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James Taylor looks like Lurch these days.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.retroheadz.de/castle-frankentele/images/lurch.jpg
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― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyways, you get the idea.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I loooove Randy Newman in the 70's. But his "in it for the money" movie schlock makes me want to kill. He's kind of a Stevie Wonder-esque example of talent wasted on kitsch.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked his sad song from Toy Story 2. And I like his voice enough that I don't really care what he's singing.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I called Randy Newman and James Taylor together onstage as a "Summit of Suck."

Now see that's just a stone cold truth.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Categories I got wrong in the office pool:

Picture (I went with Babel. I had a hunch that the same voter pool that went for Crash would've liked Babel, as it had a patina of self-importance about it. Also, the Best Pic and Director used to match up all the time, but that's only been the case half the time in the last 8 years -- cf. Spielberg winning in '98 for Saving Private Ryan, Soderbergh in '00 for Traffic, Polanski in '02 for The Pianist, and Ang Lee in '05 for Brokeback Mountain, none of which won Best Pic.)

Supporting Actor (I went for Murphy)

Animated (I went with Cars. Only surprised at Happy Feet because it went against what most pundits were predicting, but I was never really sure why Cars was seen as the favorite.)

Foreign (Like everyone else, I went with Pan's Labyrinth)

Cinematography (I went with Children of Men)

Score (Alexandre Desplat seems to be getting a lot of attention as an up-and-coming composer, and the score for The Queen in particular had good buzz, so that's who I chose)

Song (I went with the prognosticators in choosing "Listen," even though after I actually heard all of the nominated songs performed last night, it seemed clear that Etheridge would win)

Other categories I missed:

Art Direction (I chose Dreamgirls)

Costume (I chose Dreamgirls ... this is the one I'm most kicking myself for ... again, I paid attention to Oscar pundits, when it seems obvious in retrospect that Marie Antoinette was the one to beat ... Academy voters still love big 18th C. period-piece dresses)

Editing (I went with Babel and think it prob. would have won this category if it had also won Pic, although I'm glad that Schoonmaker got it -- The Departed was an exceptionally well-edited movie)

Animated Short (everyone seemed to think it would The Little Matchgirl)

****

I don't think there were any categories that featured a MAJOR upset. (Best Pic was always up in the air since the nominations were announced.) But their tendency to choose the 2nd favorite instead of the favorite -- Arkin over Murphy, The Lives of Others over Pan's Labyrinth, Santoalalla over Desplat -- made it a little harder this year.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I would have been about as wrong as you, and in exactly the same ways.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still fuzzy on the line between visual effects and art direction. I guess visual effects is a purely technical award, and art direction is more big picture?

As I understand it, visual effects is special effects, like CGI, scale models, explosions, etc., whereas art direction is like the cinematic equivalent of "set design." Pan's Labyrinth was a deserving winner here because it created a unified look from the old house and the woods and the labyrinth: old and dark and mysterious. I think the category has to have some overlap with costumes, too.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, ladies: who's hotter

Alfonso Cuarón
http://www.cojeco.cz/attach/image/max/c8/ba75/c8ba75b1a3c54a458f3e5f231ed514f3.jpg

Alejandro González Iñárritu
http://www.godlis.com/nyfilmfest2003/images_nyff2003/21%20grams/inarritu4_200w.jpg

or Guillermo Del Toro
http://elmundo.canal-si.com/fotos/28746.jpg

(actually, just the first two. heh.)

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

It's fucked up that that boring-ass Etheridge song won, esp. when Dreamgirls had 3 nominations.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Did anyone see the red carpet bit where some woman was interviewing the Three Amigos, and she said "Now there's a lot of debate about which one of you is the most attractive," and both Cuaron and Del Toro pointed to Innaritu, and then she said "...but I have to say I'm going with you, Guillermo" and then everyone chuckled -- but it was kind of mean, because the subtext was "you're totally not the most attractive"!

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Poor Comic Book Guy.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

It's fucked up that that boring-ass Etheridge song won, esp. when Dreamgirls had 3 nominations.

I didn't see Dreamgirls, but based on the performances last night, it totally makes sense that Etheridge won. Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson totally did the flashy showstopping diva routine, but the songs themselves just weren't that interesting. Etheridge's song was oatmeal, but it felt like something the Academy could connect to, with its half-baked liberal pieties.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Clean the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and we got a deal!"
"Don't try to change me, baby."

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Cuaron and Inarritu are attractive in the same way, but I'm going with the latter if only in the photos compared here.

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://myspace-750.vo.llnwd.net/00647/05/75/647735750_l.jpg

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I probably would've gotten most of those categories wrong too.

Dreamgirls got greedy with three nominations.

I think Chicagoist also said Babel wouldn't win Best Pic BECAUSE it was too similar to Crash.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Cuaron has a hot Wayne Coyne/Jaymc thing going for him.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Innaritu is hot in a kind of obvious, smoldering way, but for my money Cuaron looks more... I dunno... pleasant? Plus he makes better movies.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think I'm only really objecting to Cuaron's beard & long-ish hair: distinguished, of course, but less rakish.

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of snobby about the Oscar prognostication. I don't really trust anyone besides online writers like Sasha Stone, Kris Tapley, Nathaniel Rogers, or, back in the '90s, Alex Fung. Even daily newspaper critics aren't really monitoring the buzz as closely as some of these folks are.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought that first guy was George Harrison at first.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

But John, you got like 4 or 5 categories wrong because you overrelied on what other people were predicting!

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART WHISPERS

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I was afeared the Babel would win, and next to that I guess I was hoping for The Departed, if only because it's solid, workmanlike, entertaining, and pretty much unobjectionable. (Also hella bloody.)

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Cuaron has a hot Wayne Coyne/Jaymc thing going for him.

HE SURE DOES!

Plus that second guy is too tan. And I wouldn't kick Guillermo Del Toro out of bed for eating crackers ifyaknowwhatimean.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

And you KNOW he would be eating crackers, so that's a good thing for him.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Would you kick him out of bed for eating fried chicken? Because that also seems like a real possibility.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

HAHA I just caught the /Jaymc in the Wayne Coyne comparison. My concurrance still stands!

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, maybe not. I read Oscar buzz all the time, so it's hard to say what I would've picked if I didn't know anything about what was favored. I probably would've chosen Marie Antoinette and Happy Feet, sure, but then again I don't think I would've known to pick Letters from Iwo Jima for Sound Editing or West Bank Story for Live Action Short if I didn't check out the consensus. My only point is that I'd rather pay attention to Oscarwatch.com and TheFilmExperience.net than Roger Ebert or Chicagoist.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm torn on the fried chicken thing. On one hand, that's a pretty gross thing to eat in bed. On the other hand, would he share the fried chicken with me?

Using the sheets as a napkin is a deal break no matter what, though.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

C/D: People who send an email to an entire listserv but caption it "For Specific Person Only" and then proceed to have a conversation that would really have been better contained within a private email exchange.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

classic, obv.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone find those CSO ads online that are all over CTA, I can't seem to find them. I think they're hilarious.

― Ivan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Get this, so Digd0wn was supposed to play a gig on the Saturday in Portage, WI. We couldn't do it because Ev4n got married that day, so we put together a fake MDBB to do the gig. Then it got cancelled anyway because of the snow, and apparently it was listed on tv along with the school cancellations. Like, on the bottom scrollbar. That's crazy.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone find those CSO ads online that are all over CTA, I can't seem to find them. I think they're hilarious.

You mean the "protect yourself from identity theft" ones?

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Dress I would have picked to walk down the red carpet:
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/specials/oscars07/show/bwdressed/gywneth_paltrow200.jpg

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Her hair is awful though. Why is it all swept to one side? I did that when I was 7.

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

consensus on that dress: she looked like a mermaid and her hair was too flat. me: what's wrong with mermaids? i wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating kelp.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean the "protect yourself from identity theft" ones?

No, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ads where someone's head is replaced with some type of instrument. I think the line is "The experience stays with you" or something to that effect.

― Ivan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

OMGOMGOMOMG those are so SCARY! I hate those!

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm out to take my kitten to the vet, but just let me say that Jennifer Hudson is bangin.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post

I want all of them to post in my room.

― Ivan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I love GP's dress. It's kind of Art Decco looking, all vintage and interesting. I'm okay with her hair, too, but that's probably because I like the dress so much. She looks better than Scarlett J. did. Dang.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that dress, and Sarah, you're one of the only people I know who could wear it! I don't think the hair/lipstick/jewelry were combined to best effect, though.

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the CSO ads -- I mean they're just so weird. Not every day I see something that shakes up my commute with a dash of the surreal and unsettling.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, BTW we watched The Prestige this weekend and it was one of the better movies I've seen in a while. Not going to change anyone's life but really good as a piece of entertainment.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I would take a picture of them if I had a camera. Then everyone can share in the sheer awesomeness of them.

― Ivan, Monday, 26 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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