I don't get how these people don't understand how the speeches work. I feel so bad when two people win, and one spends all their mutual allotted time making his speech, leaving the other with no opportunity to thank anyone. I think it was the sound editors who really illustrated this. Poor guy had list in hand, and was just trying to get his shot at the mic, while the other guy talked in slo-mo.

"THE OSCARS DON'T SUCK THIS YEAR!"

Talk about damned with faint praise.

Well Randy Neuman, James Taylor and Melissa Etheridge just performed so the suck meters just red-lined.

Great, now Leonardo Dicaprio and Al Gore are lecturing me.

Sigh.

Great, now Leonardo Dicaprio and Al Gore are lecturing me.

Just be thankful Al's not in the dance sequence.

Sometime around Best Animated Feature I eschewed coffee for red wine, and am now making a concerted effort to get completely lit before Best Picture. It's definitely getting better!

I love, love, love Sherry Lansing's dress.

Crossing Jordan is new.

I'm afraid of Eva Green. Hold me.

Eva Green? Is that who presented with Gael Garcia Bernal? She was scary.

mmmm and Gael Garcia Bernal is hawwwwwwwt.

Eva has this creepy Elvira - Annabel Lee - Wednesday Addams thing going on. She's French. If you're into that sort of thing. And I must defer opinion on Sr. Bernal.

I want to be Helen Mirren when I grow up. I think she's awesome.

I dug Meryl Streep. She didn't win her category, though she gave an incredibly strong performance in her film, yet she looked genuinely sanguine and happy when the award went to Helen. She has nothing left to prove; she can share.

I didn't like that they smushed all the boring awards in the middle. Yawn.

I did think the show was fun this year; more fun than normal, but it is still WAY TOO LONG. Cut some awards from the telecast, cut down on the number of film montages, cut down on the boring shit. Pleeeease. Because I'll never stop watching, but I would like my time to be better spent.

I couldn't care about ellen, all that matters to me is that Scorsese FINALLY won.

I do not mind the length. If they have good lead-ups and music-dance interludes, we wouldn't probably feel so bored. I know, though, that I will be miffed if they cut short animations, documentaries and other awards like that based on timing issues. Some of us like to watch those and really, this is one of the few times (if not the only time) that such features get, well, widely featured. Which is a shame.

Helen is generally fantastic but yesterday could do a little better --or her writers I should say? I think some skits were not funny (like the "Oscars will make you or break you" or the Judy Dench one) but she did the most out of them. Oscars and Hollywood are much more than the people in the auditorium that night, at least they are to me.

Helen Mirren gives me hope in growing older. But I hated The Queen (the movie, of course) and I feel a little less about Frears now (I hope he has closed this parenthesis already).

Scorsese should not have won and I do not care whether he has made good movies in the past. Give him a career award and get done with that.

Tornatore's tribute to foreign films that won in the past was what can I say, Cinema Paradiso. Which made me think, that Oscars exist to watch the past. For each year they suck in many ways and don't in others, but they will feature something like that and, I am fine.

And, may I take the opportunity to say that "I cannot stand Al". I mean, I endorse his efforts and he is probably genuine (that's what people who met him on this cause say) but still I cannot stand him. His demeanor and attitude, his facial expression, even his choice of words, not to mention the documentary and the "volunteer presentations" make me cringe. He couldn't get me excited, I don't think, for any cause even one I am already excited about.

I dug Meryl Streep. She didn't win her category, though she gave an incredibly strong performance in her film, yet she looked genuinely sanguine and happy when the award went to Helen. She has nothing left to prove; she can share.

Eh, it seemed fake to me. When it's someone like Helen Mirren she has to be respectful. But do you remember her reaction when Natalie Portman took the Golden Globe over her last year? When she presented, she made a very unprofessional, petty remark about it.

Remember: she's Meryl fucking Streep. She can fake sanguine. She can fake happy.

[cue Seinfeld reference]