# 85th Academy Awards viewing thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279 "2013-02-24T19:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/281 "2013-02-25T04:03:13Z")
Wait, what? Barbra Streisand died??? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/282 "2013-02-25T04:03:29Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > I am glad they quit having somebody sing during the In Memoriam segment. > > Maybe some Jaws music, though … “…lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes…” Cue Barbara! ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/283 "2013-02-25T04:04:10Z")
Babs is doing her 1970s lounge singer impression. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/284 "2013-02-25T04:04:17Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > You spoke too soon. No, this is perfectly justified. He wrote a ton of [Oscar nominated and winning songs](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006121/awards). ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/285 "2013-02-25T04:04:20Z")
Barbra doesn’t look like herself anymore ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/286 "2013-02-25T04:04:26Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Wait, what? Barbra Streisand died??? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/287 "2013-02-25T04:04:30Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > You spoke too soon. But that ain’t just “somebody”. That’s Barbra. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/288 "2013-02-25T04:04:42Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > You spoke too soon. But this is just for Hamlisch. I can respect that. Having somebody croon a mournful tune while the pictures of the departed scroll by was really tacky and hopefully gone forever into the pit of terrible Oscar ideas (Hi, Rob Lowe! How’s Snow White doing down there?). ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/289 "2013-02-25T04:04:52Z")
Good for her. Hardto believe she’s 71… ---
**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 25, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/290 "2013-02-25T04:05:05Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > “…lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes…” > > Cue Barbara! I snickered. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/291 "2013-02-25T04:05:36Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Wait, what? Barbra Streisand died??? Close the damn thread. I’m laughing my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/292 "2013-02-25T04:06:31Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > Well, now that the Twilight Series has ended, I doubt we’ll be hearing to much from her anymore. Don’t get your hopes up. Kristen Stewart is apparently going to star in [some flick about a shoe designer, and a sequel to \*Snow White and the Huntsman, as well as a new romantic comedy](http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/celebrity/540714/kristen-stewart-s-new-movie-role-revealed.html#index=1). ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/293 "2013-02-25T04:06:43Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > “…lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes…” > > Cue Barbara! And instead they got Barbra. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/294 "2013-02-25T04:06:58Z")
Although it’s only tangentially a movie song, I’d have liked to see “What I Did For Love” from A Chorus Line to represent Marvin Hamlisch. Maybe for the Tonys. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/295 "2013-02-25T04:07:10Z")
Barbera looks like a damn mummy. Radcliffe is really short. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/296 "2013-02-25T04:07:50Z")
Looked like Barbra could rip out Siegfried or Roy’s throat with those nails. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/297 "2013-02-25T04:09:04Z")
lol at the Rex Reed joke. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/298 "2013-02-25T04:09:22Z")
Gere, Latifah, Zellwegger and Jones. A downright weird combination. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/299 "2013-02-25T04:09:23Z")
Damn, those are some impressive microphone stands! (Yes, I’m a huge geek.) ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279/300 "2013-02-25T04:09:31Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > No, this is perfectly justified. He wrote a ton of [Oscar nominated and winning songs](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006121/awards). I wasn’t complaining about Hamlisch being included. I was remarking that **Uncle Jocko** ’s comment might have been wishful thinking. Streisand did, however, seem to be saluting only Hamlisch instead of the whole death roll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/85th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/651279.md?page=16)