Bill Maher says “thank you Hollywood” for sweeping the country

It’s Oscars weekend in Hollywood and the real time The live audience was in the mood for show business insights. Host Bill Maher did not disappoint.

This year’s Oscars have some changes, Maher said. “They ask, ‘Who are you hitting?’

He also noted that it is difficult to remember who won what from year to year. “You win and you go,” Maher noted. He waited a moment. “Like Kamala Harris.”

Maher admitted he supports one actor in particular: Tom Cruise. “I want someone to stand up and say, ‘I want to thank Xenu.

All of this in the opening monologue was the warm-up for Maher’s closing editorial in his New Rules column.

In a segment titled “The Scold and the Beautiful,” Maher reflected on the origins of award winners giving us their opinions, or “how bad things are for people because people are the best.”

Maher recalled that Sacheen Littlefeather caused a stir 50 years ago by accepting the best actor award for Marlon Brando. She used the platform to describe how Hollywood mistreated Indians.

What Maher found interesting about the accounts of this moment in 1973 was that Littlefeather was met with boos and cheers from the audience. A producer said she would be arrested if her message lasted longer than 60 seconds, and legend has it that actor John Wayne had to be prevented from storming the stage. “It was back when you weren’t allowed to storm the stage,” he remarked wryly.

It was then. But if she gave that speech today, she would be embraced by the public, Maher said. “This is because of progress,” he said.

He then pointed out how the world has changed since then. He found that change takes time and leaders are often too late to adapt. “I don’t know if everything happens everywhere at the same time,” he said, referring to the Oscar favorite. “But I know that everyone is late with everything, because that’s what it is to be human.”

The Liberals are late, he noted, “but they tend to push until we get there.” He listed films that led to a better understanding of issues ranging from AIDS to intermarriage.

“They were cocks to an Indian in 1973, but over time Hollywood moved the country forward.”

He concluded: “So, thank you, Hollywood.”

Songwriter David Byrne previously spoke about co-writing the Oscar-nominated song “This Is A Life” for the film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Bryne said the song “is about a reconciling family. I said, ‘That’s the point. We’ve got to put a pin in it.’ He also admitted that he and his former Talking Heads bandmates have “a pretty good relationship”.

This week’s panel saw New York Times Newsletter writer and The Glenn Show podcast contributor John McWhorter, along with journalist, executive producer and COO for Eden Productions and Kunhardt Films, Josh Tirangiel.

Their discussion ranged from Donald Trump’s call to the difference between fairness and equality.