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• There was the great Flight summary... - musetap 15:34:40 02/27/13 (1)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

  
  "Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure

  
  
  

  
  
  

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  • Funny and almost the way it happened. * - mr grits 15:37:39 02/27/13 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: There was the great Flight summary... posted by musetap on February 27, 2013 at 15:34:40

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• the show was so long the audience begged DDL to free them* - PhilJ 15:39:32 02/26/13 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

  *David Letterman
  

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• The shortest summary - - free.ranger 12:51:47 02/26/13 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

  We kept our dinner down. Those watching didn't.
  
  

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• Jennifer Lawrence who should have won for Winter Bone won this time, stiffing a great Riva performance. Amour - tinear 07:01:49 02/26/13 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

  didn't win Best Picture but won Best Foreign. Argo won but wasn't even best suspense: Zero was.
  Chris Waltz won for his second Tarantino film role (deservedly). Anne Hathaway: ditto Lawrence, i.e. won this year for past performance. Looked like a dinosaur show, very little youth served.
  I hate Zeta-Jones and she seemed to be in everything.
  The MC is an asshole: nowhere in Tina Fey or Billy Crystal's league.
  

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• The big news is that Ben Affleck will now be directing the new 'Rockford Files' * - Tony D. 21:42:07 02/25/13 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

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• Dame Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger was the highlight for me, Barbra Streisand sang Memories to good effect - PhilJ 15:47:22 02/25/13 (1)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

  Overall a lackluster show, Seth Macfarlane was surprisingly timid and not very effective.
  
  Ang Lee won best director for Life of Pi and Argo won best picture
  
  the two biggest upsets imo
  

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  • not Memories but The Way We Were - PhilJ 16:33:17 02/25/13 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Dame Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger was the highlight for me, Barbra Streisand sang Memories to good effect posted by PhilJ on February 25, 2013 at 15:47:22

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• RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... - tunenut 14:38:14 02/25/13 (2)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

  Kind of a dull show. An interminable back and forth between host Seth McFarlaine and Shatner to start it off. Not very funny or entertaining. Seth tried hard, but never delivered much. A few though- he told a joke about Lincoln- the only actor to get inside his head was John Wilkes Booth- audience groaned, Seth came back with- it's been 150 years, is it still too soon?

  Anyway, what I like about this show are the brief joyful moments when someone I never heard of gets their award and their short speech. The technical guys from Life of Pi. The producers of Searching for Sugar Man.

  Etc. As far as the big names- Quentin T. made a nice excited speech ending with Peace Out. Ang Lee seemed suitably overwhelmed- his Life of Pi is really something of an art movie, I was glad to see it so successful (as it has been commercially worldwide as well). It was nice to see Ben Affleck get his award, whether or not Argo is really "best movie", whatever that means, it was a nice moment. Daniel Day Lewis looked solemn, then started a mini-stand-up routine, and it was funny.

  That's about it. The memorial section always moves me, as inevitably there are familiar faces who are gone, whom I did not know had died this year.

  It was OK. Not the best by far.
  

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  • Good job of picking out a few diamonds in this year's very high rough^ - Road Warrior 15:52:30 02/25/13 (1)
    In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by tunenut on February 25, 2013 at 14:38:14

    
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    • Excellent comments by tunenut and you (nt) - jfz 09:26:13 02/26/13 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Good job of picking out a few diamonds in this year's very high rough^ posted by Road Warrior on February 25, 2013 at 15:52:30

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• Got me.....I ignored it also. * - mr grits 13:18:14 02/25/13 (3)
  In Reply to: RE: For those of us who ignored the Oscars, how about... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 12:27:56

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  • Watching porn again? - Victor Khomenko 13:44:13 02/25/13 (2)
    In Reply to: RE: Got me.....I ignored it also. * posted by mr grits on February 25, 2013 at 13:18:14

    Or MSNBC?
    

    
    
    
    

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    • Both choices are porn depending on one's politics. * - mr grits 14:25:56 02/25/13 (1)
      In Reply to: RE: Watching porn again? posted by Victor Khomenko on February 25, 2013 at 13:44:13

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      • In measured doses, both Ed Schultz and Maddow are fine: factual and occasionally funny. Fox? - tinear 07:03:08 02/26/13 (0)
        In Reply to: RE: Both choices are porn depending on one's politics. * posted by mr grits on February 25, 2013 at 14:25:56

        Never either.
        

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