February 24, 2008
Tonight the part of Hello Nurse will be played by Kristin Chenoweth
Posted by pete at February 24, 2008 5:44 PMI mean, seriously people.
6:06 - But Kelly Preston ain't too shabby.
More Oscar-related bullshit ruminations after the jump.
6:11 - Wow, you can tell Daniel Day-Lewis loves the spotlight.
6:18 - BUSEY! Sitting through Seacrest's bullshit is suddenly worthwhile.
6:23 - I'd have paid...a hundred dollars for Miley Cyrus to answer "What are you wearing?" With "GrrrAnimals." And no Billy Ray in sight. I guess a state fair comeback tour takes a lot of planning.
6:32 - Few things are as indicative of how skewed our priorities are as a nation when coverage cuts away from Helen Mirren so we can see what fucking Cameron Diaz is wearing.
Then again, here I am live blogging the goddamn Oscars, so there it is.
Okay, cutting away to watch Harrison Ford on Barbara Walters now...
6:59 - That was quick. Now we go from Seacrest to Philbin, who is sporting a shade of orange I've not seen before.
7:07 - Laura Linney is on The List. You know which one I mean.
7:15 - Jesus, Diaz again. Is nobody else there? Hasn't Bjork shown up yet?
7:27 - I love Jack: "How's the Reege tonight?" Especially after the latter introduced the Best Supporting Actor nominee from No Country for Old Men as "Xavier" Bardem.
7:32 - Wow. Worst intro ever. That was like an Regal Cinemas mural brought to life.
7:38 - Stewart's line about Norbit wins the Oscars. Good night.
7:41 - Sorry, the "black/woman president" line was pretty good too.
7:43 - Had I submitted an entry. I'd have picked Elizabeth for Best Costume too. Honest.
7:56 - Please not Norbit, please not Norbit...
7:57 - Whew.
8:04 - For those keeping score, eight people have the first three picks right.
8:07 - "Can you spell what Dwayne Johnson is cooking?" just doesn't sound the same.
8:18 - Least surprising win of the night #1 goers to Bardem. He's a good choice, but it's too bad Affleck didn't get more notice. Though Barden's mom wins the bling contest.
8:28 - Owen Wilson? Is Least Successful Suicide Attempt a category now?
8:31 - Seinfeld doesn't deign to show up after an embarrassing promo tour for Bee Movie, but does his "hilarious" bee montage. Great.
8:39 - Wow. Swinton has to win Most Surprising of the Night right now. And, as The Wife noted, "she's wearing a Hefty bag."
8:47 - Brolin and McAvoy present Best Adapted (No Country wins). The Wife tells me McAvoy is on her List, which makes no sense. I understand he reflects her love of pale, blue-eyed, dark-haired men, but if the two of them were to breed, the kids would be translucent.
9:06 - Now they can call it the "Academy Award winning Bourne Ultimatum." Happily, as Eric put it, they can't say the same for Norbit.
9:14 - True story, if I'd been picking the Oughta Wins vs. the Probably Will Wins, Cotillard would've been on the former list. I'm very surprised she beat Christie.
Also on that list would be Tommy Lee Jones over Daniel Day-Lewis, and Julian Schnabel over the Coens.
9:23 - "Falling Slowly" better win. It's better than any of that Enchanted crap, or that August Rush song that could've come from U2's "Rattle and Hum."
9:51 - As happy as I am that "Falling Slowly" won Best Song, I'm equally ecstatic that Marketa Irglova changed dresses. Still, it was shitty not to let her make her speech.
9:57 - Well damn, class move on Stewart...or whoever made the call to let Irglova speak.
9:58 - No, Cameron Diaz still looks like crap. And she's too drunk to pronounce "Cinematography."
10:01 - Does Hillary Swank's career merit a mention in this year's In Memoriam segment?
10:14 - Well shit, if I'd actually known what Freeheld was about, I probably would've voted for it.
10:26 - Diablo Cody's sincere and heartfelt acceptance speech was almost enough to make me forget what an overrated piece of crap Juno was.
10:35 - I'm sorry, but as deserving as Daniel Day-Lewis is, I can't stop ogling Helen Mirren.
10:55 - As I suspected some time ago, No Country pretty much ran the table,
I’m seriously too old to be asking this, but who is the blonde? Hubba, hubba.
Alas, I did not watch - but I did get a decent recap on Go Fug Yourself.
But tell me the truth - in all that coverage of Cameron Diaz, was there not one moment’s serious concern given to her inexplicably large butt?
These things DO matter, you know.
Just back from a bidness trip and I finally got to see the Oscars on DVR this weekend.
When I left the theater last spring after seeing “Once” I told my wife that Hansard and Irglova would likely be nominated and win an Oscar. She thought I meant for acting and was insane but I told her that “Falling Slowly” and/or “When Your Mind’s Made Up” would get nods for best song.
Where’d I put my Stephen Colbert “I called it button”?
And Laura Linney is a serious babe in my book.
Darn. I thought I did so well for someone who saw only two of the movies…
But hey, I nailed the time…unless we were counting the pre-show.