Academy Awards 2005

MOOD: interested
SOUNDS: TV

Yeah, huh.

My brief thoughts in no particular order:

• Cate Blanchett: all-ecompassing, genuine and gorgeous, you go Cate! She said "Bling Bling" to Starr Jones. Wow, Katherine Hepburn.
  
• Laura Linney: totally classy, the necklace is gorgeous
• I love the American Express commercials, reminds me of a short film/commercial (I think done by Francis Copolla) last year starring Deniro contemplating getting some work done on his face, ending with something to the effect that he's fine just like he is
  
• Hilary Swank: she will always have a special place in my heart... amazing, she's won two Oscars in 4 years for best actress. Everyone will be shitting in their pants around her now.
  
• Scarlett Johansen: she looks great! She usually looks like a big dud, but she's finally getting it together, hopefully. I love the Greek look in the hairstyles. She's lost a lot of weight since Lost in Translation - is that growing into a woman and losing baby fat, or is it the more depressing thought that her agents convinced her that she'd never get anywhere in the biz while being of an average weight for a woman.
  
• Renee Zellwegger: don't like the dark hair, it brings out the quirks in her face. Her body, as usual, though, is slammin'! I couldn't believe how great she looked during Chicago, and gasp she was so completely breath-taking last year in that red dress. Sorry, though I adore Nicole Kidman, I think Renee kinda got robbed that year
• Nicole Kidman: where the fuck is she? Isn't she sort obliged to present since she won best actress last year? Or, am I missing a year in here somewhere. I don't know where my mind is lately.
• Penelope Cruz and Selma Hayek: what a fantasy.... That's all I'm going to say.
• Kate Winslet: adorable in that brilliant blue dress - she's lost a lot of weight, too. ?
  
• Annette Benning: the more that time goes on, she reminds me more and more of the eccentric Sharon Stone. Warren Beatty looks like a wife beater - sorry. He needs to get over himself.
  
• Antonio Bandares: was he in that movie? Who ever told him he could sing? I hate crossover talent like that- I hate him! Yuck!
• Charlize Theron: yeah, I had a major brain fart, there - it was she who won best actress last year, Nicole the year before that. Where the hell is she, though?? Oh, there she is finally - she's absolutely stunning.

I think it was the summer last year that I stopped going to the movies regularly because the movies were such crap. I kinda never got back into the habit. (shoutout to Whoopie Goldberg!)

Movies I'm going to have to see now:

Tons. I'm really interested to see a couple, and others are kind of obligatory, to be honest. My favorite film of last year was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and even that -- good as it was -- was not thrilling. I should just buy that on DVD and watch it over and over again until I'm convinced that it's indeed Great.

I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."

EXCERPT FROM A SLATE ARTICLE: "On the subject of actors, a reader asked about Hilary Swank's second coming—and why she needed to come again. Swank was astounding in Boys Don't Cry, but not many people saw the movie. And Swank's political strategy might have been problematic. She was careful to dress very femmy and to cite her husband as early in her interviews and acceptance speeches as possible. She took a lot of girly roles. She didn't want to be typecast as a tomboy, and she didn't want anyone to think she was a dyke—God forbid. And although she is an extremely striking young woman, I've heard that male studio types don't consider her sufficiently "f---able"—their favorite adjective for describing leading ladies. She needed another tomboy martyr role, and did she get it."