Roger, I couldn’t agree with you more. I grew up in (ok, near, and definitely with) Hollywood. For decades, I never missed a major awards show. Due to the business I was in I occasionally went to premieres, and I respected people in the entertainment industry.

These shows are now so shallow, so political, so devoid of glamour, and the product they now award is so just plain bad, that I have totally stopped watching award shows and find myself struggling to like any movies or popular entertainment. Also, put simply, I refuse to subject myself to the inane and uneducated political wailings of a class of people so removed from reality and everyday life that they literally believe up is down and black is white.

I find it hard to believe that many others haven’t become totally disillusioned and disgusted by the entertainment industry in general as I have. On one hand, I feel like a veil has been lifted from my eyes. On the other, I greatly resent the fact that an enjoyable bit of fantasy in my life has been destroyed by self-centered twits who can’t just shut up and sing or act. I don’t want to know their politics or their hideous personal problems; I want them to transport me with their singing and acting. For me, that is largely no longer possible. They have destroyed the glamour and fantasy. Thus the award shows can no longer attract me.