And The Oscar Goes To.....

Well, the Oscars just finished up. No big surprises in the best actor or actress category (Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker won). But I was surprised....pleasantly surprised, that Alan Arkin won for best supporting actor for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. I love Alan Arkin. He was just spot-on as the cranky grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine. Kudos to him! I was hoping that Ryan Gosling or Peter O'Toole would have won for best actor, but oh well. Ryan Gosling was outstanding in Half Nelson, which was a great movie too by the way. One of the best I have seen this year. I was also hoping Little Miss Sunshine would have won for best picture. I haven't seen The Departed (I just bought it last week), but I knew it and Babel (which I also haven't seen but also own in my video library) were the heavy favorites, and I am always rooting for the underdog. I loved Little Miss Sunshine. It was hilarious, yet had its touching moments. And I absolutely loved the ending ... that dance has me laughing so hard I thought I would rupture something. I also loved how it made fun of beauty pageants for kids...did you see the way they were made up to look like adults??? Gross!!! Anyway, I was rooting for it to win. But it did win 2 awards...for best supporting actor and for best original screenplay.Woo hoo! I was also happy that Martin Scorcese won for best director. It is about time!! Of course, I love Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven is probably my 3rd favorite film of all time), but he already has some Oscars. Kudos to Scorcese. It is about friggin' time he won.

I was also surprised by The Oscars themselves. Ellen did a pretty good job of hosting....and I loved the song that Will Ferrell, Jack Black and John C O'Reilly did. Hilarious! And those shadow dancers. How the hell did they do that???

But I sure got sick and tired of seeing damned Al Bore...Gore. Maybe I am still just annoyed by his wife's past stance on censorship and all. He tried to be funny, but it just fell flat. I just can't look at him without thinking of him in that South Park episode. I wanted him to shout out, "Manbearpig is dead!" Now THAT would have been funny!

Speaking of South Park, new episodes begin in 2 weeks. Sweet!

And my friend Arlene has complained about how I still have hearts on my AIM icon and on my Myspace blog and all, but don't expect me to be changing my template just for you. It is still February....and whatevah...it is my blog, I can do what I want!