http://www.edrants.com/oscar07 Live-blogging the Oscars, one minute at a time... Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:06:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [EDITOR'S NOTE: I have deleted this post, because Keith Gessen specifically requested in the email that it not be posted to the Internet. This blog is based in California. The first paragraph of the California Constitution guarantees each citizen's right to privacy. I do not desire that ... http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=813 Ed: 91 posts (including those from other authors) Jami Bernard: 60 posts Jeff VanderMeer: 58 posts Jackson West: 48 posts Callie Miller: 44 posts Melissa Gira: 41 posts http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=812 Click To Play play_blip_movie_160886(); Goodnight, Gracie. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=811 http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=810 For making life seem relevant again. And all those torrented pre-Oscar screeners. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=808 yes that stupid sunshine piece of shit didn't get anything...Departed wins, that makes me happy, i want to grab martin scorsese by the eyebrows and kiss his head and then rub jack nicholson's head, going to sleep now http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=807 Thanks to all the guest bloggers who chimed in with their time and words. Thanks also to the excellent Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders for hosting a fantastic party. You can go about living your regular lives now. Until next year, that is. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=806 To Ed and All...It was a pleasure. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=805 I'm off to get my free stress test. Also, circumcised. Again. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=803 at least babel didn't win. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=804 Thanks Ed! As usual, it was a lot of fun to participate! In fact, I'd go so far as to say I had more fun here than being a design judge at the Cal State Fair. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=802 To Gwenda Bond for repetitions of "Man Candy," or whatever. To Ed Champion for being a good host and for the invite and for his lovely title rant re Little Miss Sunshine. To Tao for showing us the world is larger than our eye-of-the-needle Oscar party. To Nick for pimping lots of stuff. I'm ... http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=801 Is it just me, or is it really lame that the Best Picture guy didn't have Marty come up or the cast? Bizarre, no? That's Hollywood. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=800 No more interpretive shadow dancing? I'm confused. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=799 I want my money back http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=798 I was just remembering last year when Crash won and the server immediately crashed. I'm glad we weren't all taken out by corrupt Boston cops. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=796 We're all gonna have a great time with Bertrand Russell in Hell. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=797 "It's a wonderful synergy of Diane Keaton and fucking right now." -- Meliss Gira http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=795 http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=794 The best picture win for Departed must make Scorcese feel more certain that the Best Director wasn't just a "finally give it to the guy" throw away. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=793 Somehow this seems like a let-down. The best director win I thought was cool. But The Departed was not, for me, the best movie of the year. It was a very good movie, however. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=792 "The first movie he's done with a plot"???? http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=791 "The first movie he's done with a plot!" http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=790 -- Edward Champion http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=789 http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=788 doesn't need any further affirmation to be counted among the greats. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=787 Pretty obvious at this point that the Departed wins. Good night, and good luck! Thanks Ed, everyone, it was fun. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=786 Sporting Lesbian Haircut #3, The Gracefully Aging Version. We likey: wide belt, the cuffs, and man, the glasses. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=785 ... because he knows it's his last chance, really. But Forest Whitaker isn't going to have another shot like this, and he deserved it ... http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=784 Forrest's speech started to devolve there at the end. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=783 Man, Martin's a head shorter than those other guys. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=782 Somebody get the man a drink. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=781 Jackson: "'The Asian cinema', cause it's all in Asian." http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=780 But I just wish it was for Raging Bull, or Goodfellas http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=779 It's about fucking time. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=778 Good luck, Marty! http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=777 So overdue. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=776 Really, just perfect. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=775 http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=774 Otherwise it would be embarrassing http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=773 The best part of the show by far. He has class and heart. He deserved it! http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=772 These anti-union douchebags are making me nauseous. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=771 God, they really need to stop that. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=770 Okay, call me drunk or call me sappy or both, but Forest has me crying. His speech is textbook Buddhism and for that, I admire him that much more. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=769 Period. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=768 Single-handedly making all of us feel like total jerks for saying anything terrible about anything at all ever about the power of cinema. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=767 Gavin: The first thing expected to be heard backstage from Forrest Whitaker when asked about his Oscar, "Don't fuck with it." http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=761 I've always thought Whitaker was amazing in every role he ever had. He was especially brilliant in Ghost Dog. But he was also just a stunning presence in Last King of Scotland. In a personal and a historical-figure way. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=763 Boo yah! http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=766 Sorry Peter O'Toole. Looks like that really took the wind out of him! Forrest Whitaker was incredible in that movie, I'm glad he won. http://www.edrants.com/oscar07/?p=765