OSCARS 2013

I read that they wooed, impregnated, midwifed and birthed it.

Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.

He sang a show tune about the hot nudity in The Accused – 30 seconds of Googling would have explained why that line wasn't a keeper, but obviously Seth's staff was too chickenshit to give the boss any bad news.

Thankfully only watched a bit of this. Laughed at the Von Trapp joke.

Seth had some really foul jokes but I thought the production in general was really terrible, and often Seth was a bright spot by comparison. If someone could just rein him in he could be a very strong host. But I don't get the sense that he's able to go out of his comfort zone at all.

yeah wtf was with all that 'it was 10 years ago this year since Chicago..' ?? like they were talking about A World Event.

Gonna be a lot of hobbits up on stage next year.

The cast of "The Hobbit" should host, in character!!!!!

Was there no lifetime achievement award last night, or did I miss it? (Was that the Pennebaker segment? Usually they don't honor people together.) Also, doesn't last year's winning director usually present this year's, like with actors? They had Fonda and Douglas do that.

Doing a Twitter search, no one seemed to pick up on the Kardashian/beard joke as being about Kanye. Related to that, McFarlane seemed kind of uncomfortably and opaquely between dry loutish Kimmel wit and dry loutish Charles Nelson Reilly.

how is that about kanye?

They shifted all of the lifetime achievement stuff to the Governors Awards so that it isn't as rushed, right?

I'd rather see that than a lame clip package of Bond scenes or performances from Chicago and Dreamgirls or the stupid loser song at the end.

I don't think anyone picked up on it because it wasn't a joke about Kanye?

xpost (Well, OK, maybe it wasn't: Introducing bearded Ben, the Family Guy writer said: “The first time I saw all that dark facial hair I thought, “My God! The Kardashians have finally made the jump into film.”)

Terrible idea. Bergman and Kurosawa and Ray (or the Kazan controversy) has been the #1 reason to watch for a long time.

no one seemed to pick up on the Kardashian/beard joke as being about Kanye.

Yeah, and I guess that joke about the Oscar orgy at Jack Nicholson's place was supposed to be a joke about Roman Polanski?

I thought it was just another dated Oscars joke, like the cocaine joke. Har har cocaine orgy '70s those were teh days...

oh my god

https://twitter.com/charlesmurray/status/306078858241798144

James Morrison ‏@JamesPMorrison

@charlesmurray Yeah, if only self-confidence had anything whatsoever to do with talent or taste.

lol otm

i like that dude, he was on '24' for a few seasons

Yeah, James Morrison is a cool cat.

can't believe they did a tribute to Bond and didn't bother to get Connery, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig together to present an award. WTF.

yeah thank god for Bassey

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Pretty sure they were planning to get all the Bonds together, but the plan fell through when either Connery, Moore, or both dropped out.

if you don't get connery, what's the point imo

would loved to have seen just dalton and lazenby up there

And a holographic Peter Sellers.

I'm pretty sure lazenby is dead

oh I guess not. I thought he died last year, my bad. he should have been there.

The best thing would have been Denise Richards just standing there alone onstage, waving to everyone.

'and now, izabella scorupco and talisa soto!'

loool

The reunion you've been waiting for!

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lf/007_days_of_bond_240912/britt-ekland-007-days-of-bond-_4096017.jpg

BRITT EKLAND, EVERYBODY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJqPk8VU11E

Something I mentioned last night about the coveted death montage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/movies/awardsseason/even-the-oscar-memorial-list-is-a-focus-of-campaigning.html?_r=0

A friend on Facebook made the point that Donna Summer was left out, who, unlike Adam Yauch, actually won an Academy Award. (Not meant as a knock on Yauch, just that maybe last night wasn't the most sensible place to commemorate him. And yes, Knock on Yauch would make a great Dr. Seuss book.)

Oscilloscope Labs has released over 40 films. I think Yauch deserves it just fine.

No Andy Griffith or Ben Gazzara!

Excellent point--just looked over their credits, and they did Wendy & Lucy, the Cazale documentary, many more. Will point this out to my friend (who's more of a music guy). But I do agree Summer should have been there, having won one.

If Griffith and Gazarra were omitted, that's bad too. A Face in the Crowd, all those Cassavetes films...I wouldn't think they'd require any lobbying at all.

I think Donna Summer didn't actually win the award. She performed the song that won it, but the award went to the composer.

Another good point. In the space of five posts I'm thinking, what the hell is my friend whining about?

anne hathaway looks so bizarre on the cover of the newspaper today. her face is so humongous and alien-like.

so my childhood friend billy was in charge of the tiger in life of pi. worked for two years on the tiger. that's what he won for last night. i didn't see the movie.

The tiger was f'in rad, your pal did a good job

did it ever bite him

did he have to clean up its poop