Yes, from the blog that gave you the live snarking of the State of the Union and commercial reviews of the Superbowl, Cowboy Pete will provide ongoing commentary on the Oscars. Why? Because I’ve only seen one of the nominated films and I want to do SOMETHING to keep myself awake. Coverage will begin at 8 PM, during which time Wrangler Kath and Cowgirl Ariel will provide fashion commentary for the red carpet arrivals, after which the ol’ Cowboy himself will saddle up at 8:30 for the stultifying marathon that is the Oscars. Be here because, if you’re not, you won’t be.
UPDATE: Going live in one minute. Comments below the cut line.
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ARIEL: Ann Hathaway’s dress looked nice.
KATHLEEN & ARIEL: George Clooney’s companion’s dress has circles that seem to target where her nipples are.
ARIEL: Not much to say about guy’s suits.
KATHLEEN: Clooney always wears a suit well.
ARIEL: What’s hanging off her dress?
KATHLEEN: I have no idea.
KATHLEEN: Marion Cotillard looks like a freaking mermaid.
ARIEL: Yeah. From the waist up it’s fine, but when you see the whole thing, she looks like a mermaid.
KATHLEEN: Laura Linney always looks elegant.
KATHLEEN: Miley Cyrus. Now that’s a nice dress. It’s conservative but sexy.
ARIEL: I wish she had done not floor length.
KATHLEEN: Yeah, but it’s the Oscars, it’s supposed to be floor length.
ARIEL: She’s a teenager, she could have gotten away with it.
KATHLEEN: Jennifer Garner looks like she’s about to pop out. Like the necklace.
ARIEL: What’s up with Helen Mirren’s dress?
KATHLEEN: It’s beaded. Beautiful beading job.
ARIEL: Does it spread out like wings? It looks like she could spread out wings and fly. That would be so awesome.
(DANIEL DAY LEWIS’s WIFE’s dress)
ARIEL: That’s fierce.
KATHLEEN: That’s a Project Runway phrase: “That’s fierce.” It means it’s young fashion.
KATHLEEN: (Amy Adams) A simple black dress, but it works well on her.
ARIEL: Did the little girl (from Enchanted) pick it out for her?
PETE: My God, this kid who won his seat looks like “Kenneth” from “30 Rock.”
KATHLEEN: I like that Ellen Page didn’t go for a hairstyle that doesn’t make her look older.
KATHLEEN: (On the commentators) The green dress, I don’t like. It’s not a good color choice for her skin, and there’s too much of it. There’s a huge train on it. And she’s got a belly bulge.
ARIEL: Beer belly!
KATHLEEN: Either that or she’s pregnant.
ARIEL: The black one is nice. Shiny!
KATHLEEN: See the difference between the two? She (on the left) can walk in hers. She (on the right) isn’t moving.
THAT’S IT FOR THE FASHIONS. MOVING UP TO A NEW THREAD FOR THE AWARDS THEMSELVES.
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Isn’t it odd that Oscars is watched by more people than the films it’s about?
Hmmm. It just hit me that this year the only film nominated that I have seen in the theatres is SICKO. Not really a banner year for the nominations. Still, I will end up watching it for Jon Stewart et al.
I don’t watch the Oscars — I don’t like a film more if it wins, or dislike it more if it loses– but I’ll read the commetary. And I’ve seen several of these movies, and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and THERE WILL BE BLOOD are both excellent. (My favorite movie is still SUPERBAD — a truly great teen movie for our generation, plus massive out-loud laughs — but if that’s up for anything it’d be some small technical awards.)
SHAMELESS PLUG: Jennifer Garner had Oscar de La Renta make two different dresses for her to choose from for the ceremony. Both are gold in color, but one is a Cinderella-type dress with a poofy bottom, and the other is a more chic evening gown. My mother, who works for Oscar De le Renta, made the second one herself. (Way to go, Mom!) She says the Cinderella -type dress isn’t right for someone Garner’s age anyway, so we’re hoping she wears the other one, so we can see it on TV.
I’m with jameslynch – not a oscar watcher, but i’ll pop round for your rundown if that’s okay with you.
I could provide commentary on the Fox re-runs, or whatever dvd by beloved wife and i decide to view – havn’t watched Arrested Developent in a bit.
hmmmmmm…
see ya later gang.
stay groovy.
I’m with jameslynch – not a oscar watcher, but i’ll pop round for your rundown if that’s okay with you.
I could provide commentary on the Fox re-runs, or whatever dvd by beloved wife and i decide to view – havn’t watched Arrested Developent in a bit.
hmmmmmm…
see ya later gang.
stay groovy.
I’m with jameslynch – not a oscar watcher, but i’ll pop round for your rundown if that’s okay with you.
I could provide commentary on the Fox re-runs, or whatever dvd by beloved wife and i decide to view – havn’t watched Arrested Developent in a bit.
hmmmmmm…
see ya later gang.
stay groovy.
I’m with jameslynch – not a oscar watcher, but i’ll pop round for your rundown if that’s okay with you.
I could provide commentary on the Fox re-runs, or whatever dvd by beloved wife and i decide to view – havn’t watched Arrested Developent in a bit.
hmmmmmm…
see ya later gang.
stay groovy.
I’m with jameslynch – not a oscar watcher, but i’ll pop round for your rundown if that’s okay with you.
I could provide commentary on the Fox re-runs, or whatever dvd by beloved wife and i decide to view – havn’t watched Arrested Developent in a bit.
hmmmmmm…
see ya later gang.
stay groovy.
Here’s my bets:
Day Lewis = Best Actor (“DRAINNNNAGE, Eli! DRRAIINNNAGE!!”)
Diablo Colby = Best Original Screenplay (mostly due to the single mom/stripper to Oscar nominated inspirational life story. Also, that movie was wordy as hëll, voters like that.)
Ellen Page = Best Actress (she’s young, hip, oscars love that, since Juno probably won’t win for pic or director, it’d be the “sympathy vote” considering how without Page there is no movie)
No Country For Old Men = Best Pic & Best Directors (got a vibe that it’s the Coens’ year)
Number of uncomfortable silences during some of Stewart’s quips = 3 (bet the under on that number, sure, but sometimes it could fly a bit off Hollywoods self-loving head)
Over/ Under Odds that Ellen Page will look stoned in just about every shot = BET THE OVER (its not her fault, she’s from Halifax, there’s nothing else to do there, also she was on Trailer Park Boys so that pretty much sealed it)
Here’s how I would rank the best picture noms (all very good flicks anyway):
No Country For Old Men > Juno = There Will Be Blood = Michael Clayton.
Didn’t see Atonement, but I think I can live with that.
TallestFanEver, I agree with just about all of your picks other than best actress. This is Julie Christie’s award to lose. Although I would be just as happy if Marion Cotillard wins it; both performances were superb.
Overall, I wasn’t overwhelmed with this year’s crop of front-runners, which were mostly downbeat, ambiguous or self-indulgent. I’m mainly watching tonight’s Oscar’s to see if Luigi’s mom’s dress gets in there.
I actually have 5 bucks ridding on the Julie Christie / Ellen Page showdown. I still think that, since Juno got so many nominations, it has to have something to do with the main character.
My favourite flick was No Country, even if it wasn’t in my Top 5 of the year (its at a solid #6) if only because Javier Bardem was amazingly amazing (and the cat and mouse hunting stuff was freakin cool as hëll). As for the much discussed ending, it sort of got the point across how everything isn’t always tied up in a neat little bow so I liked how unconventional it was. That movie would be a 5 outta 5, and the other 3 (aside from Atonement, didn’t see and won’t see) I’d give 4 out of 5’s. Juno was awesome if a little too self-consciously quirky, Michael Clayton and Blood were good, if a tad longish and dragged (if Blood had cut its loving tracking shots in half the movie would probably be 40 minutes shorter), however, Clayton and Blood had AMAZINGLY entertaining and cool endings which bumped them up from good to really, really good.
D’oh, I forgot – Bardem as a lock for Supporting actor for No Country. Solid as A ROCK, I tells ya.
And lets go “Falling Slowly” from “Once” as Best Song. T’hëll with the souless Disney showtune cookie-cutter machine (even though Enchanted has 3 noms and is the odds on favourite), lets get a real song in there as the winner for Once.
I keep going back and forth on Once. I enjoyed the first hour of the movie, but found the songs got a bit repetitive by the end. And then I heard the two leads playing one of them again on the Indie Spirit Awards last night and found that I really enjoyed it. I can only think it’s like that episode of Seinfeld where George gets another date just because the women get used to his name after a while.
And I agree about Bardem. I didn’t enjoy No Country for Old Men nearly as much as most people seemed to, but Bardem was riveting- no pun intended. For anybody who wants to see an even more memorable performance, I would recommend the Spanish film The Sea Inside, in which Bardem did The Diving Bell and the Butterfly long before The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. That allusion will make more sense when you see it, I promise.
Well, Jennifer Garner is wearing some black number, so it looks like she didn’t pick either of the two dresses Oscar de la Renta made for her. Oh well.
Oops. My mom tells me that that IS the one she made. So way to go, Mom! 🙂
Luigi–kudos to your mom!
Anybody else catch the Gary Busey Incident?
http://popsugar.com/1069641
Diablo Cody wasnt a single mom… she married/lived with a single dad.
While she stripped.
But then, media has given too much hype to the whole stripper thing when the fact is she is a great writer, as far as I got to see (used to lurk her blog).