Os-scars

Good grief. How did I manage to sit through the entire Academy Awards tonight? It was painful. Notable things that happened:

1. James Franco looked and talked like he had a full-body cast on. He is not funny; he is not charismatic; he is terribly dull. Epic fail.

2. Anne Hathaway looked strange. Pretty dresses, all 27 or whatever, but she looked sick and her makeup was fucked up, kind of clownish.

3. The show started and maintained a high level of tedium.

4. Kirk Douglas presented and even though he's a fossil, he had more charisma than the hosts.

5. The winner for best supporting said "fucking" on screen. No delay I guess. Sweet.

6. The Randy Newman performance was botched by the sound guy, because he voice was too low and music too high. He won, but gracefully didn't mention it, though he did mention his 20 nominations and only two wins.

7. Billy Crystal made an appearance (I guess he was backstage for emergency in case the audience started to fall asleep). He did a 5 minute stand up that was the best thing in the entire show. What? Really? He made Anne and James look like tedious bores.

8. The "In Memoriam" was beautiful as usual. Tony Curtis died last year. He was awesome to watch. Celine Dion sang, nice job too. But Halle Barry had to make a speech about Lena Horn who died this last year, and I guess inspired other black actors - ironically I don't think any black people won anything this year. oops.

9. Christian Bale and Natalie Portman won as they should have done.

10. I guess I should have seen the "King's Speech".

11. This year Barbara Walters interviews were replaced by coverage of the after-parties, where the celebrity worship goes full tilt boogie.

12. I think I survived b/c we started watching after dinner and using the PVR to fast forward the commercials. Must remember this strategy. Last year I almost puncture my eardrums with sharp pencils.

This was also posted on the media blog.