Posted By admin on March 8, 2010

Once again, the Oscar telecast managed to annoy me almost as much as it entertained me.

Starting with the red carpet coverage, when exactly was Kathy Ireland replaced with a giant robot? Or did she come that way? I just kept staring at her right hand, waiting for her bionic fingers to relax, and it never happened.

Steve and that other guy were all right, but almost superfluous. Seriously, did Baldwin say more than five words all night? NPH was, per usual, fantastic.

The only gown that really stood out to me was Amanda Seyfried’s. Very interesting, structurally.

Announcer-girl was intensely annoying. Best “pitcher”? “Barber” Streisand? Where do they find these people?

The John Hughes tribute was amazing, although I always have a moment of massive disconnect when I see the grown-up Anthony Michael Hall.

So they cut out performances of the Original Song nominees, and it still managed to run 4+ hours. Perhaps next year we can leave out the glowing tributes to the lead actor/actress nominees and put the songs back in.

They managed to screw up the In Memoriam segment yet again, by showing us their pretty stage (and their not-so-pretty James Taylor) instead of showing us the people they were supposedly paying tribute to. Speaking of, Farrah Fawcett got shafted yet again by Michael Jackson. I saw some folks on Twitter sneering that she was a “TV” actress, not a movie actress, but she was in more movies than Michael, and I can name at least 3 off the top of my head. (Myra Breckinridge, Cannonball Run and Logan’s “sexiest movie ever” Run.)

Finally, I’d like to know whose obnoxious idea it was for the orchestra to play “I Am Woman” as Kathryn Bigelow was walking offstage after her historic win. I mean, what would they have played if Lee Daniels had won? Theme from “Shaft”? Idiots.

But other than that, I enjoyed it. :D

ETA: RDJ’s “sickly little mole people” line made me laugh the hardest. :)

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