Oscars, part 3

[cleolinda]

"Please welcome! George Clooney!" Okay, at least Tilda Swinton has one giant sleeve and one no-sleeve. He's here to talk about Great Moments at the Academy Awards: "And the one thing that is always consistent is that it's long--no, that it's unpredictable." And here we have in two minutes what VH1 spent two hours on. OH GOD, OH GOD, ROB LOWE AND SNOW WHITE, HELP, RUN AWAY! Just... go search for it on YouTube, if you didn't see it when I linked it a while back. And then don't blame me if your brain crawls out your ears. (ETA: The link I posted a few weeks back.) And I'm just going to keep nattering on about this until they stop playing "My Heart Will Go On." Amazingly, they do not show The Sally Field Clip, unless Snow White just rendered me deaf and blind.

Heh, here's Jon Stewart watching Lawrence of Arabia on his iPhone. "To really appreciate it, you have to watch it in... [turning phone sideways] ... widescreen."

Here's Anne Hathaway and Steve Carell coming out to the Get Smart theme. Carell "thinks" he's doing Documentary and is very "embarrassed" to discover they're actually presenting Animated. "How many people are watching this? Is it being shown in Belgium?" "Oui," says Hathaway. "Oh, I am so embarrassed..." Ratatouille wins. Man, I'm starting to wish I'd done an Oscar pool this year. Aww, Brad Bird goes into a really cute impression of a guidance counselor who pretty much sounds like Jack Nicholson ("What do you want to do with your life?") and then a younger pipsqueak version of himself ("Make movies!"). Conti softly plays Bird off the stage.

Here's Katherine Heigl, telling us frankly that she's nervous, and she is, in fact, shaking. It's Makeup! Ohh, nice--a side-by-side comparison of Marion Cotillard and Edith Piaf. Thus, I'm not really surprised when La Vie en rose wins, because, let's face it, 1) the Jack Sparrow makeup (which is what the POTC3 clip shows) is nothing new, and 2) Norbit. Seriously: Norbit. Don't play Makeup Lady off the stage! You let Makeup Guy talk!

Wow, we're running along at a clip here: "Happy Working Song." Jon Stewart mentions the songwriters, Alan Mencken and Stephen Schwartz, and at the second name, there is a HUGE "WOOOO!" out in the audience. "That guy's a fan," deadpans Stewart.

Here's Amy Adams (IN BLACK) to sing the song. On the stage. By herself. Wow. They're just gonna leave her hanging out there by herself? Not even throw some scenery out there for her? Ouch. And yet Kristen Chenoweth is probably the one to get the gigantic musical production. No wonder Adams was talking about how nervous she was. If I were Amy Adams I'd be in the backstage toilets throwing up before and after the performance.

Here's a clip of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones talking about their dual Oscar wins. "I just didn't want to lose the baby," says Douglas of CZJ's very pregnant win. I'm still over here stunned that they just threw Amy Adams up there to sing that twee little song all by herself.

Comments

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

I felt so bad for Amy Adams. You could tell she was nervous. At least she looked cute.

[sorcha-chasdubh.livejournal.com]

Amy was so cute! She did a really good job...

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Amy Adams pulled it off, too. Good for her.

[meshuggeneh.livejournal.com]

Don't forget she's also singing the How Does She Know? song with a frillion dancers Regis was egging on backstage pre-show. I'd almost be more scared if there's going to be singing AND dancing.

[sorcha-chasdubh.livejournal.com]

Isn't Kristen Chenowith singing that one?

[meshuggeneh.livejournal.com]

Oh, is she? I was just assuming.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think Kristen Chenowith is going to do that one; not entirely sure why, although I love her. I'm guessing it's probably because it's a harder song to sing, and maybe Amy can't do the high notes without help?

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

*scratches head* But didn't she do it in the movie? I wasn't sure why Kristen did it either (but like you, I love her).

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

Stupid question- how did you make your icons??

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I just hit "print screen" at the avatar.yahoo.com site and crop to my heart's content. : )

[leila82.livejournal.com]

OMG that Amy Adams thing just killed me - the poor girl, all alone on that big stage. She totally hd the deer-in-the-headlights look.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I'm doing my Oscar Gallery again this year :D

http://www.sparklies.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=463

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[melayka.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Jennifer Hudson's dress is lovely. I love when women with that skintone wear vivid white, it just pops.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

cough, cough

[splits_thesky]

Aww, Javier Bardem is adorable. :)

[melayka.livejournal.com]

Aww, Xavier's mama! So sweet. (Also, I've never heard of the man until this year.)

[clodia-risa.livejournal.com]

She was amazing. I HAVE to rent Enchanted as soon as it comes out now.

I've got a game going on since I'm watching the Oscars by myself. I make a bet right before the winner is called, and if I'm right, I get to sit, and if I'm wrong, I have to do situps or jumping jacks until they start their speech. I've been wrong twice so far.

Also, I jump up at commercials to read your liveblog.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I can't believe they didn't give Amy Adams anything! That song isn't the same without some cockroaches and rats.

I'm still rooting for the song from Once for best song. :-)

[sarapada.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, OH GOD, ROB LOWE AND SNOW WHITE, HELP, RUN AWAY!

You'll appreciate this: I just spent the weekend with my mom, who apparently likes to spend the mornings watching A&E Biography. This morning's was "The Brat Pack," and the segment they did on Rob Lowe was like, "His career was going great, but then he got involved in that sex tape scandal with a 16-year-old girl, but even worse, he sang and danced with Snow White at the Oscars!!"

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heeeee.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

Man, it's such a shock to watch Marion as Piaf, looking all old and haggard! That make-up win was more than deserved!

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

I give EIGHT BILLION POINTS to Amy Adams for that performance. She is clearly not a trained singer, though she has a decent enough voice; you could hear her wobbling around and sliding on some of those notes and losing her breath, but she just kept trucking and I wanted to give her the biggest hug ever after that.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

SERIOUSLY. It wasn't even just a pretty-singing song, either--it was an ACTING song, and that takes a whole extra round of effort.

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

I love Amy Adams. I haven't seen her in much though. I definitely remember her in "Catch Me If You Can." I can't wait to see "Enchanted."


Also ... does anyone else think Amy Adams and Isla Fisher are secretly the same person? Anyone? No? Oh, well.

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

Amy Adams owns Enchanted, and she's the thing that makes it awesome instead of a mawkish farce. See it ASAP.

And dude, it's totally not just you. I always get them confused when I see one or the other. Obviously they should play twins.

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

Me, too, although "The Office" and "Enchanted" are the only things I've seen her in. And you should definitely rent "Enchanted." It's totally wonderful.

Me, too. LoL. So glad I'm not the only one.

And I totally <3 your icon.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

My Calvin thanks you. My Hobbes thanks you. My Bill Watterson thanks you. And I thank you.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH

Cleo! How could you!?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Wait, what?

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

I youtubed Rob Lowe.....

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

Wait ... you dislike "Snow White"? It's one of the only about two animated films on AFI's top 100 films list. (I think the other is one of those "Toy Story" movies.) Now, I'm not one of those middle-low-low-middle-brows who thinks AFI's lists are gospel, or even, you know, sane -- but I DO think "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is among the finest animated films I've ever seen.

(For the record, my other favorites are probably: "Monsters, Inc."; "The Incredibles"; and "Spirited Away.")

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

No, no, what I was saying had nothing to do with Snow White itself; that's actually the first movie I ever saw in a theater (age: three). Go to YouTube and search "Rob Lowe Snow White Oscars." They (Lowe and a girl dressed up as SW) sing "Proud Mary." No, I'm not making this up. It's one of the most brain-melting things you'll ever see.

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

You saw it in a theater at age THREE? Wow, that's LEETLE.

I have family friends ("the Clemans clan") where the youngest generation is ten, six, and four (plus one who's not yet born), and I'm told "Snow White" is scary for the ten year old and too scary for the six year old, and they're saving it for the four year old until she's older.

(The four year old ADORES "Monsters, Inc.," but, so I'm told, she closes her eyes every time they reach the scene with the torture machine. That part's still a bit much for her.)

I'll go search "Rob Lowe Snow White Oscars" -- even though I saw someone else here already "cursed" you for sending them to do just that. :P

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Because I'm just that evil: here you are. (http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/rob+lowe+snow+white/video/xuz24_rob-lowe-sings-to-snow-white-1989_fun)

[kvschwartz.livejournal.com]

That link didn't work. But I did find it.

Such stuff as nightmares are made on.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See? SEE?

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

I forgot to comment this on the last entry, but: "Here's Hilary Swank again. In black. Also. She has two Oscars and Kate Winslet has none. Kate Winslet wouldn't wear black, Hilary."

*giggle*

As for this entry--major props to poor little Amy. So much <3 for her.