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For up-to-the-minute posts and reactions? If not, here's one. I was gonna buy all pinot noir for the big event - IN HONOR OF A MOVIE THAT I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN! - that's how much oscar fever I have! I don't really have that much oscar fever. But we could make fun of people's hats. Yayyyyyyy! Hats!!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hats? Is this gonna be The Year That OScars Went Hats?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yesterday I snuck around the Kodak Theater. Tight security, my ass. I walked around with headphones on and nobody tried to stop me from checking stuff out.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Remy, were you googling for a picture there?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

so, who is watching? can i get a head-count?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be at a party, probably so drunk I have no idea what's going on. I may/not watch it.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be seeing Michael Mayer tonight while you guys are watching twelve minute self-congratulatory Hollywood montages/tributes, while the award winners who worked their whole lives to reach that pinnacle get handcuffed and dragged off the stage if they dare to speak for more than 45 seconds.

Suckers!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to bed soon, I think. Them Oscars a-gonna come too late for me anyway.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm at work, but we're watching 'cuz we have an office pool. (We're getting pizza too -- I love working weekends.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not on UKTV! :((

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

But it has to be on UKTV! A billion people watch it every year! hahaha. there was a good article about that myth somewhere. someone just made up the billion figure and everyone has been repeating it for years. it's nowhere near that. must be good for the ego.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

here it is:

http://newyorker.com/printable/?talk/050228ta_talk_radosh

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this'll be the first time in 10 years that I won't be watching it.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

well the E! coverage is about to start.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

joan and melissa are over on the tv guide channel, I wonder if I should watch that?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 27 February 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, if you google *academy awards billion viewers* you realize how ubiquitous that myth is.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I won't watch either. I wasn't interested in seeing much of what's up, and what I did see was, at best, alright.

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

bbbbbut what about chris rock? he funny.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's on Sky Movies in the UK, which is a bit rub (since I don't have Sky Movies)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I just hope Liv Tyler shows up trying to look and sound like Audrey Hepburn again.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Rock is funny, but Oscar hosting is a thankless gig. (Except it prolly pays good.) Of course, I actually liked Letterman as the host, so what do I know.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

joan rivers is a trainwreck. i know, i know, big surprise. where does she go from the tv guide channel? public access in her basement? actually, that would make a good snl skit. she could watch E! while swilling a bottle of hootch and make fun of people's shoes. joan to beyonce: "i feel like you belong to me. do you remember when you were a teenager? how are you tonight?". all in a 3 second burst.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 February 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I like
1) hard nipples
2) backless dresses
and Hilary Swank just made me hit the trifecta.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the trifecta there?

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Left nipple to win, right nipple to place, naked back to show.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

NICE

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Natalie Portman wears yet another fugly dress.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

SHARON OSBOURNE AND JAMIE THEAKSTON!!!
...are your SKY MOVIES ONE oscars show presenters.
its kicks off any secod uk gang.

― piscesboy, Monday, 28 February 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Rock is funny, but Oscar hosting is a thankless gig. (Except it prolly pays good.) Of course, I actually liked Letterman as the host, so what do I know.

-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), February 27th, 2005.

nope. doesn't pay at all. or as they like to charitably say, hosts prefer to defer their payment.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Every Oscar presenter and winner Sunday night will strut off with a gift bag valued at more than $100,000.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn't want to talk about the contents of the gift bag - it's Oscar's dirty little secret, apparently, that the famous have to be all but bribed to show up. Companies compete to donate their products in the hope of reaping free publicity post-Oscar from the celebs.

So what's in this year's bag?

For starters, an 18-inch baroque Tahitian pearl necklace valued at $3,200; an iXi collapsible bike, $1,289; a year's supply of Vonage broadband telephone service, $500; a Krups kitchen set, $700; a cosmetics case with supplies, $600; cashmere pajamas, $500; a two-night stay for two in Carmel Valley, $2,500; and a day at a Manhattan spa, $3,500.

That's just touching upon the array of products, trips and gift certificates crammed into the bag."

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 February 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Zellweger madness! she looks insane.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

They just interviewed Renee Zellweger and she seemed a bit tipsy.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, xpost

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Is anyone else watching CSI: Weekends?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

a two-night stay for two in Carmel Valley, $2,500

Hahah, ridiculous. (Partially because I can do that for free anytime.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Zellweger is going to be so much easier to look at in 25 years (when she can use middle age as an excuse). I'm sorry, that's shallow of me.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirsten Dunst - baked per usual

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Has the Oscars started? Oh good. I'm going to bed now.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

oh gosh this is gonna be *really* annoying. the tv's downstairs, the pc's upstairs. i'm going to have to run between the 2 to do the thread-post/watch the show at the same time thing.

i keep getting the funny feeling that this is the year something reeeeaally weird happens.

― piscesboy, Monday, 28 February 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What's with Scarlett Johansson's hair?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised there are still so many people left outside with the show starting in 5 minues

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

nope. doesn't pay at all.

Wow. I guess it's just for the honor of it all, huh? And the parties.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

And the Hollywood trim, son

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

How can anyone find Hilary Swank attractive?

― Nellie (nellskies), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, Wolfgang Puck doing the aftershow

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Being interviewed by Chris Connelly looks like a bad first date.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I always feel bad I missed when Conan O'brien hosted. I doubt they'll ever show it again. I would want a fast forward button though...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with Mike Myers' face?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You're not sitting on it. Oh wait, that came out wrong.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"they're all just a little......a little.....different" (from the opening montage)

man, this thing is horribly produced. Proof positive that budget /= taste.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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re: halle in catwoman 2

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

THE AVIATOR IS FOR THE CHILDREN

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf is she doing in catwoman 2 then?

She wants a second Razzie? She needs more dough? She promised someone she'd do it in exchange for this really meaty role she's been wanting to do forever and ever, amen? She lost a bet? The producers know incriminating secrets against her that they're blackmailing her on? She developed an addiction to the costumes she wore in the first one and can't bear to think of life without having worn them again? She misspoke and actually she's going to star in Cat People 2?

Who knows?

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i stand corrected.

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

already done. wow.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hoffman, SOUSED.

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dustin Hoffman is hammered, yes?

― subgenius (subgenius), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

*clicks on link*

Ohhhh. Addiction to crack? No, wait, addiction to cracking whip. Damn. Why on Earth doesn't she just go off and become a dominatrix on the side, then? It'd be a lot more respectable, really.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

HILARIOUS!

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Million Dowwar Babeee

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My oscar pool died in the second half of this show

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

BEARD

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

well cheap melodrama is usually rewarded, esp. w. wizened priests.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

dustin hoffman = the new anna nicole.

― william, it was really nothing (superpopelectro), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

boooorrrrrring

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

why does the academy hate scorcese ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

that man is a fish!

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Rock’s Bush-bashing rant on ABC’s Academy Awards show was disgusting. I didn’t tune in to be insulted by Rock - but I was.
If you were insulted, feel free to call ABC at (818) 460-7477 and let them know how you feel. When you call, press 4 to skip the voice recording. You only have 30 seconds to make your point, so be pithy (thanks Bill for letting me use your pet phrase).
I urge you to call if you were offended.

If emailing is your thing (I recommend calls over emails as emailing is largely ignored when you have 50,000 spams clogging the inbox. In addition, calling allows you to opt for a written response.), the email address is netaudr@abc.com.

http://www.thebaron.us/?p=133

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i lvoe how much random fun hoffmann is getting from his life in the las few years, doing work for himself, fucking arround with the oscars, not messing up his legacy

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

BROOKLYN

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

BROOKLYN!!!!

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news/images/n/Notorious_Big/sq-biggie-camel-suit-bdb.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

best oscars closing line evah

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

HOW AWESOME IS IT THAT JAMIE FOXX SAID WYLE OUT

― DISCO VIETNAM (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah

x-post

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ok time for a cigarette and more alcohol.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Hoffman was talking that way because of all the botox. He and Eastwood have some sort of botox-off.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

why are they playing the theme from terminator

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

wyle out?

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn (AaronHz), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

if you don't know...

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

guess i missed that part

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn (AaronHz), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

why are they playing the theme from terminator

-- ryan (augustuscaesar2...), February 28th, 2005.

because its a night of nuclear holocaust and robots

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it wyle out is like go off, I've never heard anyone I know say that.

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn (AaronHz), Monday, 28 February 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_images/tv2/programmes/er/noah_d.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Kid n Play meets Sideshow Bob meets the seventh circle of hell.

I am so glad I wasn't the only one to think of Kid N Play during the C. Crows performance!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

why does the academy hate scorcese ?

Because Scorsese apparently started loving Oscar instead of just shrugging it off like most sane people.

(That said, Clint Eastwood & M$B for the top two have made me pretty happy, as far as Oscar goes.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: MIB VS. M$B

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 February 2005 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, tell me I wasn't the only one who noticed Lou Gossett asleep in his chair near the end of this thing. . . .

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 28 February 2005 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

M$B looks like a better acronym for MIB than MIB does.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 February 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never seen a film by Clint Eastwood.

― NRQ, Monday, 28 February 2005 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

MDB = Millions of Dead Babies

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn (AaronHz), Monday, 28 February 2005 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeeaaaa! I stay away from the TV, got extra sleep, and feel refreshed this morning!

Here's to better films in '05!

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 28 February 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Multi Dead Baby Corporation

― latebloomer: The Heavy Metal Velveeta Faction (latebloomer), Monday, 28 February 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I would rather Scorsese never win than have won for "The Aviator," so I'm happy. Someone should cut that guy's budgets back down to size, given what a cluttered mess he made of "Gangs of New York" and this one. Fortunately, I feel Scorsese has at least another truly great movie or two left in him.

I was shocked to hear "M$B" was made in just a little over a month! Oddly enough, as a director Eastwood is starting to embody the auteur theory far more than Scorsese ever did.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

> kaufmann's maniuplaiosn are basically masurbatory genre excercises.(and dull ones at that) <

I think you're confusing it with the Hawke-Delpy-Linklater wankfests.

Freeman's breakthrough role & first Oscar nom was Street Smart, as a pimp.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 February 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

If Eternal Sunshine had come out in January, it would've swept these fuckers, you know.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 28 February 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I arrived home last night just in time for the death montage.

I think it's sad that classical musicianship has fallen off so much that there is, in fact, only one cello player left in the entire world (Yo-Yo Ma). And apparently there's only one female singer in the entire world (Beyoncé Knowles). Maybe by next year the Academy will ahve trained up a few youngsters in these obscure and undercompetitive arts.

What happened to "Nobody Knows," I thought it was going to be in this year?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 February 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe by next year Beyonce will know how to play cello and can do ALL the musical performances herself!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 28 February 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Like a one-man band, that would be funny.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 February 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody Knows was Japan's official selection, but it was apparently not judged to be among the best five foreign-language films.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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