80th Annual Academy Awards Ceremony

The 80^th running, er, I mean presentation of the Annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards Ceremony, known as the Oscars, has officially come to a close.

From Jon Stewart making some off the wall jokes about the pregnancies in the audience (and how the "baby goes to . . . Angelina Jolie") to the Bee from Bee Movie showing some clips from his old movies (The Swarm, Election, etc), the night was typical Hollywood glitz and glamour. Jack was there, as usual, in his shades and being very magnanimous (he forgave young Josh Brolin for a bad impersonation). Travolta was all smiles and Tommy Lee was nonplussed and serious (the latter awaiting but not expecting his turn at the old statuette bat).

Odd Moments
The weird moment of the evening came when two guys came out instead of Halle Berry and Dame Judi Dench (I know it was a planned gig). I'm not really up on who they were, but it just came across kind of creepy.

Another odd moment was when Colin Farrel came out in a rush, hunched over a little as he approached the podium, walked in a little circle back the way he came and then went to the podium again. He leaned into the mic and said something to the effect that "someone should taker care of that." I can only assume he slipped on something on the stage. It didn't appear to be staged and I didn't really see the joke in it if it was.

As much as I really like Nicole Kidman, I must say those necklaces draped around her just did not work. They were half slung off to one side and made her look rather disheveled.

The Jon Stewart jokes about how they would fill in the gaps if the writers had still been on strike were pretty strained. And doing it more than once just added to the ill advised humor.

How I Did With My Own Predictions
I was right about everyone and their brother/sister making predictions. They even had a show on cable where celebrities and sports figures were making predictions. But I don't know how well everyone else did with their predictions.

I do know how bad I did with my own predictions.

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