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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
was absolutely fine. Not great, but it's the Oscars, for Christ sake. We don't have Sasheen Littlefeather and streakers anymore. This is big bizness, baby. Stewart looked a little uncomfortable, but he's East Coast, as opposed to Hollywood. Stewart's humor is more cosmopolitan, less the manic "la, la, la, la --- hey lady!" schtick you get from Hollywood types.
I honestly don't know what people expected of him. As far as I'm concerned, they should have turned the whole thing into an extended Daily Show episode it would have been a lot more fun.
Next year - Colbert at the Oscars, pretending to be one of those "Hollywood is out of the mainstream" types.
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Not sure what all the hullaballoo is about with Jon. I enjoyed him. His pretty face can cheer up this gal any day.
Otherwise, I love hiphop, but I'm not knowledgeable enough about the genre--or music in general--to understand why one song was chosen over another. I loved the Crash song, but was routing for BBM's. (I thought Dolly's song was trite.) Who cd top Itzhak Perleman???
I loved the homoerotic cowboy clip shown at the beginning of the show. Heavy sigh: the in-your-face irony of it all.
The Owen brothers looked like they just got out of bed.
When I saw Huffman in the black dress, I knew she wdn't win. For some reason, seeing Reese in the white-gold dress said winner for sure.
J Lo was gorgeous despite hips in that dress looking huge, but, on the other hand, Hilary Swank looked so incredibly underdressed.
NO one--and I mean NO one--beat Jessica Alba's dress.
You RULE woman!
Despite my wanting BBM to win, I heartily congratulate fellow Canadian Haggis for Crash!
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I think you are wrong. Jon Stewart was hilarious. Just because all the people in the audience didn't laugh, doesn't mean he wasn't funny. (Some laughed.) I was at an Oscar party with R's and D's and everyone was laughing. I think the Hollywood types were a bad audience.
Let's get this straight, so to speak. Jesus allegedly never had sex w/ a woman and spent most of his time hanging out w/ 12 guys--one of whom he "loved" at least according to the eponymous gospel. Sounds like a ButtBack Boy to me...
The only new testament author to condemn homosexuality was Paul, and he never "knew" the man in a literal or figurative sense.
Unless of course he was married to Mary Magdalene, which is bad too. Maybe he was bi.
So my point really is not that Jesus was necessarily Brokeback God, but that he wasn't exactly in a normal family situation.
Okay, so Cintra didn't like Jon Stewart's hosting job. I got that. What I didn't get is *why* she didn't like it. Jon's jokes were about the same style as the commentary he malkes on the Daily Show. He also occasionally poked fun at Hollywood's self-importance. I thought he did fine. As for his nervousness during the first 20 seconds of his opening monologue, well, who wouldn't be?
The rest of Cintra's commentary is strange. What did you want, Cintra? I can't believe you're actually complaining because people weren't narcissistic and full-fo-themselves. I, for one, enjoyed having the ego volume on "low" this time. The show was still entertaining and nobody made a fool out of himself. Fine with me.
It's like you're angry that there wasn't more material for you to dish on.
It was called Memoirs of a Geisha.
Cintra Wilson was amusing once upon a time. It must have been a very long time ago.
As for Camille Paglia, she died years ago.
OK, how to do it next year: can't imagine who would download a podcast of Wilson .. but I'm sure many would if you had ...
Those guys from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy ...
Libby Gelman Waxner paired with someone like Michael Musto. Or the gay guy that used to do Gawker.
Oh, someone truly fabulous and yet easy to get: the fabulous Manolo of Manolo's Shoeblog! And he could tell you which of the blogs he links to would be able to dish and drool as the Oscars rolled.
There's no way you can't do better next year.
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