Some thoughts on the Oscars (like you need more)
- Crash winning for best picture is not unlike Maria Tomei winning the Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for My Cousin Vinny. (IMDb)
- My brother Patrick asked me why Jessica Alba presented an award, and I said it was because she was young, pretty, and the producers mistook her for Jennifer Esposito, who appeared in Oscar winning film Crash.
- I don't understand the scenes staged for the Best Song nominees from Crash (which was written and performed by that chick who plays Toby's ex on The West Wing!) and Hustle & Flow. I kept waiting for the on-air announcer to say "From the people who brought you the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, here are the nominess for Best Original Song!"
- When he grows up, Terrence Howard's son is going to be so cute. Ditto for the two kids who starred in Best Foreign Language Feature Tsotsi.
- I feel weird saying things like the previous, but you know you do it, too.
- Where was the color in the gowns this year? I was starving for color, and found nourishment in the gorgeous gowns of Salma Hayek, Keira Knightley, and Michelle Williams (though the last had me wanting a mango lassi.
- Was it just me, or did all the White guys who were nominated for or won for their work on "Memoirs of A Geisha" had Asian dates? I see rice kings!
- I love that Michelle Williams brought Busy Phillips (yes, Kim Kelly from Freaks and Geeks!) as one of her peeps. Michelle, it's a long way from Dawson's Creek (just ask Katie Holmes), and I look forward to future projects.
- So many live bloggers for the Oscars this year so I didn't bother because I wanted to concentrate on the yummy dinner I prepared for myself and my dinner guests (in case you wereo wondering: chicken adobo, creamed spinach, sautéed carrots in a balsamic vinaigrette with brown sugar). Recaps that I like are below. While I understand that the standard snarky blogger persona demands that I should throw in some funny reference to blogging while drinking copious amount of hard alcohol, I'm not a big drinker and I was kinda hoping one of my colleagues would have taken care of the drinking for me.
- I should stop being so naïve about the Academy's ability to give the awards to those nominees who gave the best performance or did the best job. It's really just a popularity contest, isn't it? A performance incentive that shiny little gold man. If the Oscars could just be like the paper sales conference in last week's episode of The Office (check out the iTunes store for "Dwight's Speech"), it would be so much more fun for everybody, presenters, nominees, and viewers alike.
recommended reading
- We Are All In This Together: Liveblogging The Oscars (Defamer)
- Handled With Care: Oscar's Celebrities Walk The Red Carpet (WP)
- Oscar's Best -- and worst (LA Times)
- Oscar's Best Shot (Salon)
- Oscar castrates himself (Salon)
- A High-Powered Collision of Politics, Pimps, Bow Ties, and Gay Water Fowl (E! Online)
By Jasmine D
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HAHAHAHA! You are so right
HAHAHAHA! You are so right on about the rice kings!
Great call.