Is there a woman in Hollywood, besides Beyonce Knowles, that still has her original face? I didn't recognize Renee Zellweger or Drew Barrymore at all. They both used to be attractive.
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Magic Johnson Theater interviews: Chris is in deep trouble now. ROTFL!
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Rock's Tim Robbins intro: "...boring us with his politics..." Very nice, Chris.
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UPDATE: More, maybe. It's getting quite boring.
UPDATE: LOL! One of the nominees for "Best Short Film" was asleep when they announced his name and put the camera on him. I'm feeling it.
UPDATE: Rock: "Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her an hour ago." Oprah's look was priceless.
UPDATE: Sean Combs, formerly known as P-Diddy, formerly know as Puff Daddy. formerly known as Sean Combs utters a totally fake sounding line about his alleged inner child.
Now, come on. Beyonce is an excellent singer and a beautiful lady, but would no one else sing the Oscar-nominated songs?
Oh, great. Princess. I can never look at him without thinking of the guy who does an (excellent) impression of him in SNL.
Hey, that was the best "speech" yet (not Prince's)!
UPDATE: Hillary Swank gets the Best Actress Oscar! She should also get an award for being one of the few actresses who looks like a real person.
UPDATE: Jamie Foxx. No surprise, but it's still nice....come on, guy get it over with...Great Sidney Poitier impersonation!...Okay, it wasn't that bad. :-)
UPDATE: Million Dollar Baby gets Best Director (Clint Eastwood) and Best Picture. Hey, who doesn't like Clint? I giggled last week when he seemed to intimidate one Bill O'Reilly on the Factor. It was also nice to see that, when Clint mentioned his mother in his Best Director acceptance speech, she was still kickin' and sitting in the audience (and looking pretty good for ninety-six).
Eastwood's Baby has caught a lot of flack for certain aspects of its plot. Unfortunately, I know the ending, though I haven't seen it. But I'm still inclined to check it out. I may file a review here.
UPDATE: Tim Robbins responds to Chris Rock's little dig.
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La Shawn wasn't impressed.
The Anchoress liked the dresses.
And Ann Althouse cracks me up.
(Thanks to Michelle Malkin)
I want to see more of Chris Rock but this thing is way too long already. I have to go to bed and catch a few zees before the baby wakes up for her midnight feeding. Let us know if anything else funny happens.
Posted by: Samantha | February 27, 2005 at 07:16 PM
I'm trying to live-blog this thing, and there's really nothing interesting to write; it's more a recap than anything else. I think this may be the dullest Oscar ceremony ever. How sad for Chris Rock, because it's not his fault, but he'll sure take the blame for it. Then again, he's not doing much to help himself (probably trying to play it safe).
Posted by: Kathleen | February 27, 2005 at 07:20 PM
J- I'd be very interested in your opinion on the film. I disliked it, not on moral grounds, but because I saw inconsistencies in Maggie's character (although Hilary Swank played her beautifully).
Posted by: Rae | February 28, 2005 at 07:51 AM
Am I the only one that is p.o.'d that the Oscars didn't show us any clips of the documentaries or shorts? I mean really, where do you go if you want to see the shorts? I haven't seen the SHORTS section of Blockbuster.
Loved Chris Rock, even after he went into Bush-bashing mode, but at least everything else was funny, and he showed clearly how little the Academy knows what people like.
What has killed me ever since the nominations were announced is the NUMEROUS actors I've caught on TV who mentioned they were members, and got their ballot, but hadn't seen the films. That just kills me. AT least in the Editing and other "real" awards like that, the colleagues of those up for the award vote.
Sadly, what my wife and I realized was that we're different people, and not just because we have kids, J! The ONLY movies we have seen that were up for awards were the animated ones and the super-hero ones!
Posted by: Iron Mike | February 28, 2005 at 03:26 PM
Foxx's acceptance speech made me a little teary. First time that has ever happened on a show like that.
Did you read the short story that Million Dollar Baby is based on? FX Toole is a good writer; too bad he didn't live to see what became of his work. His baby. It's called "Rope Burns," I believe, though it may have been re-packaged for the movie.
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Posted by: Fred Schoeneman | March 01, 2005 at 02:15 AM
Ha u forgot meg ryan what a disaster she is now...bleh
Posted by: ricardo | March 01, 2005 at 05:57 PM