. . .Ladies and gentlemen, your host Mr. Bob Hope!
Thank you, Bob “Iraqi Freedom Fighter” Hope here. You know, somebody asked me if I had I seen The Hours and I thought they were talking about the length of tonight’s show (rimshot). It’s a sad day in our country when they had to go abroad to cast the lead in The Quiet American. All of our actors were out in the streets yelling at President Bush and Colin Powell. But I wanna tell ya. . .seriously, folks:
Heads up to anyone planning on using Oscar.com to crib some answers for tonight’s pool. Their trivia list contains a HUGE error on the first page. Did anyone else catch it?
Here are some other random Oscar® thoughts: the following people were, IMHO, robbed of their big night thanks to bad timing and bad luck: James Stewart for Vertigo in 1958. He wasn’t even nominated. The winner was David Niven in Separate Tables.Robert Downey, Jr. was definitely Oscarworthy in 1993 for Chaplin, but had the bad luck to come up against Al Pacino on his 7th try. The same thing happened to jazz titan Dexter Gordon in 1986 when he was nominated for ’Round Midnight, but that year the Lead Actor Award went to Paul Newman for Lifetime Achievement.
There are others, but I leave you with another observation inspired on a thread running concurrently on this board. There are several movies with an Academy Award Winning Lead performance that is the **best thing about the whole movie[/n]. I thought of these: Liz Taylor in Butterfield 8 (1960); Jessica Lange in Blue Sky (1994); Jack Lemmon for Save The Tiger (1973).
Finally, what was the last Best Picture winner to have a city’s name in the title? I think we’ll get one tonight, too.
As the young gals here in Holllywood say as they leave their plastic surgeon’s office, Thanks for the mammaries…"
Well first of all, Michael Caine was the lead even if he wasn’t the title character. But more importantly, I think it’s “Bob Hope” who hasn’t seen the movie, not ECJones.
Thanks, ECjones29, for the tribute to Bob Hope! He hosted the Academy Awards for so many years, always joked about how he never received an Oscar, and it didn’t sound lame. If that makes any sense to those who don’t really know Bob.
I’d like to see the AMPAS bestow an honorary Oscar to Bob, which hopefully they will do before it is too late. Then it wouldn’t be called Passover in his house any more.
Boy, I tell ya, I can’t find it. If you’re talking about Tatum, that isn’t an error. Tatum O’Neal is the youngest person to win an award in a competitive category, like it says. Shirley Temple did recieve an Oscar at age 6 or 7, but it was a special tiny Oscar commemorating her popularity as a child star.
All of my fictitious Bob Hope comments were meant in the spirit of fun and games;:rolleyes: (Bob’s writers were not above a slightly misrepresentation of facts to get their star to the punch line, but the resulting brouhaha makes clear there aren’t many Quiet Americans out there in the ether!)
Oscar night is, for me, "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year." I am 42 years old and have watched* every *Academy Awards telecast since 1968, a record I purpose keeping untarnished until my death. You know how some people follow baseball or collect stamps? Well, I love the Oscars.
Thanks,betenoir for your support. Mobo85, I’ll reveal the gaffe on Oscar.com’s trivia page as we get closer to show time. When I say “HUGE,” I mean HUGE. . . amazing it got posted, seeing as how this the Academy’s official website and everything.*
Second: I have been poisoned, horribly poisoned, by the Yahoo message boards and other sites. I have been spending way way WAY too much time reading nasty-assed comments from people who hate movies/celebrities/Oscars, to the point where I read your post as yet another slam on the awards, the movies nominated, and the people who are attending.
I’ve also been spending too much time sarcastically responding to such people. I got so tired of hearing people bitching about how all the movies are crap/haven’t heard of most of the nominated films/the thing is fixed/all the celebrities are leftist pinko traitors who should be bombed/who cares about the Oscars anyway/boycott the Oscars/yadda yadda yadda that I’m seeing nastiness everywhere and the only reason I only came off clueless, rather than a real C*NT, is that I knew we weren’t in the Pit.
This paragraph changes EVERYTHING! I feel exactly the same, and all the Anti-Oscar talk I’d been reading was getting me down. Yeah, the fate of the world isn’t in the balance, but I love movies (I’ve seen all the nominated films in the “Big 8”) and I too have watched the Oscars since I was a kid. I’m just a little older than you and have watched them for as long as I can remember. I’ve only missed them twice (NOT by choice!) and the memory of both times is so vivid that it still hurts.
What can I say? While I knew you were channeling Bob, I still assumed that you hadn’t seen and knew nothing about **
The Quiet American** (an AMAZING film!) and just had to put my fairly worthless 2 cents in. Sorry.
I’ve looked and looked and looked and I can’t find it either.
It looks to me like the counter is off. It says the show starts in 4 hours and 20 minutes. However, it won’t actually start for 6 hours and 20 minutes.
Well, jiminy crickets, equipoise, that’s QUITE alright. . . fulsome apology accepted. You like me? Right now you really, really like me?
I agree there is enough viciousness out there on the 'net without it infiltrating the SDMB. That’s why I come here.
No, I haven’t yet seen The Quiet American but I do know the story, etc. It’s definitely possible to guess most of the Awards correctly in any given year without having seen the movies, although I am always blindsided in at least one category.
Y’all want a hint? The incorrect trivia item is not about a particular person. . .
“DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is the only film to have five or more Academy Awards® without winning Best Picture. The frosty epic got iced by the warm and melodic THE SOUND OF MUSIC.”
Saving Private Ryan also won five Oscars without winning Best Picture.
The Man Who is on the right track, but Cabaret won 8 Oscars in 1972 without winning for Best Picture.
Apparently I ruffled a lot of feathers today and I’m not sure why. I’m homebound with a serious illness and I guess I’ve been spending too much time on the boards. I meant no harm; just trying to have a little fun.
I haven’t been checking the rest of the board to see if you’re getting yourself in trouble elsewhere, so I only know this thread. If any part of that feeling was caused by me, please accept my apologies. The problem was ALL mine, my bad brain, my bad attitude. Please forgive me.
I’m kindof in a punk mood. Hubby is away on business, I have no friends who have the slightest interest in movies, let alone the Oscars. I’m a pathetic being sitting here alone wearing jammies and headphones, with the TV and the computer both on. Blah I have the TV on in the kitchen so if I have to go in and get a drink or something, I can watch it in there. I have the Tivo going full tilt so I can rewind to see something. At least I can watch it in high-definition, so it’ll all look purty (they should have the pre-show in HDTV too, that’s the time you can really see the designer dresses).
