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Article: Oscars panned here; Academy's bad act snubs.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
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- March 4, 2006
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Byline: BRETT ARENDS
Can we stop pretending that the Oscars represent any kind of meaningful verdict on the year's best movies?
In their sorry, 78-year life the Academy Awards have missed so many of the defining moments of their own industry it's amazing anyone still tunes in.
Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane," Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia," Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca," Richard Burton in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" and Jimmy Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington": none of them won Best Actor.
Why do you care who they give the nod to tomorrow night?
They didn't tap Al Pacino for ...