Watched all six hours, or whatever it was. I’d give the broadcast a solid B, maybe an A-minus. I was entertained _ well as much as you can be by a show that has so many dull moments.
Highlights:
Ellen DeGeneres was funny. Not raucously funny. Not off-the-wall funny. But solidly funny throughout. She’s charming and likable and funny. Just funny. The opening wasn’t great, but she was much better when she interacted with people in the audience, especially Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood.
Loved the Jack Black/John C. Reilly/Will Ferrell "Ballad of the Tragically Un-nominated." Didn’t think I would at first, but it was funny. And those guys can perform.
James Taylor and Randy Newman are two of my personal favorites. Both have strong connections to the Eagles, so obviously I’m going to be on board.
Jennifer Hudson winning for Best Support Actress just a couple of years after being on American Idol. Ain’t America great?
Beyonce.
Robert Downey Jr., making fun of his past indiscretions during his presentation.
Jerry Seinfeld still has it as a stand-up comedian.
Presenters George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Speilberg.
Scorsese, who receives his first Oscar from those three in the best moment of the show. How Scorsese could not have won earlier is a mystery, but the Academy has finally corrected its wrong. The icing on the cake is that The Departed won for best movie. Hooray! I loved the movie, one of Scorsese’s best.
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I liked the Hong Kong original ‘Infernal Affairs’ more than ‘The Departed’. Its not Scorsese’s best but it does correct the error of him not winning for ‘Taxi Driver’ or ‘Raging Bull’. How he could be passed over for either of those two films is beyond me.
Hey Bob,
Do you think Leonardo DiCaprio should have been nominated for Best Actor for The Departed. Oh, and here’s a tidbit about the movie that is kind of neat — every time someone dies in this flick there is an ‘X’ in the picture - a la the old James Cagney movie Little Caesar.
Keep up the good work - I like your blog.
WK