Hi John! Ready for Some Revelry?
2/25/08 12:56 AM GMT

So, Stewart's doing the Oscars this year.

It ought to be interesting.
I haven't seen The Daily Show in some time.
It's opposite Tavis, and I can't record shows
right now, so I'm kind of taking a breather
from Stephen, Tavis, and John.

Those DVD-R units seem pretty sophisticated.
I'll get one soon, so I can record the shows
I like to blog.

Hmmm...

A friend told me Juno was great.

The 80th Oscars.
Regis Philbin's talking right now.

Is ABC covering the actual ceremony?
I thought it started at 5.

Maybe the actual show's on a different channel.
Let's take a look at the website.

Clooney's talking right now.
"No, I've only strolled down the carpet twice,
so it's not really my carpet..."

Pretty witty, George.

Pretty intense website, Oscar.

Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose.
I'll have to see that one.

Nice dress, Marion.

John Travolta and his wife.
it's kind of confusing, watching TV and
listening to the web site.

What's the name of the musical he's in?

So, ABC is doing the coverage with Stewart.

I guess I'm doing better than I did last year,
eh Hollywood? LOL

Laura Linney - best actress nominee.
Just what is the difference between, "Best Actress,"
and "Best Supporting Actress?"

All these years, I've never really been sure of that.

I'm basically over my illness.
I couldn't deal with the Grammy's - it had me tired
out.

This should be fun.

I rarely do celeb stuff, but I really need to
catch up on my movies.

I feel kind of bad about missing it last year.
I get the impression that the planners of the
ceremony wanted me to watch.

Then again, maybe not...

I went looking for Shut Up and Sing Friday
night at my local Hollywood Video. Unfortunately,
the store was closing down, and selling its entire
stock.
I couldn't find the film.
I was looking for the documentary about RFK's
assassination too, but it was also gone.

I almost bought, War of the Worlds, Rollerball,
and a dual DVD of Fantastic Voyage and some other
film, but I really didn't want to accumulate more DVDs.

Like Bill Maher said on the last installment of his
show, watching a DVD's like sex when you're married.
You just let it sit around day, after day, not too
enthusiastic about watching it.

Hellen Mirren. She's presenting this year.
Pretty intense red dress. I loved the purple
one she wore in,Queen.

Arch - Just how does one start a nuclear war, Hellen?

Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood.

I have no clue about it.
I'd better get with it.

Cameron Diaz.

I have a feeling this is going to be a long ceremony...

So, who's on Tavis this week?

Appropriately, the show's site features theWllen Page
interview I watched a few weeks ago.

Commercial.
Tyson's Crispy Chicken Strips.
Not into fried food. I wonder if they have strips
fried without trans fats.

Humira commercial - treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Sounds like an immunosuppressant, from the cautions
cited.

I had an interesting weekend. I was up in LA to hear
Dr. Stephen Jones and Cynthia McKinney.

There's Ellen Page.
I'll have to see Juno.
That's one of Jupiter's moons, by the way.

Wait a minute. Maybe it's one of Saturn's.
Nope.

It's an asteroid.
I'm forgetting my astronomy.

Hillary Swank. Two-time Oscar winner.

Regis just pointed out a lot of the big names
in the front row. Forrest Whittaker was one of them.

Commercial for GPS in a Chrylser 300S Signature
Series.

On my weekend...

I ended up staying overnight in Burbank, and
bumming around Hollywood. I went over to the
Kodak before the stars showed up. I took foot-
age, and will link it to this post later - either
late tonight or tomorrow.

I never got that close to the Oscars, in all the
years I lived here.

I never thought too much of celeb mongering. I remember
as a teen I watched it religiously. I think letting it
drop off was something about living in LA during my
undergrad years.

I just heard too much about it.
"It's no big deal."

I loved going out to see films in the city. It
was so magical to a twenty-something who had lived
in the suburbs all his life.

The Kodak is beautiful.

Here comes Stewart.
Break a leg John.

Gotta turn up the volume...

Stewart - "Welcome to the make-up sex."
The Vanity Fair Oscar party. Sounds like an
inside joke.

He's a little stiff. Probably anxious.
"...Let's take a moment to congratulate ourselves..."
:)

Psychopathic killer movies... No Country For Old Men</a>
There Will Be Blood...all I can say is,
Thank God for teen pregnancies!!

Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett...
Julie Christie.

Oooooooooooo, you burned Bill Clinton.
Stewart - I was happy to see Atonement nominated for an award this year.

Stewart - The sexuality of Yom Kippur...
I can see where the Jews are in the audience.

Even Norman got a nomination...too often, the
Academy ignores films that aren't good.

Congratulations, George Clooney...since it's
about lawyers, just round it up to two hours.
Harrison Ford...
Dennis Hopper's here...I only say that so he'll
know where he is...it's alright, you're with friends.

Juno...such a great movie.

I didn't get the Olympia Dukakis joke.

Stewart - The films that were made about the Iraq War didn't do
as well...withdrawing the Iraq movies will only embolden
the audience...we cannot let the audience win.

Oscar is 80 this year.. which automatically makes
him the front-runner for the Republican nomination...
the field is wide open...have you had a chance to
study the nominees, and pick the democrat you'll vote
for.

...usually when you see a black man and a woman running
for president, an asteroid hits the Statue of Liberty.

...his middle name is that of Iraq's final tyrant...
his last name rhymes with bin Laden's...

Adolf Titler...I just couldn't get past the mustache...

Please welcome Jennifer Garner...

Garner - A dress designer has to...
Arch - Wow. (Afterthought 3/2/08 8:47 PM GMT -
Didn't she say something about math and
physics?

Costume Design...
Atonement, Elizabeth, La Vie en Rose, Sweeney Todd...

And the first Oscar of the evening goes to Alexandra Byrne
for Elizabeth: the Golden Age</a>.

Previoulsy nominated for Hamlet. (announcer)

Nice thank you.

Barbara Striesand - ...why don't they give us all plaques?
Hello Gorgeous.

They're doing historic montages.
How nice.

I wish I had seen the Grammys. I could see that
they were doing something similar, but I just
felt horrible.

You're all talking too fast for me! :)

Clooney...
(Live Journal screwed up, and the soliloquy was
largely lost - sorry, George.
Nice montage.

I remember that guy - ...my pants are killing me!

Hattie McDaniel...Daniel Day-Lewis...Fred Astaire...
Audrey Hepburn...George Burns...Robert Redford...
Russell Crowe...Charlie Chaplin...

Linking this is going to be PURE HELL!!!

Stewart - that was terrific! I'm watching, Lawrence
of Arabia...oh those are camels...that's cool!

...one of the funniest people I've met in my entire
life...Ann Hathaway and ____Correll...

(Get Smart Music)

Correll...
Hathaway - we're doing animated features...
Correll - this is not a documentary...I'm going to be
sick..is this being shown in Belgium.

Hathaway - The nominees for best animated film...
What was the name of that French film?
Ratatouille...( I gotta see that!)
Surf's Up...(looks like pretty sophisticated animation)

And the Oscar goes to...Ratatouille!!
Brad Bird.
Arch - I'll have to look him up.
I may run out and buy that. I've been meaning to see
it for some time...

Makeup.
- ...apes who speak English...
Nominees...La Vie En Rose...Norbit...
Ahhhh! Rick Baker. He did Alien.
Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End.

And the Oscar Goes to...La Vie En Rose.
I may rent it this weekend.

Didier Le Vernier, and Jan Archibald.
I've noticed a number of French works seem prominent
this year.

Stewart - ...welcome Amy Adams!
I'm getting excited about this. I don't quite know why.
I just linked the website for La Vie En Rose, and it
looked really well done. It began singing, so I had
to close its tab.

Nice reflective blouse she has. Is that a microphone
she's wearing on the side of her face?

Cute and refreshing piece, Amy.
Michael Douglas. Catherine _
Kate Blanchett coming up...Best Supporting Actor...

L'Oreal commercial.
Mickey Ds commercial.

Lazy eye...seeking...searching...while the others stood
by, watching...Master Card.

Another Chrysler commercial.
Three guys in a sauna.
H&R Block?

Yep.

Hmmmm...Interesting Audi commercial.
Something on the Hollywood sign at 11.

Stewart - Welcome back to the 80th Academy Awards...
mostly we make catty remarks about the things you're
wearing at home...please welcome Blaine Johnson.

Johnson - Best Visual Effects...Raiders of the
Lost Ark...the nominees are...
The Golden Compass, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,
Transformers,
(I'll bet Transformers gets it)
WHAT!!

IT'S A RIP-OFF!!!

Maybe I ought to see the movie before I decide
that.

Cate Blanchett -
(The first Elizabeth was ONE TOUGH FLICK!)
Achievement in Art Direction:
American Gangster, Atonement, The Golden Compass,
Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood.

(ATOGT) And the Oscar goes to...Sweeney Todd

Dante Ferretti, and who?

The Golden Compass looks pretty darn interesting.

Stewart - ...truly an international night...look
at Cate Blanchett...she played Queen Elizabeth...
she's amazing...right now I, John Stewart am being
played by Cate Blanchett...past winners:
Danny Kaye
Dianne West
Celeste_
Carl Malden
Anthony Quinn
Walter Matthau
Joel Grey
Louis Gossett Jr.
Sean Connery
Denzel Washington
Robin Williams
James Coburn
Morgan Freeman
Alan Arkin
Cuba Gooding Jr. - I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
Pretty wild Cuba. LOL
Throw down, bro'!

Jennifer Hudson presenting Best Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck, Javier Barden, Phillip Seymour Hoffman,
Hmmm...is that a movie about the CIA?
Hal Holbrook? (was that his name?)
Tom Wilkinson - I am Shiva, the God of Death.

ATOGT - Javier Barden

Commercial:
Saturn. They've got two hybrids now.
Dove. There are some prompts to vote for certain spot
tests. I don't quite get it.
Good Morning America's following up on the
show tomorrow AM.

Stewart - ...I believe he told his mother where
the library is...had the writer's strike continued, they
would have had to use even more montages...Oscar's salute
to binoculars and periscopes.

Nifty.
Rear Window, I didn't recognize any of the others.
(I did a paper on Rear Window in my film class
at Wayne State.)
That was a great idea.
Stewart - ...wasn't even worth dimming the lights...
bad dreams...an Oscar salute.
That was funny.
Stewart - Wow. That really would've been a waste of your time.

The second nominated song...the setting is a Harlem church...
the words and the music...Jeremiah Simone Nash...and featuring
the Repertory Theater of Harlem...

What movie is this from?

Owen Wilson - A short picture is a motion picture that
is not more than 40 minutes long...the nominees:
At Night, Il Supplente, Le Mozart des Pickpockets,
Tanghi Argentini, The Tonto Woman.

ATOGT Le Mozart Des Pickpockets (Live Action Short Film)
Phillipe Pollet-Villard.

Arch - Very strong French accent this year!

Pollet-Villiard - Merci Beaucoup...merci, au revoir.
(I didn't catch everything).

What's up with this bee?

HAHAHAHA!!!

Outstanding animated short film:
I Met the Walrus, Matame tutli-Putli,Meme les Pigeons Vont
(missed one)...Peter and the Wolf,

ATOGT: Peter and the Wolf. Suzie Templeton and _
Those all looked interesting.

Best Supporting Actress montage...
Rita Moreno
Shelly Winters
Estelle Parsons
Cloris Leachman
Maryl Streep
Dianne West
Brenda -
Whoopi Goldberg
Julite Minoche
Rachel Weiss
Jennifer Hudson

Alan Arkin presenting - The Golden Age of Cinema is
still very much alive.
Nominees...

Cate Blanchett, Ruby Dee,(nice dress, Ruby)
(didn't get the name), Amy Ryan, Tildess Winton

ATOGT: Tildess Winton(sp?) Oh. Tilda Swinton.

Definitely a British accent to this year's ceremony
too.

Best Actor montages.
Sidney Poitier

Nope. Just Sidney.

Commercials:
American Living - JC Penney. I'm from a Sears family,
personally. We used to fight over the Wish Book every
year when I was a child.

Coke on women's heart health.

Animation integrated with live action.
M&Ms.
I just had some on the train today.
Peanut, of course.

Target. I can tell.
Red circles.
I almost ducked when the soccer ball came
at the screen. For some reason, I first thought
it was a basketball.
Hmmm...
Was it?

Jessica Alba.
I really feel like a geek this year.
These people are very unfamiliar to me.

Alba - ...13 awards are given to the inventors,
wizards, and engineering magicians...Scientific Technical
Awards...
(she's rattling them off too fast)
General applause.
David Grafton.
Eastman Kodak was mentioned.
Stewart - Jessica Alba is pregnant, and Cate Blanchett
is pregnant...obviously the night is still young...
Jack is still here. Thr next two presenters...
James Brolin and John McAvoy...

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn...
We'll always have Paris...
Leave the gun, take the cannoli...
this is fun.

Stewart? Alba? - That was one of the worst Nicholson's ever done.

Best Adapted Screenplay,
Atonement, Away From Her, Ronale Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood.

ATOGT: Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men.

MPAA President: Sig Dennis.
Why do we give out Oscars?
How do we get there?
How winners are picked...
Ari Sandel
John Travolta
James Brooks
Brad Bird
Ruby Dee
John Dykstra(!!!)
Michael Bay
Jan Aaris
Bob Hope
I've got to check out the Kodak...

Stewart - Wow. That was amazing...I always thought
it was superdelegates.

Miley Sirus...
Our next nominated song is from the movie, Enchanted...
features many musical styles...here is the third nominated
Oscar contender, That's How You Know.
Not a bad tune...
Gotta be in the mood for a love song though.

Early this afternoon, I noticed a billboard adver-
tising the Oscars tonight in Burbank included
the starting time.
I can't help but wonder about that one.

I'm too self-absorbed in this blogging thing.
I don't think I've seen an Oscar billboard in
about 16 years or so.

Well, I made it this year. I hope you're enjoying
my participation. Maybe I'll get into a ceremony one
of these days. How do you like my film-making? :)

(Afterthought 3/2/08 - Interesting comments on the
nature of this years films, Mr. Goldstein.
Ideas and events are interpreted, aren't they? There is
no perfect mirror for either, no matter how powerful.
That's the fun of art and writing, isn't it? Culture
is more like a series of imperfect lenses - the
expressions are distorted and relayed by each
individual they manage to reach - than a mirror...
the thrill of initiating and sustaining a
perceptual relay over progressively larger
and larger scales...more on that in later posts.)

Stewart - ...there is a third, Jessica Alba, Cate Blanchett
Nicole Kidman is pregnant as well. This is so exciting!
The baby goes to...Angelina Jolie. Pretty good John.
Please welcome...Dame Judy Dench, and Halle Berry.

Two guys come out...humorous dialogue.

Sound Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum, No Country for Old men, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Transformers,

ATOGT Karen Baker Landers - The Bourne Ultimatum.
I haven't seen any of the "Bourne" films. I don't know why.

Per Hallberg gets the award too.

Best Sound Mixing:
The Bourne Ultimatum, No Country for Old Men, Ratatouille
(I'm gonna buy that!), 3:10 to Yuma, Transformers...

ATWI (and the winner is) Scott Milan, David Parker, Kurt Francis - The Bourne Ultimatum.

Best Supporting Actress montage:

Grace Kelly
Elizabeth Taylor
Julie Anderews
Julie Christie
Jane Fonda
Liza Minelli
Louise Fletcher
Fay Dunaway
Dianne Keaton
Sally Field
Sissy Spacek
Geraldine Page
Cher
Jodie Foster
Jessica Tandy
Cathy Bates
Emma Thompson
Jessica Lange
Julia Roberts
Hallie Berry
Nicole Kidman
Hellen Mirren

Introducing Forrest Whittaker
Whittaker - Marlon Brando said...(too much)
Nominees for Actress in a Leading Role:
Cate Blanchett, Julie Christie, Marianne Cotillard, Laura Lynn,
Ellen Page, (there's the winner)

ATOGT: Ellen Page - NOPE!! Marianne Cotillard

Commercial.
I gotta get up and stretch.
Some water would help.

back...
Here's Johnny!
I mean, Here's Jack!!

Best Picture Honors montage...
Gone With the Wind
Rebeca
How Green Was My Valley
Mrs. Minivier
Casablanca
Going My Way
The Lost Weekend
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gentleman's Agreement
Hamlet
All The Kings Men
All about Eve
An American in Paris
The Greatest Show on Earth
On The Waterfront
From Here to Eternity
Marty
Around the World in 80 Days
Gigi
Ben-hur
On the Waterfront
The Apartment
West Side Story
Lawrence of Arabia
Tom Jones
My Fair Lady
The Sound of Music
A Man for All Seasons
In the Heat of the Night
Oliver
Midnight Cowboy
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Rocky
Annie Hall
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ordinary People
Chariots of Fire
Ghandi
Amadeus
Terms of Endearment
Out of Africa
The Last Emperor
Rain Man
Driving Miss Daisy
Dances With Wolves
The Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler's List - A film that should
be watched at the earliest opportunity...
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The English Patient
Titanic
Shakespeare in Love
American Beauty
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
The Departed

That was a toughie!

Who is this?
Film Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
The Will Be Blood
ATOGT Christopher Rouse for The Bourne Ultimatum

Stewart - looking down into the pit - is it hot down
there? when did you guys switch trombones?

Please welcome Adacemy Award winner Nicole Kidman.
Kidman - for more than half of 80 years...his is the
standard of excellence has been a singular...his career
of over 100 films...at the age of 98 (applause).
And here we have a brief peek at the life and work
of our very distinguished honoree...

Clip of North by Northwest
Production design/art direction montage
Yeah - The BIRDS!!!

Cape Fear
Private Benjamin
Mame
Shodow of a doubt
Dragnet
Robert Boyle - Honorary Oscar

Boyle at the podium - ...I can certainly thank
the board of members of the Academy...and to Hitch,
who also took a chance, and gave me my first big
film...I'd also like to remember that Hitch introduced
me to Tafu...who became my wife on this wonderful
journey...and to Norman Jewison...

This is a touching moment.
Mmmmm...

Coming up
Penelope Cruz, John Travolta.

Stewart - ...we're going to have to re-start
the show...please welcome Adacemy Award nominee,
Penelope Cruz.

Foreign Language Film Award:
Beaufort - Israel, The Counterfeiters - Austria,
(missed title) - Poland, Mongol - Kazhakhistan, 12 - Russia,

ATOGT - The Counterfeiters - Austria

(3/2/08 9:35 PM GMT - for some reason, I've put on
The Way to Paradise. I haven't listened to it
in a while.)

Patrick Dempsey - Our final nominated song is also
from the film, Enchanted...sung by John McLaughlin

Travolta - here are the five songs selected,
Once "Falling slowly", Enchanted - Happy Woekrind song. August Rush "Raise it up" Enchanted - "So close", Enchanted - "That's How you Know."

ATOGT "Falling Slowly" - Once

There's something weird about three songs being nominated
from the same film, and none of them getting the award...
Oh well.

Stewart - Wow. That guy is so arrogant.
(laughter)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good one with the 707.
Stephen Spielberg - Schindler's List was the singular...
it was one of the greatest nights of my entire life.

(Schindler's List was indeed, a SPECTACULAR film.)

Several movies were advertised in the last salvo of
commercials. I didn't catch any of the names, though.

Stewart - the winner of "Best Song" didn't get a chance
to say her thank-you...

Arch - You blew it John. You'll never do the Oscars
again!!!

Cinematography.
The nominees are: Jesse James, Atonement, The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly, No Country for Old Men, There Will
Be Blood.

ATOGT Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood.

Who presented that one?

Hillary Swythe?
In Memoriam:
Roscoe Lee Browne
Barry Nelson
Kitty Carlisle Matt
Betty Hutton
Calvin Lockhart
Jany Wyman
Melville Shavelson
Curthis Harrington
Jack Valenti
Michael Kidd
Micealangeo...Antoni
Delbert Amnn
Montague Monty Ge. Westmore
erBud Ekins
(got a little confused there)
Bernard Gordon
Dabbs Greer
Harold Michelson
Lois Maxwell
Laslo Kovacs
Robert Clark
George Jenkins
Hiohhny Grant(?)
Frank E. Rosenfeld
Freddy Fields
Robert Lantz
Ray Kurtzman
Suzanne Pleshette
Deborah Kerr
Peter Ellenshaw
Peter Zinner
Fredie Francis
Ingmar Bergman
Ray Evans
William Tuttle
Heath Leger

Hmmm... very thought provoking.
I had trouble keeping up with that sequence too.
I hope I got all the names spelled correctly.
I'll correct the errors when I link.
I am getting kind of tired, though.

I have a feeling this one's going to run reeeealll
long...

Amy Adams - would the unseen shark in Jaws be the same
without this...
would the encounter with the alien spaceship be as
exciting without...
Rocky...

The answer to these and 1000 more questions is a resounding,
"no"

The nominees for original score: Atonement, The Kite Runner,
Michael Clayton, Ratatouille, 3:10 to Yuma.

ATOGT Dario Marianelli for Atonement.

Stewart - Our next presenter, Tom Hanks, has been nominated
for two Academy Awards...Tom Hanks.

Hanks (A's fan!) -
WOW!
WHAT A GREAT IDEA!
Servicepeople are doing the nominations for - which award?

ATOGT Cynthia Wade, Vanessa Roth - What was the title of the
film? What was the category? Best Documentary?
Sorry, ladies. I got lost in the novelty of the soldiers...

I'll have to check the Los Angeles Times.

YOU THESPIANS TALK TOO FAST!!

Best Documentary Feature:
No End In Sight, Operation Homecoming, Sicko, Taxi to the
Dark Side, War Dance.

ATOGT Taxi to the Dark Side

Stallone presenting to Elton John and who?
John - I couldn't stop grinning for about a week.

Hmmm...

Sean Coombs is starring in a production of, A Raisin
in the Sun tomorrow night at 8 PM on ABC.

I think I'll watch that.

Stewart - Our next presenter is either an international
star or an owner of a used car dealership.

Ford - ...somebody sits in a room with a computer
with their imagination...

Best original screenplay...

The nominees are:
Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, Michael Clayton, Ratatouille,
Savages.

ATOGT Diablo Cody for Juno

Here come the big four, presented by Hellen Mirren and
Denzel Washington.

Maybe this won't run so long after all...

Bob Hope
Bette Davis
Marlon Brando
Humphrey Bogart
Ernest Borgnine
Gregory Peck
John Wayne
Gene Hackman
Jack Lemmon
Jack Nicholson
Robert DeNiro
Dustin Hoffman
Daniel J. Lyons
Anthony Hopkins
Tom Hanks
Nicolas Cage
Russell Crowe
Denzel Washington
Jamie Foxx
Forrest Whittaker

Helen Mirren to present.
Mirren - Ambition, amorality, greed, deviousness, misery, venality,
remorse, nobility, generosity, decency, and good old fashioned
cajones...I know these sound like the requirements to be a successful
studio head...For Best Actor, the nominees are:

George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis - wasn't he in Gangs of New York?
Johnny Depp, Tommy Lee Jones, Viggo Mortensen - I'll have to check
him out...

Great Performances all...

ATOGT Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood.

Best Director and Best Picture coming up...
What about Best Actress?
Did I miss it?

Walter Matthau and who?
Joseph L.
John Houston
David Lean
Francis Ford Coppola
Robert Redford
Warren Beatty
James L. Brooks
Sidney Pollack
Robert Zemeckis
James Cameron
Stephen Spielberg
Ron Howard
Peter Jackson
Martin Scorsese - that's the part of
the Oscar ceremony I caught last year.

Stewart - ladies and gentlemen, the great Martin Scorsese.
Scorsese - I'm happy to present the award for Best Director
The nominees are:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Juno, No Country for Old Men,
There Will Be Blood...

ATOGT Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men.
(I was wondering who they were when they
were imitating those two women.

Two-time Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington.
Washington - ...it's time to find out which one is number 80.
The nominees are: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for
Old Men, There Will Be Blood.

ATOGT No Country For Old Men, Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Producers

Oh, I did step out for a while. I must've missed Best Actress.

Stewart - ...thanks very much.

Arch - that was fun. A little tiring, but this has lots of
cool potential for linking. It'll take a while, I'm afraid.

I wonder what Barbara Walters will have to present.
Admittedly, I feel pretty out of it this year.

I think that the only film I saw that was nominated for anything was,
Transformers. I know virtually nothing about No Country
for Old Men. Most of the films, I haven't even heard of.
The history was good.

All in all, an entertaining evening.

That's Entertainment!

I still want to see footage of last year's show.
Randi Rhodes was rhapsodizing about it. Everyone was
laughing 'cause I missed it.

Yeah, I know. I cut a massive, stultifying, brain fart!

Oh well...geeks tend to do stuff like that.

Break time. I need to go pull an ingrown hair out of
my chin...one sec.

Now for dinner.
I'm too tired to do Barbara Walters tonight.

Links later.

Frantically,

Ed Ussery ("ArchMind")

3/2/08 7:25 PM GMT

Linking notes: I'm playing Mozart and listening
to a video on Jackson Pollock's work while doing
my links. I think this will take a few sessions,
even though the entertainment has me in a really
artistic mood...

8:15 PM GMT

I just finished the closing tags, and I'm bushed,
but rather fascinated. This is probably going to
take a few days...

8:34 PM GMT

A film on Man Ray just finished up.
I just installed one on Rene Magritte.
These are installments of Artists of the 20th
Century, published by KULTUR.

I don't know of many surrealists other than Dali,
H.R. Giger, and...well, I won't trouble myself with
attempts at recollection. I've seen works of Magritte,
but am not familiar with him, his works, or his legacy.

For the audio, I popped a CD in titled The Story of Chanson.
It's a compilation of classic French songs from the Golden
Age. Appropriate, considering the flavor of the Oscars this
year.