It serves them right. They canned him for some OLD social media messages. The moronic
PC Police get their panties in such a twist over minor unimportant shit like that. If I were him,
I would tell them to pound sand, then I'd get nasty.
Frankly, my family hasn't watched the Oscars since "American Beauty" won Best Picture. When you give that award to a film about a man lusting after his own daughter and sleeping with her, you know you've had enough.
Someone from the Golden Age of Hollywood once said that the Oscars were little more than Hollywood bigwigs glorifying themselves, and they were right. Almost none of those awards are given to people or films that actually deserve them. Most of the time, they are given to whoever's the most popular with the Academy (a very snobby and exclusive club in Hollywood with poor taste in films) or whoever has bribed or sucked up to them the most.
Plus, I really got tired of all the commercials and having to wait forever for the awards we really cared about.
There's a reason those idiots in southern California didn't replace their host. They're only slightly aware that almost nobody is watching the self-glorification, but with their usual stupidity, they blame the hosts of the show instead of the people who are really responsible: themselves. They think that using multiple hosts will bring viewership back up. Fat chance!
After hearing what the film was about, and seeing a skeletal, anorexic girl lying on a bed almost naked, save for rose petals on her non-existent boobs, we weren't really interested.
Do any movie buffs still watch the Oscars? Seems like the Oscars are a bunch of circle jerk rich people tooting their own horns. Doesn't deter my love of film, though :)