His schtick is an angry, edgy, challenging schtick. The Academy is a bunch of fogeys.
Weren't they going for a younger audience this time (due to declining ratings) or did I just dream that?
I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Feb 28, 2005 7:08:34 am PST #2497 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2005 7:09:53 am PST #2498 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Weren't they going for a younger audience this time (due to declining ratings) or did I just dream that?
It's a very good idea. But just casting Chris doesn't strike me as enough -- I'd think that a lot of people that tuned in just for him tuned out pretty quickly.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2005 7:11:20 am PST #2499 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I did think that Chris Rock was picking on Jude Law a bit too much (the first joke at his expense was funny, but by the second and third times it started to feel personal, and mean), but Sean Penn's comments just made me roll my eyes. Kudos to him for admitting he has no sense of humour, but...enh.
Betsy HP - Feb 28, 2005 7:12:32 am PST #2500 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Jessica, where did you stand on the Best Editing award?
In unrelated news, Mongo need nap. Now.
Lyra Jane - Feb 28, 2005 7:15:48 am PST #2501 of 10002
Up with the sun
I'd think that a lot of people that tuned in just for him tuned out pretty quickly.
Yeah, if I had been watching just for him, I would have changed channnels after his monologue. (Which was good, but, as ita says, not as funny as his standup.) The thing with the "regular people" at the movie theater just didn't work. I couldn't tell whether they were "regular people, who happen to be mostly black," or "regular black people," and if their race was supposed to be important, it seemed kind of insulting.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2005 7:17:39 am PST #2502 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jessica, where did you stand on the Best Editing award?
Oh, I was rooting for The Aviator all the way. It totally deserved it.
I did have to snort when they let Schoonmaker come up from the audience like a real person instead of making her come up onstage early like all the other tech award winners, though. I'm not sure if they did that because they consider editing more important than production design, or because she's such a big name.
Lyra Jane - Feb 28, 2005 7:19:40 am PST #2503 of 10002
Up with the sun
I'm not sure if they did that because they consider editing more important than production design
They didn't have the editors onstage before the names were read, as they did for some other tech awards. So I'm guessing this.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2005 7:22:11 am PST #2504 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
They didn't have the editors onstage before the names were read, as they did for some other tech awards. So I'm guessing this.
Right, but I'm wondering, would they have thought so if Schoonmaker wasn't a nominee?
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2005 7:22:23 am PST #2505 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it seemed kind of insulting.
It was either insulting black people, or the Academy, or white people, or SOMEONE. Well, unless it was supposed to be funny and not antagonistic. Albert Brooks was hysterical, though, but not worth all the rest of the repetition.
Kathy A - Feb 28, 2005 7:27:03 am PST #2506 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Did anyone else think that brunette Renee Z. looked remarkably like Lily Tomlin as Ernestine, the phone operator? I was expecting RZ to say, "One, ringy-dingy..."