81st Academy Awards

[ScottM]

Answer the door. There's a man knocking

He is from DHS, you in a heap o'trouble boy!

 

[LearDriver]

NASCAR, Academy Awards... both operate outside my sphere of attention.

Nascar, I can understand. But the Academy Awards, how can you bypass that. How do you live your life when you don't know what actors are telling you to think and do.

Actually, I wish so badly that Team America would show up to the Academy Awards.

 

[Lawreston]

I am not a movie buff and haven't been to the theater in years. If Hollywood fell into the ocean it would not bother me a bit. And the award shows are just a way for them to help inflate their over inflated egos.

Bingo! I much prefer the live theater to motion pictures. In a film the scene is done and redone until the director is satisfied with the actors' "take."
On stage you(the actor) gets one chance;if it isn't right your task is to cover the moment, and that takes some quick thinking.

Once I was Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress. The production was near the end of a good run(regional theater). At the conclusion of the overture Minstrel is the sole character emerging from center closed curtain(entire cast remaining behind the curtain). He has three verses to sing. Pianist played the intro, Minstrel began his spiel, with the second verse! I knew, orchestra pit knew, unseen cast knew. Oh, what to do? If I could get the music director's attention I could probably turn the situation around. So while singing I strolled from center stage to stage right, got his "eye" as I gestured one finger. Before he could start the interlude between verse 1 and verse 2 I began said verse 1 and continued the whole song.

When I exited center between curtains and took my place the adjacent actor whispered, "Trying to milk it for an extra chorus?" And the curtain opened. Most of the audience didn't know what had happened, but the cast and its staff did. At intermission the director, a retired Broadway actress, came to me and quipped, "You always seem to know how to dig yourself out of a hole. I wondered how you were going to handle that one."

Live theater is so much more vibrant.

HR

Oh, after the five babes presented Penelope Cruz with her Oscar my TV and its DTV converter sputtered with "Weak Signal." And then the power went out during a wild storm. And it stayed out until about noon today.
Thanks for reminding me I didn't miss much.

 

[t0r0nad0]

I can imagine no greater waste of my precious time than watching all those self-adoring maroons gush all over each other, swept up in their delusions of relevance.

Ditto.

Oh, the Academy Awards were on last night?

+1,000

I couldn't possibly care less about the Oscars, but I happened to flip through it briefly right as Tina Fey and Steve Martin came on and presented the writing or whatever awards.

Seriously, I could watch Tina Fey watch paint dry for 2 hours and be enthralled. Absolutely enchanted.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!

My sentiments exactly!

I've never been able to watch the Academy awards without sharing my meals from the previous couple days with anyone sufficiently unfortunate to be watching them with me.

All I can add is, "AMEN!" I watched exactly 0 minutes, 0 seconds of that "show" last night. Don't think I missed a thing.

I am not a movie buff and haven't been to the theater in years. If Hollywood fell into the ocean it would not bother me a bit. And the award shows are just a way for them to help inflate their over inflated egos.

Yeah, that's what I say.

Exactly!

Same here...

Academy Awards? Which Academy won? Naval, Air Force or West Point?

you know NASCAR... Rednecks driving in circles really fast only to crash about every 30-40 laps

NASCAR, Academy Awards... both operate outside my sphere of attention.

Didn't watch the Super Bowl.
Didn't watch the Academy Awards.
Didn't watch NASCAR.

Guess I'm UnAmerican!

Nascar, I can understand. But the Academy Awards, how can you bypass that. How do you live your life when you don't know what actors are telling you to think and do.

Actually, I wish so badly that Team America would show up to the Academy Awards.

Bingo! I much prefer the live theater to motion pictures. In a film the scene is done and redone until the director is satisfied with the actors' "take."
On stage you(the actor) gets one chance;if it isn't right your task is to cover the moment, and that takes some quick thinking.

Once I was Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress. The production was near the end of a good run(regional theater). At the conclusion of the overture Minstrel is the sole character emerging from center closed curtain(entire cast remaining behind the curtain). He has three verses to sing. Pianist played the intro, Minstrel began his spiel, with the second verse! I knew, orchestra pit knew, unseen cast knew. Oh, what to do? If I could get the music director's attention I could probably turn the situation around. So while singing I strolled from center stage to stage right, got his "eye" as I gestured one finger. Before he could start the interlude between verse 1 and verse 2 I began said verse 1 and continued the whole song.

When I exited center between curtains and took my place the adjacent actor whispered, "Trying to milk it for an extra chorus?" And the curtain opened. Most of the audience didn't know what had happened, but the cast and its staff did. At intermission the director, a retired Broadway actress, came to me and quipped, "You always seem to know how to dig yourself out of a hole. I wondered how you were going to handle that one."

Live theater is so much more vibrant.

HR

Oh, after the five babes presented Penelope Cruz with her Oscar my TV and its DTV converter sputtered with "Weak Signal." And then the power went out during a wild storm. And it stayed out until about noon today.
Thanks for reminding me I didn't miss much.

You know, you guys all call the Academy Awards such a waste of time, but I count 18-19 posts in this thread talking about what a waste of time it is... Does anyone else see that as ironic? If you feel that they're such a waste of time, why would you bother taking the time to read through this entire thread, then comment on how much of a waste of time they are?

Hell, I don't care if you posted talking about the things you didn't like in the show (like mikea), but at least you're providing relevant feedback about what this topic was originally about.

 

[ReverendSlappy]

You know, you guys all call the Academy Awards such a waste of time, but I count 18-19 posts in this thread talking about what a waste of time it is... Does anyone else see that as ironic? If you feel that they're such a waste of time, why would you bother taking the time to read through this entire thread, then comment on how much of a waste of time they are?

Hell, I don't care if you posted talking about the things you didn't like in the show (like mikea), but at least you're providing relevant feedback about what this topic was originally about.

Like I said, I liked seeing Tina Fey. It's just that I always like seeing Tina Fey.

 

[t0r0nad0]

Like I said, I liked seeing Tina Fey. It's just that I always like seeing Tina Fey.

Sorry, strike one from my post above... that leaves 17-18 posts that talked about what a waste of time the awards show was.

EDIT: BTW... I agree with you, I've always thought Tina Fey was ridiculously hot in that "hot librarian" sort of way...

 

[ReverendSlappy]

Sorry, strike one from my post above... that leaves 17-18 posts that talked about what a waste of time the awards show was.

No worries. But I'd still rather just talk about Tina Fey. Sigh...

 

[etsisk]

man, Heath Ledger was excellent in Batman - excellent - and deserved any kudo awarded for that performance!

Now I'm gonna have to go try and find pics of Goldie's dress!

 

[stapler101]

I told my wife that the "stars" must buy chap stick by the case because with all the a$$ kissing they do to each other I know they need it!!

I am amazed that some of them can act at all because they can't deliver an acceptance speach (following having their a-- kissed by some presenter that makes no sense) that makes any sense.

BTW- who writes the terrible dialog for the mc's and presenters??

How many award shows are there anyway??

 

[SCCutler]

No, PJ, I did not state that the show was a waste. I stated that the movie industry and its self-absorbed participants are a waste.

 

[Everskyward]

I only wasted the two or three minutes it took to type my responses rather than the 2 or 3 hours the show takes up.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Actually, I wish so badly that Team America would show up to the Academy Awards.

I doubt they'd be allowed at the Academy Awards, but there's always hope that maybe they'll get an award from the Film Actors Guild.

 

[SCCutler]

I doubt they'd be allowed at the Academy Awards, but there's always hope that maybe they'll get an award from the Film Actors Guild.

Very insensitive of you, Kent.