the Academes

[Greg Reynolds]

the academes, that SHOW, contain and nourish all the world
-- Berowne LLL IV, iii

[Art Neuendorffer]

Greg Reynolds wrote:
> the academes, that SHOW, contain and nourish all the world
> -- Berowne LLL IV, iii

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_____*GROVE OF ACADEME*
____*A DE VERE CAM GOOF*
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____*ACADEME GROVE*
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___*DE VERE AGO*
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____*AKADEMOS*
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<<A legendary hero in Greek mythology, Akademos (originally Hekademos
or, less correctly, Academus, or Hecademus) was linked to the archaic
name for the site of Plato's Academy, the Hekademeia, outside the walls
of Athens. The site was sacred to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and
other immortals; it had sheltered her religious cult since the Bronze
Age, which was perhaps associated with the hero-gods, the Dioskouroi
(Castor & Polydeukes), for the hero Akademos associated with the site
was credited with revealing to the Divine Twins where Theseus had hidden
Helen of Troy. By classical times the name of the place had evolved into
the Akademeia and was explained by linking it to an eponymous Athenian
hero, a legendary "Akademos", at least as early as the beginning
of the 6th century BC.>>
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Akademeia was the source of the word "academy".
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The expression "The Grove of Academe" goes back
to the sacred site of Hekademos where the cult
had once taken place in an olive grove sacred to Athene.
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____*AKADEMOS*
____*AM SOAKED*
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____*PRECIPITATES*
____*PERIPATETICS*
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<<The Academy was a park and gymnasium outside of Athens dedicated
to the hero *AKADEMOS* . It is best known for the school of learning
that Plato founded there in approximately 385 BC. This school is
usually contrasted with Aristotle's own creation, the *PERIPATETICS*
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Peripatetic, a. [L. peripateticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to walk about;
peri` about + ? to walk: cf. F. p['e]ripat['e]tique.]
1. Walking about; itinerant.
2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle
(who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens),
or to his followers.
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Famous philosophers entrusted with running
the Academy include Arcesilaus & Proclus.
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The emperor Justinian closed the school in AD 529. Its remaining
members looked for protection under the rule of Sassanid king
Khosrau I. Some members found sanctuary in the pagan stronghold
of Harran, and their students contributed the Arab Renaissance.>>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Athens
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<<The School of Athens is one of the most famous paintings by the
Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 & 1510
as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms
that are now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace
in the Vatican. The Stanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms
to be decorated, and The School of Athens the second painting
to be finished, after La disputa.
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Because it was positioned over the philosophical section of the library
of Pope Julius II, The School of Athens shows the greatest philosophers,
scientists and mathematicians of classical antiquity. Plato and
Aristotle, the Greek philosophers that were considered most important,
are standing in the center of the composition at the top of the steps.
Plato is holding his Timaeus. Aristotle is carrying a copy of his
Nichomachean Ethics. Their gestures correspond to their interests
in the philosophical field - Plato is pointing upwards towards
Heaven and Aristotle is gesturing towards the earth.
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Diogenes is lying carefree on the steps before them to show his
philosophical attitude: he despised all material wealth and the
lifestyle associated with it. To the left, is a great block of stone
the significance of which is sometimes connected with the first epistle
of St Peter. It symbolizes Christ, the "cornerstone" which the builders
have rejected, which becomes a stumbling block and a "rock of offence"
to the unbeliever. The man leaning on the block is Heraclites, meant
to be Michelangelo. This figure was an afterthought: it was not in the
original cartoon. In 1510, Raphael snuck into the Sistine Chapel to
view Michelangelo?s work on the ceiling by candle light. He was so
awed by the unfinished work that he added Michelangelo in his
own style of painting to show his respect for the artist.
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Raphael's self portrait is at the far lower-right of the fresco,
the young man with brown hair staring straight out at the audience.
On the left of the painting a girl-like figure, dressed in white,
is also staring out at the audience. Romantic legend has it that she
is Raphael's love, Margherita. Other interpretations, however,
claim that it is Hypatia of Alexandria, or a portrait
of the young Francesco Maria I della Rovere.
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The identity of some of the philosophers in the picture, such as
Plato or Aristotle, is uncontroversial, but scholars disagree on
many of the other figures. They are usually identified as follows:
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1: Zeno of Citium or Zeno of Elea? ?
2: Epicurus ?
3: Frederik II of Mantua? ?
4: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles? ?
5: Averroes ?
6: Pythagoras ?
7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? ?
8: Antisthenes or Xenophon? ?
9: Hypatia or the young Francesco Maria della Rovere? ?
10: Aeschines or Xenophon? ?
11: Parmenides? ? 12: Socrates ?
13: Heraclitus (painted as Michelangelo) ?
14: Plato holding the Timaeus (painted as Leonardo da Vinci) ?
15: Aristotle holding the Ethics ?
16: Diogenes of Sinope ?
17: Plotinus? ?
18: Euclid or Archimedes with students (painted as Bramante)? ?
19: Strabo or Zoroaster? ?
20: Ptolemy ?
21: Raphael as Apelles ?
22: Il Sodoma as Protogenes
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Les Miserables: The French Academy gave as a prize theme, (r)The
happiness which Study procures. M. Bellart was eloquent, officially.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: When they passed through
the passage beside the royal Irish academy they found many
students sheltering under the arcade of the library.
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Gulliver's Travels: I was received very kindly by the Warden,
and went for many days to the Academy.
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. Love's Labour's Lost Act 1, Scene 1
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FERDINAND: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
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*Live register'd upon our BRAZEN tombs*
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And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
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When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
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The endeavor of this present breath may buy
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That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
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And make us *HEIRS OF ALL ETERNITY* .
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Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are,
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That war against your own affections
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And the huge army of the world's desires,--
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Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:
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Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;
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Our court shall be a little *ACADEME*,
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Still and contemplative in living art.
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You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,
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Have sworn for three years' term to live with me
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My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes
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That are recorded in this schedule here:
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Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names,
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That his own hand may strike his honour down
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That violates the smallest branch herein:
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If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do,
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Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.
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. Act 4, Scene 3
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BIRON
'Tis more than need.
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Have at you, then, affection's men at arms.
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Consider what you first did swear unto,
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To fast, to study, and to see no woman;
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Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.
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Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too young;
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And abstinence engenders maladies.
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And where that you have vow'd to study, lords,
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In that each of you have forsworn his book,
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Can you still dream and pore and thereon look?
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For when would you, my lord, or you, or you,
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Have found the ground of study's excellence
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Without the beauty of a woman's face?
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[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive;
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They are the ground, the books, the *ACADEMES*
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From whence doth spring the TRUE Promethean fire]
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Why, UnIVERSal plodding poisons up
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The nimble spirits in the arteries,
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As motion and long-during action tires
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The sinewy vigour of the traveller.
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Now, for not looking on a woman's face,
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You have in that forsworn the use of eyes
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And study too, the causer of your vow;
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For where is any author in the world
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Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
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Learning is but an adjunct to ourself
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And where we are our learning likewise is:
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Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes,
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Do we not likewise see our learning there?
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O, we have made a vow to study, lords,
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And in that vow we have forsworn our books.
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For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,
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In leaden contemplation have found out
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Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
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Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?
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Other slow arts entirely keep the brain;
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And therefore, finding barren practisers,
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Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil:
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But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
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Lives not alone immured in the brain;
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But, with the motion of all elements,
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Courses as swift as thought in EVERy power,
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And gives to EVERy power a double power,
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Above their functions and their offices.
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It adds a precious seeing to the eye;
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A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;
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A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,
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When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd:
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Love's feeling is more soft and sensible
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Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails;
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Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:
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For valour, is not Love a Hercules,
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Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?
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Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical
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As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair:
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And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
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Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
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NEVER durst poet touch a pen to write
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Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;
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O, then his lines would ravish savage ears
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And plant in tyrants mild humility.
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From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
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They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
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They are the books, the arts, the *ACADEMES*,
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That show, contain and nourish all the world:
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Else none at all in ought proves excellent.
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Then fools you were these women to forswear,
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Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.
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For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,
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Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,
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Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,
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Or women's sake, by whom we men are men,
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Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
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Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
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It is religion to be thus forsworn,
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For charity itself fulfills the law,
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And who can sEVER love from charity?
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Scorsese departs Oscars triumphant
By Nigel Andrews : The Financial Times
Published: February 26 2007 11:16
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<<Astounding scenes were witnessed at the 79th annual Academy Awards
ceremony. The Best Actress made a sensible speech. The best director won
the Best Director prize. No one wore a weird dress. No white person
commented that anyone was black (or vice versa). No one said they had
been brought up in a trailer park. And Al Gore, winning the Best
Documentary Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth, began to announce his
candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination, only for a twinkle
to give him away as the music police, otherwise known as the Academy
orchestra, took the liberty of drowning him out.
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Most astoundingly, the evening?s stage set verged on the tasteful.
Imagine an indented Venetian ceiling taken down, turned to sheet metal
and split into giant front-drops. It looked like bubble-wrap gone
monumental. Backward of these, giant Oscars stood in two rows of
open-front presentation cases, with a more giant one in the middle. They
were cleared for dance numbers, when a scrim allowed silhouetted bodies,
seemingly nude, to group themselves into shapes resembling giant floral
bouquets or giant guns. (I think we can take the word ?giant? as read in
relation to Oscar décor).
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Ellen DeGeneres, looking perky in a kind of haute couture builder-and-
plasterer?s outfit, showed aplomb and inventiveness when it was needed.
It was needed quite early, when it became clear that there would be few
surprises in the minor categories. These are reserved for the cinema of
infantile regression, with Caribbean pirates and digitised penguins
winning for special effects and animation, while Little Miss Sunshine ?
all right, so I?m the only person in the world who doesn?t like it ?
picked up Best Original Script and Best Supporting Actor (Alan Arkin).
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The evening?s first and almost only trend-bucker was the Best Song
Oscar. This was surely, we thought, going to Dreamgirls, which had about
four nominations out of five. Instead it went to An Inconvenient Truth,
to the visible startlement of audiences trying to remember what on earth
that global-warming eco-doc?s song could have been. (?Warming has
bro-ken, like the first war-ming?...?) Fittingly, in a moment of heady
acclamation for political correctness, the winner Melissa Etheridge
thanked her ?wife?, seen beaming from the front stalls. With that moment
and the night?s leading role played by Miss DeGeneres, the 2007 Oscars
did for a bigotry-oppressed sexual constituency what the 2002 awards
famously did for a disadvantaged racial community.
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By 4am British time ? the time we Oscar-watchers are propping open our
eyelids with cocktail sticks ? the ceremony was becoming a bit too
well-behaved and respectful. Like good citizens, almost EVERyone
observed the 45-second limit on speeches, to which the only exception
was Ennio Morricone, who was allowed 45 hours. Or maybe it seemed that
way as the composer receiving a career Oscar expatiated at length in
Italian, while Clint Eastwood stood at his side, replacing himself
during comfort breaks with a convincing waxwork, translated into American.
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Ellen DeGeneres had warned the night?s winners not to do speeches about
having being brought up in the Bronx eating lumps of frozen poison. But
that nearly didn?t stop Jennifer Hudson. The Best Supporting Actress for
Dreamgirls looked as if a rags-to-riches marathon was teetering on her
lips. Instead she made a tearful, simple speech, while doing something
obscure and fiddly with her hands, possibly sticking pins into a Simon
Cowell doll.
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The evening?s one humdinger speech came from Forest Whitaker, named Best
Actor for his Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. After murmuring
?Just a second? for the fending off of audible-visible grief, Whitaker
went on to say a great deal, some of it comprehensible, about the
interaction of dreams, beliefs, lights, connections, art, faith,
religion and destiny. At the end he thanked the people of Uganda, his
ancestors and God. A shot from the wings showed there was an unusual
number of people in white coats waiting for him to finish.
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The 2007 Best Actress award confirmed that ?HM the Queen? now stands for
Helen Mirren the Queen. Dame Helen wore a gold lamé Jessica Rabbit-style
dress with full cups and a flowing hip-shape. The Americans adored her,
especially when she said, raising high her Oscar, ?I give you the
Queen?. Since America has no idea what this toasting locution means,
they thought we were offering to loan the monarch to a country grateful
for any cut-glass classiness it can get.
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Frozen in time, numbed by the act of keeping smiles on our faces, we
were in no condition to register surprise at the evening?s concluding
boulEVERsement. But it was wonderful that Martin Scorsese finally got
the Best Picture and Best Director double, while so very Oscarish that
he got it for a film representing a B-plus on his report card.
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The Departed is not Raging Bull, Taxi Driver or Goodfellas. But it is
good enough. And it saved us from the horror of seeing Babel win, in
another vote that would have shown, like last year?s honouring of Crash,
that the Motion Pictures Academy has no idea what the difference is
between self-importance and importance. But maybe Hollywood?s
heedlessness of fine distinctions is one of the reasons we love it.>>
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Art Neuendorffer