I tuned in to see what everyone’s wearing, of course. Why else?
But darn it if I didn’t learn a thing or two.
It’s the 82nd annual Academy Awards.
Morgan Freeman’s daughter, and one of the people involved in the production of the Nelson Mandela movie are gonna auction off their bracelets and all the money’s going to the Nelson Mandela Fund. I learned they’re really great philanthropists. I didn’t learn anything about the Nelson Mandela fund …. who’s involved with it, where the money goes, what they’re supporting. No doubt it’s something to do with people who will never see the inside of any of those dresses. Unpleasant stuff we’d rather not talk about on the Oscar Red Carpet.
Sarah Jessica Parker has to give her dress back tomorrow. Poor dear. She seemed to be handling it well.
I wonder how the men feel, with their suits and bowties. I’ll bet some of them have some magnificent dresses in their closets they’d rather be wearing.
I wonder if there’ll ever be a cross-dressing Oscar party, just to shake things up. Or a “Casual Day” Oscars.
I learned that George Clooney has “commitment issues.” It’s not that he prefers to be single, or that perhaps he’s gay …. it’s an actual psychological ailment.
Chris March made Meryl Streep’s dress, she’s the most Oscar nominated actor in the world. She enjoys the Oscars because it’s an opportunity to see her friends “all cleaned up and looking good.”
Sandra Bullock was extremely diplomatic considering the number of awesome films she’s made and the No Oscar Nomination previously thing. She’s too political.
In their introduction, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin identified and talked about several audience members. About Woody Harrelson – “He’s so high right now.” After spotting James Cameron through their 3D glasses, Steve dismissed floating forest spirits with a spray can. After finding the crew of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and describing its plot where a fanatical Nazi searches madly for Jews, Steve gestures to the Oscar Audience and says “The Motherload.”
I wonder why we've never seen an Oscar nominated movie about fanatical Zionists hunting down Palestinians.
The commercials are all about putting genetically engineered and/or animal derived food products in your body so you can feel good, which car to buy to really be cool, how great the big banks are, and which cosmetics and shampoos will help you be important and ever younger.
There’s no doubt it’s “the greatest red carpet in the world,” as they say. It’s the red carpet of a nation built on a revolution, a revolution that sluffed off the pomp and circumstance of the elite monarchy all those centuries ago. Haven’t they come a long way, baby! God Bless Middle America.
