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Yes, I know. And, um, in some instances I, I'm sorry about that. My, my favorite show on television was, was the Senator programs with Hal Holbrook from the bold ones, I'm taking him off and that's too bad. A rating system is a, is a terrible thing.

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It inhibits really progressive and creative work on television and that's why it remains the medium of the Hucksters just there to sell the product and give the people a little easily absorbed entertainment. That's too bad. Uh, but in films, we don't sell products, we sell entertainment

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and that comes in many forms. People never seem to tire of good westerns. New films go about things in a new way and open up new subject matter like five easy pieces and mash and Goodbye Columbus and such films as that. Uh, they find an audience

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particularly among the young and a, it's still a good live medium. Although Hollywood's changed a great deal, people will still come to see a good movie and, and recognize quality there. At least, I hope they will. Speaking of television coming up here on channel four and

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the whole NBC network, the Academy Awards program And as you well know, George Scott thinks the whole thing is merely for the benefit of television. And he's decried the competition between actors for a top award. Well, he can say what he wants and uh and he

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has, but I can't help but thinking now he's a fine actor but so was Humphrey Bocock, not only a fine actor, but maybe as a, as a character, maybe, maybe he invented core. Maybe he was the first real cool personality on among the actors and much

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imitated his lifestyle. He said it was the happiest night of his life when he won the Oscar Laurence. Olivier accepted it with Great Grace and so did Gary Cooper and James Stewart and Charles Lawton and uh Frederick March and Rod Stagger and Anthony Quinn. And a

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lot of quite good people going all the way back to Emel Jennings in 1928. They all accepted it as a tribute from the people who make the films, the technicians, the artists, the, the actors, the directors, the writers, the costume designers, the musicians, it's their award.

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It's a kind of a family thing. It's not the critics award, it's not anybody's award. It's the people who make films and it's a dead honest election. There's no funny business about it. Absolutely not. It's all a very secret ballot secretly tabulated by certified public accountants.

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There, isn't it? There's no hokey pokey about that and all those people have accepted that then for what it is and they've accepted it gracefully. He's chosen not to, that's all.