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jlhIn my show post (because I was simultaneously sleepy and high on caffeine and sugar) I forgot to thank ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ali_wildgoose for being a great hostess and making an awesome cake with violets, calloocallay for making adorable and delicious sandwiches, soupkills for the scrumptious scones and brioche, mistful for making us proper Irish tea, and everyone present (including erinfinnegan and emsariel) for being the awesome Oscar companions they were. Now I have 14 leftover cupcakes to bring to seminar!
It was unfortunate that they sat Keira next to Jack because it meant she was in the constant Obligatory Jack Reaction Shots which made Maya scream in terror. Gotta love Jack, though, and the shades and EVERYTHING. In some bizarre Hollywood calculus when Clint pulled out Tom Hanks filled in for him on director, bumping himself down from picture, and then Jack presented picture. He rocks for the last minute sub.
Too many semi-blondes in beige dresses and ubertans and nude lipgloss. I really don't like that monochromatic look and I'm surprised they keep doing it as it really washes out on video but whatever. We had a long conversation about dangling earrings v necklaces when wearing a plunging neckline and I will say that nearly everyone made the right choice except Keira who looked like a Cartier ad.
Two replies to comments that I sort of liked so I'm repeating them here like an egotistical thing:
I really love Jon and George and their whole thing. I love how George wishes he could be Jon Stewart but he knows that he can't be so he makes movies like Good Night and Good Luck and comes on TDS and Jon knows that George wants to be him and he has no idea why that is so and then says something about how people who think he (Jon) is sexy should look at their TV screen and see what handsome actually looks like. The thing is, Jon and George are both smart and interesting and able to take what they want to say and put it in a package so that people will listen to them, and they're both passionate enough that they occasionally overstep those bounds but only for a second before regaining their sense of humor about themselves. But being smart and interesting isn't actually enough, so they work what they've got which for George is his looks and for Jon is being funny, both of which are pretty high maintenance things that you pull out of your bag of tricks when you want people to pay attention to you but that you know are ultimately relatively superficial. So they get all high school on each other where George is basically, "People would take me more seriously if I weren't a pretty boy" and Jon is basically, "I would have a movie career if I were more handsome" and the whole thing is so mutual admiration society especially because it isn't competitive in any way and very specifically can't be, which is why both of them allowing for the slashy subtext in their dynamic is so awesome.
It was like the awards were in five groups:
1: The special-category movies—doc feature, doc short, live short, animated short, animated feature, foreign language.
2: Memoirs of a Geisha was really pretty—Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes
3: King Kong had great effects—Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Sound Editing
4: People did great work in movies we won't give anything else to—All 4 acting awards, plus "we really liked that rap song" and "Mr Tumnus looked cool".
5: We really liked Crash and Brokeback, so we'll split the awards that big best pictures sweep between the two of them—Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Editing, Score
I really like that no movie got more than three statues after so many years of huge sweeps and I'm honestly still not disappointed about Brokeback.
ali_wildgoose for being a great hostess and making an awesome cake with violets, calloocallay for making adorable and delicious sandwiches, soupkills for the scrumptious scones and brioche, mistful for making us proper Irish tea, and everyone present (including erinfinnegan and emsariel) for being the awesome Oscar companions they were. Now I have 14 leftover cupcakes to bring to seminar!It was unfortunate that they sat Keira next to Jack because it meant she was in the constant Obligatory Jack Reaction Shots which made Maya scream in terror. Gotta love Jack, though, and the shades and EVERYTHING. In some bizarre Hollywood calculus when Clint pulled out Tom Hanks filled in for him on director, bumping himself down from picture, and then Jack presented picture. He rocks for the last minute sub.
Too many semi-blondes in beige dresses and ubertans and nude lipgloss. I really don't like that monochromatic look and I'm surprised they keep doing it as it really washes out on video but whatever. We had a long conversation about dangling earrings v necklaces when wearing a plunging neckline and I will say that nearly everyone made the right choice except Keira who looked like a Cartier ad.
Two replies to comments that I sort of liked so I'm repeating them here like an egotistical thing:
I really love Jon and George and their whole thing. I love how George wishes he could be Jon Stewart but he knows that he can't be so he makes movies like Good Night and Good Luck and comes on TDS and Jon knows that George wants to be him and he has no idea why that is so and then says something about how people who think he (Jon) is sexy should look at their TV screen and see what handsome actually looks like. The thing is, Jon and George are both smart and interesting and able to take what they want to say and put it in a package so that people will listen to them, and they're both passionate enough that they occasionally overstep those bounds but only for a second before regaining their sense of humor about themselves. But being smart and interesting isn't actually enough, so they work what they've got which for George is his looks and for Jon is being funny, both of which are pretty high maintenance things that you pull out of your bag of tricks when you want people to pay attention to you but that you know are ultimately relatively superficial. So they get all high school on each other where George is basically, "People would take me more seriously if I weren't a pretty boy" and Jon is basically, "I would have a movie career if I were more handsome" and the whole thing is so mutual admiration society especially because it isn't competitive in any way and very specifically can't be, which is why both of them allowing for the slashy subtext in their dynamic is so awesome.
It was like the awards were in five groups:
1: The special-category movies—doc feature, doc short, live short, animated short, animated feature, foreign language.
2: Memoirs of a Geisha was really pretty—Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes
3: King Kong had great effects—Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Sound Editing
4: People did great work in movies we won't give anything else to—All 4 acting awards, plus "we really liked that rap song" and "Mr Tumnus looked cool".
5: We really liked Crash and Brokeback, so we'll split the awards that big best pictures sweep between the two of them—Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Editing, Score
I really like that no movie got more than three statues after so many years of huge sweeps and I'm honestly still not disappointed about Brokeback.
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Date: 2006-03-08 01:35 pm (UTC)The shyness also makes it feel more high school, like they'd be all, "Can you ask his friend if he likes me?" I fear for the RPS to come, though, because actually slashing them or even writing a preslash story would totally kill it. It's more, "would you be my secret BFF?"
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Date: 2006-03-08 01:43 pm (UTC)Though, you know, there's that undercurrent of wanting the gay movie to win and not caring about the race movie that I always find a bit troubling.