# 79th Annual Acadamy Awards watch along/drink along thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661 "2007-02-26T00:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Carnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carnick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnick)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/141 "2007-02-26T03:08:20Z")
Go Randy Edelman! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/142 "2007-02-26T03:09:22Z")
God, I hate Tom Cruise. Up there having a private whisper with Sherry Lansing like she’s not accepting an award in front of a billion people. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/143 "2007-02-26T03:10:28Z")
Wow this has to be a Straight Dope Message Board. Only here would you get a reference to Leroy Anderson (“Typewriter Song”) He also wrote Sleigh Ride and Synchopated Clock ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/144 "2007-02-26T03:11:54Z")
Ellen having Spielberg take a picture of her and Eastwood, “for MySpace” HA! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/145 "2007-02-26T03:12:15Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] God, I hate Tom Cruise. Up there having a private whisper with Sherry Lansing like she’s not accepting an award in front of a billion people. [/QUOTE] Were you _looking_ for something, anything to hate Tom Cruise for? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/146 "2007-02-26T03:12:48Z")
Okay, what is with DeGeneres’ outfits tonight? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/147 "2007-02-26T03:14:23Z")
**Walloon** Looking for something for which to hate Tom Cruise?? Why no !!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/148 "2007-02-26T03:14:25Z")
Gwen Paltrow for Cinematography Winner: PAN’S LABYRINTH!! Still shaking my head that Marie Antoinette won an Oscar. I’m so thrilled! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/149 "2007-02-26T03:14:58Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Were you _looking_ for something, anything to hate Tom Cruise for? [/QUOTE] No, no; my hate is pre-existing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/150 "2007-02-26T03:14:59Z")
Again, Hooray for Pan’s Labyrinth for cinematography. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/151 "2007-02-26T03:15:51Z")
Kudos to Paltrow for managing to say “cinematography” four or five times without stumbling once. I certainly couldn’t have done that. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/152 "2007-02-26T03:16:37Z")
God, STOP with the playing people offstage! I hate that! Dancers doing LMS. Cute ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/153 "2007-02-26T03:17:55Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] Okay, what is with DeGeneris’ outfits tonight? [/QUOTE] She doesn’t do dresses. I don’t know if it’s because she’s lesbian, but she is very uncomfortable in them and just doesn’t wear them. She thought about doing the whole gown route for the show but decided that her personal level of discomfort at doing something that really isn’t “her” was too high. So she elected to do a variety of tuxedos – the tuxedo being the standard trouser-based formal wear, and the “variety of” being a nod to the variety of gowns female award-show hosts generally wear. She also thought about just doing one classic tuxedo a la a male host, but felt that would come across as too butch. Source: _People_ mag, the _Ellen_ show, various Oscar articles, I don’t recall, but I’m pretty sure that’s right. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/154 "2007-02-26T03:21:51Z")
Re. Ellen’s tuxes – right, I figured out as much. (I don’t wear dresses, either.) I was wondering about her choices of maroon velvet and white-on-white satin [?]… it was looking like she’d escaped from the Edwardian period and a wedding reception, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/155 "2007-02-26T03:22:15Z")
Naomi Watts and Robert Downey Jr. for Visual Effects. Naomi’s so beautiful. Not a big year for Visual Effects. Only 3 nominees. Winner: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/156 "2007-02-26T03:22:16Z")
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/157 "2007-02-26T03:22:20Z")
Arr, _Dead Man’s Chest_ fer Visual effects! ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/158 "2007-02-26T03:22:48Z")
I liked the Wes Anderson American Express ad. (can you make a .357 with a bayonet?) add my congrats for Pan’s Labyrinth. Brian ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/159 "2007-02-26T03:23:28Z")
POTC special effects award is well deserved. The movie is a POS\* IMO but the effects were top class. \*I like the first one but the 2nd one was a mess. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/160 "2007-02-26T03:23:47Z")
What’s with the random factoid as they walk up? _“Bob Smith is a Sagittarius who can ride a unicycle!”_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661.md?page=9)