This is my brain right now: Sam's face, Pippin's face, the beacons, Sam's gestures, Pippin singing, Faramir's face, Eowyn's face, Theoden riding, Sam's tears, Pippin's expressions, Merry's face, Frodo's eyes, Gollum's poorness, Aragorn's movements, Legolas' movements, Sam's face, Pippin's face, the ring, New-Zealand, Sam, Pippin.

Some light on a screen accompanied by sounds shouldn't be able to do that to me.

It wasn't on NBC -- it was on ABC (on Primetime) -- but the Breakfast with the Arts thing was different.

Here is the TORN report on the Lincoln Center event. (It spoils the gags.)

From the e! online article on the Critics Choice Awards:

Unlike most other awards-show voters, members of the Broadcast Film Critics Association offer up an open accounting of their balloting.

Oscar watchers then might be interested to know that Return of the King didn't just win Best Picture; it destroyed the competition--no small feat considering it was up against nine other films. King received 43 critics' votes, more than double its nearest competitor, Mystic River, with 18.

Jackson's Best Director win was even more impressive. He captured 80 votes, far outdistancing Mystic River captain Clint Eastwood (news), who earned 17.

WOW!!

I watched the CC awards and the Mystic River love in that room was strong. That's surprising.

Reward for the whole trilogy, I wonder? I mean, not that RotK wasn't a very impressive movie, because it was.

(FotR is by far my favorite of the three, though.)

I would really, really love to see the Academy give PJ a special original award for not only making three movies *at the same time*, but also doing a damn fine job at it.

Of course, since I would love to see that, it won't happen...

Oh, ABC! NBC owns Bravo. my bad

Hee. Christian Rivers is my new TTTEE commentary hero. Re: the 'Meat's back on the menu, boys!' line:

"My only issue is that it implies the Uruks a) Come from a society that has menus, and b) those menus are selective enough to have things taken off and put back on again."

That line always made me squint a little, and that's exactly why.

I'm a similar squinter -- NSM on that line but on, e.g., the elf-surfing later in the movie that he also mentions. I think Rivers is sort of a book-purist (not "it must be like this because it's in the book", but "it mustn't be like that because it's not the same mood as the book"). The difference between him and me is that he seems ultimately to agree with Jackson about crowd-pleasing moments, whereas I still sort of tolerate those moments, rather than like them.

Also, I realized recently, the reason why Rivers always looked sort of lopsided to me (in his interviews) is that he has one brown eye and one green eye. I did the same "Oh! That's why your face is uneven!" double-take when I got a good look at Jane Seymour.

Except that even if her eyes were same-colored, Seymour's face is structurally asymmetrical.