5 hours of Law & Order on tonight.
Hm. I don't think I'm going to get much work done.
Vid: March 2003 Archives
Over at Salon: Can Farscape fans reinvent TV?
It's really too bad that SciFi can't see past the end of their nose to realize what they have in 'Scape.
Well, that's corporate business as usual, I guess.
Coming soon to the Law & Order Channel: "Law & Order: Parking Violations Division"
Nice to see Spirited Away win best animated feature.
Also nice to see Chris Cooper, a guy I've liked since Lone Star, pick up a statuette.
You know, Renee Zellweger really needs to do Bridget Jones 2 'cause she could really use a couple of extra pounds.
Boy, that song from Frida sure did suck.
Is anyone reading this? Leave notes in the comments.
The dead guy won for best cinemetography. Shades of the '00 Missouri Senate race.
Snooooooze. The U2 song wasn't bad, though the point of having an Irish band do a song about America escapes me. And what's up with Colin Farrell's eyebrows?
Interesting that they showed a clip from Patton in the Best Actor montage; if memory serves, George C. Scott didn't accept his award as a protest against the Vietnam war. update: it's actually even more interesting; Scott refused because "The (Academy Awards) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons," not as an anti-war protest. And, as a side note, they also showed a brief clip from The Godfather, a role for which Brando refused his Oscar... Thanks to KG for the correction.
Why isn't Dustin Hoffman reading off the teleprompter, like everyone else?
Eminem wins best song. Unsurprisingly, he didn't perform.
One wonders if it's the first time that the Best Song winner wasn't performed at the ceremony.
Seems to me that neither best actor(ess) winner had much in the way of a speech prepared.
Is this the first time that best screenplay has gone to a foreign-language script?
Roman Polanski: great director, Academy Award winner, and child rapist. The Pianist was a great film, though.
Nice to see the return of "and the winner is..."
Jessica reminds me that Spirited Away has, thanks to its somewhat unexpected but entirely deserved Oscar, returned to the theaters and is playing widely.
So if you missed it the first time around, I'd suggest that you catch it this time. It's really worth seeing on a large screen.
And one of these days I'm going to get around to writing about Stone Reader... (which, for my New York readers, will apparently be making a return to Manhattan in May, making this the rare movie that's had three different theatrical engagements in the city...)
