Recession-theme Oscars had everyone abuzz with anticipation, wondering what the economic struggle would do to the usually lavish displays of an "embarrassment of riches".
Then as it started the activity of the night turned to texting and competition as we picked winners and kept tabs. Personal favorite moment was when James Franco and Seth Rogen watched a scene from Milk, that look on Franco's face made me think his NYU acting classes are really paying off.
I actually thought it was charming (dare I say intimate?), from Wolverine's light tom-foolery to the personalized messages from past winners to current nominees. I even liked the way everyone sat uncomfortably close together, without all that usual distance. That way every now and then, when the camera was on one celebrity, you would see another one peeking behind their shoulder, or perched next to their ear. Lovely, lovely. The Milk speeches were moving, the Slumdogs on stage at the end, the cincher.
What can I say, it's the year of the brown.
-Kastoory
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it's the year of the brown, the yellow, the red the pink and the blue, violet's not far behind either.
my favorite speech was the screenwriter from Milk, it was pretty amazing.
btdubs, what was up with all the standing ovations?
hugh jackman was also a great host, who knew that wolverine had all that jazz in him?
Then again, there WAS that jazz-themed issue of X-Men, back in '97. I think they saved Common Sense & a thinly-veiled stand-in for Charlie Parker from a tortured robotic composer named Johann Sebastian S.H.O.C.K.
Wolvie found his claws couldn't scratch S.H.O.C.K.'s hyper-adamantium skin, so he jazz-soloed on the bone-flute until the mad robot collapsed into oily tears and reminiscences about LPs he used to listen to, back in his evil robot college days.
Bone-flute...
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