Rock at the Oscars, 2005

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Sunday, February 27. 2005

Posted by Nate Johnston in Television at 22:01 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Rock at the Oscars, 2005

Television
Like Ann Althouse, I am blogging the Oscars. I'm not nearly organized enough to put datestamps on, though, so y'all will have to settle for things as they come.
  • Chris Rock's opening monologue was pretty funny. I have to admit, I experienced a full-body spasm when he brought up Fahrenheit 911, but he talked through it in a way that I found to be reasonably funny.
  • Heather and I agree that Halle Berry's dress is very pretty. Hilary Swank's is... ugh. What the heck has Renee Zellwegger done with herself? Cate Blanchett looks elegant and porcelain.
  • The boys choir in the first song, the one in French, looked like movie theater ushers. A bunch of boys in red vests, white shirts, bow ties, and dark pants, sounds like it should be in a National Amusements theater.
  • Best commercial so far: the Budweiser horse snowfight commercial.
  • Chris Rock's theater lobby interviews of people is one of the funniest things I've ever seen at the Oscars that didn't involve Robin Williams.
  • Pierce Brosnan on the screen with an animated character? It seems... unseemly.
Update 1:
  • So far, they have had just the one award where they had the sadistic spectacle of every one of the nominees on the stage.
  • I do like the way they are using the whole theater more this year. Cate Blanchett from the seats, Scarlett Johannson from the balcony. It's interesting.
  • Chris Rock's jab at Tim Robbins "boring us to death with his politics"... yay!
  • I am so glad Cate Blanchett won the oscar. Heather is too.
Update 2:
  • The Adam Sandler thing with Chris Rock being Catherine Zeta-Jones... dear god, end it now.
  • Al Pacino... is he pathologically unkempt?
  • I was watching for reaction to Chris Rock's opener, and I haven't been disappointed... fellow Wahoo John Behan had the same negative reaction I started out with.
  • Comedy Superstar Jeremy Irons seemed to earn his apellation in a dryly humorous presentation.
  • Laura Linney seemed to do her makeup like she was doing some kind of wonder woman thing.
  • Instapundit links to a number of other people live blogging the oscars.
  • Could Salma Heyek and Penelope Cruz look more similar? That's a lot of latina in one place.

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