Oscars

 
I watched the Oscars this year, like a good Angeleno. Some thoughts:

- Bringing out the award winners from past years was cool, but when Sophia Loren came onscreen I quickly realized the downside of HD. They should have just used that hologram technology to beam an image of her from 1960.

- I loved the Indian music guru who was accepting awards for Slumdog (AR Rahman, who was definitely deserving because Slumdog's soundtrack was sick). In his second acceptance speech he said something like "All my life I've had a choice between love and hate. I chose love." Now that's a great line. I'm just wondering what would have happened if he had chosen hate? Would he be plotting to blow up the Oscars instead of winning them? Would he have only composed evil sounding music? Somebody needs to make a movie about this guy's life.

- How did Wolverine get to host the Oscars?

- I'm not embarrassed to admit that I thought the guy who played Frost Nixon was the grandfather from Little Miss Sunshine up until I just looked it up on IMDB. This was almost as bad as when I was adamant that the queen in 300 was Jan Levinson. Not only am I color blind, apparently I'm face blind.

- On a similar note, it was killing me because I couldn't remember anything that Amy Adams has been in. Then I looked her up and realized she was purse girl from The Office. If not for that, I would still be drawing a blank.

- I'm a big Slumdog fan, and self-proclaimed friend of the Indians. I think bringing the kid actors to the show was a good move. Kids are always good karma - what are they gonna do, make a bunch of kids cry in front of the whole world? Kurt Warner should have agreed to get his kids puppies, then maybe Santonio Holmes' foot lands out of bounds. Makes perfect sense to me.