Ok, shameless pun in the title. Watching the Oscars. GET CHRIS ROCK OFF THE FREAKIN' STAGE!!!!
Seriously, I went to the car to start charging my phone during his opening monologue, just to escape the incessant 'whine-age'. Good gosh, let's use every cliched racial joke we can, shall we?
I finally started laughing when Robin Williams got up to present the Oscar for Animated Feature Film. The man is a comic genius - - the schtick about 'Don't worry about the Pixar people, they have iPod stock, they'll be ok.' made me roll!
Oh, great...here's Chris again....and yet another 'black' joke. Why is it that he's such a one-joke wonder and yet he gets to host the Academy Awards? I am honestly sick and tired of ethnicity being the basis for comedy. It's not funny any longer people - no matter who you're joking about.
And, what about the presentations in the audience? Part of the pure, overblown grandeur was watching the 'deer in the headlights' look these non-acting individuals had while making their way to the stage. Why should they be relegated to some lower status, as if their creative contribution is somewhat less valuable?
Wow, Drew Barrymore is looking good. I like the red hair.....let it down, girl....the 'do is a little too matronly. On the flip side, if Beyonce's hair was pulled up any higher in that ponytail....they'd catch her eyebrows, too. I do have to say, though, I definitely can appreciate her singing. She makes Celine Dion look like some tired Vegas act......wait - nevermind.
Can they cinch Scarlett Johannsen's waist any tighter? I am all for old Hollywood glamour...but when her top half is severed halfway through the show, I am gonna be sad, because she's so cute. Pierce Brosnan with laryngitis? Now we know what he's gonna sound like when he's a grumpy old man.
Oh, yeah...let's bring an animated character up there with him.....*grimaces* anyone remember Rob Lowe and Snow White? You'd think the Academy would have learned. And bringing up ALL the Costume Design nominees up on stage at the same time? NO NO NO!!! That's cruel and inhuman...you get scrutinized while your work and the work of your colleagues is discussed....and then the audience gets to watch your walk of shame off the stage when you lose? And can you say visions of 'Miss America' as the non-winners smile graciously and clap? I was just waiting on the tiara and the huge funeral-like spray of roses.
Cate Blanchet is arguably the most gifted actress of our time. Thank goodness she won. I would have boycotted the rest of the program had she lost out this year. AND YUCK - did Laura Linney forget to wash her hair? Natalie Portman always looks like a cute little wood nymph. She's got a great career ahead of her....give her ten years - I bet she'll have an Oscar of her own by then.
Ok, I loved the tribute Johnny Carson. He was the king of self-deprecating humor and a master of the one-liner - - the adage of 'It isn't funny if you have to explain it?' He never did have to explain it. It only made it more clear that Chris Rock wasn't the right choice to host. Chris is the HBO Special type of comedian. If he can't pepper his speech with f-bombs and other profanities....he just isn't in his element.
Wow...Kirsten Dunst has finally decided to start dressing her age again - not like a geriatric retiree in Southern Florida.
The Counting Crows deserve to win for Best Original Song on the merits of Adam Duritz's hair alone. It doesn't hurt that I adore "Accidentally in Love". It's catchy, it's upbeat...it's happy.
Anyone else think the Chris Rock/Adam Sandler bit fell on its face?
*Yawn* Obligatory President of the Academy speech. Ok, nice bit to thank the members of the armed forces. Al Pacino looks like he just climbed out of a dumpster.
Beyonce Round II. Singing "Learn to be Lonely"........how can she sing with that huge necklace hanging around her neck like an albatross?
Jeremy Irons - "I hope they missed." By far...the best line of the night.
Kate Winslet. She's getting too skinny now. But that blue/lavender color is great with her hair and skintone.
Penelope Cruz and Selma Hayek presenting the awards for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing. Love 'em both...but the accents - while gorgeous - made it difficult to understand the nominees' names.
Yay! Carlos Santana!!....and ........ Antonio Banderas? Ok...we'll go with it. Antonio makes scary faces when he sings.
Oh, and did Prince not make it to rehearsal - where they help coach you on how to pronounce the names of the nominees? And the gentleman who won? Jorge Drexler? I thought it was quite the original touch to sing a portion of his Oscar nominated song as his acceptance speech.
Hillary Swank? Not so much. Great actress...but that acceptance speech. At least she remembered to thank her husband this time around.
1 comment:
1. I thought Chris Rock put some needed edge on the night. I oved the trip to the Magic Johnson theater.
2. Drew Barrymore reminds me of the deformed Eric Stoltz in Mask.
3. Having them all on stage was bad form. It reminded me of the silly college football awards show where they have all the linebackers on stage at once. They should them have them strike a pose.
4. Cate Blanchet is such devine class. I bet her feet are amazingly soft. I like Kate Winslet, but she seems like the younger sister to Blanchet that will never quite measure up.
5. I like the COunting Crows and Side-Show-Bob. I am pop ignorant. What other groups are good like that?
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