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That Whole Bringing Tourists Into The Oscars Telecast Thing? Here’s What Went Wrong…

MEDIA Posted: February 27, 2017 9:31 am

“Our relationship with the icons of culture has changed, refracted through our politics. At the Oscars, the people who made those movies look out of touch in their Harry Winston jewelry and blue velvet dinner jackets. When they declaim a wall on the Mexican border, or quote the Koran, it sounds naïve, even insulting, to a good-sized number of people. Somehow not even movies about the emotional pain of working class Massachusetts townies or tough modern Texan cowboys shooting it out against the backdrop of economic disaster could get over that hump.”

MEDIA Published: 02.27.17

Read the story in Wired Published: 02.27.17

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