February 26, 2007
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And I Am Telling You She’s Not Going…
Greetings from Hollywood. Despite universities being blown up in Iraq, the place I call ”home” over indulged today in it’s annual gorging of all things celebrity. Since I live here, I have to write about it
Below the line is a posting I first wrote on December 30th, that I thought appropriate to revisit due to Jennifer’s much deserved win tonight (though Adriana Barraza was amazing in Babel).All in all though, the show really dragged on (it was a little better after Celine Dion shut her ugly pie hole). Some of my friends liked the interpretive dancers, though I thought they were a bit ridiculous (more People’s Choice than Oscar). They could have cut out half of that crap and just shown people what they wanted to see. The sound effect people performing stupid noises was an all time low. Clint Eastwood made a fool of himself with with Marconi. Also, does the Academy really think that one billion people around the world want to see animated cars, penguins and fake audience shots at the most prestigious award show of the year?
I thought Ellen was just OK. I’d give her a C+. She was a bit overwhelmed. Her only really good joke was the Al Gore/Jennifer Hudson one. (And for once Al Gore finally won something.) I’m also a bit tired of Forrest Whitaker and his lazy eye. We get it, he was good playing a maniacal dictator that he has a resemblance too. I admit it was a good performance, but if I have to hear about him “channeling Amin” one more time, I’m going to puke. He’s won every goddamn award this season, you’d think he’d have his fucking speech memorized by now. Will somebody please tell me again why actors who are used to memorizing hundreds of pages of lines, can’t give a 3 minute acceptance speech without crib notes? I can see the headlines tomorrow, “Whitaker and Mirren, King and Queen of Oscar” UGH! (Though Helen Mirren was great. She’s a class act and a babe.) And what was with some of them putting their Oscars on the stage so they could read their speech with two hands? The non actors are always the best speech givers, it’s ridiculous.
I was glad when whoever that guy at the end was, gave props to Leo. He really should have won for that film. And Djimon Hounsou was ROBBED. That pissed me off, did you see his performance? It was more than Oscar worthy, it was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen on film. And what was with the very beginning of the show too? BORING! Paging Billy Crystal, Billy Crystal to the Kodak Theater.
There was one notable omission tonight: Katie Holmes won NOTHING for her portrayal of Tom Cruise’s wife. She was truly robbed.
Queen Latifah narrowly beat Jennifer Hudson for flabbiest arms. Jennifer still took home the most jiggly breast award (the Milkshake). I liked the performance between all of the Dreamgirls too, though I thought Beyonce should have had her hair up like she did on Oprah.
Did anyone see Jennifer Holliday’s BIZZARE performance of “And I’m telling you I’m Not Going” on the roof of the Roosevelt Hotel on E! this afternoon. Was she on drugs? I hope someone puts it on YouTube soon! It’s pretty sad actually. I hope she doesn’t end up like the real Florence Ballard. (Too bad Ally Mcbeal isn’t still on!)
When will they learn to turn off the audio during the “memoriam”. It’s so embarrassing when the unrecognizable people get tepid applause, yet they practically give Don Knotts a standing ovation.
Unfortunately I didn’t go to take pictures at any parties tonight. I’m down in Laguna Hills now for the rest of the week. A friend just called from outside the Vanity Fair party at Morton’s, which I usually walk to, and he said he got a picture of Oprah. If he sends it, I’ll post it, but we all know what she looks like untouched. Actually I’m a bit over her of late. I think she really does think she’s Jesus.
I’m sad that Babel didn’t win, but I’m really happy for Jennifer Hudson
And incidentally, here’s a photo I took of Jennifer Hudson at last year’s American Idol Finale (she’s in the middle). I snuck into the press line with some fake credentials I made :
