Amy's Robot

Another year, another catty recap

That extra hour of Oscar last night, beyond the allotted three hours, just put me in an even less charitable mood for this morning's analysis. The completely conventional and unrevealing cover-ups that were the gowns were also uninspiring. Few jokes, no hysteria, not even many sight gags, beyond Adrian Brody's breath spray. Even Cintra Wilson, the Big Oscar Bitch over at Salon (the opening line of her review is such an obvious and non-subtle shout-out to this blog) has trouble finding any true vitriol to spout at such a bland and unoffensive ceremony.

Anyway, a few comments:

Did you catch Renee thanking Vincent D'Onofrio for teaching her everything she ever learned about acting? They were in The Whole Wide World together in 1996.

Ian McKellan's boyfriend (?), an older gentleman who is unfortunately, far less hot than the one he brought two years ago (they split up last year.) I think you can just see the edge of him in this shot.

I can't figure out how Nicole's dress was being held up. Perhaps she hooked the top of it over her protruding ribs?

Thank you, Charlize, for delivering a surprisingly humble and non-shrill acceptance speech. After all, we'd already heard an adequately hysterical speech by Renee. But why were you so orange?

Those French-Canadians doing the song from The Triplets of Belleville really put the rest of us in boring old America to shame with their sequins and feathers and showgirls and musical bicycles.

Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore would be just about the hottest couple in the world.

Here's a complete list of winners.

categories: Celebrities, Movies, TV
posted by amy at 10:31 AM | #