Sunday, February 27, 2005
The Oscars
Lessons learnt watching the 77th Annual Academy Awards:
- Chris Rock was gagged. Else, Chris Rock is nowhere near as funny as Billy Crystal. I forget details of Whoopi Goldberg's MC-ing, but I don't think it was this disappointing (i.e.: it was up to expectations). But who can forget Billy's Crystal's excellent comic montage to open last year's Oscars? Update: OK ... Chris Rock just hasn't been funny tonight. I feel sorry for the guy. He had to tame his image down to be acceptable to all those white folks, but lost everything that made him funny in the first place.
- The Academy folks is truly on an another plane (no pun intended). How else can The Aviator get so many awards? e.g.: I thought Collateral had better editting than The Aviator.
- Scarlett Johanssen is gorgeous and is likely to pass out in that corset she's wearing.
- Animated characters do not always work with real life (I'm referring to Edna Bird & Pierce Brosnan)
- Al Pacino was stoned out of his mind. Or maybe that's his real self. Who knows anymore?
- Salma Hayek is waaaaay-hey-hay hotter than Penelope Cruz!!
- Santana totally, totally rocks playing the blues. It was like the guitar was wired directly to my soul!
- Beyonce cannot have enough sequins on her dress. She also looks amazing in black.
- Hillary Swank is this year's Halle Berry. God, when will she stop talking?
- The Academy does not like Martin Scorcese.
- I have to see Million Dollar Baby.
- Chris Rock was gagged. Else, Chris Rock is nowhere near as funny as Billy Crystal. I forget details of Whoopi Goldberg's MC-ing, but I don't think it was this disappointing (i.e.: it was up to expectations). But who can forget Billy's Crystal's excellent comic montage to open last year's Oscars? Update: OK ... Chris Rock just hasn't been funny tonight. I feel sorry for the guy. He had to tame his image down to be acceptable to all those white folks, but lost everything that made him funny in the first place.
- The Academy folks is truly on an another plane (no pun intended). How else can The Aviator get so many awards? e.g.: I thought Collateral had better editting than The Aviator.
- Scarlett Johanssen is gorgeous and is likely to pass out in that corset she's wearing.
- Animated characters do not always work with real life (I'm referring to Edna Bird & Pierce Brosnan)
- Al Pacino was stoned out of his mind. Or maybe that's his real self. Who knows anymore?
- Salma Hayek is waaaaay-hey-hay hotter than Penelope Cruz!!
- Santana totally, totally rocks playing the blues. It was like the guitar was wired directly to my soul!
- Beyonce cannot have enough sequins on her dress. She also looks amazing in black.
- Hillary Swank is this year's Halle Berry. God, when will she stop talking?
- The Academy does not like Martin Scorcese.
- I have to see Million Dollar Baby.
