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Hollywood Elsewhere —
... is that two journalists on the Hollywood beat -- Entertainment Weekly 's Dave Karger and Variety 's Anne Thompson -- are part of "a gang of daffy, clown-suit-clad Oscar bloggers making endlessly moronic Best Picture predictions." The Envelope 's Tom O'Neil took offense at this , doubled-down on the anger and posted an argumentative response. He mainly said that when you boil it all down Goldstein is (a) simply resentful of Oscar bloggers for encroaching on his turf, and that (b) he's made as many moronic or inaccurate predictions as anyone else so whaddaya ...
Why Can’t We Be Friends…
Awards Daily —
... Patrick Goldstein loathes Oscar bloggers. He’s got Tom O’Neil hopping mad. His constant obsession with Oscar bloggers really has to stop. Doesn’t he have better things to do than police what other people are doing? ...
Lot of awards...
Some Came Running —
... No
kidding. O’Neil, the proprieter of Gold Derby, a sub-blog on the L.A. Times’
awards website The Envelope, cited Goldstein’s “latest attack on me,” noting
that “[t]echnically, he didn’t call me out by name, but those words were linked
to my blog post full of new Oscar predix.” “In the past,” O’Neil burbles,
Goldstein’s “slammed me publicly by name…as ‘the poster boy for the
trivialization of Oscar coverage.’” (Of course, one of O’Neil’s signal
qualities is an eagerness to take offense, as witness the fireworks on Gold
Derby ...
Lot Of Awards, or, If It's Really The Silly Season, Why Does It Drive So Many People Seriously Crazy?
Some Came Running —
... No
kidding. O’Neil, the proprieter of Gold Derby, a sub-blog on the L.A. Times’
awards website The Envelope, cited Goldstein’s “latest attack on me,” noting
that “[t]echnically, he didn’t call me out by name, but those words were linked
to my blog post full of new Oscar predix.” “In the past,” O’Neil burbles,
Goldstein’s “slammed me publicly by name…as ‘the poster boy for the
trivialization of Oscar coverage.’” (Of course, one of O’Neil’s signal
qualities is an eagerness to take offense, as witness the fireworks on Gold
Derby ...
