What a great review of the Oscar show! Jackman lived up to expecations...and yes, for once the Oscar night was not such a bore! If only they could curtail the Thank Yous.. Who gives a damn about their hairdressers, their current lovers..their agents, or God. Could you just let us know how you honestly emotionally feel about winning the award...and let me tear up as I cry with you. Winslet did a fine job...but then she has acted "surprised and greateful" all month long on all those other award shows. So...one begins to wonder how truly sincere she is. But OK...she deserved the awards...and generally seemed honest enough. So good for her..at least she didn't use the platform as did Sean Penn to deliver his personal political message. I fullyu agreed with his message...but it seemd more self-promoting than truly necessary. Still...it was a fun night...and if only Mickey O'Rourke had won...then it would have been (along with Heath Leger's award)...a heart-rending-self gratifying evening for all those bejeweled glittering movie folk. How really good they would have all felt! Hope Jackman will be back next year!

I don't give a hot dog smelling flying fart if he played the role of GOD himself, everyone knows you thank your goddamn husband (think Hillary Swank and her now ex-husband a while back)or wife somewhere in the damn lineup of thank-yous! Even the key grip and caterer got thanked in that speech. If Robin Wright Penn can waste a decade of her life maintaining a diva like Sean Penn so that he can "act" like Sean Penn then she deserves a damn "thanks hon". I don't want to hear any Sean Penn asslicker making excuses for his obvious self-centered behavior, and that's cause I am a fan! Imagine how pissed I'd be if the swine didn't have any talent (and he does NOT have enough, thank you, to be forgiven for being so remiss).

Although I hate musicals, I thought Hugh Jackman did a terrific job. It is nice to see someone who can entertain, someone who has talent. It is refreshing to see that. Remember things like talent, hard work, effort, craft? Remember when those were evident in showbiz?

The montages sucked - all of them. The Seth Logan skit was stupid, and I am a big fan of stoner humour. It was not funny at all.

The "dead" montage sucked, as we all know.

A question for you Hollywood insiders - since so much of production is timing, how the hell does the Oscars always go over time? It wasn't because of the acceptance speeches.

The sanctimonuous presentation of best actor/actress was nauseating. They are just fucking actors, not scientists who cured cancer. "Thank you."

I feel now that the next time my waitress brings me coffee I should stand up and say "The way you brought me my coffee, the attention and care you showed me and my family at this diner, was a testament to the love and joy in your heart, and to all that is good in humanity. Thank you! Thank you!"

Tina Fey does not belong next to Steve Martin. She has done next to nothing compared to him, and she is not a funny comedian, either. SNL is dogshit, and 30 Rock is slightly amusing. No Stephanie Martin is she!

Mickey Rourke should have won. Sean Penn has already been recognized and widely acknowledged as the best actor of his generation, and before he gave his shout-out to Mickey, I was thinking Sean probably wanted Mickey to win. Micky did a great job, and he should get a reward just for coming back to the business, and putting up with all of the self-righteous, scumbag, egomaniacal pricks that run that cesspool called Hollywood.

Was there even a picture of Heath when he won? None of the movie's music playing during the walk to the podium by the winner? No clips of the actors' movies? Messing up the In Memorium section....and what was that with the Best Picture nominees being mixed in with all the other movies? Hugh Jackman is likeable but seemed to confuse Oscars with Tonys.

What on earth were the producers thinking? (We need something different! Not particulary good, just different!) And yet, I watched every second and will again next year....

I totally agree with Seth Goldman's letter from yesterday that "Wall-E" should have been best picture. It really was a lackluster year for movies and Wall-E was all the more outstanding for appearing and giving us such a huge leap forward in story arc and artistic achievement. It had the best song, best score, best original screenplay, best sound artistry and deserved to win in every category it was nominated for --and *should* have been at the very least nominated best picture of 2008. The very number of nominations in such key categories speaks to the quality of the film. The (unspoken) criteria that a Best Picture has to show human actors doesn't hold water when one says out loud, "Not one actor from Slumdog was nominated for an acting award."

"Slumdog" was a fun movie with good energy, corny ending. Wall-E was fun, touching, stunning and profound. Everything a fan asks for...too bad the Academy once more showed it's age instead of joining the 21st century...

I think that the Oscar show this year was the best in years. Hugh Jackman was surprisingly adept at being a host, and, I agree that Anne Hathaway has a voice. (or at least did an incredible job of lip-syncing) I am sorry that "The Reader" didn't win Best Movie, having just seen it a couple of nights before. Kate Winslet certainly deserved the Oscar for her outstanding performance in that movie.

You must have been too carried away by your own rhetoric when you listed a bunch of actors who were "too perfect" in appearance. You put Phillip Seymour Hoffman in that group~! Really. A very over weight, scruffy guy always sloppy except when in a part in a move. No hair stylist for his scraggly, thin hair, some of which showed beneath his knitted toque. That's "too perfect"? His acting is perfect. I guess you got confused.