Oscars Wrap-Up
Adele picked up an Oscar for her song from the movie Skyfall. I’m thinking of calling the picture above, with Adele towering over Kristin Chenoweth, “Sunblock.”
Lending a touch of glamour to the proceedings, Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence, above left, and Anne Hathaway, right, posed for photographers after the big show.
I guess that when you have two gay guys producing the Academy Awards telecast, there is no way to avoid god-awful musical productions, but geez. Perhaps they thought they were throwing a bone to heterosexual men with their “We Saw Your Boobs” number (above), but even that fell … uh, flat.
It takes a lot to steal the show from Adele, who sang the Oscar-winning “Sunblock,” but Barbra Streisand (“The Way We Were”) and especially Shirley Bassey (above, belting out “Goldfinger”) managed to do just that.
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Thank God that poor, downtrodden Ben Affleck got an Oscar so that we can all relax and stop feeling sorry for him. Ben was inspirational when he told us how life had been a struggle for him, but that we should all follow his example and just keep on fighting. And when the cameras cut to Ben’s movie-star wife shedding movie-star tears in the audience, I had to reach for some tissues. Well, OK, so it wasn’t a tissue, but brown barf-bags are also made from trees.
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Quotes of the Week:
“At the time you were kissing Mr. Burns’s lips, did you know he was dead or not?” — prosecutor’s question for Jodi Arias at her murder trial on Monday.
The topic on Wednesday’s Red Eye was working from home. Bill Schulz said, “The alone time does tend to make one odd … you watch a lot of weird stuff.” Yes, like Red Eye at 2 o’clock in the morning on Wednesday.
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I’m having trouble following this “Blade Runner” business in Australia, possibly because it’s taking place in South Africa, not Australia. The “Blade Runner,” legless Oscar Pistorius, is on trial for killing a model. First, we got the shocking news that the trial prosecutor will also be tried for homicide. Then we were again coldcocked, this time with reports that Pistorius’s brother will also be tried for homicide. I fully expect to hear, any day now, that the judge is accused of some murderous rampage.
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Apparently, we were all supposed to be wowed over the retirement of that Catholic creep in Rome. Why this pedophile protector isn’t moving out of the Vatican and into a prison cell is the real story, but you’d never guess that from fawning media coverage.
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Lots of exciting news at The Huffington Post. They still have an opening for a proofreader, and secondly … well, here is my hopeful post in their comments section:
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At some point, haven’t we all?
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