I surely do wish I had not missed the Writers Bone….And I thought Helena b. Carter was a great wife….And The King’s Speech was a perfect movie, IMHO

Oooops Winters Bone, of course.

G Paltrow appears to have arrived from outer space.

Oh I guess we’re having a bonus 30 minutes of Red Carpeting!

yes..the oscar website it said it started at 5! evil!!!

I hope this doesn’t turn into a women bashing thread.

more like fashion bashing!

Either way, still hope not. But, fear not, I’m only taking a break from watching movies while the dog gets flea bath. *g*

Well, we all know that Helena Bonham Carter will show up as Bjork’s evil sister and that’s all we need to know.

I am counting on you all to tell me what’s going on, as I have the sound off due to a migraine.
Love Halle’s dress.

It’s portrayal of Churchill’s relationship with Edward VIII is revisionist, his with the future George VI is more accurate, though both are side issues to the main plot.

Several peopel I know fell asleep during inception-ironically

Yeah, I do think the Edward story is very interesting, but it was barely relevant in the portrayal here. Did not add much.

For all of the special effects, there was something boring about the plot.

Again–who will be the first to mention the unions!

Plug for Ambien–which btw is now generic

Would be nice to see Inside Job make it as best Documentary.

What’s this thing about the King’s Peach?

Tom Hanks?

G. Rush….or A. Bening…..I have no idea why I said that.;)

How painful is this opening?

Ann Hathaway looks lovely

Wow this is awful!

I appreciate the coverage but I feel like perhaps there are more pressing issues that could be addressed on the front page…

Lisa, sonny just said “this is starting so slow. Who said stall, stall?”

But, is it as awful as Ricky Gervais?

It was more boring than Ricky

who will be the first to give props to labor in Wis?

Hey Toby
Was Gervais awful or did he just tick off the ‘wrong stars’? I didn’t see it.

I’m watching on DVR delay, and I am loving that dress Cate Blanchett wore. Apparently I am alone in this.

Ah, geez. Already said. But, I lost guessing Tom.

I just want to see the jewels the wimmin are wearing. That’s my only interest ;^)

James Franco in a unitard?

2011 Oscars: BEST EVAH

Great thank you speech. First union workers “thank you” of the night!!!!!

In case the younger demographic thought this program was for them, here’s Kirk Douglas.

Oh i loved it, masaccio!

Maybe they are waiting until the end for this to get exciting.

props to wally pfister cinematography winner for mentioning his union

Oscar Bingo!

Reese Woitherspoon’s emerald were all wrong for her dress–and shrunk next to Annette Benning’s. Angelina Jolie is now designing jewelry, fyi–large emerald-cut topaz

I thought she looked lovely

Gervais was awful in that ‘drunk uncle you did not want to invite to your wedding but had to because your Mom said you had to, who proceeded to tell the worst, most personally embarrassing stories, at the top of his lungs to all,’ way. Totally nasty and offensive. And defensive about it.

My crazy prediction : James Franco wins Oscar -for Exit Through the Gift Shop-because he is Banksy.

ouch

oh!
on the red carpet, I thought this was a coulottey outfit

Tape delay.

Fuckingg–she said fucking

thumbs down to the hosting

If they are are trying to remind us how young and hip they are by having AH and JF mock it, –failblog facepalm.jpg

so far so bad

You are not alone. Kelly Osbourne, on E!, is in love with La Blanchett’s dress, which is by Givenchy. She does look stunning.

I’m genuinely thrilled for Melissa Leo’s win. I’ve liked her ever since her days on the late great NBC series “Homicide”, and her courtesy to Kirk Douglas was very, very charming.

I never never watch the Oscars – but I do have an interest in costume, and was curious how the “young’uns” would do. Came in “late” – wasn’t 8:00 yet! But caught Melissa Leo’s name announced, and the utterly amazed look on her face.

I like her, have since Homicide days.

P.S. I loooooved the take-off on Black Swan- “The Brown Duck”

So, what are you drinking tonight? (fellow HLOTS fan)

They turned the music up fast on the animators hwile best supporting actress did go on a bit! Discrimination!

How is it that there’s an Animated Category that TS3 gets nominated in, but it also gets a Best Pic nom? Makes no sense.

Justin Timberlake read your mind!

Yeah, I kinda liked that – the look on her face when she heard herself!

That was kinda weird!

See, now, theoretically, TS3 could win 2 best picture awards, since it’s also nominated in the Best Pic category.

oh man, I go for Javier

I hate to be cruel regarding Kirk Douglas but these people have to stop fucking with their faces. They don’t look young, they look bizarre.

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve watched one of these – is i usual now to do Best Supportings this early? I was pretty amazed when they started on that one.

Lisa, just offhand — do you know that the “reply” button appears kind of randomly in your blog thread? And that the (show text) button doesn’t work? It’s always been this way (Mac, firefox) for me.

The academy is prejudiced against cartoonists!

Kirk’s face also looks that way because he is recovering from a stroke, but I take your general point, Solai.

Then I apologize.

Bardem and Cruz are one of the sexiest couples in filmdom, these days.

And YES! for Toy Story 3! They have packed an amazing amount of humanity into those toys.

Shoot, on his next birthday, he’s going to be 97 years old. The fact that he can get up there at all rates him some props.

I’ve loved everything that Aaron Sorkin has done.

Missed the arrivals and commentary here – ran thru the NYT’s slide show.
I admit, my fave gown is what Anne Hathwawy is wearing now – I love, love, Tudor/renaissance style shapes and jewels. Just last night for fun I was searching the net for Tudor costumes, so…for me..perfect!

And, no, from the still photo, I don’t like the Givenchy much.

How long can they hold that chord for Sorkin?

did Melissa Leo pay the orchestra off?

yes, it’s traditional to start out with a supporting actor or actress

Absolutely. I doubt that there’s any surgery or botox involved – that’s what many 90+ folks look like. I’d guess he’s lost considerable height, too.

yes, very elegant

One for TSN, one for TKS. No clues there.

Haven’t seen the King’s Speech – think I’ll have to. The subject is something that interests me as a language major and a former child with bad lisp.

Ha! “The Melissa Leo “f” word!”

She’ll never live it down…like Sally Field and “You like me! You really like me!”

wooo diet coke is classy–that’s what this ad sez

so do they STILL need a PG kings speech?

They’ll be releasing a PG version of TKS wiht no F-words to get it more widely seen. Tragic–kids swear so much anyway

Seriously?

Anne has Mouseketeer skills.

I have the same issue Teddy…the tech dudes know about it.

Is that Joan Rivers?

Ah well, I’m switching to PBS – “Any Human Heart, Pt. 3″ Currently without recording capaiblity. Rats, missed 20 min. already.

Joan rivers!

No–James Franco

*sigh*
Helen

Colin Firth–not Colin Farrell–bummer.

Helen Mirren is amazing

I’m off. Thanks again, Lisa.

boy, that youth demographic is SO exciting. I think I may have a stroke.

Hmmm, maybe not staying with Any Human Heart – if it’s going to be all about the horrors of old age…not sure I can handle that just now. Several of my worst fears about the subject in the first 5 min.

What’s up next in Hollywood?

I guess the original Barbie Doll ponytail is back

Is this the best they can do?

iI’m here with the snarky generation.

Where’ve you been? The sixties are back in many forms of fashion.
After all, today’s young fashionistas are too young to remember them, so it’s all fresh to them.
Reese does look pretty.

Wait, is Christian Bale British? Or Aussie? I had no idea.

How come all the Brits and Aussies can do perfect American speech and Americans mostly bollix up their attempts to to the reverse? (see, e.g. Kevin Costner- Robin Hood)

Did Christian Bale actually forget his wife’s name, or was that a transparent appeal for “moment of the night” buzz?

He’s English. And he was allowed to have VERY long speech. I guess only the “little people” get the music.

I’d rather be watching Charlie sheen and linsay lohan host if we’re talking youthful Hollywood.

Goood. The ABC announcement is over.

OMG this will be on ABC for another 20 yrs…Let’s hope with new producers

20 more years starting now

Ann Hathatway’s Black Swan Dress upstaged Bjork in a white swan dress–

Let’s take a moment and recognize the Mouse in the house.

TRENT REZNOR!! When worlds collide.

oo girl kiss

Who won?

Our wonderful wives!!

Here in Hawaii we will be receiving the telecast on “tape delay” at 7:30 pm local time, [half past midnight East Coast time].

Hey, numbskulls, you don’t “tape delay” the Super Bowl. Why the fuck do you tape delay this? It’s not like there’s all sorts of Important Local Programming you can’t afford to bump.

so this is my only source. Gonna have to tune in later for the dresses.

Does anyone here watch “Fashion Police” on the E! network. I am quite embarrassed to admit that I do — I am in NO way a fashion hound [subsist mainly in t-shirts, shorts & flip-flops], but I love seeing the dresses and the snarky comments. I must say, though, that Kelly Osborne, for all her fashion sense, needs to do SOMETHING with her own hair!! And Joan Rivers looks like a crypt keeper, with all her plastic surgery.

Aw, I was afraid Anne would be changing dresses. And hairstyles, too! I liked the way it looked down.

But then I was pretty much the only girl at teh Sr Prom with hair down and loose, instead of elaborately curled and up (it *was* 1967, after all. Think, huh, well, some James Bond movies from the period? Thunderball, maybe? Oh well.)

Nice thanks to THREE WIVES in Inception sound win. Very NICE also to show Lora H kissing her wife.

So still no UNION comments. Maybe these people only read the entertainment trades.

Have only caught that one once, but I’m a fan of ‘What not to Wear.” I think Stacey and Clinton are much more positive, though firm, with the “contributors” (that’s what they call the poor shlubs they revamp).

It’s never little and black.

My official selection for best dress is

Mila Kunis.

ANYWAY, bummer

FYI, my updates of winners will be published later…

Oh, earlier on the red carpet she said that was a tip given to her for hosting, change clothes early and often

Throw the wolfman a bone.

Annotated, I sincerely and snarkily hope!

wwas cate blanchette wearing a pin cushion on her chest?

who doesn’t love Randy

Lisa cheats. She knows the winners in advance.

Who’s this singing? I tuned out again for a minute. I do like that blue gown. (pretty voice, too).

Gawd, I am feeling old and out of it. I don’t get to the movies much anymore, though I considered myself (pretentiously, as the young do) a “film buff” in my “youth.” Oh well.

ffrom best actor to beer commercials.

same here

FUCK autotuning. Fisting for Facebook. So this is eh at the youth have to offer us.

Inside Job –Not with a bank but with a wimper….
Not a single financial execuitve has gone to jail.

RIGHT ON

I want to see Inside Job

Right on! not a single financial executive has gone to jail

was rooting for Gasland

“and no one has gone to jail.”

jinx I owe you a coke

Yeah! The first political comment of the evening, right?

was rooting for Gasland too. Another gas well accident in PA on Wed. 3 injured and it wasn’t mentioned in the Philly Inquirer. Not a word. Read about it in the Boston Globe online!

2 awardees have mentioned Union crews so far.

Ahh…I know the Globe is a shadow of its former self, like all of them, but I have fond memories of moving to Boston in 1970 and discovering what a newspaper could be.

Billy PLEASE take over this titanic of a show.

Hey, Billy Crystal! I know him!

They were once quite good—until the NYT bought them.

Yeah. I remember. I used to drive to Okla City on Sundays from my tiny WOkla town in the early ’80′s to buy both papers. It was the only way to get any news (except very local; there was a small local town paper). Print! Ah, those were the days.

BobHope showing how it’s done. Except for the necromancy saying “thanks Billly” and announcing Jude Law RD,Jr.

ACTING!

Christian Bale is Welsh, but he does a good English accent; his American is even better.

((RevDeb!))

No doubt you saw the NY Times article today, it’s beyond disgusting

well the writers for this show won’t be at the Emmy’s

we are so screwed.

Preach it. And he did!

yeah, nothing like being downstream

Inside Job: why is no one in jail?

Still behind, will catch up in two commercials and a couple of dull speeches.

dadada

Jennifer Hudson looks lovely

Why not do this show at the Hollywood Bowl?

Every Randy Newman song is exactly the same, of course he always wins. Why change a winning formula?

and who doesn’t love Randy?

oh right, short people

and Teddy ;)

RANDY NEWMAN!!!!!

Nominated 20x–and Randy Newman WINS

Thank you, again, Dick Cheney for that marvelous, simply mahvelous, exception to the clean water rules you legislated for your corporate patrons.

Sorry, Billy, Bob Hope was never funny.

He’s like the Susan Lucci of the Oscars.

Ummm, 2nd win since 1st – Ragime. 1981 ’82? (Not looking it up)

Glad I got to see Trent get the Oscar!

I hope they don’t stick 3 people in one shot like the Golden Globes did…yay!!! they didn’t!

Lynn Redgrave. :(

It’s the Tribute to the Dead

They started this a couple years after my stepfather who was nominated several times died

teh suketh

I’m now watching from the beginning…will Leo win?

It’s marvelous and too brief.

I think they should just have a tribute to those who are still alive. Show those young whippersnappers

I know. Brits/Aussies do impeccable American accents, but American actors/actresses have a real difficult time with the British accent.

Most American actors can’t do Shakespeare, either, except for Charlton Heston, who was the player king in Branagh’s film of Hamlet back in 1996, which should have gotten a Best Picture nod. That’s the year The English Patient swept everything. Heston was remarkably good.

I like the blue dress.

who is presenting with Hilary Swank?

WOO HOO!!!! KING’S SPEECH won!!!!

I think I’ll watch Plan 9 from Outer Space tonight.

the triangle of man love…

*giggle*

That movie is better than this Oscar show, fer shure!

Americans can do fine English accents. But it’s carrying coal to Newcastle: there are so many fine British actors, why bother?

Oh, I thought Eli Wallach was dead.

Much more entertaining and funnier.

IS IT OVER YET?

Heh – Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (Costner exemplifying the Americans can’t do Brit thing) is on BBCAmerica right now.

Sigh.

Good point. Why have a fake accent when the real one is just across the pond?

well Natalie did win the Spirit Award yesterday, so maybe she’ll get the Oscar!

Probably the best (ironically speaking) example of a terrible British accent by an American actor.

Well, some can – Gillian Anderson, Kim Cattrall (startled to see her in “Any Human Heart” – she sounded so British I thought I was wrong about who the actress was). Kevin Costner…not so much. Yet all the Brits seem able to.
Oh well.

loved Rabbit Hole!

Nicole’s necklace is GORGEOUS. Those are VERY old diamonds (or very old paste) Either way best stones there.

Too true – I just flipped over – Poor Costner – his first lines sounded more like maybe Texas or something…”r” less, but not British “r” less.

yeah I don’t like seeing Americans playing Brits, there are so many great Brits to do it

How can you tell? The settings, or something else?

rats, missed them

THE PROFESSIONAL!!!

Nice maternity dress, she looks lovely, great speech, but again she is allowed to go longer than say, the writers, animators etc..

Natalie say UNIONS..you are mentioning the peopel behind the scenes, but say they are UNION

disappointing

gone gone gone.

The Squid and the Whale!

Firth, what a charmer

Colin was so nice when my friend asked to take a photo with him at Sundance a couple of years ago.

Woohoo! I like Colin Firth – caught him and Bonham-Carter on Piers Morgan a couple weeks ago.
My thought when it was over – There was more intelligent thought expressed coherently in that hour than in 10 years of Larry King.
And they all came off as quite nice people (‘though I hadn’t realized how odd Bonham-Carter dresses, lol)

And as a woman of a certain age, he’s quite handsome as well!

a shout out to Tom Ford!!!!

Here’sa some happy union support during the commercial break http://www.politicususa.com/en/anonymous-wi

I thought this Oscar was going to be like American Idol? Did I miss something.Steven spielberg……that’s the youth market?

Did anyone else notice Sebastian in THE KING’S SPEECH?

TEN NOMINIMEES is the dumbest idea ever!

yep.

I want the soundtrack of THE KING’S SPEECH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN played at my funeral.

I like the titles

Surprise! The King’s Speech!

The king’S speech. I’m shocked!

what I want to know WHO’S SASHA?

here we are “bridging the class divide” with kids from NY singing

Thank you Lisa for hosting such a lovely evening, can I help you with the cleanup? ;)

Goodnight everyone

jeez Hathaway’s whoops are embarrasing

“and no one has gone to jail.”

?”

[Sorry to be so late.]

I really wish someone would say, in addition to the above, “shame on you Obama, and shame on you Eric Holder. What is wrong with you

how many different dresses and hairdos did she score this evening? It seemed to be one every commercial break but didn’t count along the way.

WE WON!!!!! now I don’t feel like such a dork taking that English History class and putting the photos of Nicholas II and King George in my scrapbook when I was a teenager. I swear, they could be twins! I still love the Danes!!!

every chance she got

the kids are all friends of Dorothy.

sasha baron cohen FRUSTRATED

Thanking his boyfriend is VERY cool, except Oscar hist shows that if you thank your boyfriend or girlfriend you’re gonna break up!

there seems to be no concept of shame left in this country. I think I’m going to have to do a sermon on that one. Very disturbing.

well, genetically they were pretty close

g’nite

They were cousins, after all. Check out Kaiser Wilhelm, too – all related thru Queen Victoria, no?

I gues cuz those kids were on YouTube, it’s ayoung demo again…

wait a cotton pickin’ minute….I have been sitting at this laptop and didn’t do any work.

Anne carried the whole show, though. Franco was embarrassing right up to the end, when he couldn’t remember what movie had just won! “Keep the arm, lose the actor”

too bad we didn’t get to see Colin Firth do his happy dance.

Frankly I thought his performance in A Single Man was even better than this one. If you didn’t get a chance to see it yet, do. It’s out on Netflix now. Maybe even streaming I think.

Did you notice that the accountants were no longer brought out with the explanation of how it works..

James Franco spent the entire night making Twitter videos and getting stoned. I lost a lot of respect for him tonight.

yep! they were cousins. That’s where the hemopheliac son of Czar Nicholas got it from. His grandmother, Queen Victoria. I could spend hours with that family tree!

I absolutely loved A SINGLE MAN, and agree!

Thank you all for suffering through the worst Oscar program ever.

it certainly ranks up there.

Heh. Me, either. I am heading off to finish up what I must do to get paid Fri. right now.

AFAIK, All Oscar shows are terrible; that’s why I quit watching years ago.
More fun with online shared snarkiness, tho’.
G’nite.

Or as Henry called the Oscars: 127 Minutes

“How come all the Brits and Aussies can do perfect American speech and Americans mostly bollix up their attempts to to the reverse?”

It’s because dialect is much more important in Britain, and most of the actors’ resumes show them graduating from the London Academy of SPEECH and Drama.

The way people speak in Britain serves as a sort of dramatic shorthand. A character walks on stage and says two or three sentences and the audience knows immediately where they’re from as well as their background, education and social class. An actor can’t portray a character supposedly from Yorkshire and give them a Cockney accent. Learning to do half a dozen American accents is a piece of cake after you’ve learned ten times that many from your own country.

He certainly looked more & more stoned as the night wore on. Anne Hathaway was much more professional and much interesting. Franco was a dud as a “host,” even tho he’s done ok in some of his movies.

And Angelina Jolie is watching at home and pointing at each of them: “I’ll take that one home; have one of those at home already; have one of those; take that one; have; take; take; have.”