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[idlerat]

There was near-unanimity where I was watching the Oscars, so I am shocked, shocked, to find it wasn't universal.

No competition:

Best speech: Morgan Freeman

Best dressed: Cate Blanchett. (By a mile, and it wasn't just the dress, though that was spectacular, including the belt; she was a goddess.)

Most disturbing: Jamie Foxx on the subject of

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[amelia_eve]

Best dressed: Cate Blanchett. (By a mile, and it wasn't just the dress, though that was spectacular, including the belt; she was a goddess.)

Agreed, no contest. Is it disturbing that in recent years I find myself appreciating the most ladylike dresses at the Oscars? Hilary Swank's dress seemed like an interesting idea but it made her back look bony. If she can't wear it after all that working out, who can?

Shockingly bad hair: Renee Zellweger with a narrow win over Laura Linney.

Sorry, but I gotta say Laura Linney. Her her looked more looked more flattened than straightened, and the black eye makeup just made her look old and witchy. Her appeal is mostly Girl Next Door and she looked completely out of place. I hated almost everyone's over-straightened, over-gelled hair. I laughed out loud when Salma Hayek finally just shoved it back out of her eyes. The men, especially, seemed to have a strangely rigid sheepdog fringe. Mike Meyers with hairspray? Help!

Best meta: the bit at the Magic Johnson Theater. That wasn't a Leno style bit on stupid Americans; it was a Chris Rock critique of the Oscars.

That really resonated for me, because I live just above what Manhattan film distributors consider the middle class movie-going district. When I moved here, I thought it would be great to be just a few blocks from a cinema (Loew's 84th and Broadway) but the programming is almost exclusively action, science fiction, and blaxploitation, with the occasional kiddie film for relief. It's a totally different world from the Lincoln Center-area movie hub less than a mile downtown.

Tallest: that gold-robed assistant off to the left. You could have opened her up and fit Prince entirely inside her.

I really wanted to see Prince and Johnny Depp do a routine together. They had the same foppish charm and even the same color scheme going. And both of them knew better than to have those stiff bangs poking him in the eye.

[idlerat]

I actually think HS would look better if she wasn't quite so thin. The dress looked oddly muscular to me in the front, and just a little too much in the back.

I agree that Linney looked much worse than RZ over all, but on hair alone RZ's was just such a bold, wrong choice. I liked her dress though.

Prince and Johnny--perfect!