I saw her on Conan O’Brian a few weeks ago, and I was amazed at how she could barely hold her head up to talk to him when he’d kid her. She does seem genuinely (and extremely) shy, which makes her seem very sweet.
Speaking of tweaked voices, what the hell was the deal with Mickey Mouse’s voice? That’s not a rough voice to imitate-I can do it pretty well myself-but whoever provide that voice surely didn’t study any cartoons at all. It didn’t sound anything like Mickey Mouse!
The Celebrity News section on the IMDB has this to say:
I’ve heard this theory put for by several people in defense of Renee’s purported lack of ability, and I disagree with it. Most of the numbers in which Roxie appears in “Chicago” of the ‘dream sequence’ variety. In her fantasy, she is the star and would be as talented, if not more, than Velma. I think my theory is borne out near the end, where she is weakly auditioning, dismissed by the producers, and then encounters Velma on her way out. That’s ‘real’ singing, as opposed to how she imagines herself onstage.
The things I found most amazing about the show are (in no particular order):
The things that bugged me about the show (again in no particular order):
How many of the presenters were not Oscar winners, or even nominated? There seemed to be alot of presenters who were in the business, but not Award Winning. Jennifer Lopez, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Garner probably others that I remember.
What happened to the last year’s winners give the statue to this years winners?, “passing the torch” I am talking about Ron Howard - Best Director, Brian Grazer - Best Picture and Jim Broadbent - Best Supporting Actor.
Passing the torch was observed in the Best Actor categories–Denzel Washington presented Actress, Halle Berry Actor. I don’t think there’s ever been a tradition about who presents Director and Picture.
Supporting categories…I’m not so sure if there was a tradition or not. If there was, it wasn’t observed.
Except the cross-passing of the acting categories, I don’t think passing the torch has ever been a tradition. The trouble with having last year’s best director present this year’s best director award is the likelihood that last year’s best director is nominated again. With the acting categories divided be gender, and the passing on done across gender that’s not an issue there so they do it, but where else would it work?
Broadbent was probably invited but didn’t come for whatever reasons (travel these days may be a concern for some); Connelly presented Supporting Actor.
Man-oh-man am I glad this didn’t happen. Spirited Away was not only a far superior movie, it was leagues ahead of its competition. This category is already somewhat of a joke–the last thing they needed was a second-rate CG pick beat the winner of the entire Berlin Int’l Film Festival by one of the most important animators in cinema history.
Did Eminem perform Lose Yourself? I thought I’d stuck by the TV all the way up through the Best Song award, and I’d only seen 4 of the songs performed when they announced it. Did I miss it, or did he choose not to perform it for some reason? I know that someone else accepted the award on Eminem’s behalf. It was all very weird.
No, he didn’t. He wasn’t there.
Supporting Actress.
I believe Marcia Gay-Harden rightfully presented the B. Supp. Actor award, given the cross-gender presentation.
This article, http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030303/film_nm/film_days_dc_4 says that shooting for the remake of Around the World in 80 Days was scheduled to start on March 15. Given that Broadbent is playing a leading role and “the filmmakers hope to cover more single locations than any other picture,” it may have been difficult for him to get away.
Keep in mind the original Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney) has been dead for years, and the Mickey sound has evolved over the years. I don’t know what the current Mickey (who’s married to the current Minnie!) bases his sound on, but it’s quite difficult. I know over at Warners, there are many voices for the characters since Mel Blanc sounded different over the years, so I imagine the same thing happens over at Disney.
“One, two, three, four…five toes?”
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Not Connery, Connelly, as in Jennifer–last year’s winner. I thought Harden (winner 2 years ago) presented something else.
Catherine Zeta-Jones also had a brief flirtation with pop stardom in the early 1990s, releasing an album in the UK.
Renee Zellweger didn’t sing in Empire Records, did she?
Okay, this isn’t really about the actual Oscars procedure or anything, but am I the only one who thought that LOTR: The Two Towers got severely screwed over on nominations and actual awards? I mean, Peter Jackson should have been nominated for best director, and they should have also been nominated for the make-up design… And I think that it should have gotten Best Picture over Chicago, but that’s just me…:rolleyes:
No. Sean Connery presented the award for supporting actress and Connely for supporting actor.
HazyBaby–Trying to remain objective (ie, removing my Tolkien-geek goggles), but yeah, LOTR:TT got hosed. How could the same people who won for cinematography and score last year not have been even nominated this year…for the same work??? And makeup—jeez, they could only find two nominees; couldn’t they at least have used LOTR:TT to fill out the field?
:deep breath:
A year from now, all shall be made aright.
I’m very surprised that LOTR:TTT didn’t win Art Direction–I’ve not seen Chicago, but I do know that Peter Jackson’s crew had to build Helm’s Deep–as in build into the mountain. How does that even compare with the decor of Chicago.
Please don’t tell me to see Chicago–I saw the clip of the puppet scene, and I was scared sh*tless for about a half hour. ::shudder::
Hate to double post but I caught the tail end of jsc1953’s post.
I, too, think the Academy is waiting for ROTK to honor the LOTR “trilogy.” Can’t wait.