It is time to call out some red carpet bullshit. Thirty minutes before ABC’s coverage of The Oscars, they ran a self promoting red carpet event where they interviewed stars from their own network and movie houses.
Not even the hip gyrating, over en-un-ci-a-ting, shrill shill Kathy Ireland could save this entertainment daisy chain of a broadcast. ABC had the pick of the litter of all the A listers in Hollywood on Oscar night, yet they decide to start this telecast off with Jake Gyllenhaal? Well maybe because his new movie Price Of Persia is a Disney production. Even he seems surprised at the first hack, open ended question “won’t you please tell us about this movie?”
They follow that lap-fest up with an interview with Disney star Zac Effron and then fawn all over Miley Cyrus, Disney/ABC’s biggest teen asset, telling her that she has “mastered comedy” in her new Disney film The Last Song. Mastered comedy? If you listen closely at the end of that clip you can hear Peter Sellers rolling over in his grave.
You know, I used to design Kathy Ireland clothing at Kmart. Now I just pimp out the grillz. Oh, how I miss the old days.