ACADEMY A-BOREDS

Watched the whole thing last night including the Red Carpet perp-walk. Neither the Kitty nor I were overwhelmed by the beauty of the movie stars, in fact we commented that models, though less talented at "acting" were far more beautiful. The dresses were God-awful in many cases. Most had the one shoulder thing going on and lots of material around the bottom in one form or another. These four actresses were omnipresent. Gwineth attempted to sing some country and western song and thankfully the instruments drowned out most of her inability to hold a note.

There were no serious Oscar contenders of the African-American persuasion so the Academy felt it had to overcompensate by featuring some talented black people throughout the evening such as Jennifer (I lost a ton of weight) Hudson to the left in an Orange dress, Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Oprah, and others...none of whom had anything to do with the movies chosen this year. They even had some inner city choir round out the evening after the Best Actress, Actor, and Picture awards when everyone had lost interest in the ceremony and was mentally on the way to the after-parties.

I don't see anything wrong with a year in which none of the awards were given to black actors any more than I would see anything wrong when the MVP in every sport but hockey went to a black athlete. This is not "racism." Some years the best performances are the work of fantastic black actors like Denzel Washington, and some years it's some white-waif or old English "queen" and of all places, race has nothing to do with it in the Oscars. The liberal "guilt" and their attempts to assuage it aside, the ceremony was as boring as it always is. I don't know why we watch it...maybe it's tradition. As for the movies, I still don't understand Inception. I will probably watch it again on Comcast on Demand. The Lesbian movies did not look all that interesting. And Natalie Portman and her big belly were nowhere as unique as they portrayed it to be, being as how everyone on the planet originally came from a woman with a big belly. I plan to rent "Black Swan" and watch it with the Ballet scenes edited out. As for the King who stuttered it does not sound like a theme I always wished they made a movie about, but I promise to watch it and give you the Oracle-view.