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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:26 PM

Juno wins Best Screenplay. New backlash in five..four..three..two

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:07 PM

For an audience that got self-righteous for the "How come Vanity Fair don't invite writers" joke, I didn't hear a lot of applause for the dead writers?

No love for Moneypenny?

Miyoshi Umeki got into the death montage but she never got a dinner.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:58 PM

Jon Stewart lets someone cut off have her moment; good on him.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:28 PM

Bourne Supremacy has won three minor Oscars. That means it's going to win Best Pict...D'oh!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:52 PM

If it's secret, how come there's a camera from the accountant's POV? Ha! I've wrapped rings around you logically, lighthearted film!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:32 PM

The Bee introducing his "previous work" is different from Oscar's Salute to Binoculars how exactly?

(Speaking of the salute to binoculars, kudos for including the Top Secret joke where the cow walks out of the binocular shape).

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:17 PM

Red Buttons got a Best Support Actor Oscar but he never got a dinner.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:00 PM

Would it have blown the budget for them to put showgirls in rat and cockroach costumes?

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:57 PM

Oscar audiences love falling surfing penguins!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:56 PM

It would be so cool with Persepolis being nominated if they did the "cartoon characters waiting in the audience" shtick for Best Animated Feature.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:50 PM

They acknowledge the existence of the Rob Lowe/ Snow White number. A few years ago, in an homage to Oscar musical numbers, they didn't

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:48 PM

"Hundreds of millions"? No longer claiming a billion?

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:40 PM

Spike Lee and Wesley Snipes are apparently this year's designated "camera on the black guy".

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:12 PM

Miley Cyrus is going to present. For The Kids, the Young People!

Then we'll do a video of that song "Milkshake" (the kids still dance to that, right?) but it'll be "I drink your milkshake".

Speaking of "I drink your milkshake", here's a hypothetical conversation in the Oscars Writers room:

[BRUCE VILLANCH enters wearing a T-shirt reading "I drink your milkshake"].

WRITER: Hey, from the movie. Very funny.
VILLANCH: Movie?

Because he's a large gentleman who enjoys a milkshake now and a...Bahhh!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:11 PM

Regis is taking credit for the concept of the Red Carpet show.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:08 PM

I should grab a picture of John Travolta for the next time I'm tempted to invest in Just For Men hair dye.

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