Oscar Follow-UP

y, I did pretty well as a prognosticator.
I got four out of the top five categories correct.

I didn't see The Hurt Locker---which so far hasn't grossed enough to cover the Assistant Best Boy's lunch tab---to beat Avatar..
The academy's done stranger things---five years ago they gave Best Pic to Crash, a movie that was already on DVD three days after it was made, and people were avoiding renting in droves..

Random Observations:


Is it just me, or did Sandra Bullock, in her acceptance speech, out both herself and Meryl Streep when she called the latter, "my lover"?

What was the deal with hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin dissin' George Clooney and the latter sitting there looking surly?

What in the hell was bobble-head Kathy Ireland doing interviewing celebs on the Red Carpet--- brings to mind a tasteless line concerning Red Carpet Burns!

Has there ever been a more pointless and overblown (I guess that was the "funny" and obscenely expensive point) opening number, with Doogie Howser reminding us that he hosted last year, and telling us who the new hosts would be?

Funniest moment for me---when the winners for documentary, an African male and what seemed like a 50-ish Jewish yenta, came up to receive their rewards--- He got there before her and, standing alone, started his acceptance speech. About 10 seconds later she all but pushes him out of the picture in mid-sentence, and lets loose a sound that made Joy Behar sound like Eartha Kitt whispering in your ear.


Another stupidly pointless highlight was when the Best Screenplay awards were being presented and they showed about ten seconds from each nominated film, with that part of the script superimposed over the screen---Duh!! How informative!!

Funniest line came from Steve Martin around midnight---"This show's been on so long Avatar now takes place in the past!"