Comments on: Oscar Producers Explain Why Farrah Fawcett Was Missing From Memoriam

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:49 +0000

One of the greatest actresses of the American Theatre who also was a SAG member in movies such as “The Other”, “Reversal of Fortune”, ” The Boys from Brazil”. She created the role of Edward Albees Martha in “Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf”. She played Desdemona with Paul Robeson in “Othello”, I think she was omitted from the rememberance list when she passed this worldly stage in 2004. Her name was Uta Hagen. Tinsel Town didn’t appreciate her enough.
Ceres,
“Ethel”

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:22:04 +0000

Devon has spoken the truth.

By: babs

babs — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:04:54 +0000

Totally agree, they should let In Memoriam run for as long as it needs to run. Like, we really needed a 5-minute ‘interpretive dance’ production number? But they couldn’t flash Farrah’s photo and a clip for 15 seconds? It was a terrible oversight.

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:36:56 +0000

Forget Farah – where was Patrick McGoohan?!

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:45:56 +0000

I didn’t watch the Oscars this year, but…

The Memoriam has always been my least favorite part of the show. It’s a posthumous popularity contest, where the producers not only pick which people were important/cool enough to include, but calculate how much applause each person will get and order them accordingly. I can’t help but think of how sick the family/friends of the loved ones must feel, hearing people clap for Big Name Movie Star but not their humble makeup artist father named immediately afterward… to say nothing of the bereaved whose loved ones weren’t included at all.

Either do it right, or don’t do it at all.

By: Empress Eve

Empress Eve — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:53:09 +0000

I agree that Farrah should have been included and that it’d be worth the extra few minutes to include however many people died that year. Granted, her memory lives on even stronger now because of this snub, but I can see why her loved ones would be hurt over this.