March 5, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Acadamy Awards? Jon Stewart? Comments? Questions? Concerns? Seemed to me that the first half of the opening monologue plotzed, but he picked up speed once he got to the Gay Cowboys Through The Ages montage and became progresively more comfortable as the evening wore on. The Acadamy has once again cast a wry, witty, small-screen East Coaster to host the show (think Letterman, think Rock) only to recoil in horror when they take jabs at Hollywood. The movie industry takes itself way too seriously. People: you work in entertainment. Entertainment.
Hollywood should actually be jabbed at more often. Those creepy production numbers were reminiscent of the infamous Rob Lowe/Snow White song & dance fiasco of 1989. I liked Jon Stewart. I don’t think they’ll ask him back next year, but I think in the end he was pretty damn funny. Not as funny as Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep, though–you think any of those new big-eyed startlets could have pulled that off? Keira and Reese, perhaps? Or maybe Jennifer and Jennifer? I seriously doubt it.
I liked the faux smear ads. I liked Uma’s dress. I like that luminous little Chinese actress whose name I can’t pronounce (can I use her as a Christmas Tree angel next year? She’s just so teeny and adorable and glowing–is that messed up? Wanting to use a human being as an ornament?) and I liked that Three 6 Mafia won for best song. Not the competition was fierce, or anything, but they were just so darn psyched about it. I really liked the South African winner for Best Foreign Film. Everyone else seemed bored.
And, really, so was I.
The cable box gets turned in tomorrow. I wish my last tv hurrah could have been a little more thrilling. Maybe I should wait a week.
March 6, 2006
@ 2:25 am
I’m glad you like my new pic
Yeah, the Academy Awards, where to begin? Oh well, I thought it was boring too. Sorry, but I lost interest. They need to spicin’ it up a bit. It’s too serious like you said (or Hollywood takes itself too seriously). And they need shorten it.
Well, that’s my quick thoughts!
March 6, 2006
@ 5:17 pm
I thought Stewart was funny as hell, (I am still trying to figure out where and why that phase got started) and Hollywood does take itself WAY to seriously……..I mean get real learn to laugh at yourself once in a while…….just my 2 cents
March 6, 2006
@ 5:18 pm
I enjoyed the Oscars, but you’re right, they’re not as great at they used to be. I don’t know what’s going on with the show lately. Are they changing or am I?
March 6, 2006
@ 5:56 pm
I wrote my own oscar review as well, while I was watching. I think I enjoyed it a bit more than you did. I keep thinking of something a friend said years ago, “totally tacky and I loved every minute of it.” Well, not EVERY minute of it, but I did enjoy it.
I just realized that I got so behind in watching videos that I haven’t watched anybody’s, even my favorites (of which you are one)…gotta get caught up!
March 8, 2006
@ 11:31 am
Hey Bek - It’s Joe. The funniest Oscar moment came after the show, on the news. The upright, white newscaster on News 12 Long Island had to say, “The Oscar winner for best song was “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”.”
Word!
June 5, 2010
@ 10:14 pm
Incredible song, I really enjoy listening to it!