CSD - Oscar Edition

Last night's Oscars were pretty much predictable, (Although The King's Speech taking home the biggie over The Social Network was kind of a shock) but the whole time my pop culture addled brain was completely thrown off, I will give you a glimpse into the confusion...

As the night kicked off and Mia Thermopolis and Harry Osbourne led us through the night's best picture nominees,I giggled a few times. It wasn't Oscar's best opening sequence, but it wasn't terrible either.

As the night continued on I couldn't put my finger on things, like why was Jackie Burkhart presenting an animation award with the guy from "D**ck in a Box?" And how did Princess Giselle lose yet another Oscar? She's been nominated every year pretty much...

Then some writer won for Best Adapted screen play and gave a speech that sounded exactly like something President Bartlett would reassure the nation with and I felt like I was going crazy! And everyone kept showing shots of Bellatrix LeStrange and I was thinking "OMG! Why hasn't anyone captured her?" Viola De Lesseps sang a country song.

Finally Jack Kelly won an Oscar and then later Padme Amidala got up there and she was pregnant, and I was all..."But you already had the twins!" and then to top it all off Mr. Darcy got up on stage and made the whole ballroom fall in love with him.

Character Separation Disorder is a very serious disease that affects pop culture addicts the world over. Learn more about it here, and please, spread awareness and if there is a pop culture addict in your life, give them a good shake and tell them that it's not real. These people are just actors. Just actors...

The Boy Next Door

Oscar Night!

Can we just preface this by saying that I am madly one hundred percent in love with Hugh Jackman. No really. I love him.

It was interesting for me watching the Oscars with people who didn't know about his theater pedigree. They were shocked at his singing voice. Pleasantly obviously, but still, it didn't occur to me that there was anyone in the world who hadn't seen him host the Tonys 5 times, or listened to their Boy From Oz OBC until it was scratched, or stayed up until 4 in the morning that one time because the London Oklahoma was on PBS...I mean, not that I did those things those are just for instances, but still. Yeah. He's the man. I loved the "Musicals are Back" number, because I love him and Beyonce is one of the most talented people on the planet, and oh right, I'm a huge ass theater geek and as a result I rejoice that the musical is back. WICKED people. We want to see WICKED!!!! Also Aida. Thank you.

I'm very glad for Heath Ledger's win...The acceptance by his family was lovely. I wonder why Michelle wasn't there, but I digress. There's little to say on it. It was quie nice.

I really like the way that the show was set up and the presentations. For once they made it truly an honor to be nominated by having all of the nominees be honored. It also made me pity Cuba Gooding Jr. Pity the poor man. Lord did he have potential and Jesus Christ did he squander it. Anyway, I thought the revamp worked, made it intimate, the goal was achieved.

I guess shades of Blue are this years color, which kinda sucks for me since I outgrew my interest in wearing blue quite a while ago. I'll watch fashion police tonight and probably do a full overview tomorrow. (Oscars are big, I need time to process them) But right now, without really looking at everyone side by side, Frieda Pinto is my best dressed. She looked gorgeous. I was also impressed by Miley Cyrus, who often mis steps and looked absolutely gorgeous in her gown. But that is another post, perhaps for later.