DH2 Oscar Snub ~ Turning up the Nose at the Nose
Cross-posted Here @ severmore
You'll be happy to hear that AR has now been added to the Actors Who Were Snubbed List on American Movie Classics. I wrote an email the other day to the Film Historian, Tim Dirks, who handles their impressively large historical database, and he wrote right back to me. He said they might even consider my idea to have an Alan Rickman film festival on AMC. Thanks, Mr. Dirks.
I decided to look up the etymology of the word "snub":
snub (v.) mid-14c., "to check, reprove, rebuke," from O.N. snubba "to curse, scold, reprove." Meaning "treat coldly" appeared early 18c. The adj. meaning "short and turned up" (of the nose) is first recorded 1724. The connecting notion is of being "cut short."Source
Funny that it means "to turn up the nose," considering how well-endowed Alan Rickman is in the nasal area, plus the fact that Snape has a famous nose. LOL . . . Anyway, the drama-rama is continuing over the snub of both Deathly Hallows and AR's performance with calls for a boycott of the Oscar program, general angst and irritability, and laments for missed opportunities. Thanks to stn5 and Olwen on HPN for the links.
Huffington Post: Boycott the Oscars Over the Harry Potter Diss?
411 Mania: The Top 2012 Oscar Snubs
BBC America Anglophenia Blog: Five Appalling Alan Rickman Oscar Snubs
MTV Movie Blog: Why The Boy Wizard Got Snubbed
New York Post: Have the Oscars Jumped the Shark?
Oscars 2012: The Super Bowl of the Film Lovers Set ~ Announcements leave us torn between crying kudos and 'C'mon, man!'
Academy Award nominations offer Shocking Snubs
The Top Five Oscar Snubs
Awards Daily: Oscar's Closed System
You'll be happy to hear that AR has now been added to the Actors Who Were Snubbed List on American Movie Classics. I wrote an email the other day to the Film Historian, Tim Dirks, who handles their impressively large historical database, and he wrote right back to me. He said they might even consider my idea to have an Alan Rickman film festival on AMC. Thanks, Mr. Dirks.
I decided to look up the etymology of the word "snub":
snub (v.) mid-14c., "to check, reprove, rebuke," from O.N. snubba "to curse, scold, reprove." Meaning "treat coldly" appeared early 18c. The adj. meaning "short and turned up" (of the nose) is first recorded 1724. The connecting notion is of being "cut short."Source
Funny that it means "to turn up the nose," considering how well-endowed Alan Rickman is in the nasal area, plus the fact that Snape has a famous nose. LOL . . . Anyway, the drama-rama is continuing over the snub of both Deathly Hallows and AR's performance with calls for a boycott of the Oscar program, general angst and irritability, and laments for missed opportunities. Thanks to stn5 and Olwen on HPN for the links.
Huffington Post: Boycott the Oscars Over the Harry Potter Diss?
411 Mania: The Top 2012 Oscar Snubs
BBC America Anglophenia Blog: Five Appalling Alan Rickman Oscar Snubs
MTV Movie Blog: Why The Boy Wizard Got Snubbed
New York Post: Have the Oscars Jumped the Shark?
Oscars 2012: The Super Bowl of the Film Lovers Set ~ Announcements leave us torn between crying kudos and 'C'mon, man!'
Academy Award nominations offer Shocking Snubs
The Top Five Oscar Snubs
Awards Daily: Oscar's Closed System