I'm surprised you didn't mention all of the celebrity slamming that Chris Rock did at the beginning, which I found HILARIOUS and my roommate found 'offensive.' (Hey, I didn't pick her.)

Ok, I have to admit I love the headline.

Dude, that was FANTASTIC......last night I watched with my friends and we all vowed that if we ever died and they made a video show set to music, we'd clap loudly for each other. then we remembered we were all lawyers and said awards show was probably never going to happen.

What about Sean Penn's inability to take a joke and his sad attempt to prop up Jude Law? That was annoying.

My favorite chris rock moment was "and now the star of the highly anticipated catwoman 2". Halle looked mad but sister strutted out there anyway. Gosh that woman is beautiful.

! The ratings were the best since 2000. I guess the phony bullshit Gay jokes and fear of Chris Rock did the trick. Beyond-see did NOt use one recognizable French word. Everyone had a great laugh on local TV show this morning.

Is Foxx really the re-incarnation of Ray Charles??
Is it over?

Is Decaprio ever going to get out of the Howard Hugues personna. Too bad he didn't do Howard the Duck...

What a crappy show, as usual. Turned it off right after Z Z Yang....
Ninetynite all.

Chris Rock was funnier than expected. My favorite part of the show was when he insulted the President by comparing his job to working at the GAP and stating that Bush never would be able to get a job at the GAP because they would never hire him. There are no toxic tank tops. I was hoping that would happen.

He then went on to criticize the stupid concept of having people get their Oscars in the audience aisle by comparing that to a McDonalds drive threw. I couldn't have agreed more. Too bad Jamie and Hillary wouldn't have had their acceptance speeches in the aisle too. Maybe that would have cut down on the pathetic crying. (None of the people who got awards in the aisle cried, coincidence, I think not.)

Also a funny moment of the night was when Chris went to the Magic Johnson Theatre where we found out that WHITE CHICKS was robbed of its Oscar nomination.

Next year I want to see the Wayans brothers hosting the Academy Awards.

Thank goodness the Blackademy Awards are over. Worst awards show EVER.

Melis- yeah good thing we can go back to watching white people win every award every year all the time.
Oscar hype goes down like this every year. People campaign hard for oscars every year.

I didn't see Million Dollar Baby, but Mystic River was a real piece of crap. Made me feel like I was the last sane person left in the world. Was this one any better?

Also may favorite announcement was "He's charming and debonairre; please welcome Pierce Brosnan." That just makes my smle.

I don't know why other reviewers are down on chris rock's hosting. I thought he was great, I laughed out loud more last night than probably any other oscars. I'm sure even jude law didn't mind the ribbing. Anybody remember one (Just one??) joke from billy crystal's 314 gigs as host?

I've been chortling like an idiot for the past several minutes about the horse-race commentary on the "death/popularity montage". Brilliant!!!!!

So much to say. First, here's a link to my lj which shows you Adam & Bob.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/veggieboo/131981.html?nc=5

Halle is always so beautiful. She has great taste.

Hiliary, her boobs looked awesome in that dress. Not to mention the back, va va voom!

Also, it seemed like it was a chilly night out, everyone had their nips talking to Star, Joan, etc.

Renee, please gain some weight, get a tan and poop already. You look like my cat at the litter box.

I am so glad Jamie Foxx won, that was one of the best movies ever.

And as much as I love Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby sucked. The dialogue, the acting, the story, just ick.

Scorsese, you wanna win an oscar? Keep Leo the baby faced, cheeseball actor out of your movies.

Genevieve - surely you meant that Ray sucked and Million Dollar Baby was amazing.

That's okay, we all have typos!

surprised that y'all let antonio banderas off so easy. i was particularly fond of the 'bolivian prison cell' set piece on which antonio committed his various crimes against music, grooming, and personal hygiene. I hate to knock santana--one of the greats and an inarguably good dude--but the noodling was a litle self-indulgent, as was the che guevara sweatshirt, which is only fractionally cooler looking on santana than on all those fourteen year-old revolutionaries who hang at in the food court at the galleria.

you also by-passed the look on annette benning's face (somewhere between 'stricken' and 'dog choking on chicken bone') when she realized that she'd lost out yet again to the shapeshifting trailer-park chanteuse.

who the heck was carrie snodgrass?

Beyonce truly looks like a contestant from America's Next Top Model. She did well on the French song (and I'm no Beyonce fan) but come on...three songs in one show! Who did she have to blow to get that gig? And what's up with that girl Renee Zellnigg..oops Zellwegger? Sometime in the past five years someone slapper her with a lemon stick. She used to be a cute girl and I was a HUGE fan but since her face has been stuck in automatic pucker I feel as if she's mocking me. It's as if she's saying "I'm on stage at the Oscar's. You're at home clipping your toenails. Now feast on my pucker face sucker!" Her faceliftdoctor should be fired. Is faceliftdoctor a word? I'm losing myself. But the most hilarious part of the show for me was the Magic Johnson Theatre/White Chicks jokes. Hi-larry-us! I think I wore out my Ti-Vo on that one. And Jamie Fox was relegated to the end of the show so we were spared him. Most of the time when the cameras were on him he seemed to want to hide behind his daughter. Poor thing. And Finally, HALLE BERRY made me make a milky mess of my television screen. What a beutifull woman!

Oh this is rich, B-Side's you are truly fab. I dind't even realize that Beyonce was using the accent. Hmm.

The Cate Blanchett (pron?) caption still has me laughing. *giggle* Next year, let's just give the statuettes away at the drive-thru.

I have to agree with Lio and some others: Chris was great. He was different. And as I predicted elsewhere, Robin Williams would make gay jokes, and no one would say a word.

Melis @ 11am: One night, one host and two wins is a statistical blip on the radar...after 77 years. Freeman should have won years ago, along with many others.

Umm, except that Beyonce did terribly on the French song. There wasn't a recognizable bit of French in it. Seemed like a pretty song, too. I wish I could have heard the chorus over her inane chirping.

The best excuse I can think of for Beyonce's French singing is the Academy was trying to prove they care about Red America by having her mangle the language; "see, we hate the French as much as you do, look what we did to their song!"

The women I was with last night would disagree on your assessment of Jake Gylenhaal. They somehow found his Bruce Willis-esque hairstyle very sexy.

hmmm. drew, these women may be undercover lesbians.

in jake's defense, i think the shorn look is, like the tatt on the back of jamie foxx's skull, for the upcoming movie 'jarhead,' based on anthony swofford's memoir of life in the marines during operation desert storm.

chettogirl & Rod - i thought the show was terrrible because they gave awards to people in the aisles and because beyonce and josh groban sounded like nails on a chalkboard. it had nothing to do with my first sentence/bad joke. i'm very happy for both jamie foxx and morgan freeman.

Melis- gotcha, thanks for clearing that up. I just read the sentence and was like "a black heavy awards was the worst show ever?!"

I'd have to agree that Beyonce was undefendable.

No. 1 annoyance of the night...knowing that Jamie Foxx was going to win and seeing him "acting" like he was so humble and then getting up and reciting his memorized speech...AGAIN!

No. 2 was Renee Zellwegger...I have long been a "Renee in real life" hater with her squinty eyes, pursed lips and anorexic body.

No. 3 Star Jones! can she be any more annoying, talking about her self on and on and on. she just can't stop herself.

Great recap! I for one enjoyed Chris Rock , except when he said "I'm not going to bash Bush tonight" then went on to do exactly that (even though the Gap thing was pretty funny).

Where can i get the video when Beyonce sings in French??? Just looooved her!