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cinema_babeI bolded all of the winners so they are easy to pick out.
8:45: Ok, so Billy is back, so far he’s keeping everything pretty much the same way he’s always done it. It was definitely fresher and more entertaining the first time umpteen years ago. Now it’s just cute an a bit uneven.
8:46 That French guy from The Artist is hot. Very hot. I’m not even a big one for foreign men but for him I’d make a gigantic exception
8:42: Carl is so cute. You go Carl! Filling seats since 1959. But who the hell let Jennifer Lopez into the Oscars. Don’t you have to achieve something first? I guess not so much.
8:43 Best Cinematography: Hugo
8:44 (Scorsese’s wife deserves an award for this movie. She’s the one who told he needed to make a film his little girl (I think she’s like 11ish). He was smart enough, though to pick a topic (the early years of the artistry of movies) that he is so obsessive about
8:45 Best Art Direction: Hugo.
8:45 Okay so it looks like this might be a sweep or near sweep for Hugo for all of the technical awards. And OooooI I like that woman’s dress , classy, sexy but not too slutty.
8:46 was that Sheila E??!! if it is, she looks damn good.
8:49 Yup, the demographic for this show is clearly Women with kids 29-45
8:50 GCB? I don’t know what it is but already I’m planning to miss it
8:50 Billy is having a real ball with the whole “Kodak has dropped their name from the theater” business
8:51 Fuck I hate Forrest Gump. I think I always will
8:51 But dammit I love movies.
8:54 Jennifer Lopez could learn something from Edith Head.
8:55 Who the hell would have thought that Madonna would be nominated for an Oscar (W.E.)
8:56 Best Costume Design: The Artist
8:56 Lucious Malfoy is an amazing looking man when he’s not made up for that as Lucious Malfoy, Then he just scares me. He looks very manly in that I smell like a man sort of way. I can’t explain it any better than that…..
8:58 Best Make Up: The Iron Lady
9:03 I wish they had a siri type thing for the Android ( or do they and I just don’t know). I also want to drive cross country
9:04 Was I supposed to know that Disney reheated Newsies or Broadway. For the love of all that is holy, someone please mount a *good* (relatively) orginal musical.
9:05 I like Sandra Bullock but I will *never* understand how she got an Oscar.
9:05 She’s speaking German not Chinese (just in case anyone wasn’t sure)
9:07 I’d give it to the Iranian film just out of political principal
9:08 Best Foreign Film: The Separation (Iran)
9:09 The American Psycho himself, Nice! I always forget he’s Welsh
9:10 That dude in that scene is Melissa McCarthy's husband. God she is adorable; look at those dimples!
9:12 Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help
9:12 I really hope this translates into something wonderful for her career. This is generally an award for actresses who fade away and are rarely heard of again (Marissa Tome being a rare exception) but I’m still so pissy about that book that I’d love to see something meaningful come out of it.
9:16 I am *so* tired of those “So X seconds ago” commercials. They first one was funny the first 10 times now they just seem smug and annoying.
9:18 Ah, Billy you sum up my frustration in your joke….
9:19 And there was a focus group for this movie and that focus was the one that convinced the studio to keep “Somewhere Over the Rainbow and drop another musical number called The Jitterbug. Smart bunch of people. The studio thought Somewhere… was too slow and slowed the movie down and that The Jitterbug was more lively. And this is how a classic is saved.
9:19 True fact: Bob Balaban’s (The guy playing the facilitator) family owned one of the movie chains back in the teens. I think they may have been the first to have AC
9:21! Now I get it! This is a Christopher Guest short. Brilliant, I love his stuff.
9:23 Best Film Editing: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9:25 Best Sound Editing: Hugo
9:27 Best Sound Mixing (The Foley Folks): Hugo
9:34 Here’s the Wikipedia link to Bob Balaban’s family’s business: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaban_and_Katz
9:28 I wonder, last night The Artist pretty much swept the Spirit Awards. I wonder if this is the first time a film will have had a major showing at both. Of course the indie film isn’t quite what they used to be since so many of the so called Indie films are financed and/or distributed by the mega corporations. OTOH, film production has never been so easy or egalitarian with the a
9:30 Diet Coke and the birth of a movie from screenwriter to production to theater. Um, ok.
9:31 10 thumbs up tp JC Penney for keeping Ellen D as their spokeswoman. Take that homophobic haters.
9:34 Kermit! I like Ms Piggy’s Jewels.
9:34 I have tried and tried but I just don’t like Cirque De Soleil. I’m in awe of their talents there isn’t a single day in my life when I could do what they do. Dance and such has never really thrilled me.
9:37 and I almost always find that these dance sequences bring these award shows to a something of a grinding halt.
9:38 Christopher Plummer is still an attractive man at 82
9:40Two talented people who are a couple of insufferable bores. I do like her dress, though it’s much nicer than some of what she’s worn at award shows the past year or so.
9:42 I forget how short Robert Downy Jr is
9:41 Best Documentary: Undefeated
9:44 They ought to play the big stars off but the poor schlubs who win awards for documentaries and animated films. This will likely be the only time them will get public recognition for what they do. Lt them have it, George Clooney doesn’t need it, you know
9:45 Oh Chris Rock, they should have let you host every year. You are so honest and you make the folks in the seats so uncomfortable. I love that in a man. But my god man, groom that fro, OK?
9:46: Best Animated Film: Rango
9:47 Damn, that Johnny Depp is there even if he is a bug eyed lizard
9:48 I just found about last week that Rooney Mara is one of *the* Maras; the folks who own the Giants.
9:49 It’s almost time for me to get a new phone. If I trade mine in that Galaxy looks kinda neat. I should check it out.
9:51 Ooo I love those silver shoes
9:52 And this might be your last. This is *very* bad banter, very bad.
9:52 Best Visual Effects: Hugo
9:58 Melissa Leo looks so much younger than she did what she was on Homicide back in the day
9:59 I need to post a picture of what Nick Nolte looked like back in the day. It’ll show you what drugs and booze and hard living can do to a man.
9:58 Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
10:01 Max Von Sydow, no matter how old her gets I will always see him in his knightly garb. Did you know that he played Jesus? That’s right, a blue eyed, blonde haired Swede played Middle Eastern, Jewish, Jesus without much makeup too.
10: 04 They should give Marty the Oscar just for making him wait so damn long to get his first one. How you cannot reward a man for directing Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas is beyond me.
10:05 Ho fuck, Titanic is back? 3D or not I’ll skip it.
10:07 I know what’s on my mind, get a haircut and take a bath Mr Pitt. Please. For heaven sake, he’s rich enough to hire someone shave and bathe him so he wouldn’t have to expend any effort to do it. At least his woman can clean up
10:09 I love Uggi the dog.
10:10 I wonder if I began doing film reviews if I can wrangle and invitation to join the academy or do they confine it to artists? I can’t remember.
10:11 I would love to have seen what Eddie Murphy could have done with this.
10:11 Penelope Cruz cut her hair??!! Nah, not working for me
10:12 Best original score: The Artist
10:14 Wow, the dude had no formal training?? Maybe I could have become a composer after all.
10:15 This should be good. Or not.
10:17 two songs this year, I’m glad they decided not to have them sung
10:17 And every time I see Rio I look for the Angry Birds. Thanks Rovio!
10:17 Best Original Song: Man or Muppet, The Muppets.
10:18 Congratulations Muppets!
10:20 Great, schtick.
10:22 I have developed such an appreciation for Will Arnett. Have you seen The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret? He’s GOB from Arrested Development only worse. Comedy Gold
10:24 Brilliant?? Brilliant?!! They kiss that woman’s ass so much and that dress makes her hips look larger than they are. I feel badly for her because someone didn’t do their job to make her look good. Christ, is she Botoxing already???
10:26 Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, et. al. The Descendants
10:27 Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen. Midnight in Paris
10:31 One of those guys who won the Oscar along with Alexander Payne looks like Moby, that’s who I thought it was for a moment.
10:17 If not for The Artist, this would have been The Descendants year.
10:31 DON RICKLES!!!! I love him!
10:31 Sasha Baron Cohen. I’m really trying to like you, really.
10:32 I saw Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love and he was really, really good. I was stunned, there is really some talent in there. The character was his typical manchild only it was how such a man’s like would really be like in the real world
10:34 An Google, is there bit of data we generate that escapes your billion terabytes of storage
10:35 Oh John Stamos. If they ever bought Blackie Parrish back I’d record General Hospital every day.
10:36 Announcing the Sci Tech Awards. I wonder, do they actually broadcast these somewhere.
10:38 Best Live Action Short: The Shore
10:42 Best Animated Documentary: Saving Face
10:46 Best Animated Short Film: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
10:57 No clear favorite for the acting awards?? That’s not completely true. The French guy is the front runner for best actor with George Clooney close behind. Michele Williams is a leading contender for Best Actress, but not a complete lock
10:53 Best Director: The Artist
10:53 You know there are 20 top directors right now slapping their foreheads saying, “Why the hell didn’t *I* make a nearly all silent film!”
10:54 Imagine what movies would have been like if sound had failed and the Hays code was never enacted…..
10:56 Another Jersey Girl who made very good
10:56 Oprah Winfrey?? Wait. I get the other two but what has Oprah Winfrey done that is so notable? I get it if the Emmys gave her an awards but The Oscars. That is just ponderous to me. Despite what I might think of her show I take nothing away from her charitable works I just don’t see how it translates into something like the Herscholt Award. I mean look at what Brad Pitt has done in New Orleans, he’s a movie actor. I’m just a bit flummoxed.
10:58 James Earl Jones: The voice of God and the Prophets. Can you imagine he’s your dad and he’s disappointed in you. Cripes, it almost makes me shake and pee myself just thinking of that voice saying, “I’m your father and I’ll always love you but I am so disappointed in you...” And why does he have that voice? Because he was afflicted with a terrible stutter and that is how he overcame it
11:03 Okay time to make the audience cry. Who is that singing? I know that voice but she doesn’t look familiar
11:06 They actually did a very nice job with that segment
11:12Ahhh okay, I don’t know her but several people I know have hyped her as a performer.
11:15 Holy Shit I could Lick Jean Dujardin.
11:13 Best Actor: Jean Dujardin
11:19 I hope we see him again and he doesn’t end up like Roberto Benigni who, while he’s still well known and lauded in Italy all but disappeared in the US. If you wanto see his first American film, and I would recommend it, it’s called Down by Law and it also stars John Lurie and Tom Waites (yes, that Tom Waites)
11:25 I wonder if they’ll give this to Glen Close because she deserves an Oscar but has never gotten one?
11:29 Best Actress: Meryl Streep
11:29 And from everything I’ve ever heard she’s really supposed to be a pretty nice person.
11:33 I still can’t get past 9 freaking Best Picture nominees, that’s a lotta movies. If it’s not The Artist, I’ll be kind of surprised.
11:32 Best Picture: the Artist
11:36 Awww look at Uggie with his little gold tags. Do you think an animal’s owner can negotiate a piece of the profits or are they only eleigible for a fee?
11:37 7 minutes over, not bad. Not a bad show overall.
11:38 G’Night Billy!
8:45: Ok, so Billy is back, so far he’s keeping everything pretty much the same way he’s always done it. It was definitely fresher and more entertaining the first time umpteen years ago. Now it’s just cute an a bit uneven.
8:46 That French guy from The Artist is hot. Very hot. I’m not even a big one for foreign men but for him I’d make a gigantic exception
8:42: Carl is so cute. You go Carl! Filling seats since 1959. But who the hell let Jennifer Lopez into the Oscars. Don’t you have to achieve something first? I guess not so much.
8:43 Best Cinematography: Hugo
8:44 (Scorsese’s wife deserves an award for this movie. She’s the one who told he needed to make a film his little girl (I think she’s like 11ish). He was smart enough, though to pick a topic (the early years of the artistry of movies) that he is so obsessive about
8:45 Best Art Direction: Hugo.
8:45 Okay so it looks like this might be a sweep or near sweep for Hugo for all of the technical awards. And OooooI I like that woman’s dress , classy, sexy but not too slutty.
8:46 was that Sheila E??!! if it is, she looks damn good.
8:49 Yup, the demographic for this show is clearly Women with kids 29-45
8:50 GCB? I don’t know what it is but already I’m planning to miss it
8:50 Billy is having a real ball with the whole “Kodak has dropped their name from the theater” business
8:51 Fuck I hate Forrest Gump. I think I always will
8:51 But dammit I love movies.
8:54 Jennifer Lopez could learn something from Edith Head.
8:55 Who the hell would have thought that Madonna would be nominated for an Oscar (W.E.)
8:56 Best Costume Design: The Artist
8:56 Lucious Malfoy is an amazing looking man when he’s not made up for that as Lucious Malfoy, Then he just scares me. He looks very manly in that I smell like a man sort of way. I can’t explain it any better than that…..
8:58 Best Make Up: The Iron Lady
9:03 I wish they had a siri type thing for the Android ( or do they and I just don’t know). I also want to drive cross country
9:04 Was I supposed to know that Disney reheated Newsies or Broadway. For the love of all that is holy, someone please mount a *good* (relatively) orginal musical.
9:05 I like Sandra Bullock but I will *never* understand how she got an Oscar.
9:05 She’s speaking German not Chinese (just in case anyone wasn’t sure)
9:07 I’d give it to the Iranian film just out of political principal
9:08 Best Foreign Film: The Separation (Iran)
9:09 The American Psycho himself, Nice! I always forget he’s Welsh
9:10 That dude in that scene is Melissa McCarthy's husband. God she is adorable; look at those dimples!
9:12 Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help
9:12 I really hope this translates into something wonderful for her career. This is generally an award for actresses who fade away and are rarely heard of again (Marissa Tome being a rare exception) but I’m still so pissy about that book that I’d love to see something meaningful come out of it.
9:16 I am *so* tired of those “So X seconds ago” commercials. They first one was funny the first 10 times now they just seem smug and annoying.
9:18 Ah, Billy you sum up my frustration in your joke….
9:19 And there was a focus group for this movie and that focus was the one that convinced the studio to keep “Somewhere Over the Rainbow and drop another musical number called The Jitterbug. Smart bunch of people. The studio thought Somewhere… was too slow and slowed the movie down and that The Jitterbug was more lively. And this is how a classic is saved.
9:19 True fact: Bob Balaban’s (The guy playing the facilitator) family owned one of the movie chains back in the teens. I think they may have been the first to have AC
9:21! Now I get it! This is a Christopher Guest short. Brilliant, I love his stuff.
9:23 Best Film Editing: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9:25 Best Sound Editing: Hugo
9:27 Best Sound Mixing (The Foley Folks): Hugo
9:34 Here’s the Wikipedia link to Bob Balaban’s family’s business: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaban_and_Katz
9:28 I wonder, last night The Artist pretty much swept the Spirit Awards. I wonder if this is the first time a film will have had a major showing at both. Of course the indie film isn’t quite what they used to be since so many of the so called Indie films are financed and/or distributed by the mega corporations. OTOH, film production has never been so easy or egalitarian with the a
9:30 Diet Coke and the birth of a movie from screenwriter to production to theater. Um, ok.
9:31 10 thumbs up tp JC Penney for keeping Ellen D as their spokeswoman. Take that homophobic haters.
9:34 Kermit! I like Ms Piggy’s Jewels.
9:34 I have tried and tried but I just don’t like Cirque De Soleil. I’m in awe of their talents there isn’t a single day in my life when I could do what they do. Dance and such has never really thrilled me.
9:37 and I almost always find that these dance sequences bring these award shows to a something of a grinding halt.
9:38 Christopher Plummer is still an attractive man at 82
9:40Two talented people who are a couple of insufferable bores. I do like her dress, though it’s much nicer than some of what she’s worn at award shows the past year or so.
9:42 I forget how short Robert Downy Jr is
9:41 Best Documentary: Undefeated
9:44 They ought to play the big stars off but the poor schlubs who win awards for documentaries and animated films. This will likely be the only time them will get public recognition for what they do. Lt them have it, George Clooney doesn’t need it, you know
9:45 Oh Chris Rock, they should have let you host every year. You are so honest and you make the folks in the seats so uncomfortable. I love that in a man. But my god man, groom that fro, OK?
9:46: Best Animated Film: Rango
9:47 Damn, that Johnny Depp is there even if he is a bug eyed lizard
9:48 I just found about last week that Rooney Mara is one of *the* Maras; the folks who own the Giants.
9:49 It’s almost time for me to get a new phone. If I trade mine in that Galaxy looks kinda neat. I should check it out.
9:51 Ooo I love those silver shoes
9:52 And this might be your last. This is *very* bad banter, very bad.
9:52 Best Visual Effects: Hugo
9:58 Melissa Leo looks so much younger than she did what she was on Homicide back in the day
9:59 I need to post a picture of what Nick Nolte looked like back in the day. It’ll show you what drugs and booze and hard living can do to a man.
9:58 Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
10:01 Max Von Sydow, no matter how old her gets I will always see him in his knightly garb. Did you know that he played Jesus? That’s right, a blue eyed, blonde haired Swede played Middle Eastern, Jewish, Jesus without much makeup too.
10: 04 They should give Marty the Oscar just for making him wait so damn long to get his first one. How you cannot reward a man for directing Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas is beyond me.
10:05 Ho fuck, Titanic is back? 3D or not I’ll skip it.
10:07 I know what’s on my mind, get a haircut and take a bath Mr Pitt. Please. For heaven sake, he’s rich enough to hire someone shave and bathe him so he wouldn’t have to expend any effort to do it. At least his woman can clean up
10:09 I love Uggi the dog.
10:10 I wonder if I began doing film reviews if I can wrangle and invitation to join the academy or do they confine it to artists? I can’t remember.
10:11 I would love to have seen what Eddie Murphy could have done with this.
10:11 Penelope Cruz cut her hair??!! Nah, not working for me
10:12 Best original score: The Artist
10:14 Wow, the dude had no formal training?? Maybe I could have become a composer after all.
10:15 This should be good. Or not.
10:17 two songs this year, I’m glad they decided not to have them sung
10:17 And every time I see Rio I look for the Angry Birds. Thanks Rovio!
10:17 Best Original Song: Man or Muppet, The Muppets.
10:18 Congratulations Muppets!
10:20 Great, schtick.
10:22 I have developed such an appreciation for Will Arnett. Have you seen The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret? He’s GOB from Arrested Development only worse. Comedy Gold
10:24 Brilliant?? Brilliant?!! They kiss that woman’s ass so much and that dress makes her hips look larger than they are. I feel badly for her because someone didn’t do their job to make her look good. Christ, is she Botoxing already???
10:26 Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, et. al. The Descendants
10:27 Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen. Midnight in Paris
10:31 One of those guys who won the Oscar along with Alexander Payne looks like Moby, that’s who I thought it was for a moment.
10:17 If not for The Artist, this would have been The Descendants year.
10:31 DON RICKLES!!!! I love him!
10:31 Sasha Baron Cohen. I’m really trying to like you, really.
10:32 I saw Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love and he was really, really good. I was stunned, there is really some talent in there. The character was his typical manchild only it was how such a man’s like would really be like in the real world
10:34 An Google, is there bit of data we generate that escapes your billion terabytes of storage
10:35 Oh John Stamos. If they ever bought Blackie Parrish back I’d record General Hospital every day.
10:36 Announcing the Sci Tech Awards. I wonder, do they actually broadcast these somewhere.
10:38 Best Live Action Short: The Shore
10:42 Best Animated Documentary: Saving Face
10:46 Best Animated Short Film: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
10:57 No clear favorite for the acting awards?? That’s not completely true. The French guy is the front runner for best actor with George Clooney close behind. Michele Williams is a leading contender for Best Actress, but not a complete lock
10:53 Best Director: The Artist
10:53 You know there are 20 top directors right now slapping their foreheads saying, “Why the hell didn’t *I* make a nearly all silent film!”
10:54 Imagine what movies would have been like if sound had failed and the Hays code was never enacted…..
10:56 Another Jersey Girl who made very good
10:56 Oprah Winfrey?? Wait. I get the other two but what has Oprah Winfrey done that is so notable? I get it if the Emmys gave her an awards but The Oscars. That is just ponderous to me. Despite what I might think of her show I take nothing away from her charitable works I just don’t see how it translates into something like the Herscholt Award. I mean look at what Brad Pitt has done in New Orleans, he’s a movie actor. I’m just a bit flummoxed.
10:58 James Earl Jones: The voice of God and the Prophets. Can you imagine he’s your dad and he’s disappointed in you. Cripes, it almost makes me shake and pee myself just thinking of that voice saying, “I’m your father and I’ll always love you but I am so disappointed in you...” And why does he have that voice? Because he was afflicted with a terrible stutter and that is how he overcame it
11:03 Okay time to make the audience cry. Who is that singing? I know that voice but she doesn’t look familiar
11:06 They actually did a very nice job with that segment
11:12Ahhh okay, I don’t know her but several people I know have hyped her as a performer.
11:15 Holy Shit I could Lick Jean Dujardin.
11:13 Best Actor: Jean Dujardin
11:19 I hope we see him again and he doesn’t end up like Roberto Benigni who, while he’s still well known and lauded in Italy all but disappeared in the US. If you wanto see his first American film, and I would recommend it, it’s called Down by Law and it also stars John Lurie and Tom Waites (yes, that Tom Waites)
11:25 I wonder if they’ll give this to Glen Close because she deserves an Oscar but has never gotten one?
11:29 Best Actress: Meryl Streep
11:29 And from everything I’ve ever heard she’s really supposed to be a pretty nice person.
11:33 I still can’t get past 9 freaking Best Picture nominees, that’s a lotta movies. If it’s not The Artist, I’ll be kind of surprised.
11:32 Best Picture: the Artist
11:36 Awww look at Uggie with his little gold tags. Do you think an animal’s owner can negotiate a piece of the profits or are they only eleigible for a fee?
11:37 7 minutes over, not bad. Not a bad show overall.
11:38 G’Night Billy!
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Date: 2012-02-27 06:13 pm (UTC)After she won the SAG a lot of experts were picking Viola Davis, so in a way Meryl Streep's win seems as surprising as it does inevitable (as in, "She's got to win on one of these sometime, doesn't she?").
Benigni was hilarious in Night on Earth (working again with his Down by Law director, Jarmusch). After Life Is Beautiful his Tiger in the Snow took a similarly controversial topic (the launch of the Iraq war) and went straight to Sundance Channel. Combination of Oscar backlash and the Pinocchio fiasco, I imagine.
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Date: 2012-02-27 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-27 06:57 pm (UTC)And hey, Irving Berlin himself had no formal music training and naught but a 3rd-grade education to boot. One of my favorite factoids is how he'd taught himself to play piano and could only ever play in the key of F# his whole life.
I really should bring myself to see some of these films. *sigh* Been pretty out of touch with current cinema lately.
Shirley has a Galaxy Nexus if you want to see one in action before deciding what to get. I'm actually thinking about the Droid Razr Maxx (yeah, stupid name but a great phone) when my Evo finishes its languid slump into uselessness.