THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 2, 1995 TAG: 9503310045
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 25 lines
I typically tune out the Oscars, in part because of the political plugs included in the acceptance speeches.
But this year was different. In a perverse way, I enjoyed watching bejeweled multimillionaires begging for continued National Endowment for the Arts subsidies.
It was fun to hear how Sly Stallone will get $20 million for an undetermined film and that just the seed-money for Steven Speilberg's new company is more than 15 times the NEA budget.
If anyone ever made a case for ending funding for the NEA, it wasn't Newt. It was Oscar.
MICHAEL COLLINS
Virginia Beach, March 28, 1995 by CNB