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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #30 on: February 23, 2015, 02:53:50 pm »
Lady Gaga is getting a big amount of press for her singing last night, she was great.

Before I left for work this morning, the Today show ran a teeny-tiny clip of her singing "The Sound of Music." The talking heads were all raving about what a beautiful voice she actually has, and from the tiny bit I heard, I agree with them.
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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #31 on: February 23, 2015, 06:44:12 pm »
Before I left for work this morning, the Today show ran a teeny-tiny clip of her singing "The Sound of Music." The talking heads were all raving about what a beautiful voice she actually has, and from the tiny bit I heard, I agree with them.

Here she is:



She gained my respect when I saw a video, a few years ago, of her singing one of her hits basically a capella. She was fantastic.

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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #32 on: February 23, 2015, 10:51:25 pm »
The opera boards were all a-buzz with discussion about Gaga's performance last night. Opinions run the gamut. I thought that she did a good job with repertoire that is not in her wheel house. And I give her credit because I can't think of any other current pop stars who could have done anywhere near as good a job. There were some diction issues, and her breathing was all over the place. But she did display good tone production, and she managed her passagio well. Her acting was nothing more than stock gestures, and she spent too much time with her eyes closed, which passes for emotional intensity in the pop world, but doesn't fly in theatre. The tattoos were utterly distracting.
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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #33 on: February 24, 2015, 01:15:07 pm »
Lady Gaga is great, she is without a doubt both intelligent and gifted.

Very happy to see JK Simmons win. I've been a fan ever since "OZ"
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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #34 on: February 24, 2015, 07:44:10 pm »
The opera boards were all a-buzz with discussion about Gaga's performance last night. Opinions run the gamut. I thought that she did a good job with repertoire that is not in her wheel house. And I give her credit because I can't think of any other current pop stars who could have done anywhere near as good a job. There were some diction issues, and her breathing was all over the place. But she did display good tone production, and she managed her passagio well. Her acting was nothing more than stock gestures, and she spent too much time with her eyes closed, which passes for emotional intensity in the pop world, but doesn't fly in theatre. The tattoos were utterly distracting.

I was at a party and they said the same thing about her tattoos.

I thought that I read somewhere that Gaga is classically trained as a vocalist.  I could be wrong, though.


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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #35 on: January 15, 2016, 06:29:02 pm »
Oscar nominations were announced...ho hum again.  :-\ Why oh why are the Oscars so boring and lily white? Well, I read that the LA Times took a survey and found that academy voters are 94 percent white, 76 percent men and an average of 63 years old. Hmmm, that may explain it.
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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2016, 12:20:41 am »
I'm sure it does.  Once they die off, and the panel changes, the nominations will change as well.


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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #37 on: February 13, 2016, 09:06:30 pm »
I really hope The Weekend wins for best song so that the movie will forever be known as : The Oscar winning Fifty Shades of Grey! Joke aside, it really IS the best song.

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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #38 on: February 13, 2016, 11:19:30 pm »
Nice to hear from you, Gil! I hope it wins too. I'm upset that Far From the Madding Crowd wasn't nominated for costume design. Well, I'm upset about a lot of things, Oscar wise, and that's one of them.
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Re: The Oscars
« Reply #39 on: February 14, 2016, 08:42:47 am »
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