<p>Last night was a mess all around. Bill Crystal will probably not be hosting the Academy Awards anytime soon. His jokes were stale and his opening number was exactly what he had done years before. It was sad all around.</p>
<p>My good moments were: </p>
<ul>
<li>Christopher Plummer being 82 years old and being sharp as a nail. </li>
<li>Broad comedy brought to you by Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis </li>
<li>The cast of Bridesmaids continue to make Scorsese one of the best things about this awards season (and bringing continuity to an awards season)</li>
<li>Jean Dujardin being so completely genuine. Love him.</li>
<li>Dean Pelton (from Community) won an Oscar (for co-writing the Descendants) and making fun of Angelina Jolie</li>
<li>Bret McKenzie winning for The Muppets - completely disappointed that they couldn’t perform it but he is an now an Academy Award Winner! (Loved him in Flight of the Concords)</li>
<li>Chris Rock’s bit about racism in Hollywood. Well done. </li>
</ul>
<p>Hopefully 2013 will be a better year for movies. Hopefully.</p>
<p>I actually listened to it again later with my son and it sounded like he said “hoarder” which actually makes more sense. I wonder which it was.</p>
<p>I liked the show much more than I have in a long time which may have been, in part, because I saw more of the movies. I thought Billy Crystal did a fine job although I could live without “what are the actors thinking.” I thought Emma Stone was delightful as a presenter and I thought that JLo and Angelina were embarrassing. I loved Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech. I loved the Cirque de Soleil performance and thought the In Memoriam section dragged too much with a song that was too schmaltzy and the ghostly photos. The band was annoying. So maybe I’m confused, but don’t they usually have some kind of lifetime achievement awards? Or is that just the Golden Globes?</p>
<p>^^^^He said “hoarder.” It makes sense in context and would have made zero sense for him to have said “whore.”</p>
<p>I also wondered about the lifetime achievement award or special Oscar that they usually present. But apparently that was done at a different time (James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey and one other whose name escapes me).</p>
<p>The 3rd honorary Oscar was a makeup artist. Don’t remember his name though. Billy Crystal definitely said “hoarder.” I thought the sound was terrible on the show. Everything was harder to understand than it should have been.</p>
<p>I’ve had no computer access the last couple days so this is a really late response to an earlier post re The Adventures of Tintin and its lack of Oscar nominations. The below comment helps explain (somewhat).</p>
<p>From Roger Ebert: While Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” was motion-capture animation, it found itself running (and losing) in the standard feature film category for no doubt excellent reasons that remain impenetrable to me.</p>
<p>I liked billy Crystal although some of his jokes fell flat. At times he should have not added a line after he had already said something funny. It was funny enough we get it Billy
I did not like J lo’s dress not flattering. Angie is too skinny my H also commented on her arms. lots of dress and she still looked small.
I wanted Viola Davis to win. Emma Stone was funny. the actor who won for best actor was so jubilant.
Ok I have to admit Bridesmaids was hilarious and I was rooting for Melissa</p>
<p>Musicamusica … you should rewind and see that show … the acrobatics were stunning.</p>
<p>Just want to add my own triple kudos to Esperanza Spalding … if you didn’t hear her sing and you enjoy amazingly talented musicians, it is a must hear. I’ve never heard her with just her voice and no upright bass, and it was surely a treat, and a very classy way to salute the stars no longer with us.</p>
<p>Thanks snowflakevt…I get that all the time, to me Cirque is like Brie cheese. Everytime I tell people that I think that it tastes like the bottom of an old sneaker, I’m told:
“BUT you have not had GOOD BRIE. Try this one!” I’ve eaten all the Brie I need to eat and seen all the Cirque acrobats I need to see. ;)</p>
<p>We only breeze through the Oscars on the outside chance there’s someone we know there(only costumers), or to possibly catch some actor we particularly hate in an embarrassing moment. D told me this morning that we missed a good line that a writer put into B. Crystals mouth: “theres nothing like watching millionaires give each other golden statues”. That pretty much sums it up.</p>
<p>I found the Angelina pose embarrassing as well and thought maybe it was kinda accidental until I saw a flashback to the red carpet and she did it there too. If the dress was more slender the pose might have happened naturally because her leg would be visible in the slit but that dress was too puffy so she had to go out of her way to stick her leg out…thus, i got what I call “second hand embarrassment” for her. I thought she looked frightening.</p>
<p>I thought Billy Crystal did fine for what he had to work with. He’s getting heat today for putting on “Black-Face” when he impersonated Sammy Davis Junior in the opening number. Since Sammy Davis Jr.was, in fact, black, I’m not sure why it’s an issue but what do I know.</p>
<p>^^^^^No kidding! That was in no way “black face.” BC has been doing his impression of Sammy Davis Junior for decades. I think SDJ once even appeared WITH HIM in a skit and was a fan. PC gone mad.</p>
<p>I watched it online so I didn’t really get to see the awards only the backstage cameras.
I agree Angelina looked odd with her leg stuck out, not a great choice of dress. But I like Angelina, by that I mean the UN Goodwill Ambassador, not the Brangelina sexpot.
( speaking of, do you think Brad Pitt washed his hair for the show?)</p>
<p>I’m going to have to find a clip of the team that won best documentary. D went to preschool with one of them & I heard he swore on national television! ( TJ was actually just in the after school care, but D1 & his sister who are younger were friends) He also is an alum from D2s current university. Isn’t it funny how some people look exactly the same when they are grown?</p>
<p>I saw my 80 year old mom last night and she commented on “What’s her name, Brad Pitt’s wife” and the silly leg thing. Even my mother noticed it and thought it was ridiculous.</p>
<p>I hope that if I ever get my 15 minutes of fame and am on live or semi live TV, that I don’t use that moment to shout out the F word. Didn’t the woman who won for best supporting actress for “The Fighter” last year, do the same thing? When I saw her present this year, I remembered and felt disdain for her. I know people get caught up in the moment, but really, have some class.</p>
<p>LOL, so true. Yes, maybe at some teen awards show, when a 15 year old band member is getting an award, sure you’d expect profanity. But an accomplished adult…really? That is why we hear someone like Christopher Plummer and think “ah, yes…”</p>
<p>Melissa Leo was the actor who let the F word drop. She’s a fantastic actor though. Not everyone who is a wonderful actor is blessed with an attractive personality. When you let the previous year’s winners present, you get some wild cards. Personally, I think it keeps things interesting. :)</p>
<p>^^
I don’t think finding the language offensive is thinking you are in church or an alternate universe. Even though many adults curse, most have the presence of mind not to do it in formal situations – weddings, important business meetings, while doing their job or at a classy event and not when millions of people all over the world are watching you all dressed up on television. It’s television, not the movies, and that kind of language is known by everyone to not be appropriate on non-cable television. Adults know what is appropriate where.</p>
( TJ was actually just in the after school care, but D1 & his sister who are younger were friends) He also is an alum from D2s current university. Isn’t it funny how some people look exactly the same when they are grown?</p>