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Oscar Chat 2008?
southendmd:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 25, 2008, 06:21:48 pm ---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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So true, Twinkle Katherine. Very classy. That's what I mean: if the presenters keep their part brief, there's more time for the winners to say something interesting.
Fran:
--- Quote from: southendmd on February 25, 2008, 06:16:30 pm ---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.
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Paul, here's "Happy Working Song" in context. Hope you like rodents. LOL
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KObgs81QyR4[/youtube]
Time 3:37
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on February 25, 2008, 06:26:58 pm ---So true, Twinkle Katherine.
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I can see I'm going to live to regret posting on here after drinking prosecco. ::)
Here's another item of interest. Writers on Slate observed that No Country for Old Men producer Scott Rudin thanked his (male) partner, but there was no shot of the partner.
--- Quote ---(Kim Masters) We wondered how come they always show the teary wives but no quick reaction shot when Rudin thanked his honey. What's up with that, liberal Hollywood?
... (Dana Stevens) Viewers were so burned out by the time Scott Rudin finally gave his acceptance speech for best picture that you had to TiVo back to notice what Kim points out—that his shout-out to his life partner, John Barlow, was unaccompanied by a cutaway shot to Barlow's face. Defamer even notes that Rudin's mention of his "honey" was absent from the official press transcript and wonders whether the academy was guilty of "pinkwashing." It seems likelier that the transcriber, like me, was just too worn down by four hours of clip montages to get it all. But the producers' failure to allow Barlow his moment to kvell onscreen was less forgivable (if only because he may be the only person in Hollywood who likes Scott Rudin). When Melissa Etheridge won for best song last year, she gave her wife, Tammy Lynn Michaels, an on-camera kiss, but they're women, and attractive blondes to boot. I guess being publicly gay at the Oscars is still no country for old men. But maybe next year.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2184888/entry/2185092/
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 25, 2008, 06:21:48 pm ---
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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I am glad they did too because you could see it was a series of flub-ups--no one person's fault--that left her (what is her name? Ingreta?) looking confused and bewildered. I am glad she had a chance to come back and have her moment to say thank you.
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southendmd:
--- Quote from: Fran on February 25, 2008, 06:30:28 pm ---Paul, here's "Happy Working Song" in context. Hope you like rodents. LOL
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Hey, it worked for Ratatouille! It's a little like "Whistle While You Work", but with cockroaches instead of dwarves.
Thanks for that, Fran.
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