The show is being hosted by Hugh Jackman, a good-looking fellow but let's face it, not a movie star and not an American. Am I being a chauvinist in pointing that out?

The whole mystic of movie stardom is that the girl you went to school with in Nebraska is a star of the silver screen. My father-in-law mentions that he went to high school with Mort Sahl and Richard Crenna. He is in effect giving evidence of the American dream---you too can grow up to be a movie star in America. Not so much anymore, as both film and television are populated by foreigners affecting American accents. Many are fine actors, but they'll never be John Wayne or Jimmy Stewart.

Finally, what American actors do exist have worked very hard to alienate half the country with public expressions of their political views and expressions of actual hatred or love of the president. Is Milk a good movie? I don't know and never will because I won't see a movie with Sean Penn in it. Why should I support an actor who despises me and my people?

I found it unsurprising that the octomom expresses her mental instability by trying to emulate Angelina Jolie with plastic surgery and olympian child birth. You actually have to be a little crazy to look up to the current crop of stars as role models.

I still remember when the Miss America pageant was a big deal on network television. In recent years its been relegated to the Country Music Television channel and now (if you can believe it), The Learning Channel. Frankly, I don't think the Academy Awards can salvage even that bit of diminished relevancy because while the girls will still run for Miss America no matter what channel broadcasts the pageant, the stars aren't going to diminish their luster by making an appearance on Animal Planet.