IMO, the most jaw-dropping, blood-boiling moment in yesterday’s Oscars’ ceremony came during the acceptance speech of Howard Berger and Tami Lane for Best Make-Up in the Narnia movie. Wait. Let me reword that. I meant, during the acceptance speech of just Howard Berger.
Oh yes, Tami Lane was given the award too. She went on stage, and stood patiently by as blabbermouth Howard thanked every person he’s ever met since grade school. On and on and on and on, Howard spoke, but Tami never interrupted him. Finally, as the get-off-stage music was playing, the corpulent windbag wrapped it up and backed away. Tami saw her chance and stepped up to the mic! Except the mic was dead, and the camera cut away as she began to mouth a speech that no one heard. Old Howard, you see, had used up all their time.
Got some advice for you Howard, old boy, next time you have the opportunity to wreck the high point of your partner’s career (maybe even her lifetime): SHUT THE FUCK UP!
I hope Tami had the good sense to beat the living daylights out of you backstage with her solid metal Oscar, and finds someone new to work with who isn’t such a friggin asshole.
I mentioned this in the “Live Oscar” thread. It pissed me off too, especially as she is clearly waiting for the microphone while he’s blathering on about his dead parents and Sendek and “Where the Wild Things Are”, etc… DUDE! THERE IS A COUNTER IN FRONT OF YOU TIMING DOWN! YOU can see how much (or how little) time is left to the second! He was just being a totally selfish ass.
Absolutely the ass of the night. I think someone else used up most of their - also female - co-winner’s time, but she at least was able to say something.
But it just occured to me: Maybe he didn’t realize they had to split the time on the countdown? That when he was done, it would be reset for her?
Except for the Brokeback Mountain screenplay award, it seems like whenever the winners are a man and a woman, the man hogs the mic. Maybe it’s because the guy gets to the mic first, while the woman has to deal with a long dress and high heels.
But yeah, it was rude. We might have missed the best Oscar acceptance speech ever!
They should replay that Will Ferrell/Jack Black song at the beginning of every Oscar ceremony. It was running through my head all night. “No need to thank your parakeet…YOU’RE BOOOOOORRRRRRRINNNNNNNGGGGGG!”
Actually, not to hijack this into a general Oscars pit thread, but the biggest ass of the night was whoever greenlighted the following copy (might have been in the preshow, but was definitely Official VO):
“Transamerica, the story of a transsexual man who drives across country with his son…”
…there was something odd all night with the timing of the speeches. When Kong won best Visual Effects, there is no way that Richard Taylor wasn’t going to speak. He started to move towards the mic when the music bellowed up, and they all left the stage. The same thing happened when Crash won best picture, someone else got up to speak when the music drowned them out. I know that all the nominees got sent a DVD that apparently explained they would only get a minute to speak, but something seemed to get lost in the translation…
These people are in show business–how goddam difficult could it be to write your speech, stand there in front of a clock and time it? What, do they think “we’ll fix it in post?”
P.S. When did people start spelling “mike” as “mic?” How do you do pluralize and past-tense? “She was miced?” “They used mice?”
P.P.S. I could have done without the trannie humor, including the very first words out of Jon Stewart’s mouth. But I was steeled for it. “Easy joke.” It’s not like there are any openly transgendered people in show biz.
I had to scroll my mice wheel up to re-read that one. I may have shouted out loud had the mikerophone been plugged in!Then I realized we were playing by your rules in this one and knew you were funnin’ with us. I laughed louder than a stampedeing herd of meese!
Seriously. “Ladies, gentlemen, Felicity” – puh-leeze. Fortunately I got to the Oscar party late - though not late enough to miss Reese’s speech, in which she celebrated her win over Felicity by using the phrase “real woman” three times in sixty seconds. No doubt she meant nothing by it, but…