THE OSCARS

“THAT RENEE ZELLWIGGER HAS GOT TO QUIT POPPING THEM PUFFY PILLS CAUSE ITS ALL GOING TO HER FACE”

“heh. my favorite oscar moment was when the winner of best actor (forget his name) soul-kissed halle berry.”

“Michael Moore-on sure put on a show. It was nice to hear more boos than cheers.”

“It is great for actors that need to be stroked all the time. What a total waste of time for movie fans.

I rarely watch and my favorite movies rarely win.”

“Oh, that was the Oscars where Michael Moore passed gas? What did he win, best male twit?”

“Phil, I'm like you...I haven't watched a Grammy Awards for over 20 years. Gladiator won last year...or was that 2 years ago? That was my favorite film for that year. I liked "Bowling for Columbine"...but I don't watch too many documentary films...so I can't say if that would have been my favorite.”

“i think its crap the way the orchestra cuts in as award-winners are obviously wrapping up their acceptance speeches. hilary swank was just seconds away from finishing and had to finish shouting her thanks. the jackasses even cut in on the BEST PICTURE speech for crying out loud! 2 of the 3 producers got to say their part, and the band cut in just as number 3 said his part. i think that sucks. its best picture you muggerfuggers. let them have a few minutes in the sun. and then some of the technical stuff like costuming, art, etc, dont even get their walk anymore. some are just handed their oscars in their seats. what a rip!

but anyway, congrats to $million baby for its four well-deserved oscars.”

“i think they're lucky they get an award show at all. ... come on ... they're making movies for crying out loud. I love movies ... but an award show for what they do? Especially one that extravagant??? I don't think so ...”

“yes, an award show for what they do. everyone likes recognition for a job well done. one that extravagant? i think so. its hollywood. it should be glamorous. i happen to enjoy the oscars. its tradition. us "little people" harp on celebrities at every turn for their vanity, greed, stupidty, etc. let this be the one time every year where they can indulge their exhibitionistic tendencies before we go back to sniping about them, despite the joy they bring into our lives”

“The first against the wall when the revolution happens. (GO CATE!)”

“I definitely thought it was extremely rude for the orchestra to cut in during the most important awards of the evening (Best Actress, Best Picture)...

Same thing for the other award (I don't remember, was it best sound or something?) Chris Rock nailed it head-on when he made a comment about the drive-through Oscars...

And, you are also right about how it's terrible that some people don't even get to walk onstage!

I realize that they have time constraints, but there were about 20 minutes of commercials AFTER the show was over....

ANd, was it really necessary to keep saying "The Oscars will be right back after these messages"? They could have cut out those little "promos" to let the winners at least finish what they are saying!

By the way, I was really glad that Jamie Foxx won for best actor. If you haven't seen that movie, you definitely should watch it-- He was amazing-- it was like seeing Ray Charles reincarnated... Plus, he is an accomplished pianist (graduated from Julliard...) and for once I enjoyed watching a movie where the person who was playing the piano 1) knew what he was doing and 2) was good at it! :-) (it really bugs me when actors "fake" playing the piano or any other instrument!)”

“I could give 2 #&%!$s about how the oscars are done.

just needed to give my 2 cents.”

“BM- I'm so glad we agree on something. Maybe we can be friends after all.”

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I'm in love.”

“I sure did like Hillary's dress. ;-)”

“Chris Rock sucked. He's just a Bush-bashin racist.”

“Truth hurts?”

“What truth? He just wasn't funny. Bush rocks!”

“No, Selma rocks!


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“Bear, who is that girl? Is she from Phantom of the Opera?”

“Penelope, Selma, or Catalina?

I love all 3.
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Didn't notice the bones before.”

“Bear, I know Penelope, and Selma, I'm talking about the one where you say you are in love? Now I see she is not who I thought she was, that Phantom of the Opera girl who is very pretty with a voice like an angel.

If that girl is Catalina, who is she? What was she in? I've never seen her before.”

“newcomer Catalina Sandino Moreno. Born ca1981. perfect for me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390221/combined”

“That's the year I graduated from high school. Sheesh.”

“'Taint much younger, bit. ;)

Whaddya mean, not beautiful? And I love them all, lh.
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“Bear, I didn't mean she wasn't beautiful, she just wasn't the person I was thinking of.

I was going to see her movie at my indie theater, but never got around to it. I think it's in DVD now.”

“Sean Penn is a real @ss, but I always knew that. I didn't see the Oscar Awards, but I saw a clip where Cris Rock was making fun of Jude Law and said if you can't get Tom Cruise, get Jude Law, but who is Jude Law? He's in every movie that's out, and they say he's straight, he's gay, he's British, he's not, he is even in movie's that he isn't in. He's in the credits for making cupcakes or something.

Then I guess Sean Penn was a presenter and he comes on the stage all pissed off saying "I'll tell you who Jude Law is. He's a fine actor".

Someone should have told Sean Penn that it was a joke, hello!!!! I think Sean Pean made an @ss of himself by taking what a comedian said seriously. I'm sure Jude Law must have loved that he was the butt of a joke that just said he was in a lot of movies to millions of people that were watching and his peers.”

“Pink, I heard an interview with the orchestra director regarding his cutting into the speeches (Cuba Gooding Jr specifically). He said that each person gets a set time, usually 2 minutes and then a little voice in the conductors ear piece says "get them off the stage" and the music begins...


I cant stand the self importance actors assign to themselves. They are entertainers, nothing more or less. They oughtta get over themselves and just continue to play act, that what they are paid for...to be something other than themself.”

“I think this year was THE worst EVER Oscars........NO place for politics......speeches way too long......and Phantom didn't win anything......I know....I know....y'all are tired of me talking about it ......but it was a BEAUTIFUL movie.....and I loved it : )”

“I liked Chris Rock. I wished he was a bit more edgy. Also Jude Law on Regis cracked a joke about him being in all the movies when Regis mentioned he was in 6. So I do think he got it and laughed too.

I don't like speeches that go on and on with the winner thanking his/her Aunt Sofie twice removed. SHUT UP. Say thank you and get off the stage!”

“Russell Crowe won an award one year, I forget what award it was, and he tried to strangle one of the producers or someone connected with the show, because when he was giving his acceptance speech, they were cutting him off, because he was going too long. Turned out the guy he went after had nothing to do with Crowe getting signaled to stop talking.

Crowe is a good actor, but he likes to fight.

I saw where they were thinking of having all of the people up for this award show to come up on stage and then announce the winner. That is so tacky to have the losers just standing there.”

“Lips, what do you mean??? Do you watch "American Idol??!"

LOL! That show LOVES losers just standing there. In fact, it makes them go sing immediately, IF they can make it through!

(personally, I HATE that part of American Idol... and Ryan Seacrest. But do like those nasty judges! LOL)”

“Lizs-- actually, what they did last Wednesday to the bottom guy was absolutely cruel. Seacrest made it seem like one of the guys on the top row was getting the axe and then he pointed at one on the bottom... Youch! (BTW-- Someone said that they were barely giving Seacrest any air time this year... LOL (and his hair isn't quite so blond on top any more...”

““Chris Rock sucked. He's just a Bush-bashin racist.”

he made fun of everybody, not just shrub. and what makes him a racist? hell, he's harder on black people than he is on white people

i caught the tail-end of sean penns presentation. i didnt know if he was mad about something, or had just woken up”

“Lizs, I don't watch American Idol.

Crash, Penn comes out all defensive because he thinks Chris Rock dissed Jude Law when all he did was make a joke.

The day after the show, every show had on that clip where Rock tells the joke and Penn reacts to it. Roger Ebert was on Leno and said Penn needs a sense of humor too.

I think it was either Jay Leno or Conan that said Sean Penn should really go back to commenting on what he knows best, politics in the middle east. Now that was funny:)”

“Maybe he should just GO and stay in the Middle East.”

“Bin Laden to Host Oscars
By Jack Engelhard February 6, 2006

Jon Stewart, the original choice, had to pull out as host of the March 5 Oscars because of a groin injury. Instead, Osama bin Laden will serve as MC for the ceremony that is broadcast, as always, around the world to the millions and billions in their homes and in their caves.

The late replacement was announced by the Academy moments after the nominees were made public from a secret location in Hollywood. The selection of Mr. bin Laden to host the Oscars seemed logical after the Academy voted in two movies that offer the bright side of terrorism and romantically portray the longings to find love and murder Jews.

"We needed someone famous, a man with a particular sense of justice and jest, and we found him," said Academy spokesman Reginald Hubert. "He is a very funny guy, bin Laden." added Mr. Hubert, chuckling. (Distinguished UK MP George Galloway was considered for the job, but he also suffered a groin injury while lapping up milk like a cat during a British Reality TV show.)

Though famous, Mr. bin Laden has been a recluse for several years. Attempts (by the FBI and CIA) to locate him proved futile, until the IRS was called in. Agents discovered that Mr. bin Laden was behind on his taxes (his W-2 Form was improperly filled out) and, once set to the task, found him within a matter of hours.

Contrary to reports that he'd been secluded in caves in Pakistan or Afghanistan (along with J.D. Salinger and Bobby Fischer), Mr. bin Laden and his family have been penthouse guests at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. For the days leading up to the Oscars, however, Mr. bin Laden will be staying at the home of Barbra Streisand and James Brolin.

"This gives me such naches," said Ms. Streisand, while shopping for a burka on Rodeo Drive. "Pinch me, I'm kvelling."

Mr. bin Laden, however, will not be handing out the hoped-for Oscars for "Munich," nominated for Best Picture, or for "Paradise Now," nominated for Best Foreign Film. "Paradise Now" tells the touching story of two young suicide bombers on a mission to murder Israelis and their qualms of either that or the Prom. (It was Prom Night in Ramallah.) Munich tells the same touching story of aggrieved terrorists, but with a cast of thousands and a budget of some $70 million.

The presenter for those nominees will be the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, pronounced Ahmadinejad. Mr. Ahmadinejad will be staying with Geena Davis for part of his visit, but has also accepted an invitation to join Steven Spielberg and the Spielberg family, along with Tony Kushner, who co-wrote the screenplay for Munich, largely an account of 11 Israelis who were murdered at the Munich Olympics by sensitive and misunderstood Arab terrorists.

"Nobody's perfect," said Mr. Spielberg, the director of "Munich."

Mr. Spielberg's next movie, "Warsaw," about Jewish resistance against the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto, asks this question: Why are Jews always making trouble?

In a joint interview, and speaking of "Munich" and "Paradise Now," Mr. bin Laden said, "A victory for either of these two films is a victory for Hamas and al-Qaeda."

"Yes," said Mr. Ahmadinejad. "Wipe Israel off the map, and death to America."

"He writes all this material all by himself," said an admiring Mr. Kushner.

"All Jews are pigs and all Christians are dogs," said Mr. bin Laden.

"There he goes again," said Ms. Streisand, laughing at another Mr. bin Laden quip, one of many he's rehearsing for the festivities.

"Terrorists are people, too," said Mr. Spielberg.

"People who need people are the luckiest people in the world," said Ms. Streisand.

"Kill the Jews," said both Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. bin Laden in unison.

"I'm sure they don't mean us," said Ms. Streisand from her cell phone.

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“The Oscars just aren't what they used to be. Most people at the Oscar party I'm going to on Sunday won't be watching the Oscars. The standards have dropped. It's not the Academy Award's fault. Movie making isn't the same. It just seems more pretensious for an actor or a director to get all teary-eyed over winning an award nowadays.

Remember when movies used to have less action, less dialogue, but the character interaction was so much greater? An actor's acting was in his/her eyes, not his script. The camera would linger on a scene so you could take it in, even if it wasn't a grand vista, but a dishevelled crime scene or a greasy spoon. Not anymore. boom - boom - boom - CUT!



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“In all my years...I've never watched more than 15 minutes of each Oscar event....just not into it. My brother is into it though...funny thing is...I watch alot more movies on the big screen than him.”

“The Academy Awards are now just Hollywood giving itself a big hug.”

“I predict a gay man or some movie associated with gay men will win this year. ;-)

Sideways wasn't nominated for anything, was it?
Seems any movie that people actually went to see has been blacklisted.
*Big Yawn*
Who cares.”

“bit & ss - I agree with both of you. It is not about the best or about entertainment. Sadly, that has been obvious for years now.
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“I can't believe "Crash" won for best picture, but then again, you have those liberals in the Hollywood industry that may want to prove a point, they are not prejudice by way of voting for this "fair" picture. I think "Cinderella Man" was excellent and should have won. I didn't watch the Oscars, so I don't even know if that movie was up for an Oscar. The acting was stupendous and the story/subject were excellent.

Ophra is all over "Crash" winning. She seems to think it's a positive thing for blacks and was so happy, happy, happy on her show that so many blacks won. This segrating blacks from other people is what causes problems, like her seeing her fellow black actors/actresses as different. To me, "Crash" only seemed to further the distance between blacks and other races, by their depiction of blacks. I don't see how Ophra sees that movie as a plus for black people.
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“I can't believe Robert Altman has never won.”

“bear, I had to double check his life's work on imdb.com. I thought he was the director or something on MASH which he was. It's surpising if he has never won anything for his body of work:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000265/”

“*Yawn*”

“He's won Nada. That's why they gave him that Crap Oscar.

The you're-great-sorry-we've-snubbed-you-for-decade-almost-dead-honorary OSCAR AWARD”

“I believe they did the same thing to Spielberg.”