I could NEVER have gotten this telecast with my DVR box. I started watching it at about 9.30 and thank God for the Fast Forward button. I got through the whole thing in about an hour and a half but it seemed like five. Jon Stewart is strickly a smart-ass, college humor stand-up comic and not a very funny one at that. He wasn't even capable of abandoning his political satire for the event and frankly, it just wasn't appropriate in this venue. The musical numbers sucked and in a year when I really couldn't care less who won, it was hard to sit through this telecast. I though Daniel Day Lewis and Marion Cotillard gave two of the worst over-the-top, scenery-chewing, histrionic performances I had seen all year in two very badly written films. The only thing I liked about the telecast were the clips from previous years' telecasts that helped remind us how wonderful watching the Oscars used to be. Franc Martarella -----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:34 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Oscars -SNOOZEABLE When the most exciting moment is seeing a few celebrities almost slip and fall when approaching the microphone because apparently Marion Cotillard when accepting her Oscar was so excited that she reverted back to her Edith Piaf brilliant performance and pissed on the stage and no one would dare stoop to clean it up, well, then, that is a most boring show. With 3 boring Disneyesque song and dance numbers to ho hum through, and a very lackluster host, I think it was just a tribute to what a dismal year this country has just gone through, so bad that not even the magic that once was HOLLYWOOD could lift our spirits for more then a brief moment. And, so many of the big winners were foriegn to boot... are we even outsourcing our movie talent now? I am both pleased and shocked that Cotillard won a well deserved best actress Oscar as her performance was astonishing, ( but so was the make-up) however, anyone wish to share their knowledge about the Oscar rules concerning foriegn language films winning such awards? Where is OSCAR going?????? If nothing else, please put the entertainment value back into its presentation. Hosting that program is no easy task, but the great comedians always seem to do a good job. I do not see Jon Stewart in that light at all. JMHO, Evan Bernstein
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