I sometimes lurk on r/sexworkers, a subreddit where most of the sex workers are insistent that they are not "survival sex workers". It's certainly interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:She's probably going to win

Is this it for Demi and a chance at an Oscar?

I think Demi succeeded at getting back on the radar and will hopefully get other big roles now that she’s demonstrated she still has a fan base and can act.

There’s no reason to trot out Nicole Kidman or British actresses when Demi is here.

Demi can't hold a candle to British actresses like Kate Winslet, Emma Thomson, Judi Dench, etc. or to Nicole Kidman. I like her, but she's not a great actress. She happened to get a really good role, but she might not get another.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman had been nominated. Both were excellent in their respective movies and are the definition of Hollywood glamour and style.

I commented that this year seemed to be missing some star power or charisma. Someone like Nicole, Denzel, Viola Davis, Matt Damon, somebody!

Or Cate Blanchet, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt… At least they had stunning Halle Berry presenting.
Everyone in Hollywood looks the same nowadays…fake: faces, boobs, teeth, everything. Not many naturally gorgeous or even just natural faces in Hollywood. I miss old Hollywood class and glamour.

I came across an IG reel of the 1986 Oscars. It was so refreshing. People looked good, but like themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Did Adrian Brody throw his gum at someone before going on stage to accept his Oscar?

If so, kind of funny!

Yes, he threw it to his wife. 😂

Oh that’s not his wife that’s his girlfriend. You know whose wife she was though? Harvey Weinstein.

I wondered about that. So gross.

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

The director, Sean Baker. He recovered from his heroin addiction and then proceeded to make film after film about sex workers. In Anora, he cast Mikey Madison, then in her early 20s, to strip and perform graphic sex scenes and gyrations nude without an intimacy coordinator. For this they are both rewarded by the entertainment industry.

Maybe it's his redemption but what a message that sends to young actresses. Meanwhile better performances were overlooked.

Madison was offered and declined an intimacy coordinator.

Yes, it’s true that the director let Madison decide whether she wanted an intimacy coordinator or not. But I also think that as a 25 year old trying to turn in the “raw” performance her director clearly wanted, was not really in a position to say she wanted one even if she really did. That’s a power imbalance there.

+1

Why was it even an option? From a studio liability standpoint it is really easy to get sued or bad press if something doesn’t go right. On a movie set with such explicit scenes an intimacy coordinator should be required. It’s like not having a stunt coordinator because the stunt people say they can handle it on their own.

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Anonymous wrote:So disappointed Demi didn't win. Instead the younger actress with tons of sex scenes did

Right? So “brave”.

And if i hear “I share this with the sex worker community” one more time I’m going to vomit. Like, sure, I’m sure the sex worker community is getting a boost from your stupid award.

What nonsense.

Thanking sex workers in the acceptance speech made me cringe. Women shouldn't be in situations where the only occupation they can succeed at is one that exploits them.

Right. Just get out and get a real job. retail restaurants whatever. Help yourself. They don't deserve our thanks or admiration.

Retail and restaurants don’t pay what sex risk does.

There is a man we met a church. He converted to Christianity, he’s old. In his younger days, that was his job. He got forced into it. He’s so ashamed of that work. His conversion brought him peace, finally.

And you can see it through a lens of shame, or not. And if you don’t see it through a lens of shame, then you won’t carry a weight.

However, if you grow older actually sit and think about your old job, what role you played in others’ lives, etc etc, you may naturally feel shame and want to have it absolved.

Anonymous wrote:One of the worst Oscars in a long time.

Conan - not funny

To much LA wild fires especially when other areas have suffered

Did they play any songs nominated?

Morgan Freeman honoring Gene Hackman, I assumed they didn’t have time to honor Gene in Memoriam but they did.

Also honored Quincy in Memoriam and then a long musical number dedicated to him.

The 007 bit - they gave some award at a previous Oscar award show (the ones they think are not important) and then do the 007 bit but the winners don’t come on stage. Really?

Adam Sandler bit, stupid.

disagree about Conan who was great. It was lighter and sillier than usual (wisely stayed clear of the political hurricanes whirling around us) and this is all many of us can handle at the moment.

Agree the Adam Sandler bit was dumb and did not enjoy Raye’s version of Skyfall.

But I enjoyed it overall.

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

The director, Sean Baker. He recovered from his heroin addiction and then proceeded to make film after film about sex workers. In Anora, he cast Mikey Madison, then in her early 20s, to strip and perform graphic sex scenes and gyrations nude without an intimacy coordinator. For this they are both rewarded by the entertainment industry.

Maybe it's his redemption but what a message that sends to young actresses. Meanwhile better performances were overlooked.

Madison was offered and declined an intimacy coordinator.

Yes, it’s true that the director let Madison decide whether she wanted an intimacy coordinator or not. But I also think that as a 25 year old trying to turn in the “raw” performance her director clearly wanted, was not really in a position to say she wanted one even if she really did. That’s a power imbalance there.

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

The director, Sean Baker. He recovered from his heroin addiction and then proceeded to make film after film about sex workers. In Anora, he cast Mikey Madison, then in her early 20s, to strip and perform graphic sex scenes and gyrations nude without an intimacy coordinator. For this they are both rewarded by the entertainment industry.

Maybe it's his redemption but what a message that sends to young actresses. Meanwhile better performances were overlooked.

Thank you. I didn't know this.

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Anonymous wrote:She's probably going to win

Is this it for Demi and a chance at an Oscar?

I think Demi succeeded at getting back on the radar and will hopefully get other big roles now that she’s demonstrated she still has a fan base and can act.

There’s no reason to trot out Nicole Kidman or British actresses when Demi is here.

Anonymous wrote:One of the worst Oscars in a long time.

Conan - not funny

To much LA wild fires especially when other areas have suffered

Did they play any songs nominated?

Morgan Freeman honoring Gene Hackman, I assumed they didn’t have time to honor Gene in Memoriam but they did.

Also honored Quincy in Memoriam and then a long musical number dedicated to him.

The 007 bit - they gave some award at a previous Oscar award show (the ones they think are not important) and then do the 007 bit but the winners don’t come on stage. Really?

Adam Sandler bit, stupid.

I thought the Quincy tribute was one of the highlights. I was up and dancing. I also thought Morgan freeman’s tribute to Gene was touching. They’ve done that sort of thing before. I agree the 007 bit was super bad. And normally I would think it was bad not to play the nominated songs but they were all awful—the wicked song was great and a fun way to kick it off. I wonder if the French lady who won for the song realized that her song was so bad they didn’t give it a full musical number. That movie had some real talent in it so it’s too bad they couldn’t find some decent song writers for them. Really weak year for songs.

One of the worst Oscars in a long time.

Conan - not funny

To much LA wild fires especially when other areas have suffered

Did they play any songs nominated?

Morgan Freeman honoring Gene Hackman, I assumed they didn’t have time to honor Gene in Memoriam but they did.

Also honored Quincy in Memoriam and then a long musical number dedicated to him.

The 007 bit - they gave some award at a previous Oscar award show (the ones they think are not important) and then do the 007 bit but the winners don’t come on stage. Really?

Adam Sandler bit, stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:Was watching Bill Mayer last night and he did a story on how large number of Best actress awards went to women who played hookers or sex workers. Think it was over 20 or more. Lovely. Anyone could have played that part in Anora it was nothing special.

That's really interesting. I'm sure it's in part due to misogyny and that sex is titillating. But it's also because it sort of goes to the core of the female struggle over thousands of years and so it provides a lot of meat for female actresses dealing with the female condition. At some level, we're all dealing with the comidification of our bodies and trying to find a way to assert ownership of our sexuality and selves.

NP and I think you are giving the academy more credit than they deserve. They love to glamorize sex work and do “research” and thank the sex worker community. They don’t give two sh**s. Sex and nudity sells and they exploit women in movies all the time.

+ 1 billion!!!

And the cycle just repeats as movie houses back movies they know “will sell” sex/nudity. I disagree that stories about sex workers are about THE human condition or even the female condition. They are stories about a subset of people. If they are the only stories honored, is overall disservice to women and reinforces to be in entertainment as a female, greatest odds your roles will be a stripper, sex worker, rape victim or cadaver who was a stripper, sex worker or rape victim.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting for The Holdovers last year for her beautiful portrayal of an ordinary woman. I loved that movie so much and it did not rely on any sex or outrageous anything.

This is true but you do know who won Best Actress last year right? Emma Stone in Poor Things. She is . . . You guessed it a sex worker in the movie! And there were so many gratuitous sex scenes it was ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:So disappointed Demi didn't win. Instead the younger actress with tons of sex scenes did

Right? So “brave”.

And if i hear “I share this with the sex worker community” one more time I’m going to vomit. Like, sure, I’m sure the sex worker community is getting a boost from your stupid award.

What nonsense.

Thanking sex workers in the acceptance speech made me cringe. Women shouldn't be in situations where the only occupation they can succeed at is one that exploits them.

Right. Just get out and get a real job. retail restaurants whatever. Help yourself. They don't deserve our thanks or admiration.

Retail and restaurants don’t pay what sex risk does.

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Anonymous wrote:All the awards for Anora were kind of gross. An industry awarding a former heroin addict for showcasing a young actress willing to do softcore porn scenes to raise her profile. Because otherwise you really don’t get an award for being the 10000th actress to do a Brooklyn accent.

Who is the former heroin addict?

The director, Sean Baker. He recovered from his heroin addiction and then proceeded to make film after film about sex workers. In Anora, he cast Mikey Madison, then in her early 20s, to strip and perform graphic sex scenes and gyrations nude without an intimacy coordinator. For this they are both rewarded by the entertainment industry.

Maybe it's his redemption but what a message that sends to young actresses. Meanwhile better performances were overlooked.

Madison was offered and declined an intimacy coordinator.