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James Franco, who seems somehow Brokieish without being directly Brokieish, and Anne Hathaway, about as Brokieish as you can get, make an offbeat hosting pair.
Franco, Hathaway to Host Oscar® Show
Beverly Hills, CA (November 29, 2010) – James Franco and Anne Hathaway will serve as co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today. Both have previously appeared on the telecast but not in hosting capacities.
"James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons— fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27," said Cohen and Mischer. "We are completely thrilled that James and Anne will be joining forces with our brilliant creative team to do just that."
Franco, who currently can be seen in "127 Hours," will be making his second appearance on an Oscar telecast. His other film credits include "Eat, Pray, Love," "Date Night," "Milk" and "Pineapple Express." Franco is also known for his portrayals of Harry Osborn in the "Spider-Man" trilogy.
Hathaway will be making her fifth appearance on an Academy Awards telecast. She was recently seen in "Alice in Wonderland" and currently can be seen in "Love and Other Drugs." Hathaway's other film credits include "Bride Wars," "Becoming Jane," "The Devil Wears Prada" and "The Princess Diaries." She was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for her lead performance in "Rachel Getting Married."
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
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Well, it does say "include," but ya think they left something out of Anne's "film credits"? >:(
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Well, it does say "include," but ya think they left something out of Anne's "film credits"? >:(
I was thinking the exact same thing, Jeff.
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Well, it does say "include," but ya think they left something out of Anne's "film credits"? >:(
Good catch. I suppose they're thinking that she starred, rather than costarred, in the ones they listed, except for AiW, which was recent. But "Bride Wars"? That wouldn't be the film I'd want myself remembered for, if I were Anne.
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Anne is really getting a run for her money at hosting shows. She's going to co-host the Nobel Peace Prize Gala Concert in Oslo too, in a couple of weeks' time.
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Anne is really getting a run for her money at hosting shows. She's going to co-host the Nobel Peace Prize Gala Concert in Oslo too, in a couple of weeks' time.
Wow! :o That's impressive! :D
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It's really James Franco's year! Good for him, I think he's a wonderful human being. I mean for an actor, lol!
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w197/oilgun/ABC%20Movies/127-hours-02.jpg)
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8)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKYFZyvehE&feature[/youtube]
(By the way, P.S. 22 is just a few blocks from Maggie G's and Michelle W's in the Boerum Hill neighborhood. Coincidence?)
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They clean up nice, those two.
;D
(http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/oscars.jpg)
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They clean up nice, those two.
;D
(http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/oscars.jpg)
wow!
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James Franco, who seems somehow Brokieish without being directly Brokieish,
He does, doesn´t he. And without a doubt he wouldn´t have pulled a Mark Wahlberg.
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He does, doesn´t he. And without a doubt he wouldn´t have pulled a Mark Wahlberg.
And to quote Diana Ossana: "He's an idget."
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OMG.
They are adorable!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms0CL7F9vzM&feature[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH8g1AJ98Zw&feature[/youtube]
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OMG.
They are adorable!
They are! If they'd been hosting, "Brokeback Mountain" would have won.
The only thing I don't like is holding the ceremony in February. Back when it used to be in late March, I would think of it as sort of a harbinger of spring.
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http://www.peoplestylewatch.com/people/stylewatch/package/article/0,,20449766_20462653,00.html
James Franco to Host
Top-Secret After-Party
on Oscars Night
By TIm Nudd
Tuesday February 01, 2011
07:45 AM EST
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Co-hosting the Academy Awards might not even be the most exciting part of James Franco 's night on Feb. 27.
Franco, who is also nominated for Best Actor (in 127 Hours ), reveals to Canadian show etalk that he will be capping off the evening by hosting – and performing at – an ultra-exclusive after-party at very special place.
"I'm a partner in a bar that's opening up, and the after-after-after-after-party is going to be at my new bar," the actor, 32, said this weekend at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. "It's at a secret location. And that's what I'm looking forward to because I'm going to be singing there at the bar. I'll be singing at the Oscars, but there will be a private performance at my new bar."
Sounds like the night's hot ticket. But Franco is being tight-lipped with the details.
"It's called the Writer's Room," he says. "It's in L.A. That's all I can say because I can't fit everybody. Everybody at the Governors Ball will not fit into my new bar, but it'll be going down."
Franco adds that he is bringing his brother Dave with him to the Oscars, and says preparations with co-host Anne Hathaway are going well.
"The Oscars are a very well produced show and [there's] a big machine behind it, and I think Anne and I fit really well in it," he says. "She probably fits better than I do, but I'm trying to catch up."
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OMG.
They are adorable!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms0CL7F9vzM&feature[/youtube]
;D :laugh:
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Fullversion, of Rocky.
[youtube=425,350]<object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></embed></object>[/youtube]
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They clean up nice, those two.
;D
(http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/oscars.jpg)
Cool!! I have never seen OSCAR in close up. It made me wonder what the sword as to do with film awards, or is it something else, which I can´t see?
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Cool!! I have never seen OSCAR in close up. It made me wonder what the sword as to do with film awards, or is it something else, which I can´t see?
Maybe it's a scepter.
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Maybe it's a scepter.
and why is oscar a man? I see feminist moment making complaints.
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Well, did everyone see the continuous, three-leg gatefold cover of Vanity Fair 's 17th annual Hollywood Issue? (March 2011)
(https://magazine-media.condenast.com/media/internal/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m630137_VYF_OrderPg_916x259_March11.jpg)
(Sorry for the promo, ::) I can't yet find a photo of the cover itself alone. )
The actors, from left to right (therefore the first four actors are the ones shown on the 'official' cover) are:
First Gatefold
"The Young and The Beautiful"
Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, James Franco...
Second Gatefold
Jennifer Lawrence, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Jessie Eisenberg, Mila Kunis...
Third Gatefold
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund, Noomi Rapace, "And introducing Robert Duvall as Fritz, the gruff but sage bartender..."
"Acting is all about honesty. If you can make that, you've got it made."--George Burns
Also, a video-interview with the tuxedo-ed James Franco taken during the VF shoot about the impending Oscars ceremony:
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/screening-room
http://www.vanityfair.com/services/lookup?videoId=782928975001&defaultPath=/video%3FvideoID%3D782928975001
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Not to sound mean-spirited, but I don't really get why Olivia Wilde is suddenly being treated like such a big famous A-list star.
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Teaser!
James and Anne
in Grease --
what fun!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJKSWh5zxVA&feature[/youtube]
Please note:
it was posted on
Youtube by
JFranco1238 (http://www.youtube.com/user/JFranco1238)
:D
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Teaser!
James and Anne
in Grease --
what fun!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJKSWh5zxVA&feature[/youtube]
Please note:
it was posted on
Youtube by
JFranco1238 (http://www.youtube.com/user/JFranco1238)
:D
They look perfect for those roles. 8)
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I posted the other day on the "Anne Anne Anne" thread on Chez Tremblay about the VF cover. Was quite a shock, but I'm so pleased that they're all doing well. Friend of mine is getting me a nice hotel room for the day/night here in town cause I don't have cable at my house. He knows how important movies are to me. Sweet! I love hotel rooms and room service. Especially when I get to enjoy them all alone:) Can't wait to see all the pretty people.
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Well, did everyone see the continuous, three-leg gatefold cover of Vanity Fair 's 17th annual Hollywood Issue? (March 2011)
I saw the magazine on the rack in the drug store this afternoon. Jake sure looks good! :D
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb6yxvBImZs&feature[/youtube]
(if Youtube does not allow vewing off site, click below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb6yxvBImZs&feature
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Fullversion, of Rocky.
[youtube=425,350]<object width="640" height="390"><param name="movie" value="
&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="
&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></embed></object>[/youtube]
Even more extra, extra extended Rocky!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EuqP2hc9hk&feature[/youtube]
They are getting more and more adorable....
like baby dolphins!
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http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/james-franco-takes-twitter-by-storm/
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James Franco Takes Twitter by Storm
By MELENA RYZIK
February 21, 2011, 12:23 pm
Here’s your Presidents’ Day gift: James Franco’s been on Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesfranco#) just a couple days, and he’s already name-dropped about a famous artist (Richard Prince), starred in a video (http://www.whosay.com/jamesfranco/videos/12378), created a highbrow comic (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/james_franco_comic.html) and posted some meme-worthy kitten art (http://www.whosay.com/jamesfranco/photos/12733).
Mr. Franco finally joined the Twitter service after both his mother and grandmother signed up (http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/a-franco-family-affair-twitter-style/), posting a video of himself (embedded above (http://www.whosay.com/jamesfranco/videos/12378)) for authenticity’s sake. Of course, that’s not all he’s been doing. Backstage reports from the rehearsals for the Oscars, where he is a host and a nominee, say that he reads whenever he gets the chance. And as we head into Oscars week, Mr. Franco is an in-demand party guest, appearing on the R.S.V.P. lists for several soirées. (His co-host, Anne Hathaway, has not turned up nearly as frequently). He’s also, by the way, opening a show at the Gagosian Gallery, with the director Gus Van Sant (http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2011-02-26_james-franco-gus-van-sant/). The gallery has few details about the exhibit, except that it’s called, perhaps appropriately, “Unfinished.”
In other multitasking news, “The Simpsons” took on awards season on Sunday, when Bart made an animated short that started earning industry laurels. As Splitsider reports (http://splitsider.com/2011/02/the-simpsons-wonderful-parodies-of-pixar-wallace-gromit-and-other-animated-film/) , the real treat was seeing his competition: parodies of “Wallace & Gromit,” “The Triplets of Belleville,” “Persepolis” and of course, “Condiments,” from those geniuses at “Mixar.”
Also posted in Culture Tent's The James Franco Project Continues: "Or, you know what, maybe I’m just gay.”
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,46094.msg604715/topicseen.html#msg604715
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Even more extra, extra extended Rocky!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EuqP2hc9hk&feature[/youtube]
They are getting more and more adorable....
like baby dolphins!
I really like the trailers. Could almost make me watch the Oscars, if I weren't still pi§§ed. Thankfully, they will be aired in the middle of the night so I don't have to make a decision. ;D
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“It’s also very cost-efficient,” O’Neil pointed out. “Why buy more promo ads on ABC affiliates or billboards around L.A., when you can just set James Franco loose with his Skype and his Twitter?”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-25/the-oscars-are-james-franco-and-anne-hathaway-making-them-cool/full/
Are the Oscars Finally Cool?
Having Anne Hathaway and James Franco co-host this year’s
Academy Awards is paying off in buzz. Nicole LaPorte on why
the stars are more important as marketers than hosts.
by Nicole LaPorte
February 25, 2011 | 8:47pm
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A week ago, James Franco joined Twitter. He has since racked up over 150,000 followers. Besides being kept up to date on the 127 Hours star’s whereabouts—“I’m on my way to a meeting with one of my favorite artists, Richard Prince,” was one tweet—Franco’s acolytes have been treated to teasers for this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, which Franco is co-hosting with Anne Hathaway.
In addition to Franco’s Twitter debut (he also joined Facebook), a number of humorous videos have been “leaked” online. In one, Hathaway races through a monologue, reading a teleprompter set to speed-read. In other, she and Franco pair cross-train for the show. Wearing “Oscar Co-host In Training” T-shirts and sweats, they lift weights, using Oscar statuettes as barbells; sprint around towering Oscar mannequins; and time each other’s bathroom breaks. In another video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdQC1-In0OE&playnext=1&list=PL259FC244BED7A0AC), Franco Skypes with writer-director Judd Apatow (who is emceeing the Producers Guild Awards), and asks him for hosting advice. (“How do you do it?” Franco asks with all the enthusiasm of a stoner. “Like, is there a class I can take?”)
Considering that historically, ads for the Oscar broadcast have amounted to an old guy in a tux, talking ceremoniously in the shadow of towering golden statues, this year’s approach “amounts to a media revolution for the Oscars,” said Tom O’Neil, of the awards website GoldDerby.com (http://GoldDerby.com). “Last year [Oscar co-producer] Adam Shankman may have been tweeting, but it was nothing like this.
“It’s also very cost-efficient,” O’Neil pointed out. “Why buy more promo ads on ABC affiliates or billboards around L.A., when you can just set James Franco loose with his Skype and his Twitter?”
The heavy viral marketing is also taking some of the pressure off the actual show. However the youthful hosts handle themselves on Sunday—and they could well bomb, given their inexperience in live entertainment—almost feels moot at this point, in the same way that a tentpole movie’s fortune rests not on how good or bad it is, but on how it’s sold to the public before its all-important opening weekend. It’s an evergreen Hollywood strategy, but one that’s especially relevant in a year when so much about the Oscars feels predetermined and snooze-festy. Unlike last year, when there was a palpable, heated race between Avatar and The Hurt Locker for Best Picture, The King’s Speech is expected to blanket Sunday’s awards. Even the categories that the film won’t likely dominate are considered done deals: The Fighter’ s Christian Bale for Best Supporting Actor; Black Swan’s Natalie Portman for Best Actress; The Social Network for Best Adapted Screenplay, etc. (Ironically, whatever is going on with the promotions, the actual Oscar race has never felt more stodgy and traditional, given the anticipated Social Network snub.)
As one Academy member put it: “There’s not a great deal of curiosity. Colin Firth is a lock for Best Actor. I don’t see a lot of debate online over Annette Bening versus Natalie Portman. I just don’t see a lot of, ‘Oh my God!’ It’s not like who’s going to win the Super Bowl.”
Hence the focus on the pre-game hijinks. Even those, like O’Neil, who find the teasers “silly” and somewhat “hollow,” admit the Academy deserves props for going so against-type, not just in the promos themselves, but in hiring someone like Franco, who drew some derision when he was first announced as a co-host. His chronic multi-tasking, after all, has made him an easy target for mockery over the past year, and has almost overshadowed his acting career (most have probably forgotten that he’s not only hosting the Oscars, he’s up for an Oscar).
But it’s Franco’s offbeat reputation, and his delight in playful self-expression—whether via General Hospital or Three’s Company art installations—that plays perfectly into the Academy’s attempt to rebrand the Oscars as, well, playful. To use a branding buzz word, Franco makes the whole exercise feel authentic. It’s hard to imagine much arm-twisting is necessary to get him to make these adverts, not to mention that there’s an appealingly subversive—and, again, very believable—hint that at times the actor is going rogue with his creations. Hours after the “omitted oscar song” went online, it was mysteriously pulled, suggesting that it may not have been OK’d by the powers that be. Later, it was reposted.
Beyond its hosts, the Oscars telecast itself is being positioned as more au courant than ever before. Scenes from backstage will be live-streamed on the Academy’s new, updated website (http://www.oscars.org/). Mothers of certain nominees have been conscripted to live tweet the broadcast. And, of course, there is an Oscar app.
According to Bill Mechanic, who co-produced last year’s Oscars with Adam Shankman, some of these innovations were discussed last year, but were prohibited because of technology.
“We got shot down 100 percent because there was no technical capability. It wasn’t that they resisted us, in fact they were more than prepared to break some rules, but there were just no technical capabilities. The [Academy’s] website was from the Stone Ages.
“They’ve done a lot of work in a year.”
The real question, of course, is will all of the tweeting and YouTubing actually make a difference this time round?
“The Academy is now off on an effort,” said publicist and branding expert Michael Levine. “When you start something, when you get on the journey, not everything that you try on the journey works. Sometimes, people over-correct, they over-do. So the story isn’t really written yet as to whether this battle plan is an over-correction. But I think it’s a viable and appropriate effort, because the alternative was sure death.”
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdQC1-In0OE&playnext=1&list=PL259FC244BED7A0AC[/youtube]
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdQC1-In0OE&playnext=1&list=PL259FC244BED7A0AC[/youtube]
This was hilarious.
Still, with all due respect for the fabulous James Franco, who is vaguely Brokieish, and the fabulous Anne Hathaway, who is unequivocally Brokieish, can I just say that ... I'm getting kind of sick of the unspoken ageism involved in the idea that 20-something stars are just what the show needs to become hipper and more watchable and more interesting?
Besides, they say that of every year's hosts. David Letterman was going to make it hipper. Jon Stewart was going to make it hipper. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin were going to make it hipper. Now young stars are going to make it hipper.
And in the end, everybody always says the new host bombed and wishes 64-year-old Billy Crystal were still hosting it.
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Still, with all due respect for the fabulous James Franco, who is vaguely Brokieish, and the fabulous Anne Hathaway, who is unequivocally Brokieish, can I just say that ... I'm getting kind of sick of the unspoken ageism involved in the idea that 20-something stars are just what the show needs to become hipper and more watchable and more interesting?
Besides, they say that of every year's hosts. David Letterman was going to make it hipper. Jon Stewart was going to make it hipper. Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin were going to make it hipper. Now young stars are going to make it hipper.
And in the end, everybody always says the new host bombed and wishes 64-year-old Billy Crystal were still hosting it.
:o :o :o
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwgCLFrSh-I[/youtube]
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Katherine, your wish is granted! Long Live Jambi!
http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/snorefest-oscar-show-rundown-exclusive-spoilers-from-the-annotated-schedule/
Billy Crystal Is Making Oscars Appearance:
Exclusive Spoilers From Detailed Schedule
By NIKKI FINKE
Saturday February 26, 2011 @ 11:31am PST
** WARNING: SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS ... SPOILERS **
MORE UPDATES, SATURDAY: I've confirmed that Billy Crystal, without doubt the most popular Oscar host in recent years, will be making a "surprise" appearance at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday night. About two-thirds of the way into the telecast, the comedian is scheduled to perform a monologue about the movie industry. His stand-up is so secret that it was listed only as "Guest Host" on the official show rundown I obtained and posted Friday. But then Billy was ushered in and out of Friday's rehearsal without even the other showbiz stars knowing he was at the Kodak Theatre. Given what a snorefest so much of this year's Oscar show looks to be, Crystal's appearance will be something that TV viewers will surely welcome ... I've also learned that the so-called "Cold Opening" of the show, as scheduled, features a filmed bit involving actor Alec Baldwin who was last year's Academy Awards co-host with Steve Martin. The shtick is that Baldwin wants to host again this year and is imagining what it would be like -- but then discovers that James Franco and Anne Hathaway were chosen to host instead of him ... Towards the end of the show, again as scheduled, there'll be a brief Back To The Future segment starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd from the 1985 film ... And venerable actor/producer Kirk Douglas will present the Best Supporting Actress Oscar ... Again, let me emphasize that last-minute changes can always occur.
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click on:
(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/251756/thumbs/s-FRANCO-GERVAIS-large.jpg) (http://www.eonline.com/videos/v97311_raw-james-franco-sounds-off-on-ricky-gervais.html)
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/see_james_franco_and_anne_hath.html
Watch
Anne Hathaway and James Franco
in the Opening Oscar Sketch
By: Kyle Buchanan
2/27/11 at 9:30 PM
Since Oscar hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco aren't exactly stand-up comics, the Academy Award telecast went light on monologue and heavy on the filmed bits at the top of tonight's show. In this opening clip, the duo travel through most of the nominated Best Picture films (perhaps Toy Story 3 was budget-prohibitive?), and while not all the jokes land, at least you've got Franco in a revealing ballet outfit.
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/james_franco_oscars_twitter.html
See James Franco's
Backstage Oscar Videos
By: Amanda Dobbins
2/27/11 at 8:21 PM
From Franco's Twitter, just minutes ago--it's James and his brother Dave in an elevator. And James walking down a hall. And his "famous last words." He's Tweeting like crazy, so follow along there.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/james_franco_oscars_twitter.html
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Thank you John for the report, it made my day! :)
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Thank you John for the report, it made my day! :)
Thanks, Sophia! (Although you should read the following first! ::) )
Ms. Hathaway was better alone than at Mr. Franco’s side. A little like the attempt to graft Generation Y technology to old-fangled Hollywood panache, their stage personas clashed: Mr. Cooler-Than-Thou and Miss Eager-to-Please never really synched. It was a strategic attempt at demographic synergy, but it was like pairing James Dean with Debbie Reynolds.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/movies/awardsseason/28watch.html?_r=1&hp
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The TV Watch
Make It New?
Oscar Courts Internet Age
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: February 28, 2011
It was an Oscar night tricked out as a meeting of Old Hollywood and New, a contest between the heart (King George VI) and the brain (Mark Zuckerberg), and most of all, a melding of old-school network tradition and Internet age connectivity.
Inevitably, with a movie like “The Social Network” one of the night’s favorites, there was bound to be an aggressive infusion of social media name dropping. But at times, the prolonged effort to pander to younger viewers was downright painful. The producers cast the young stars James Franco and Anne Hathaway as hosts, then kept the writing old and hoary — no aren’t-we-hip nudge was left untouched. Mr. Franco came onstage at the opening reading messages on his cellphone. While introducing a change in the set, Justin Timberlake smirked, “I’m sure they make an app for that,” and whipped out his phone as if to make it happen. Even when Mr. Franco came out in drag as Marilyn Monroe, he mugged, “I just got a text message from Charlie Sheen.”
The Oscars could have honored the older generation by showing large-type tweets from AARP; instead, Bob Hope was brought back from the dead with a clip from one of his old Oscar routines that was funnier than many of the live jokes. And a frail Kirk Douglas, whose speech was slurry from a stroke, was brought onstage to present the award for best supporting actress. He did his best. The winner, Melissa Leo, had a personal worst, letting fly on an obscenity that was barely blurred by censors and that suggests that the foulmouthed mother she played in “The Fighter” wasn’t such an acting stretch.
And for all the winks to high-tech and salaams to old actors and classic movies like “Gone With the Wind” and “Casablanca” (the “As Time Goes By” theme song was introduced by President Obama in a taped message), Sunday’s ceremony, like almost all award shows, came down to a battle of winners and losers.
By trying to finesse the difference and maximize audiences, ABC inadvertently drew attention to the bitter divide of success and failure.
In award ceremonies, the energy peaks early — before the balance of hopeful nominees and disappointed losers in the room tips toward the thwarted. Many winners leave their seats to celebrate and give backstage interviews. Even presenters as lively as Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry and Billy Crystal, who hosted the Oscars eight times and came back on Sunday in a cameo, couldn’t disguise the gathering gloom.
Especially because ABC, hoping to hook younger, two-screen viewers, offered a companion Web site (Oscar.com (http://Oscar.com)) with behind-the-scenes video streams, so award winners could be seen on television accepting an award, then celebrating backstage on the “thank you” cam and the “winners’ walk cam.”
It gave Web viewers an all-too-vivid look at how the air leaves the theater and the night starts to drag. While on the Web site the likes of Aaron Sorkin and Christian Bale sprinted out of the theater to talk to reporters and chat with presenters and other winners at a backstage bar, the television screen was filled with losers stuck in their seats, smiling tightly through their rancor and disappointment. The camera rather unsparingly put a close up on Annette Bening’s stricken face as soon as the best actress award went to Natalie Portman.
And advertisers shouldn’t be too happy about a network that invites viewers to spend the commercial breaks watching backstage camera shots of movie stars advertising themselves.
ABC made a big deal that this was the first time a male and female duo shared the same stage as hosts — the last time a man and woman were co-hosts was in 1957 (Jerry Lewis was in Los Angeles and Celeste Holm was in New York). But it wasn’t the best precedent. Separately, Mr. Franco and Ms. Hathaway are charming and charismatic, but together they had an odd absence of chemistry. Mr. Franco looked a little distracted and even blasé — not surprisingly for a multiplatform performer-writer who is working on an English doctorate at Yale. In a green room interview with a Vanity Fair editor, Mr. Franco confessed he had only rehearsed on weekends. “I’ve actually been in school on the weekdays so I’ve had many great moments in class,” he said wryly.
Ms. Hathaway was better alone than at Mr. Franco’s side. A little like the attempt to graft Generation Y technology to old-fangled Hollywood panache, their stage personas clashed: Mr. Cooler-Than-Thou and Miss Eager-to-Please never really synched. It was a strategic attempt at demographic synergy, but it was like pairing James Dean with Debbie Reynolds.
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What this (Mr. Lautner's chest) had ANYTHING to do re the Oscars, I don't know, but--Jeff might like it!
:laugh: :laugh:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQSX8PgDUD0[/youtube]
Youtube REALLY doesn't want you to see this
UNLESS you see it on the Youtube site, so just in case click here
(and even here, it is cut in half, no Harry Potter segment):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQSX8PgDUD0
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I just saw bits and pieces of the Oscars. I was with friends and instead of watching in real time, we recorded the Oscars and watched Sherlock while it was going on. We fast-forwarded through the ceremony afterwards and I think I missed a lot. I especially would have liked to hear the nominated songs. Now I need to go back and see some of the movies I've missed, the documentaries, shorts, Winter's Bone, True Grit and yes, maybe even The King's Speech.
As for James Franco, I think possibly the reason he became more and more sub-dude as the evening went on was because, did you notice, his movie did not win anything at all? Not to mention some of the other good movies he was in this year that didn't even get nominated. That would throw a damper on my one-liners for sure.
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Yeah, James Dean and Debbie Reynolds about sums it up. At least Anne's dress changes were fun to watch.
I didn't check the credits, but Bruce Vilanch used to write for the host(s) in the past. They could have used his one-liners, for sure.
I noticed several winners thanking their "UNION" crew, with emphasis.
As for the songs, I thought they were all forgettable, with forgettable performances.
So glad that Colin Firth thanked Tom Ford, as I thought he should have won last year for "A Single Man".
Melissa Leo was clearly drunk. I thought Kirk Douglas stole the show--because I was actually rooting for him.
A pretty ho-hum evening, over all.
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I always, always LOVE watching the Academy Awards, whether they're presented well, or badly. I thought Anne was exceptionally charming and beautiful, and I agree that James wasn't quite all there, for whatever reason. My favorite part of the entire night was the speech from the frizzy-dark-unkempt-crazy-haired guy who won for Short Film Live Action for "God of Love". His first words were "I should have gotten a haircut".
I almost fell off the bed laughing, thinking, "DUHHHHHHHHH"!
Lee, I saw the three movies you mentioned. All of them are worth seeing. Start with Winter's Bone.
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A pretty ho-hum evening, over all.
I didn't even bother. I watched Mildred Pierce on TCM. ;D
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I watched the beginning (switching back and forth from The Amazing Race) and the last hour (after Masterpiece Theater). I thought Anne was charming, and stunning in each dress. The lack of chemistry between her and James Franco is something I agree with the reviewer on. Too bad. :(
Overall not great, not bad. Actually, one of my favorite things was the montage of those who'd passed away played to "Smile." They all had really beautiful smiles, something we so often take for granted.
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Overall not great, not bad. Actually, one of my favorite things was the montage of those who'd passed away played to "Smile." They all had really beautiful smiles, something we so often take for granted.
Yes, except it was sung by Celine Dion. :-X
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Whipping back and forth between twenty-somethings and the pre-War generations was difficult, IMO. I really thought the Oscars should be about NOW, or at least not go back before 2010. There were a lot of good performances, movies, etc. from 2010 that were overlooked because of the schizophrenic approach. I wish Julianna Moore and Andrew Garfield had been recognized as supporting actors. JM was the supporting actor in The Kids are All Right, not Mark Ruffalo.
Anne and James had chemistry to spare in the promos that were leaked on YouTube, so what happened at the event? Stage fright? I doubt it. Maybe James got some bad news just before going on stage, like the Brokeback Mountain cast got an hour or so before the announcement that Crash had won.
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Yes, except it was sung by Celine Dion. :-X
You could have put the TV on Mute. ;D
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I thought Anne was charming, and stunning in each dress. The lack of chemistry between her and James Franco is something I agree with the reviewer on. Too bad. :(
Maybe next year they should get Ricky Gervais. 8)
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Somewhere I saw separate suggestions of Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Bullock. I think they'd be great together -- both are funny and appealing, relaxed on stage, young(ish) but with plenty of history and experience, totally Hollywood but with the right amount of ironic distance. They're hip enough not to seem like they're trying too hard, but not so hip they don't seem invested in the ritual.
James and Anne were too young for a ceremony that is intrinsically un-young. And as for hipness, one is too hip for the gig and the other's really not quite hip enough (I mean in terms of their image and chemistry, not so much their actual outlooks or level of sophistication or whatever the heck hipness is).
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Anne and James had chemistry to spare in the promos that were leaked on YouTube, so what happened at the event? Stage fright? I doubt it. Maybe James got some bad news just before going on stage, like the Brokeback Mountain cast got an hour or so before the announcement that Crash had won.
Bad news?
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"As for James Franco, I think possibly the reason he became more and more sub-dude as the evening went on was because--"
One of the best thrown away best one-liners ever, Lee!
Bad news?
Likewise, Monika!
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I didn't check the credits, but Bruce Vilanch used to write for the host(s) in the past. They could have used his one-liners, for sure.
Paul, I didn't check the credits either, but I thought reading somewhere that Mr. Vilanch was involved. Oh well.
I noticed several winners thanking their "UNION" crew, with emphasis.
Nice!
So glad that Colin Firth thanked Tom Ford, as I thought he should have won last year for "A Single Man".
Yes!
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The Oscar telecast was mind-numbingly awful. I actually went to bed before the Best Film announcement. At least now we know there is at least one thing James Franco isn't good at, lol! Anne Hathaway fared better but I think they should stick with comedians as hosts. Anyway, it was the most lifeless show yet, almost funereal. I wanted to kiss Melissa Leo for dropping that F-bomb, finally something unscripted and unexpected! It didn't help that there were no surprise wins. Have we witnessed the death of the Oscars? Even the red carpet (ABC) was sleep inducing. I can't believe I missed Spartacus for that!
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I thought Anne was wonderful. She unashamedly showed a nervous excitement of the job she had at hand, and I think her smiles and her laughs were spontaneous. She didnt act silly, her admiration for the other actors on stage, was genuine, and all in all she behaved like a lady.
James Franco, on the other hand, was straight faced and boring. He gave me the impression that he was trying to act "cool" about the whole thing, but it came out as very very deadpan.
The appearance of Billy Crystal was great, with his usual funny lines. He was probably the most "at ease" person who came on the stage.
Cate Blanchett was the most beautiful and natural presenter of the show.
And Colin Firth's speech, such a mixture of formality and comedy...he is brilliant.
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I still love James Franco, don't get me wrong, but I did enjoy reading this Salon piece:
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/02/28/oscars_2001_telecast/index.html
James Franco's Oscars of apathy
Anne Hathaway's co-host spent last night in a daze. What was he thinking? Let this short story explain
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"Or maybe, Franco thought gloomily, returning to the worst-case scenario, the problem was him.
Maybe if Franco had supported Hathaway more, if he'd given more of a damn -- if he hadn't looked distracted half the time and pained the other half; if he'd roused himself to display the smarmy but irresistible energy that Crystal brought to his sole brief appearance, or that Hope radiated from beyond the grave -- maybe Franco wouldn't be standing there on the precipice of infamy, about to be reviled as the guy who sucked worse than Letterman and Whoopi, the yutz who made the Oscars even more boring than they might have been already, just by being his "Am I really there or not?" self, the handsome Mr. Cellophane.
Maybe, Franco thought, there's more to entertainment than just being in the room. Maybe performance is more than a concept to be explored via metafiction and academic jazzing-around. Maybe you just plant your feet and say your line with some energy and try to connect with the audience and hope it works. Maybe it's as simple as flipping a switch: Decide to give a damn and you give a damn, and the audience does, too."
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Is it time to change your avatar, Gil?
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"If I host the worst Oscar show in the history of the Oscars, like, what do I care, you know what I mean?" he said earlier this month. Okay, but then why accept the gig in the first place?
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/james_franco_now_what.html
James Franco:
Now What?
By: Kyle Buchanan
2/28/11 at 1:30 PM
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Since last night's stumper of an Academy Awards telecast (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/the_oscars_wrap_up_what_worked.html), a lot of pundits have claimed that it was folly to ever choose James Franco as a host, and that producers should have foreseen that Franco's low-energy and smirking detachment would prove a poor fit for the Oscars. They're wrong, and they're forgetting about 2009 — that's the year that Hugh Jackman emceed the ceremony (another unexpected selection), and though he did a terrific job, the night was stolen by a fully committed Franco, who brought the house down when he reprised his Pineapple Express character with Seth Rogen in a funny pretaped bit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUnpE6UkSY). To watch that clip now is almost startling: Franco is so high-energy, so loose and winning (he's actually funnier in the skit than the more conventionally comedic Rogen), and even when the two actors eventually come out onstage together, Franco looks fresh and happy to be there in a way he simply wasn't last night. So what happened to him since then — and what happens to him now?
The first question is easy to answer: Since that ceremony just two short years ago, James Franco has become "James Franco," an actor whose primary vocation is deconstructing his own celebrity. Aside from that Oscar appearance, Franco's sole onscreen credit for the rest of 2009 was his truly unexpected stint on General Hospital, which established him in the public eye as someone operating on his own irreverent wavelength. After that, Franco committed to so many odd extracurriculars that he became a constant headline-generator, yet he seemed so blasé and opaque about each of those ventures that the more we knew about him, the less we really got to know him.
It's fine for a young leading man to want to do things other than acting — hell, it's practically mandatory for the new breed of "intellectual hotties" like Ryan Gosling, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Franco to prove their bona fides by setting up a side career or two — but when you seem that uninterested in being a movie star, it's hard to put the genie back in the bottle. Franco actually managed to set aside his self-reflexive celebrity this past fall with his meaty one-man show in 127 Hours, but he promptly undercut it by agreeing to host the Oscarcast where he knew he'd be nominated, pulling focus from his actual performance as an actor and bringing things back to his now-primary brand of pop performance art. And for what? "If I host the worst Oscar show in the history of the Oscars, like, what do I care, you know what I mean?" he said earlier this month (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/james_franco_doesnt_care_if_hi.html). Okay, but then why accept the gig in the first place?
If Franco wanted to further his image as an intellectual prankster-poet who sees Three's Company (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/with_threes_company_james_fran.html) and the Academy Awards and thinks, "Same diff, whatever," he probably succeeded last night. However, it's his career as an actor that could use a little TLC in the ceremony's wake. He'll next be seen in Your Highness, which is the perfect extension of his wink-wink persona (though ironically, he's playing the committed Anne Hathaway type to the postmodern, not-even-trying Danny McBride), but after that, he's toplining the big-budget Fox tentpole Rise of the Apes. Now that we've seen Franco take the piss out of his whole leading-man act, can we buy him as a hunky scientist who unwittingly creates super-intelligent talking monkeys, or will it all play as one long Funny or Die sketch?
Hollywood is more forgiving than you might think to actors who indulge in long-term self-satirization: Though Joaquin Phoenix essentially blew up his persona and frittered away his public goodwill in I'm Still Here, as soon as he finally admitted it was all a stunt, big films like Hoover and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter came calling. (One cause for concern, though: He still hasn't picked a new project.) A-list directors will continue to want to work with Franco over the next year, even if the general public has soured on him somewhat since last night's ceremony, and even if his coming ubiquity (in addition to the four other films he has coming out this year, he's got an album due at some point (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/kalup_linzy.html) ) might exacerbate that backlash.
Still, maybe it's time for Franco to stop playing himself in the public eye, especially when that role is getting a little stale. An eternal college student, Franco's intellectual curiosity and willingness to subvert expectations is commendable, but everyone's gotta graduate sooner or later.
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Oscars 2009:
James Franco and Seth Rogen
'Pineapple' skit
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUnpE6UkSY[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUnpE6UkSY
It is funny. Also, see 1:57 - 2:13.
I'm just sayin'.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/movies/awardsseason/01oscar.html?_r=1&ref=arts
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Younger Audience Still Eludes the Oscars
By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES
Published: February 28, 2011
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James Franco and Anne Hathaway, the co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards.
LOS ANGELES — The Oscars tripped in their transition to a hipper, younger, media-mad future, attracting 12 percent fewer viewers than last year in the important 18-to-49 age bracket.
Early ratings results for Sunday night’s broadcast of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony on ABC pointed toward an overall audience of 37.6 million, about 4 million viewers short of last year’s 41.7 million.
In a year when ratings for the Grammys, the Golden Globes and the Super Bowl were all up, the bright, new Twitter-fingered Oscars were down. Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which bestows the awards and produces the telecast, was not ready to concede defeat, however. “I think it’s a beginning — everything needs to start somewhere,” Mr. Sherak said in a telephone interview. “Something didn’t work? Let’s try to fix it.”
The viewership figures mean that these annual movie awards are still chugging along as a spectacle one-third the size of the Super Bowl, almost as big as a good playoff game and down about 34 percent from their own contemporary ratings peak, in 1998, when “Titanic” helped deliver more than 57 million viewers.
But even these soft ratings may go down as an achievement, given the forces and flubs that threatened to sink the show after a season so trying that even Scott Rudin — a producer who had both “The Social Network” and “True Grit” among the best picture nominees — decided to stay home in New York rather than attend.
Mr. Rudin was tied up with previews for his Broadway musical, “The Book of Mormon,” as well as the first weekend of shooting in New York on “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” A film directed by Stephen Daldry.
Having moved on, Mr. Rudin missed being there to watch a film distributed by his sometime business rival Harvey Weinstein take the best picture Oscar. “The King’s Speech” took that trophy, along with prizes for its screenplay, by David Seidler; its director, Tom Hooper; and its lead actor, Colin Firth.
But Mr. Rudin also sidestepped a show that was working hard to stay afloat amid the debris of a season that inflicted some damage on almost everyone who took part. With 10 nominations, “True Grit” got no prizes. “The Social Network,” once considered a lock for best picture, won awards only for its script, its score and its editing; “Toy Story 3” won best animated movie, but there was the simultaneous suggestion that voters don’t take that art form seriously in the top race.
The Academy had to make do this year without an “Avatar,” the sort of late-season, prize-worthy crowd pleaser that automatically draws an audience to the show. Instead, it worked hard — you could almost hear the gears grinding through montages that made obligatory turns in all directions — to build its 10 best pictures into an engine strong enough to drive the show.
But the campaigners behind those films, and much of the audience, were already worn out by months of promotion as studios had kept “The King’s Speech,” “True Grit,” “The Fighter,” “Black Swan,” “127 Hours” and “The Social Network” in theaters, even while easing up on new releases. While most of those films piled up respectable ticket sales, the overall box office, starved for fresh fare, is down 21 percent so far this year, compared with the same period in 2010, according to Hollywood.com’s box-office service.
What needed to be fixed, in Mr. Sherak’s eyes?
He said he would wait to discuss that with Academy governors in the weeks ahead. “Did allowing so much behind-the-scenes access take some of the mystique away?” he said of a tactic that was intended to bring the young audience aboard via Twitter, Facebook and an enormous array of backstage streaming video via Oscar.com (http://Oscar.com). “Maybe some of that criticism is right, but all I know is that you can’t get everything right all the time.”
“You get criticized for trying something; you get criticized for not trying something,” said Mr. Sherak, whose show came in for some public denigration as well as a share of private grousing by those in the game. “The only absolute is that not trying makes you old and stodgy.”
Sunday night’s show was not overly long. At about 3 hours and 11 minutes, it appeared to be the shortest since 1986, the year “Out of Africa” won best picture. But there was a cost to the hurry-up approach. Those at the controls managed to destroy the big moment for a producer of “The King’s Speech,” Gareth Unwin, by loudly bringing up the orchestra before he had gotten out a word — as if a guy behind the year’s winning movie was just one more embarrassing Englishman to be hurried off the stage in the interests of good television.
“I want to be good television so badly, as you can see,” said Randy Newman, as he apologized on the air for having to say thank you to people who helped him win the Oscar for his musical work on “Toy Story 3.” (Backstage, Mr. Newman picked up on the weary, wrung-out mood when he responded to a chipper college reporter’s question about breaking into the music business by responding: “Who would want to break into it? It’s like a bank that’s already been robbed.”)
Tom Hanks, a member of the Academy’s governing board, inadvertently pointed to one of the season’s biggest problems — the fragmentation of honors, with no film reaching critical mass — early in the show. He opened with a spiel about a “trifecta” of cinematography, art direction and best picture awards having distinguished great films like “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Titanic,” then presented the cinematography award to “Inception” and the art direction prize to “Alice in Wonderland,” neither of which had a prayer of becoming best picture.
The night’s young co-hosts, Anne Hathaway and James Franco, were unlikely to get the career lift many predicted when they were unexpectedly appointed. Instead of showing how they were stars with enough wattage to carry moviedom’s biggest moment, the pairing emphasized their flaws as performers: a squinty-eyed, all-too-relaxed Mr. Franco came across as not taking his job that seriously, and the frequent industry argument that Ms. Hathaway lacks chemistry with her male co-stars was given a fresh example.
A series of elaborate gags and production numbers, more than a few playing off their status as greenhorns, turned the hosts into straight men for Billy Crystal — perhaps the last of the great Oscar hosts? — who showed up at midshow to a standing ovation and sopped up the applause.
“No, no, no, no, go ahead,” said Mr. Crystal, encouraging the crowd to love him a little more than they loved what they were getting this year.
But Mr. Franco and Ms. Hathaway survived. And for the Oscars, there’s always next year.
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wanted to kiss Melissa Leo for dropping that F-bomb, finally something unscripted and unexpected!
I wondered about that. Can you really be that unaware of yourself under those circumstances? I thought there was a distant possibility that she'd done it on purpose.
She was widely criticized for buying ad space promoting her candidacy with glamor shots of herself. She explained at the time that, at 50, she didn't feel she had the chance that younger actresses have to get magazine covers and whatnot. Maybe she thought, here's one way to show she can be down to earth and careless (as well as gussied up and overcontrolling). Maybe she thought, people are still talking about Sally Field's "You like me! You really like me!" 40 years later, and although they laughed at the time Fields is respected and successful (and has an ad campaign!). Maybe she thought, this will be MY chance at history.
She didn't say it in an offhand or in-passing way. She said it loudly, clearly, looking directly at the audience.
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I wondered about that. Can you really be that unaware of yourself under those circumstances?
If you're drunk enough. ... ::) ;D
I thought there was a distant possibility that she'd done it on purpose.
But you could be right. :)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/movies/awardsseason/01oscar.html?_r=1&ref=arts
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Younger Audience Still Eludes the Oscars
By MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES
Published: February 28, 2011
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Tweet of the day:
tnyfrontrow:
They wanted younger viewers but gave prizes to that prune stew of a movie.
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They oughta just put the whole shebang on pay-per-view. 8)
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But I saw way too many comments yesterday (not here -- I mean elsewhere on the internet) to the effect of So boring! Why don't they just stop broadcasting it! Why do they make us watch it! Etc.
Yes, it's too bad the Academy goes into everyone in the world's living room, grabs the remote and ties them to their recliner.
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Yes, it's too bad the Academy goes into everyone in the world's living room, grabs the remote and ties them to their recliner.
Oooh. ... Kinky. ...
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Bad news?
But I can't do anything about it up here on this stage!!
(Audience) You can't do anything about it down here neither!
LOL...and another thing, possibly Mr. Franco was distracted with thinking about his after-after party that he had called at an undisclosed location. Maybe he was saving himself for the party!!
Thank you, Monica and John!!
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Oooh. ... Kinky. ...
:laugh: :laugh:
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Hmmm.
Maybe the Oscar producers
should have hired the guys
at howitshouldhaveended.com (http://howitshouldhaveended.com)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBAuMpOpSnA&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnl-yQjGYBs&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/youtube]
::)
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Hmmm.
Maybe the Oscar producers
should have hired the guys
at howitshouldhaveended.com (http://howitshouldhaveended.com)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBAuMpOpSnA&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/youtube]
:laugh: :laugh:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnl-yQjGYBs&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/youtube]
::)
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Is it time to change your avatar, Gil?
Yep, I'm switching my allegiance to Michael Fassbender for a while
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Not James Franco
I admire your loyalty to Jake, considering what he's been in lately. ;)
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Yep, I'm switching my allegiance to Michael Fassbender for a while
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w197/oilgun/People/michael-fassbender_01.jpg)
Not James Franco
He's certainly not!
I admire your loyalty to Jake, considering what he's been in lately. ;)
Hope springs eternal.
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If you are liege to Herr Fassbender, please acquire for him a shirt in his size and a bib!!
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If you are liege to Herr Fassbender, please acquire for him a shirt in his size and a bib!!
You'll be a convert once you see his Rochester in the new Jane Eyre film. Mark my word..
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I am SO looking forward to it!! And I'm sure he will be properly dressed for the part!!
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I think a new thread for this is needed, but in the meanwhile:
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/03/michael-fassbender-gave-horses-erections
‘Michael Fassbender gave horses erections’
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Fassbender’s “Jane Eyre” co-star Mia Wasikowska spoke to Movie Line about Fassbender’s maddening effect on their equine co-stars, saying his good looks helped make it nearly impossible to film.
“There was a horse on the third day of filming [when] we were shooting the scene where Jane and Rochester meet, and every time Michael hopped on the horse it got a huge erection,” Wasikowskia remembered. “And he’d get off and they’d run the poor thing around the block to try to make it go away, and he’d hop on it again and it would happen all over again, and they’d have to get him off and run it around.”
Also see:
http://www.movieline.com/2011/03/about-that-one-time-michael-fassbender-gave-a-horse-a-boner.php
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/04/michael-fassbender-horses_n_831220.html
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/03/james_franco_the_tasmanian_dev.html
James Franco:
‘The Tasmanian Devil Would Look Stoned
Next to Anne Hathaway’
By: Kyle Buchanan
3/31/11 at 5:22 PM
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITgifNEhZ0M&feature[/youtube]
James Franco has skillfully avoided the subject of his Oscar stint during his current Your Highness press tour, but when he sat down with fellow Oscar host David Letterman to tape an episode of Late Show that will air tomorrow night, the two commiserated about their poorly received kudocasts. After Letterman claimed, "I was so bad that they talked for a while about shutting down the motion picture industry," Franco replied, "[At least] they didn't say you were stoned. People said I was under the influence. I've thought about it. I think I know why. I love her, but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway." Then again, he's still not sure how he played onscreen: "Truthfully, I haven't watched it back. Maybe I had low energy. I honestly played those lines as well as I could."
"I never dreamed of being, like, the best Oscar host ever," Franco continued. "It was never on my list of things to do. It doesn't mean I didn't care and it doesn't mean I didn't try hard, right? But here's the hypocritical thing: Leading up to the Oscars, I couldn't hear enough about how, 'Oh, people don't care about the Oscars anymore, it's dead, it's old, it's at the end of a long awards season, who cares about it?' Well, as soon as you don't host the way you want to, they suddenly care and they won't shut up about it! Suddenly, I can't hear enough about a show they don't care about!" Maybe he'd hear less about it if he stayed off Twitter? (Bruce Vilanch would certainly appreciate it. (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/03/james_franco_vilanch_tweet.html))
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Very cute!
Letterman claimed, "I was so bad that they talked for a while about shutting down the motion picture industry,"
:laugh: :laugh:
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/anne_hathaway_knows_what_you_t.html
Anne Hathaway Knows What You Thought
of Her Oscar Hosting
By: Kyle Buchanan
4/7/11 at 8:00 PM
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Anne Hathaway -- she of the energy that would shame the Tasmanian Devil -- appeared on the Today show this morning to promote her upcoming animated film about potential bird sex, Rio. And yes, she has heard what everyone thought of her stint hosting the Oscars with James Franco. "The critics were tough," she admitted to Matt Lauer. "They said we were the worst show ever." Still, she's choosing to look on the bright side. "Then there are the people who've been coming up to me since then who stop and say, 'I thought it was fantastic. I had a great time! I watched it with my whole family and we were entertained the whole time.' Obviously, I'm very grateful to those people and I'm glad they felt that way. And then there's my memory of it ... whether it was great or whether it stunk, who knows?" Still, her diplomatic facade crumbled a bit when Lauer asked whether she'd host again: Watch as Hathaway goes from "Why not?" to "Maybe" to blurting out "No!" in the space of two seconds flat. [via Thompson on Hollywood]