BEING SPIKEFUL: Short and sweet (Me, not him)

Spike Lee has announced that he will be boycotting the Oscars and Jada Pinkett will be picketing.

Now I have worked in Hollywood in TV for 30 years (Fresh Prince, Sister, Sister, The Wayans, Full House, Mad About You, etc) so I kind of get how the place runs...and runs you down. (And yet I am still doing it. Self loathing , Eastern European victim blood runs thick in my veins).

You want to create change? Then do something about it instead of throwing a hissy fit,

Take on the studios and the good old boy networks that are still ruled by the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone. Youth is power? Bullshit.

Youth are the hookers who are hired by those old guys to make them and you feel young again.

Taking on the Oscars is like taking way a kid's birthday party. It means not a whole lot to anyone but the five year old. And yet, it is symbolic of real problems and issues.

Personally, If it was up to me, the minute that the show starts, I would have Chris Rock introduce Matthew McConneghy who would, in answer to the request to summarize the Oscars, would respond wryly: All white, all. White, all white."

Poke fun at it. Ridicule it with purpose. Publicly rebuke it through targeted comedy. Let the actors go off script and speak their minds.

But to simply not show up and pout while you sleep soundly all tucked in bed with your Oscar, to this writer, are not the makings of a revolution.

You want instigate change?

Show up.