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The 84th annual Academy Awards were held last night in Hollywood. I tweeted throughout, so if you missed it, go back and check out my wall of tweets to get my full thoughts on everything.
I won't bore you here with all of that, but I did want to recap what I felt were the highlights of the night.
Click "Read more" to follow me after the jump and see my thoughts on the highs and lows of this year's Academy Awards:
+ First off, I have to go on record as saying I find Billy Crystal to be intolerable. He was good in City Slickers. I'm drawing the line there.
I don't think he's funny. I think he has a smugness about him that is unearned.
At one point, after Octavia Spencer won the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress," Crystal made the following joke:
"After I watched 'The Help,' I felt compelled to hug the first black woman I saw...which is about a 45 minute drive from Beverly Hills."It came off really crappy and politely racist. I'm not easily offended but it just was stupid.
I'm not even going to get into the fact that he started off the show in "blackface."
+ Hugo basically won a clean sweep. It made me think I may need to break down and go ahead and watch it. It got so bad that I swear audience members were rolling their eyes after a while, each time the movie won another new award for something else.
+ Nick Nolte was in the crowd and looked a million years old. Maybe it's just been a while since I've seen him, but I didn't know he was looking like THIS, these days.
+ Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianikis presented the Oscar for "Best Original Song." It was possibly the best segment of the show for the following reasons:
- Ferrell and Galifianikis were hilarious (IMO) as they marched to the stage with clanging cymbals and then joked about being "serious musicians." I'm biased. The both of them could probably just stand there and I'd crack up.
- "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" won the award, which made me super happy since I loved that movie with all of my heart.
- Apparently, the song was written by Bret McKenzie from "Flight of the Conchords." Did you know that? I didn't. Awesome.
Those were just some of the highlights. I'd love to hear yours in the comment section.
Oh yeah, you probably wanna know who won the contest.
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It was a three-way tie between Clay, Jamie and Vac. I decided to be a giver and bestow a prize on all three of you. Shoot me an email at kevinrhaggerty AT yahoo DOT com.
What were your Oscar highlights?
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