oscar mayer winners
i have two things on my mind right now: hot dogs (cause i’m hungry) and my final thoughts on this years oscar telecast. since i have no hot dogs, i am left only with my thoughts on the awards show and so i’ll write about that. it’s spring break for me and even though i have to finish Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley and should really get right on that, i’m going to do this instead.
i predicted all but two awards correctly: best adapted screenplay (i thought for sure it was going to go to Up in the Air) and best original screenplay i thought would go to tarantino for Inglorious Basterds as a consolation prize. this was a fairly predictable year as most of the acting awards had been locked for a couple months now and all the precursors indicated that Avatar would NOT win…so…i’m nothing special. i just pay careful attention to the precursors.
i hated the opening of the show. maybe i’m in the minority but i HATE neil patrick harris. i know everyone is all kinds of up his ass and he’s sooooooo cool…but when i see him, all i think about is this kid:
i’m surprised that when the director yelled cut after that horrendous performance, the other child actors didn’t completely gay bash him since it would probably happen eventually. although…since i have too much time on my hands i thought i would do some research to see what gay little derek is up to these days:
QUELLE SURPRISE! muscial theater? no fuckin’ way! actually, at least he looks pretty decent and sounds pretty good. i kind of would have liked to see him break into “Yankee Doodle” in the middle of the show.
i thought monique’s speech was nice and i loved Sandy B’s speech. let’s be honest, while i really enjoyed her performance in The Blind Side and the nomination was totally deserved, i don’t think she should have won. but i like her, so i’m okay with her winning. i think even she realizes the award is more because people like her and not really about the performance.
i HATED that after Kathryn Bigelow won for best director, the first female ever (and you know Barbaa Streisand was just seething as she announced it), the orchestra played “I am Woman”. god. now if the black gay guy won (Lee Daniels who directed Precious) would they have played something by RuPaul? i would love that and would probably not have been offended.
i watched The Cove–the winning doc about the dolphins in japan. i wish ABC hadn’t cut away when what’s his name flashed his poster…it might have been more effective had they just included the number in the speech. but, i think enough people saw it, or could pause it on their tivo’s or googled the movie to find out more information. btw…there are very few movies that horrify me, that i find excellent but usually can’t stomach more than the initial viewing. Boys Don’t Cry is one of them. The Cove is another. i absolutely applaud the filmmakers, divers, activists, scientists and everyone involved in exposing the secret of this japanese town and the very graphic, extremely sad, and moving footage they manage to capture is necessary to make change. more info can be found at:
http://takepart.com/thecove
that footage is haunting and stays with you.
great, now i’m sad.
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