Quit Happens

Despite WALL-E musical pair Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel winning not one but TWO Grammies this past weekend (and even nom'd for a 3rd), the Motion Picture Academy has officially done something so wrong that Gabriel now refuses to attend this year's Oscars.

Yes, you read that correctly. As if cutting down song nominations from 5 to 3 wasn't slashfest enough, the Academy wants to combine all of the songs into a medley to cut back on time. Thus, the song from WALL-E would only receive 65 seconds' worth of airtime. I'd imagine something similar would occur for each of Slumdog Millionaire's songs as well.

Diehard Gabriel fan or not, I respect Newman's work beyond words, so I, too, am rather outraged.