Academy Unapologetic for Excluding Farrah Fawcett

It wasn’t a popular choice, but the Academy is not apologizing for excluding Farrah Fawcett from the Oscar ceremony’s tribute to the recently deceased in the filmmaking community. From E! News Online:

“I would not say that it was an oversight,” Leslie Unger, spokeswoman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, tells E! News. “No matter how carefully and how conscientiously people address who is included, there are people who just simply can’t be.”

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