let Will Ferrell host
worst oscars ever. non-stop groans and not even one upset in any major category. my picks were, as usual, horrifically bad (some would say on purpose. i just don't see the fun when everyone picks charlize theron). Bart/EW took the predicting crown. on top of it all, the weekend has left us feeling quite the worse for wear. which is really terrible considering we slept for about 22 hours on friday/saturday nights.
as part of some ongoing work, our computer consultants are in the office today. one of the guys bears an uncanny resemblance to the shrunken head guy from Beetlejuice. really - he's about 6' tall, but with this tiny head and there's even some facial resemblance (minus the dessication). but what the hell happened to Michael Keaton? look at his resume post-Batman Returns. not pretty. but he's got the lead in White Noise, and i'm interested to see how well Delillo adapts to film. maybe he's poised for a comeback.
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agreed. no fun at all. no surprises, no laffs. i loved the trilogy but it's time for it to step aside and let others have a crack at oscar next year. it fully deserved the awards, i feel, but sheesh, how monotonous.
and billy crystal's "love me" mugging was more painful than ever this year and not accompanied by a single good joke. the only good part of the evening was will ferrell's over important and overly enunciated presentation and the best moment of the night was when he said *STING!* in that perectly reverent and hushed tone.
was every speech really just a list of names, often just first names, of people i don't know? so, so boring.
Posted by: crispin | March 1, 2004 02:45 PM
Billy Crystal actually made me laugh this year. I get bored pretty quickly by award shows so I didn't watch much past the opening song and Tim Robbins. But I did see Charlize Theron win, which pissed me off. Because she looked ugly she deserved an Oscar? Didn't see the film and don't plan to, but there's just no way that Charlize Theron gave a better performance than Keisha Castle-Hughes (who I keep wanting to call Keisha Knight-Pulliam). Stupid Academy Awards.
Keisha Castle-Hughes deserved to win, along with Patricia Clarkson, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanson's butt.
Posted by: jake | March 1, 2004 04:17 PM
Jeremy, I watched with Doug & Kristie (my cable has been out for three+ days now :( and we were dying laughing when Will Ferrell said "Sting!" It was so funny and you knew after he said it that it just came flying out of his mouth, all impromptu. Subtlest moment but funniest. Speaking of Sting, what the FUCK was that instrument he was playing?! Doug said it looked like a jack in the box and Kristie and I agreed it was some sort of mandolin/accordian. BUT, he wasn't even moving his fingers on the non-crank-turning hand--who the hell couldn't play that?! I agree they were quite boring, the only remote surprise being Sean Penn. Who I think deserves recognition, he's a good actor, but a huge tool and his random mention of WMD wasn't even a little bit related to whatever drivel was coming out of his mouth. I was shocked Tim Robbins didn't get all political--you know Susan later beat his ass for not taking such an oportunity to blast Bush--and thought he was about to when he brought up the whole "get help for abuse" schpeel. Did anyone else notice he went over to hug his kids before accepting the award and he only hugged and talked to the one kid, not the other? There's going to be some issues later with that one...
Posted by: Claire | March 1, 2004 04:54 PM
I didn't see "Monster," but Theron's resemblance to Jon Voight in that movie is downright startling. I can't believe nobody has mentioned that? Am I the only one who sees it? They're like twins!
Posted by: Matt | March 1, 2004 08:12 PM