People railing at Timothe Chalamet over his correct opera and ballet remarks are more attention starved than he is

I am supremely fed up with one of the silliest Oscar controversies ever.What an overblown, all-you-can-whine buffet for the bored.That would be the extremely annoying uproar over “Marty Supreme” Best Actor nominee Timothée Chalamet’s recent dig at ballet and opera. Social media dweebs are treating this guy like he’s Vladimir Putin.

Worse, actually! What did Timmy say that has so inflamed the few, the loud, the obnoxious?During a conversation with classical music and dance connoisseur Matthew “You, Me and Dupree” McConaughey in February for CNN, Chalamet said that he admires the effort to keep movie theaters alive, because the ultimate key to that is delivering successful, popular films such as “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”Indeed.But he wasn’t done.  “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s, like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive,’ even though no one cares about this anymore,” Chalamet added, verbally tossing a match onto gasoline.But, love opera and ballet or not, his broader point is hard to argue with.

The vast majority do not care.It’s as if Juan Soto said, “I don’t want to be a cricket player, because Americans are uninterested in cricket.” Well, yeah. Yet for expressing his risky opinion, Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin called Chalamet “vapid” and “shallow” on “The View,” a show about expressing risky opinions.Holier-than-thou social media users that, I guarantee you, make no regular habit of going to the Met or New York City Ballet chimed in with typical screaming witlessness.And on Wednesday, ballerina Misty Copeland, who helped promote “Marty Supreme,” grand plie’d on, though the dancer was more measured.“I think that it’s important that we acknowledge that, yes, this is an art form that’s not ‘popular’ and a part of pop culture as movies are, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have enduring relevance in culture,” she said during a panel.Well, that depends on how you ...