and think that he may have delivered one of the greatest lines in movie history in Woody Allen's 1972 film Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid To Ask.

In closing, we would like to state unequivocally that whether or not you ever decide to send us a photo of yourself looking at our blog to djayek@yahoo.com and despite our penchant for believing everything that we read, we would never so mindlessly agree with Corliss's perception, nor would we ever dream of revoking your Best Supporting Actorship.
Thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sincerely,
The Best Supporting Folks at If I Blog It They Will Come