On Friday, Marisa and I had dinner with my mom, who was in The WC while my sister was on a college overnight. By showing up before check-in time and asking for a room, my mom wound up with a three-room suite for no extra money, so after dinner we went back to her hotel and watched my Netflixed copy of Tadpole, which I had never seen before, on her
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We only had half a dozen people in ours, and two of us got 16, and another person got 15, so I didn't exactly trounce, but I did better than the last few years.
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Your mother was in the water closet?
Aha. I crack myself up. But seriously, folks, I think I am the only person anywhere who loves a four-hour Oscar show. I love the extravagance and self-indulgence of it all. And I hate, hate, HAAAAATE Gil Cates for his hideous rudeness to the "technical" nominees. Chris Rock's joke about an Oscar drive-through next year was right-on. What, we can go to the Magic Johnson theater and talk about White Chicks, and we can have a lame tribute to Johnny Carson (who was a TV HOST and not the single greatest American actor in history cough*MarlonBrandodiedlastyeartoodouchebag*cough), but we can't let the incredibly talented and dedicated sound designers who are redefining their art almost every year walk to the fucking stage?
For shame, Gil Cates. For shame, you bastard.
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One of my favorite snarky remarks of all time, re people who know nothing about cinematography commenting on cinematography: They don't think Lord of the Rings is amazing cinematography. They think New Zealand is pretty.
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