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Oscar Chat 2008?
oilgun:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 25, 2008, 05:19:42 pm ---Here you go, oilgun!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2008/02/ryan-seacrest-v.html
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Thanks! That really was an awkward moment :o I don't care what anyone says but I kinda like Ryan Seacrest. He wanted Ben Affleck to protect them from "that man" as Jennifer called Busey. Hilarious!
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: oilgun on February 25, 2008, 05:40:43 pm ---I was worried (hoping?) she'd fall off her platform shoes! ;) Are there so few eligible songs? Most of the nominated ones were so painful to listen to1
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But at least the one that should have won did win! I think I will go order the Once DVD to add to my collection, in honor of the win!
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southendmd:
--- Quote from: oilgun on February 25, 2008, 05:40:43 pm ---I was worried (hoping?) she'd fall off her platform shoes! ;) Are there so few eligible songs? Most of the nominated ones were so painful to listen to1
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Well, she wouldn't have very far to fall; she's tiny.
I haven't even seen Enchanted, but I suspect the songs sound more stupid out of context. At least Kristen's song was cute: kind of white calypso.
southendmd:
The Academy really needs to change their rules about songs, also foreign films. Too many good songs/films get excluded.
Just imagine Emmylou Harris or Teddy Thompson singing up there two years ago. So much better than that nasty Dolly Parton thing or the Pimps on Parade song.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on February 25, 2008, 05:22:24 pm ---1. Who is Miley Cyrus?
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I'd never heard of Miley Cyrus before December, when I heard about the mom lying for Hannah Montana tickets and discovered she's pretty much the most famous girl in the country.
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on February 25, 2008, 05:25:12 pm ---Wasn't Gary Busey in a horrible motorcycle accident quite a few years ago? Maybe he has some late effect residual brain damage or something.
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I think he does. He has a reputation for acting irrationally. So sad -- he was good as Buddy Holly!
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on February 25, 2008, 05:21:00 pm ---why was Jessica Alba the host for the Technical Awards held on February 9th. What does she have to do with technical awards?
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The always have a babe host the technical awards. I guess they figure (wrongly) that viewers at home will be less likely to leave the room at part. Though if they got an actual techie to host the techie awards, viewers would leave for sure, along with probably most of the people in the auditorium.
--- Quote ---At least the presenters' patter was mercifully brief. They should say good evening, and "the nominees are..." IMO
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Though the part where Jon Stewart called the Once singer back onstage to say her thank-you's after being cut off by the orchestra was, IMO, the most touching moment of the show. I don't know if it was Jon Stewart's doing or someone else's, but it was very thoughtful and something that, in a lot of years, wouldn't have been done.
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