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So this happened:




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Meanwhile, here are the songs that get stuck in your head when you are sick in bed and helpless to do anything about it. Like too sick to even get on Twitter and rid yourself of whichever song by inflicting it on others. Yeah. It was pretty bad.

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Usually it was about this point that I would ask for more Aleve and pass out again.

Meanwhile, I am still mulling over what to do about the Dracula recaps, because I am straight-up loath to give up on them. I had a project I just finished out of SHEER GODDAMNED CUSSEDNESS, and on the whole, I liked it enough that I'd kind of like ~Finishing Things~ to be how I roll from now on. At the same time, I have learned--both from my own experience and the very, very painful experience of other people I know--that sometimes you have to know when to fold 'em. And somewhere between the two, I have to remind myself that this is the internet, where you can do just about anything any way you want to do it, and there's no reason I can't try to get this done by taking a completely different approach. I just don't know what that approach is yet--

OH! Official notice: For reasons just discussed, I will not be liveblogging the Golden Globes on Sunday. I'm thinking about doing sort of a judicious live-tweeting combined with collecting the best tweets I see and putting them together on Storify. I've done liveblogs of award shows since--Jesus, I don't know, 2001 or 2002? I feel like I need to move on from a format that exhaustive at this point, given the massive widespread availability of videos, recaps, tweets, other liveblogs, etc. I don't know--the way I look at it is, if I try less labor-intensive formats, maybe I'll be around more often. So we'll see.


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Last 48 minutes of The Dark Knight? Don't mind if I do, TNT.

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@joshc: Are Jodie Foster and Kevin Costner being loaded onto the White Ship to sail to the Undying Lands at the conclusion of the Golden Globes?

I'm a little concerned, yeah.

Sigh. Blurbly doubled BLAR BLAR sound on the TV again. Damn, Halle Berry has a great dress. Like a big kind of raspberry pink floral pattern ballgown and--


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WHAT DID I MISS WHAT DID I MISS wow, Kristen Bell is a tiny person.

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Please welcome! John Goodman and Actual Tony Mendez, Real-Life Hero of Argo, to present the Argo montage! The sound is terrible in a way that is not my TV's fault and I can barely hear what he is saying. I still need and want to see Argo! Yay!

Please also welcome! Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez with meager swaths of lace painted onto portions of her body, it is kind of magnificent!

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You guys, you need to know ahead of time that there are power outages in Tuscaloosa and heavy rain, lightning, thunder, etc., here in Birmingham. In fact, I lost TV reception for a while. Also, I have a sore throat and combination chills/hot flashes and an earache, I feel like ass warmed over, and I have been talking myself out of crawling into bed for the last hour. All the grimdark forces of the world are arrayed against us, is what I'm saying. *hair breeze*

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Another montage of actors explaining what movies mean to them. What a wonderful break for my fingers. I have three Tagalongs left; I'm pacing myself. Read more... )



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Billy Crystal informs us that Michael Douglas was Occupying Wall Street before it was cool, and I just don't even have the strength to think of a way to turn that into a hipster joke. Read more... )



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"Front row, you know what I'm thinking? Why don't we chip in and buy the Dodgers?" Read more... )




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Billy Crystal: "I have this gift where I can look at anyone in the audience and tell you what they're thinking." I literally groaned out loud, y'all. I could not stop myself. WHY DON'T YOU TELL US? Read more... )



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I'm not even dignifying this Melissa McCarthy seducing Billy Crystal in a pink robe bit with one more second of my time. It's to introduce Ben Stiller and a statuesque Emma Stone, who has a massive red bow vampiring her neck, presenting Visual Effects. "This is my first time presenting an award!" she oozes, basking in the stage lights. She is about three hundred feet taller than Stiller. "We should have some banter! Where people laugh at you but you seem okay with it? We should have a song! I should pull someone up from the audience!" And then it goes from really funny to a gigantic train wreck. "Get up here Jonah! Let's dance!" Out in the audience, Hill makes a (scripted) CUT IT OUT gesture. Stiller, disapprovingly: "You don't want to be the presenter who tries too hard." "Oh," says Stone, turning on him, "you mean, like the guy who dressed up like Avatar? Or in a lime green unitard?" Okay, the whole thing was worth it for that statuesque BURN.

Visual Effects

    "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
    Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
    "Hugo"
    Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning
    "Real Steel"
    Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
    "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
    Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
    "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
    Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

I'm so busy trying to type up the Emma Stone business that I only just realized that, since Hugo wins this, Andy Serkis and Planet of the Apes just got robbed.

Billy Crystal: "You know, this is the year we say goodbye to Harry Potter. They made more than 7.7 BILLION dollars, and only paid 14% in taxes last year." Please welcome non sequitur-winning Melissa Leo!

Actor in a Supporting Role

    Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
    Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
    Nick Nolte in "Warrior"
    Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
    Max von Sydow in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

And the Oscar goes to Christopher Plummer! Please bring some class up into this joint. Viola Davis leads a standing ovation (seriously, she JUMPS to her feet). Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's lipstick are slightly less beneficent this time around. "You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?" he says to his Oscar. "I have a confession to make. When I first emerged from my mother's womb, I was already rehearsing my acceptance speech. Fortunately for you, I have forgotten it." He also thanks his fellow nominees, particularly "dear Max, I am so proud to be in your company." Wait, I just realized that he is wearing a black velvet suit. I need to hit post now.



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Kermit and Miss Piggy in the balcony. Because why not. Read more... )


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"That win for Octavia Spencer is what the Oscars is all about," says Crystal, who is not at this moment wearing blackface, and then makes a joke about how he wanted to hug the first black person he saw after he saw The Help and was in an area where there were no black people.

RT @SmartBitches: "That moment with Octavia was what the Oscars is all about." Good thing you rushed her offstage so you could come on and make racist jokes.

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PLEASE WELCOME! ACADEMY AWARD WINNER SANDRA BULLOCK. Read more... )



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"Welcome back to the Your Name Here Theater," because Kodak is going bankrupt, lol. "Let's go to the movies!" IT'S A MONTAGE! GOTTA HAVE A MONTAGE! Read more... )



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Well, if I die tonight, I'll die eating Tagalongs.


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Heads up

Feb. 26th, 2012 06:21 pm
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In theory, I will, in fact, be doing an Oscar liveblog in the grand old tradition. I have been having some health problems, though, and since we're talking about blood pressure spikes and dizzy spells, it's a little harder to just shrug it off. Less seriously, I'm mostly in panic mode because we've got a Billy Crystal song/montage/whatever it is he does coming up, and those are hell to recap in progress. ("I can't understand what he's singing! Now he's interacting with footage of a movie I have not seen! Drag, really? OH GOD WHAT IS HE DOING WITH THAT HORSE?!") Anyway. I will do my best.



@fuggirls: PLEASE, Hollywood, stop enabling Sacha Baron Cohen. "The Dictator" looks SO TERRIBLE. OMG. -H #oscars

@StessRingold: @fuggirls @cleolinda Did you see him "accidentally" spill Kim Jong-Il's ashes on Ryan Seacrest? Yeah. Please just stop, you are not funny.

@particle_p: I don't know, ashing Seacrest raises my opinion of Baron Cohen.

@cleolinda: I will say, the bit at the end of the Dictator trailer where he starts shooting the other runners made my mother laugh.

@fuggirls: A Fug National is at the Oscars and apparently E!'s security team is PISSED about the SBC stunt. - J


Oh dear.



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