Amy Adams was wearing Carolina Herrera. Mrs. Herrera’s designs are not only elegant, they’re practical. A lot of designers have followed her suit & include small (lipstick, cell phone, credit card) pockets.
VCNJ~
Didn’t have time to read the whole thread, but Reese Witherspoon fake-crying through the acceptance just annoyed the crap out of me.
She recovered like a pro, though. 
VCNJ~
This coming from a verile “American Idol” fanboy? 
Virile.
Equivalent: He’s not a terrorist. He was just hired to make bombs for terrorists. :rolleyes:
It was her recovery that led me to think that something might have happened with the telepromptor (if there was one).
Why was everybody on their best behavior last night?
Think about it. Nobody wore something hideous, disgusting, overly-revealing, or falling off on the red carpet. Nobody broke down in tears while celebrating their high school drama coach. Nobody was so high they forget their lines. Nobody stood on chairs. Nobody bad-mouthed the President, the AMA, PETA, Hamas, GLAAD, MAAD, or SFWA. Nobody did interpretive dance to the Holocaust. Nobody tongue-kissed a close relative. Nobody streaked. Nobody forget to thank their spouse/mother/father/sperm donor/surrogate mother. Nobody needed to be bleeped more than once. Nobody booed and walked out because of the political jokes. No animals shat on the stage during a productiion number. No equipment fell on Jack Nicholson’s head. Nobody gave birth.
Nobody cared, pretty much.
Most boring Oscars I ever sat through. The Independent Spirit Awards were a lot more fun, even if they were the more amateur professional production I’ve seen in a long time.
And it seemed to me that the audience was weirdly miked. You could barely hear them no matter what they were responding to. No wonder everybody thought Jon Stewart was bombing; you couldn’t hear the laughter. Maybe he did bomb, although this morning’s articles disagree, but I thought he kept to intelligent and sharp humor most of the way through. The ratings will be awful, I’m sure, because only years when one blockbuster wins in double digits, like Titanic or LotR, get the big numbers.
BTW, all four acting awards went to winners whose movies had no other nominations at all. (At least that’s what one comment said.) Is this the first time that ever happened?
That’s not correct, or I am misunderstanding. All the acting winners’ films were nominated for at least one other award. See http://www.oscar.com/nominees/list.html
Making bombs for terrorists is clearly an illegal activity. Making a movie is not, I hope. Making Triumph of the Will facilitated nothing. The Nazi Party had already instituted an authoritarian regime.
“But mine worked, dammit!”
Sorry, it wasn’t really relevant, but there were way too few gratuitous Simpsons quote hijacks so far and this gave a good tack on op. Return to regular programming.
He might have meant that none of the winners’ films WON other awards.
Syriana (Clooney), CG (Weisz), Capote (PSH) and WTL (Reese) didn’t win anything else. No make-up, no cinematography, nothing.
That could be what I heard. I didn’t doublecheck the nominations late last night.
So, is this the first time all four acting winners won for movies that won no other awards?
I should probably go start a separate thread for this.
If you’re under the mistaken impression that I was saying all Crash fans were homophobes, bigots or $cientologists, I should let you know that you’re, well, mistaken. I said or meant no such thing. It was more of a “strange bedfellows” sort of comment.
Bigots and homophobes would not celebrate Crash’s win so much as celebrate Brokeback Mountain’s loss. Crash doesn’t threaten their ideas, Brokeback does.
random responses:
-Overall this thread was more entertaining than the show
-I did like Jon Stewart’s fake commercials. My fave was the one for Keira Knightley “Acting While Beautiful”
-Didn’t like “Crash” - I’m quite disappointed “Brokeback” didn’t win. Did anyone ever turn the camera onto Annie Proulx?, cause if they did I missed it.
-Is it because I’m over 50 that I can’t tell one rap song from another? All 3 “songs” were lousy this year - even Dolly’s! - imho. BUT - I am so glad we were spared the Beyonce-fest that we had last year.
-Loved the stuffed penguins, loved the enthusiasm from the “Tsotsi” winner, and loved the fact that the animated film category was so competitive.
Brokeback’s “loss” is a very relative concept. What remains unchanged is that the Academy
• voted it one of the five best movies of 2005,
• gave two of its highest awards (director and adapted screenplay) to the movie,
• nominated it for more awards than any other picture.
Didn’t there used to be 5 songs nominated in this category? The fact that they cut it down to 3 shows that the Academy knows most Oscars songs suck. You’d think musical talent would be sought out for film soundtracks, but I guess not.
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As for bigots rejoicing that Brokeback Mountain didn’t win… probably true. It’s not OK to be openly racist in most mainstream settings, but homophobia is enjoying something of a heyday in America. I’m sure some folks were quite pleased that it didn’t win, though I wouldn’t slam fans of Crash for liking it better than BBM because of this. Crash certainly had its merits and I enjoyed it. I just liked BBM more and I think it’s destined to be a classic.
I thought Dolly’s song sounded like she was copying Dolly Parton, if that makes sense. Is it possible for a song to be extremely derivative when it’s of your own material?
Sure. Lots of pop artists have a hit and then try to duplicate the formula. And then there’s the time Saul Zaentz sued John Fogerty for writing a song (“The Old Man Down the Road”) that was too similar to his earlier song “Run Through the Jungle” (to which Zaentz owned the rights).
Mom and I were at a restaurant having a (very) late supper during that bit. At Katz’s, the restaurant is generally off on the left, and the bar is off on the right. The bar bit also only has the only bathroom in the joint, and she went in to perform womanly ablutions before dinner. We noticed it was quite packed in there with mostly well-dressed men shoulder to shoulder.
As Mom comes back to the table: “Oh THAT’S why it’s so busy in the bar. They’re watching the Oscars.”
I replied, “Oh really? I forgot those were on tonight.”
“Yes,” she said. “I just saw River Phoenix.”
Beat. “I hope not. He can’t be looking well, what with being dead for ten years.”