Absent Friends
by chuckofish
Last week we mentioned how appalled we were with the Academy Award presentations’s handling of (among so many other things) its “In Memoriam” tribute. They left out so many people!
Here is the TCM annual video, which is much better, and as you can see, includes many worthy people left out of the Oscar version.
However, they also appear to have left out Harry Carey, Jr.
What gives? Was he a Republican? Since he died at the tail end of the year, perhaps they had already finished their review, but is that really an excuse?
He appeared in over 90 films, including several classics directed by John Ford. Shame on you. I hope they remember him next year.
dual personalities 
I thought the Oscars left a lot of people out, but after watching the TCM tribute I realize that they might as well not have had an ‘in memoriam’ at all — inexcusable! And how sad that poor Harry Carey Jr. got excluded.
Just out of curiosity why is Boyd Crowder among the tags for this post?
I know–sooooo many people left out! And you are a careful reader! I had made a “on another subject” comment about last night’s episode (Boyd used the word “obviate” in a sentence) but I took it out.
I do love Boyd Crowder.
Me too, that’s why I noticed. I love the way he talks (well, everyone on that show). Unfortunately, I slept through last night’s episode 😦
It was a good episode and not overly violent like the week before. Things are coming to a head! And we found out who Drew is!
Really. The clip is 5:45 long! Over a minute of which is just artistic shots of the night-sky and decaying 1950’s architecture… They couldn’t squeeze in 1 second of Harry?