![With a few days now between us and the Academy Awards, it only now feels appropriate to look back on coverage of the media earthquake felt even here in the Philippines (just kidding, no one gives a shit here). Wading through the NYT’s anticipatory and ‘post-game’ coverage, one article shone through as particularly dispensable. The article profiles Zachary Quinto, who serves the Academy Awards’ lawyer. Double-snore, but ok, please continue. Mr. Quinto handles most of the “day-to-day Oscar work”. What might “day-to-day Oscar work” entail? Mostly trolling e-Bay for people selling Oscar statues and sending cease-and-desist letters to street DVD vendors in Vietnam (good luck!). Naturally, the real glamour comes on Oscar night when Mr. Quinto is charged with hunting down gate crashers. This is also the best part of the article: the climax of an anecdote about the time he detained a man posing as Jack Valenti where “[Mr. Quinto] just said very loudly, ‘O.K., these are the first three arrests of the evening,’. Easy there, Columbo! We all agree with you, the Academy Awards are really important and justify your Judge Dredd-like ability to not only prosecute but also arrest party crashers, but you have to admire the gall of trying to sneak in by posing as THE PRESIDENT of the Academy. Way to bury the lede, NYT. This profile should be on that guy. Obviously this is just a fluff piece that we needn’t be mad at, unless we’re any one of the visitors to Mr. Quinto’s office over the next twenty years who happens to get caught glancing at the framed copy of this profile on the wall of his office and end up subjected to the faux-modest story-behind-it. But otherwise harmless, and the reporter knows it and takes the opportunity to sprinkle the piece with these gems:“It was as ominous a moment as any in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.”“His power is greater than that of a bouncer’s.”“Some of the more memorable culprits: shops peddling pornographic Oscar statuettes;” WJS](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhgqbgc6yV1qbtgj4o1_1280.jpg)
With a few days now between us and the Academy Awards, it only now feels appropriate to look back on coverage of the media earthquake felt even here in the Philippines (just kidding, no one gives a shit here). Wading through the NYT’s anticipatory and ‘post-game’ coverage, one article shone through as particularly dispensable.
The article profiles Zachary Quinto, who serves the Academy Awards’ lawyer. Double-snore, but ok, please continue. Mr. Quinto handles most of the “day-to-day Oscar work”. What might “day-to-day Oscar work” entail? Mostly trolling e-Bay for people selling Oscar statues and sending cease-and-desist letters to street DVD vendors in Vietnam (good luck!).
Naturally, the real glamour comes on Oscar night when Mr. Quinto is charged with hunting down gate crashers. This is also the best part of the article: the climax of an anecdote about the time he detained a man posing as Jack Valenti where “[Mr. Quinto] just said very loudly, ‘O.K., these are the first three arrests of the evening,’. Easy there, Columbo! We all agree with you, the Academy Awards are really important and justify your Judge Dredd-like ability to not only prosecute but also arrest party crashers, but you have to admire the gall of trying to sneak in by posing as THE PRESIDENT of the Academy. Way to bury the lede, NYT. This profile should be on that guy.
Obviously this is just a fluff piece that we needn’t be mad at, unless we’re any one of the visitors to Mr. Quinto’s office over the next twenty years who happens to get caught glancing at the framed copy of this profile on the wall of his office and end up subjected to the faux-modest story-behind-it. But otherwise harmless, and the reporter knows it and takes the opportunity to sprinkle the piece with these gems:
“It was as ominous a moment as any in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.”
“His power is greater than that of a bouncer’s.”
“Some of the more memorable culprits: shops peddling pornographic Oscar statuettes;”
WJS
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