Thank God for Jon Stewart. He did his job as Oscar host quite well: He made us laugh, moved the action along, and smirked at all the right times. For instance, this hilarious quip after the beautiful, soulful, gospel song from August Rush was performed:
“You know that’s an inspirational song when you’ve got Hal Holbrook doing the cabbage patch in the aisles. Helen Mirren, you just got served.”
Hahahaha. Love it! Unfortunately the rest of the show was not as exciting. Is it just me or are the Oscars getting more and more boring every year? We need more absolute joy and out-of-body craziness, ala the clip of Cuba Gooding, Jr. accepting his award for Jerry Maguire in which he thanked everyone and then everyone else. There were a few cute speeches but nothing we’ll be talking about in years to come. Remember the year that the winning costume designer showed up in a dress made out of dollar bills? That’s what I’m talking about. With so much banality, I almost miss Joan Rivers.
So let’s chat about the red carpet, shall we? I’ll admit, I watched every moment of E!’s two-hour Live From the Red Carpet broadcast, while I Tivoed and fast-forwarded through most of the Oscar broadcast. The fashion show is where it’s at, and this year did NOT disappoint. First, what the hell happened to Calista Flockhart’s hair? She looked like my grandmother after a roll in the hay with the neighbor’s gardner
The asshole of the year award goes to Gary Busey. If you didn’t watch Ryan Seacrest hamming it up on E!, you might not have heard this story. I’ll summarize: Gary Busey is on crack or some other drug and decides to start yelling at Ryan while he’s interviewing Laura Linney and Jennifer Gardner. Yelling. In hindsight, I think he thought he was talking to Ryan, but to everyone else it sounded like yelling. Someone forgot to use his inside voice.
Now the crazy part. When Ryan ignores him, Mr. Busey decides to join the conversation, uninvited. He says hello to both actresses, shakes Ryan’s hand, and then inexplicably gives Jennifer G. a bear hug/cops a feel and kisses her on the neck. How odd and overly familiar. The look on her face was priceless: genuine shock, then horror, then disgust. As she tries to continue chatting with Ryan, she fully admits that she “can’t quite figure out why that man just kissed me on the neck.” Two things: he’s a freak and she obviously didn’t recognize him in all of his disheveled mania. Cut to Ryan talking to his co-host Guiliana about the incident when Ryan says that he’s never even met Gary Busey. WTF? What I want to know is how did he even get in to the Oscars? Don’t they have bouncers? The Academy Awards has to have the tightest velvet rope policy in town. C’mon!
In closing, most of the dresses were safe = boring. The acceptance speeches were safe = boring. Jon Stewart rules. I love Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill… and want to have 10,000 of their stoner babies.






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