Oscar Observations...

- Great! First 2 awards go to my #1 movie of the year, Pan's Labyrinth.
- Yay, Alan Arkin won!....uh-oh, not a good sign -- Little Miss Sunshine might win Best Pic. No. Just No.
- Jack Black is f------ hilarious.
- Cool, I love James Taylo...zzzz...Awesome I love the music of Melissa Etheri...zzz...Al Gor...zzzzz...wait, that was hilarious!
- Why when there's a Mexican comment made they show Babel Mexican actress Adrianna Barazza....or a Black comment and they show, of course, the Smith family...or a gay comment and they show T. C. (I don't wanna get sued)...or a Japanese comment and they show Iwo Jima's Watanabe or Babel's Kikuchi.
- Way to throw an award to Marie Antoinette.
- Valium does work.
- And this year's Lauren Bacall "I'm pissed I didn't win but I better do my best poker face unlike Ms. Bacall in 1996" Award goes to - Eddie Murphy.
- 1st female studio head and native Chicagoan Sherry Lansing gets an honorary award....but SHE WAS THE ONE responsible for Forrest Gump. I despise her forever.
- Wow, Oscar #3 for Mexican film Pan's Labyrinth! Cue cutaway to the Mexican actress - who had NOTHING to do with the film.
- I can't wait for the Dreamgirls medley yet to come....I heard its gonna be great.
- Foreign films that will be added to my Nexflix queue: Z, Day For Night, The Sea Inside, No Man's Land
- Hottest Presenting Couple: Clive Owen and Cate Blanchett.
- Mouth Agape moment: The Lives of Others wins foreign film - really good film but you know how I feel about Pan's Labyrinth.
- OK, cool silouhette thingy's but c'mon already. Waste. Of. Time.
- Go J-Hud! And nice J-Holl-er (can I trademark that?).
- Documentary that will be added to my Netflix queue: Jesus Camp.
- And this year's Lauren Bacall "I'm old and my eyesight is bad and I get easily flustered when trying to read the teleprompter" Award goes to - Clint Eastwood, Director/Interpreter.
- Wow, Gustavo Santaolalla wins his second musical score Oscar in a row (won last year for Brokeback Mountain).
- Little Miss Sunshine wins BEST Original Screenplay of the year?? C'mon.
- Saw the Best Song upset coming - Melisse E over the Dreamgirls songs - but "Listen" should have won.
- Scorsese's longtime editor wins for The Departed. Tidbit: the film winning Best Editing usually wins Best Picture.
- Can they at least mute out the popularity contest applause for the montage of those passed away?! Awful.
- And speaking of montages -- enough already!!
- Its going to be painful to see Peter O'Toole lose again. I can't watch. And is Reese's chin related to Jay Leno or what?
- Runner-Up Lauren Bacall "I'm pissed I didn't win but I better do my best poker face unlike Ms. Bacall in 1996" Award goes to, unfortunately, Peter O'Toole. Hey, at least he won something. Well, not really since he's runner-up.
- OK, if Scorsese doesn't win with presenters Coppola, Lucas and Speilberg then that's just cruel....whew, and monumental...a few tears in my eyes.
- L-O-V-E Diane Keaton. Not sure I like Jack's bald head (Note to Jack: it only works when it looks like a fashion statement, not like its age-appropriate).
- Yeah, LMS didn't win! Yes, I'll admit it, I wasn't overly enthusiastic about any of them winning the Best Pic of the year. But Babel and The Departed were my top 2 (see my earlier "Top Movies of the Year!" post).
- I thought Brad Pitt was a producer on The Departed. Shouldn't he also have picked up the Oscar?
- Overall Ellen grade: B. Good, but bring back Steve Martin.