They also said “Will Fe-RELL.” It was a joke.
Same thing he won the Emmy for, several months back. (I mean, sure, we can all hate on the guy for his limited range – but playing a Civil War veteran who rides around on horseback with 19th-century firearms at the ready? You can’t take that away from him; it’s kind of his thing.)
It’s either that, or an aging jock. Your choice.
Where was her wireless setup? I could see Pohler’s (and the fact that she should have been wearing spanx).
And Family Affair?
But seriously, I think my wife and son were the only two people on the planet that didn’t know she was gay. They were shocked.
I would think it’s incredibly hard. Like for Zero Dark Thirty - they took 8 years of detail oriented CIA research through interviews, phone taps, looking at public records, etc and boiled that down to a tense, compelling 2.5 hour movie. The raid would be easy to write (though hard to film) as it’s already written down, but the rest of the script would be hard as hell to put into a format that audiences want to watch.
Whoosh.
I don’t think it was your antenna. Right after Jodie did that “I’m going to make a public announcement right now … I’m single! Haw haw!” thing, the sound cut out. Similar to what the network would do to prevent bad words from flying out on the public airwaves, but this lasted a pretty long time. I have no idea what NBC was protecting us from, but it wasn’t just you. We were all in the same boat.
Yup.
Thank god, I was hoping someone wasn’t that dense 
Yeah it was right after she said “Can I at least get a wolf whistle?” Then the sound immediately cut out as they showed audience members whistling. Really weird.
Watching awards shows, I’m always surprised at how inept many people who are so accustomed to being “on”, and on camera, become when they get up to accept an award. Foster, I think, was drunk on top of it. Which you’d want to be with Mel Gibson at your table.
It was weird and uncomfortable. And while there were some touching moments, they were surrounded by a lot of weird. She knew she was getting the award; the speech could have been better prepped.
I liked the Will Farrell/Kristin Wiig thing, even if Tommy Lee Jones didn’t.
I found Foster’s speech to be a little bitchy. I mean, I agree with her sentiments about privacy, but using the acceptance speech to a lifetime achievement award to bitch about being a public figure was the height of irony. Plus, for people who make a very, *very *good living selling themselves to the fans, telling the fans to fuck off is a bad idea. Just left a bad taste in my mouth.
And I don’t know anything about Lena Dunham (sp?) but I thought she looked terrible. Her dress didn’t fit, she had no jewelry of any kind, and was clearly clomping around in shoes that didn’t fit like a third grader. You’re on an international stage - it’s disrespectful to act like it’s no big deal. It’s fine if she didn’t want the big glamour treatment, but then could she at least have picked something that fit properly? As a nominee, she had access to thousands and thousands of dollars in free haur makeup and clothing. She looked like she forgot the ceremony was that night, and grabbed her older sister’s old bridesmaid dress.
The rest of it was good. But why was Stallone’s collar so high and tight? Was he trying to hide some neck jowls. And the amount of bad plastic surgery in that room was shocking.
I would agree that people who earn millions of dollars to act should damned well know how to write and memorize a decent/witty/profound/memorable short speech instead of taking out some raggedy dumbass laundry list of notes to fumble over in front of an audience. Seriously people, how hard is it to memorize a two minute speech?!
Jody Foster is an even worst case in point - she didn’t suddenly find out she “won” this honor, she had months to prepare for this award. This was an absolute crap speech.
Dear Jody - nobody asked that you come out as a Lesbian - granted, it comes as no surprise to anyone, but if you are going to do it on this night, at this venue, at least do it right. You build up to it and then can’t even say the word “lesbian” or express it clearly and then sort of drop the ball. Then you make a rather vague, lofty threat/promise to pretty much end your career and stop working in film (but continue to work in some other mystery media), followed back stage with comments about how you have no intentions of stopping acting or directing films. So, uh, exactly what the fuck were you trying to say in this speech?! Maybe you should have had Mel Gibson give your speech holding a beaver puppet. Dear, dear Jody - you have done some incredible work in film, but this speech was rank amateur night at Toastmasters.
Thanks for letting us know.
Frankly, as much as I enjoyed Gervais, I thought Poehler and Fey blew him away.
Wait, Jodie Foster isn’t out already?
Jessica Chastain.
Bill Clinton was a nice surprise and I thought he did a very good job. He didn’t even have to look at the teleprompter much.
That Jodie Foster thing was a mess.
Why did they keep saying Downton Abbey - Season Two? They didn’t do that for any other program.
I was impressed that Bill showed up to introduce Lincoln. Wow, Spielberg certainly does know the right people! The standing ovation was quite nice as well.
My SO and I did laugh when we thought aloud about having Dubya or Dick Cheney show up to introduce Zero Dark Thirty - I think neither of them would have exactly gotten a standing ovation.
I think because Season 1 was entered as a miniseries; Season 2 as a regular series.
And thanks for the info on the Jodie Foster sound loss, everyone – very weird episode in the middle of a very weird speech.