It may be that the film's "Oscar campaign' assumed that Academy members saw the film and cared about the story.
Take two.
Maybe the movie's boosters relied too much on hopes for black-American support not realizing how much the black community in our country has been devastated by the financial crisis and its epidemic of foreclosures, making it more difficult for many families of color to afford increasingly costly movie tickets as apartheid-like inequality deepens beyond Beverly Hills.
Perhaps they don't realize that the decline of public education makes it less likely that students will even learn about Mandela in their classrooms, or that our news biz as show biz "journalists" who have mostly abandoned the world, will cover his story in any depth.
Many prefer to fawn on the rich and famous asking them how they feel to be in the spotlight. They rarely do the same with the poor and anonymous.
Once their "death watch" was over, the world moved on. In their words, they are "Mandela'd out."
" What does Hollywood care about these days except more and more displays of attractive actresses parading around in expensive gowns trying to capture the glory of an earlier era?
Maybe it was the booze that was consumed by the gallonfull
at the Golden Globes sponsored by an institution of questionable integrity,
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