And the Whiner is…

It’s hard out here for a pimp…. I had never heard the song before and I didn’t see the move and now I have been singing the chorus all day, which is totally what the song is about: A bureaucrat bopping around her office humming to herself. I think it would be less hard out there for a pimp if he drove a Kia, and if he didn’t want his bitches jumping ship maybe he could have offered them dental insurance instead of dental dams. Just saying.

Jon Stewart as Oscar ™ host: I think he did a good job. He was a little careful and hesitant and he could have been a little more pointy at times, but he did a good job. There are those who seem to think he should have done a three hour plus version of The Daily Show, but he was smart not to. It was after all not The Three Hours With Jon Stewart Show, it was The Oscars and I think he did the right thing.

The results. I still haven’t seen any of the nominated films – with the exception of The March of the Penguins, and so I really had no horses in the race. I was very happy with Clooney winning and his terrific speech made me cheer out loud. I was really, really hoping he would win something and I am so glad he did. I was also happy to see Phillip Seymour Hoffman win and it was nice to see an actual actress win for Best Supporting instead of the last few years where it was merely Best Ingénue Members Of The Academy Would Like To Sleep With . I think I did kind of want Felicity Huffman to win though, just because I wanted the rest of those bitches on Desperate Housewives to have to suck it up. I am happy that Reese Witherspoon won, I don’t think I would like her as a person but as a representive in Hollywood of my generation, i.e. those of us too old to want to be Lindsey Lohan and too young to want to be Susan Sarandon, for I think she is doing a bang up job.

I was also happy with the distribution of awards. I really don’t like it when a single film wins everything. I would have rathered Good Night and Good Luck have taken a least one of Memoirs of a Geisha Oscars but since there is a very good chance I am actually going to pay money to see GNAGL and very little I am going to see MOAG at all even for free , I call it even.

There was a lot of shock and awe that Crash won over Brokeback Mountain but I think if you were paying attention the last few weeks to various critics polls, they had started to move that way. Crash also featured a huge cast and I can’t help but thinking that somehow that helped. That, and Brokeback Mountain was everywhere and it was getting tiresome. It wasn’t the gay Schindlers List; it was a movie about two bisexual shepard’s on the DL cheating on their wives.

I also was pleased with the ladies gowns. I didn’t watch any of the pre-show, but from what I saw on the show, just about everyone looked really nice. I thought Reese Witherspoons’ gown was especially gorgeous on screen but when I saw photographs of the dress, I didn’t like it as much, it was too metallic. She certainly was dressed for a coronation though. I did not like Charlene Therons gown at all. It was a bad 80s/S&M mash up. It did nothing for her.

Over all I was pleased with the results and I don’t really have any arguments with The Academy.