Mar 24th, 2008
Some final thoughts about the Oscar show
Leslie Larch and Kirk Francis on the set of “Eight
Below” in Vancouver, BC. Sue Frause photo.
Since I was in Kirkenes, Norway when Kirk Francis received his Oscar for The Bourne Ultimatum : Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, I wasn’t able to watch the Oscars.
They were being rebroadcast on the BBC at some point, but I was on a ship and the highlights seemed to be CNN and anything to do with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and annoying reruns of Larry King interviewing Janet Jackson.
I had the foresight to ask Farmer Bob to record the show while I was gone, so last night I spent the evening with Oscar.
Fortunately, I was able to see the last of the five nominated Best Picture films on the flight home from Amsterdam to Seattle: Juno. A sweet movie but not the best of the bunch. I picked No Country For Old Men and was ready to throw Peeps at the TV if Atonement won.
There’s more than one Whidbey connection. Oscar is 80 years old, the same age as our decaying Steel Electric class ferries. Oscar looks better.
Jon Stewart is one clever guy and seems to be getting better looking with age. Some choice lines of the evening: “Oscar is 80 this year, which automatically makes him the front runner for the Republican nomination” and “Normally, when you see a black man or a woman as president, an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.”
George Clooney is one handsome guy and seems to be getting more clever with age. I love the fact that Rosemary Clooney was his aunt.
I don’t understand all the buzz about actress Catherine Heigl — and why was she so nervous? Doesn’t she get paid to read lines?
I wanted Hal Holbrook to win Best Supporting Actor for Into the Wild. He looked disappointed when Javier Bardim’s name was called.
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