Let's be a Viola Davis acceptance speech!

I'm Alfre Woodward watching from home and rolling my eyes.

I'm the maggots in the trash bins.

I would like to thank every one for this prestigious honor and I love you all'.; I really do.*sniff*., excuse me a moment, my nose is running like a faucet again. Tissue anyone?

She forgot to thank me!

I'm her beautiful Genesis.

I'm the shit everyone wants to take in her mouth.

I'm the overbearing "history-making" gravitas she adds to every speech even though, according to IMDB, she's racked up 77 awards for acting since 2003.

I'm Cicely Tyson. So this is how it ends? I go out playing this cunt's MOTHER?

I'm Oprah. I'll pretend in public she my sistah, but truth is I want to put some Shug Avery pee in her lemonade.

I'm the exhumed body! Don't forget about me. I was a real person who lived a real life!

R10 Be grateful I'm alive at this moment to do you justice.

I'm the dirt in the bones of the exhumed bodies and I tell the best stories.

I'm the patronizing congratulatory tweets from Mia Farrow.

I am Moses with the sermon on the mount feeling in significant next to Viola.

How I love V - forever my lady-in-waiting!

I'm the Darfur Orphan. Damn, but those maggots look tasty!

I'm the rat biting viola's leg in the condemned home

What is this thing with Viola Davis and dead bodies?

I love you r7.

r18, Haven't you heard; we need to exhume the dead to tell their stories.

I'm the Volume: Loud. Because this stuff about maggots and dead bodies has to be screamed.

I'm the over enunciation of syllables spoken like a stroke victim.

I think I've told the story here before, but I met her about 10 years ago at a party. She was charming for a few minutes until she realized that I was not in the business and had no power to help her. The abrupt change was rather amusing. We were in a group but somewhat isolated in conversation, and she quickly began to insinuate herself into the broader conversation and ignore me.

I don't blame her- she was working the Ho stroll HARD, but it was a window into her mindset.

Years later I mentioned her name and heard a horrifying story of her cray cray that made me hate her.

[quote]Years later I mentioned her name and heard a horrifying story of her cray cray that made me hate her.

Well, now we have to hear it.

R24

It was the typical Hollywood crap-"Don't you know who I am" , berating hotel staff that didn't do exactly as she said shit.

I can tolerate someone working and ignoring someone who can't help her, but not someone who treats little people poorly.

They made fun of her snot crying on Blackish this week and I wondered if their writers read DL. Love that show if you do! Keep up the great work.

Ugh, not cool, R25. Sounds like very maggoty behavior.

She could stand to dial back on the pretentiousness a bit

Bret Easton Ellis must be a Datalounger. On the most recent episode of his podcast (of which I'm admittedly a fan), he proclaims it's time "to put a moratorium on the Viola Davis acceptance speech."

yes r29

I've noticed in the past that he sometimes would tweet things and then also be discussing similar stuff on DL.

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know his podcast was back on!!

Poor Viola.

oh and it was always late at night too when DL and Twitter where both slow so it was easier to see a parallel

Did Viola play field hockey or woman's basketball in high school. She seems like the type of you catch my drift.

I'm the uneasy hysteria infusing the speech. Viola tries to pass me off as just a natural consequence of someone from so "low" rising to so "high." But, that's just a bullshit excuse. Like any number of actors, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool drama queen who as to elevate everything to absurd levels to feed my ego.

Why do they even let the supporting winners speak? I'd be willing to sell my supporting Oscar on ebay if the academy would only allow it. Supporting is so demeaning. Hathaway, Zellweger, Viola, Sherri Sheppard. I hate being in their company.

Which one of Ellis' podcasts discusses Viola?

The "I am angry and proud and righteous and wonderful and humble and the slaves have been freed finally and God has shown his good Eye on me because I have been downtrodden and blah blah blah" routine shows the developmental issues still in place for so many people. I thought Viola was a little more at ease. But no. (Not tthat Charlize Theron's speech wasn't just as specious.)

Hattie McDaniel said it first and said it best. Sidney Poitier showed how grace, humor and brevity get the job done best. Sally Field was hilariously silly, but Halle Berry ought to have indicated how nasty and selfish this "rising up" crap actually is, when barked out by wealthy, successful people who already have lugged trophies home.

"Shug Avery would be so damn proud right now."

Why do you guys resent a black girl winning an Oscar?

Viola hasn't been a girl for close to have a century r39

R36 The most recent one

the Anne Heche podcast is interesting too: I haven't listened to Heche yet but Ellis analyses Moonlight pretty interestingly at the beginning of the podcast

She's annoying.