SOME GUY FROM EASTON WON AN OSCAR!? (lies)

I promise you I’m not a day late on this I just really had problems writing about it since it is such a load of shit.

Besides that, I was really excited to get home last night because Double Jeopardy with Ashely Judd was going to be on TV and if ever where was a film that DESERVED an Oscar and did not receive one, then Double Jeopardy was that film, followed closely by Kiss The Girls….

Anyyyyway, a man, named Roger Ross Willilams, won an Oscar for his documentary film entitled Music by Prudence, which is apparently about a girl in a wheelchair from some other country who makes music with her mind and eyeballs.

For more about the movie, go here. Then he was interrupted by some gutter bitch middle aged woman with a head full of copper penny colored hair. To read more about her, go here.

UGH, anyway it was a big deal because she was a bitch BUT ALSO BECAUSE WILLIAMS (Facebook Profile Here) APPARENTLY GRADUATED FROM EASTON HIGH SCHOOL LIKE A YEAR AGO!!.

Oh, 1981…

Now, does this take anything away from  his great film? No. Is it still news that he was interrupted? Yes. Are local Easton based newspaper basically saying “SEE WE KNEW HE WAS FROM EASTON so now we can kinda almost report about the Oscars!!!” Yes. Yes they are.

Easton native Roger Ross Williams, who won an Academy Award for the best short documentary Sunday night for his film “Music by Prudence,”was finally able to give his acceptance speech uninterrupted Monday on “Larry King Live”.

The 1981 Easton Area High Schoolgraduate had started to give his Oscar thanks during the awards ceremony Sunday and honor the film’s subject, Prudence Mabhena, when producer Elinor Burkett stole his thunder while proclaiming “Isn’t it always the way that the man doesn’t let the woman talk?”

Williams was as seemingly unfazed the next day as he explained the bizarre circumstances that surrounded his whirlwind night.

“Who knew that would be the biggest story of the Oscars?”Williams said. “I could have won an Oscar for short documentary and everyone would have forgotten about it the next day. But now, this is even better for the film and even more people will see it.”

The freelance director hopes his 15 minutes of fame continue as he plans a biopic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame and perhaps, eventually, the opportunity to work on feature-length films. Source

My only problem is that I can’t, for the LIFE of me, find a story that was written PRIOR to him winning the Oscar. I mean, if everyone knew he was so fucking great, why wasn’t there a huge article in the paper before the Oscars? Why? Because fuck them that’s why….I get it though, makes sense, papers need to be sold and this is the best way to do it.

What I am MORE upset about, however, is that if this guy is so great, why has no one put him on the list of famous people from Easton’s Wiki page yet?

Freaking Mulgrew Miller - jazz pianist, is on there!!!!

Seriously, if you’re going to talk about how he was on Larry King Live and he’s going to sell your papers or get people to come to your website, then at least have a reporter jump in there and write a sentence about him…

Anyway, congratulations to you, Roger Ross Williams, no matter where you went to high school.