Americans Turning Off the Oscars
I t should come as no surprise to anyone that the recent Oscars has done very little but to point out the absurdity of what one of America's cults has depressingly come to. Hollywood, that once glittering wonder of the world, complete with its glitz and glamour, full of starlets and stars, our role-models, priests and priestesses, has now shown its tarnish and its mask has been pulled off. The low ratings of this most recent and much anticipated 90 th Academy Awards show has shown that very few Americans are tuning in to gaze upon the faces of their Aphrodites and Adonises, and dream dreams of silver screens and golden awards. One may wonder why it is that Americans still obsess over their sports and athletic heroes, whom they revere as the Romans once revered the gladiators, or the Greeks revered the wrestlers, but no longer find interest in the thespians. The only answer that I could find is that the allure of Hollywood has been long dead and due to this fact, actors and