Archive for February, 2007
Must Be Big In Japan
Just a thought on the Oscars thus far (currently one and a half hours in): Somebody needs to do better fact checking! Maybe I just don’t possess a quality of memory that I always thought I did, but I don’t recall fairly big flubs like these for awhile.
For starters, Ellen DeGeneres has already corrected herself [...]
Oscar Predictions
Okay, this is totally 25th hour, but I figure I may as well throw my Oscar picks out for the sake of posterity.
Best Picture: Babel
Actor: Forest Whitaker
Actress: Helen Mirren
Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin
Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson
Animated Feature: Cars
Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth
Cinematography: Children of Men
Costume Designer: Marie Antoinette
Directing: Martin Scorsese
Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short: Rehearsing a [...]
Watch It Again
Prince’s halftime performance is all over youtube, but most of them are brief clips and don’t come close to the full majesty. Except for this one. Gives me chills to see it again.
Update: The video is gone. Thanks Universal.
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Tagged: music, performances, prince, video
The True MVP
Super Bowl XLI proved to be one sloppy mess of a football game. At one point during the party I attended to watch the game, one of my friends wondered out loud if there’d be an Astroglide commercial at some point during the telecast, which would have been wholly appropriate given the players’ inability to [...]
Thank God It’s Super Bowl Sunday
I love the Super Bowl as much as the next guy (okay, maybe not quite as much), but I am just a little tired of all the saturation. Particularly for a game in which I have basically nothing invested. Want to know what I’m most excited about when it comes to Super Bowl XLI? Nope, [...]