# The 81st Annual Academy Awards **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977 "2009-02-22T21:12:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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 23, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/261 "2009-02-23T04:32:25Z")
> [@Iteki](#): > > Sofia Loren looks and sounds drunk as a skunk. She’s 75 and speaking in her second language, cut her a little slack. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/262 "2009-02-23T04:32:27Z")
Loren looks like a fresh mummy ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/263 "2009-02-23T04:32:32Z")
Angelina Jolie must really be afraid of Superman. Check out that Kryptonite ring! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/264 "2009-02-23T04:32:44Z")
Yay, Kate Winslett. ---
**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 23, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/265 "2009-02-23T04:34:08Z")
Her hair is very Grace Kelly. Now there was a woman. Just watched To Catch a Thief this afternoon 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/266 "2009-02-23T04:34:22Z")
Hi Kate’s dad!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/267 "2009-02-23T04:34:25Z")
Poor Meryl Streep, always the bride’s maid never the bride. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/268 "2009-02-23T04:34:28Z")
Righteous win for Kate, loved the shampoo bottle story. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/269 "2009-02-23T04:34:36Z")
Hee @ Kryptonite ring! Yay for Winslett, I am very fond. Oh how cute was the whistle? Re. Loren, I cut her lots of slack, love her, but she usually looks and sounds a million times better than she did tonight, it was a bit of a shock. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/270 "2009-02-23T04:34:58Z")
Kate is the hotness, man. You can keep your bony, skinny broads. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/271 "2009-02-23T04:35:10Z")
> [@Tijuana\_Golds](#): > > Loren looks like a fresh mummy She’s a gorgeous woman, but at some point a woman has to stop with all the surgery and just age. If Sophia gets one more facelift she’s going to have a beard! ---
**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 23, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/272 "2009-02-23T04:35:21Z")
Congrats to Kate - it’s about time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/273 "2009-02-23T04:35:55Z")
Yeah, SUCK IT UP MERYL!!! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/274 "2009-02-23T04:36:36Z")
Watching all the Oscar acceptances past clips must kind of add a heaping helping of nervousness about whatever you’re going to say. Meryl is pure class. ---
**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 23, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/275 "2009-02-23T04:37:24Z")
I really hope Mickey wins. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/276 "2009-02-23T04:37:46Z")
I just realized – there haven’t been many (any?) Nicholson sightings this year. Are Brad and Angelina the new Jack? ---
**Author:** ![Rachael\_Rage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Rachael\_Rage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachael_Rage)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/277 "2009-02-23T04:38:07Z")
I was really hoping Kate would do a shout to Ricky Gervais for predicting that all she needed to do was a Holocaust film and she’d be guaranteed an Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/278 "2009-02-23T04:38:11Z")
Now that’s a great group of actors up there. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/279 "2009-02-23T04:38:22Z")
Hey, why no ‘sir’ for Anthony? ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/280 "2009-02-23T04:38:39Z")
> [@Queen\_Tonya](#): > > Meryl is pure class. 100% agreed. Love her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977.md?page=15)