Did you watch the Academy Awards last night? Me, no. I almost never get to the movies these days (kids, babysitters, etc.), so I wasn't that interested in the show. But thanks to Ross and the magic of YouTube, we can all see the magnificent annual tribute to the Hollywood people who have died in the past year. Watch this one through all the way to the end. It's beautiful, just beautiful:
Anybody want to say anything about last nights winners and losers? The thread is open.
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Ratings were up this year
Wasn't last year's Oscars the lowest rated ever?
Hmmm...this year's was the third lowest rated so you are correct.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/02/23/sunday-ratings-academy-awards-up-from-last-years-record-low/13282
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/02/17/academy-awards-show-ratings/12818
If WALL-e had been up for best picture, I might have sat down for a few minutes, otherwise, no.
"Slumdog Millionaire best score/best song writer's thanking of God for his blessings." Rachel
TR: Rahman is interesting in that, as I recall, he was raised Hindu became atheist than converted to Islam. He might be one of the tolerant mystical-type Muslims, but whatever it's nice to see someone say something nice about any Muslim here.
On a different matter I do think a tendency of the Oscars to hector us, and be so self-congratulatory, does start to get grating the older I get. It doesn't even matter if it's a cause I approve of or not. If one of them started giving a huge lecture about Aung San Suu Kyi or even the persecution of Christians in Iraq I could see myself sighing. There's sometimes too great a whiff of "look how great we are, look how we care about things, look what good people we are" when they do this. On top of that it goes long because of all these loving tributes to themselves and their own history. At this point I feel like just give us the awards and the speeches, stop telling us how great you think you are. Limit this frippery to significant anniversary editions. (The 50th, 75th, 100th, etc.) Although the memorial is good. Queen Latifah has a fairly good voice and I don't mind that segment.
Anyway as for the thing itself I find Kate Winslet sort-of likeable and charming. I liked her Dad whistling. Also some of the Hindi music was interesting.
Didn't even know they were on last night. But I wouldn't have watched anyway, had I known.
Sean Penn called the audience/academy a bunch of homo-loving commies, or something to that effect, presumably because they voted for and/or cheered for his win.
Even though he sounded like a drug-addled cretin, on this one point he was, of course, more correct than he imagined.
In any case, Mickey Rourke should've gotten that particular Oscar, but it was given to Penn largely for P.C. reasons, and as a way to make up for passing up the gay cowboy movie from a couple years ago.
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