brunobaby

Advantages of going to a virtual Oscar party over a real one:

• You can wear anything you want;
• You can blow-dry your hair during the commercials;
• You can take a nap during the boring awards and then wake up and go, "Scorcese! Cool!" and go back to sleep;
• You can attend more than one at the same time.

Big surprise: The theme from An Inconvenient Truth winning instead of any of the songs from Dreamgirls. Okay, Best Docu, I can see, but the song wasn't that hot as a song.

Etheridge, accepting award: "We're going to be the Greatest Generation and save the earth!"

My Husband: "No, you're the generation that screwed the Negroes."

And I hadn't been aware that Katrina was caused by global warming--bad levies and incompetent government officials had been my understanding. Go know. But apparently, the argument's been around for a while...as an argument, between the usual suspects. (The Usual Suspects is also a good movie.)

So, probably some (inconvenient) truth to the argument, but the Al Gore Love Fest was this year's Smug Alert!

Other Observations: Vintage Babes are "in" this year; eg. Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton.

Interesting Fact about Helen Mirren: Her real name is Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov. I did not know that.

I want to see Iraq in Fragments. The movie, that is. Also West Bank Story. And I've been told Pan's Lab-I-Can't-Spell-It is great. And I'm a Tom Perrotta fan, so I want to see Little Children, even though every time I hear the title I start singing the song by Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas.

In fact, I want to see all the nominated movies, because, as is my custom for the past decade, I haven't seen any of them!