- No red carpet. Bugger. As generally amusing host Steve Martin quipped, "That'll send 'em a message!".
- Christopher Walken looked dead. It was really quite disturbing.
- Catherine Zeta Jones v. Queen Latifah in the Battle For The Biggest Stage Presence!
- The disappearing microphone was Hollywood ingenuity at its best. But why not go one step further to really ensure those speeches don't drag on? I'm predicting spring-loaded, taser-enhanced mic stands as the hot new item in amplification technology for next year.
- Note to orchestra: I believe that Chicago is a musical and as such, doesn't it stand to reason that you could use snippets from a lot of different songs from it and not just "And All That Jazz"?
- Boos for Michael Moore! Not that I necessarily approve of course (he's a clever filmmaker but just a tad on the self-aggrandising side) but I haven't seen a good old fashioned boo-off for years. There hasn't been this much hubbub since Elia Kazan picked up his little gold man in 1999.
- What's up with Renée Zellwegger? She looked like she was chewing broken glass all night.
- Peter O'Toole is sheer class.
- Somebody get the Bo Peep crook for Adrien Brody already! Sheesh. Nice snog with Halle though.
- Wellington got two big shout-outs ... excellent stuff! (both were in the speeches by winners for their work on LOTR: TTT).
- Was it just me or did you think that when Kirk Douglas ripped the card announcing Chicago in half he may have been just a tiny bit senile and was about to do something really outrageous? Like pash Halle?
Now, go read Cintra Wilson's round-up over at Salon: she's been doing them for years and they're damn funny. Her book A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As A Grotesque Crippling Disease And Other Cultural Revelations is a work of minor genius too.
* These thoughts were audited by the independent accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers and were not thought of by anyone prior to the opening of my head. Or something.
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