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-- Was anyone else mad at Paul Haggis for blubbering and stuttering his way through the Best Screenplay acceptance speech, preventing his partner from speaking before the orchestra cut him off? What a jerk. I hate when the first person talks and talks and talks; be courteous and brief so both people get to talk. Why is this so hard for these people to understand?
-- Dan
The jerks were the producers/orchestra... it must be incredibly hard to track how much time you've used up in a situation like that, and for them to play Cathy Schulman off when accepting the most important award of the night was monumentally boneheaded.
Having said that, Jon Stewart was a breath of fresh air. He did exactly what he is good at, skewering pomposity (after the self-congratulatory "issue films" montage he said gravely, "And none of those issues was ever a problem again". Later he said he couldn't wait for the montage ode to montages).
