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Is there anything less rock 'n' roll than a Hall of Fame that displays guitars, setlists, and other detritus as if they were sacred relics? If so, it has to be the induction ceremonies, where senior citizens wearing bizarre outfits shuffle through awkward speeches and pallid versions of long ago hits.
There are 76 hours of Oscar-nominated feature films. Two movies are harrowing documentaries about Syrian hospitals, two are based on magazine articles. Three films revolve around impending matrimony, and one around divorce. There are at least eight brutal snubs (don't worry "Hustlers" and "The Farewell," I haven't forgotten about you).
It's a cliché to refer to the grand old rock stars as "gods," but there was something truly death-defying about Peart's capacity to write and play drum parts that seemed to mock human limitations.