.mono[b]logue.

useless information retained after watching the Oscars

1. ~~Title above too long. Don't fit nicely in a post. Revise.~~

2. KL Red Carpet 2007? You've got to be kidding!!

Star Movies and Astro will kick off the event with KL Red Carpet Live from the "Breakfast With The Stars 2007" at JW Marriott Hotel.

Local stars like Camelia, Fauziah Latiff and Erra Fazira will take part in the event.

Viewers can catch the KL Red Carpet Live on Feb 26 at 8am, followed by the 79th Annual Academy Awards and Star Movies Red Carpet at 9am.

-New Straits Times

Apparently not.

To have local celebrities dressed up to the nines just so they get to 'experience' the red carpet treatment ala Hollywood style at 8 IN THE MORNING and then catch the Academy Awards on a presumably projected screen in a hotel in KL is just damn sad.

3. When William Monahan walked up to accept his Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Departed, the lady announcer in the background made a boo boo. She said that The Departed was adapted from a Japanese movie, Infernal Affairs instead of a Hong Kong movie.

4. Good thing the director, Martin Scorsese, who incidentally won Best Director for the same movie, righted the wrong in his 'thank you' speech.

"And Andrew Lau's original film from Hong Kong, the wonderful *Asian cinema."

*Yay to talented Asians!

5. I got Martin Scorsese and Steven Soderbergh mixed up. Don't know why, don't know how. I was waiting for a tall bald guy to appear but saw a short white haired gentleman instead.

Hold on, is Steven Soderbergh tall and bald? I vaguely remember. It was light years ago when he won Best Director for Traffic.

Wait, did he win?

Aih.. forgeddit.

6. I like the way 'Scorsese' roll of your tongue when you say it.

7. Pan's Labyrinth won a number of awards. Movie looked very interesting from the clips that were shown. Shall watch it.

8. At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, it is my humble opinion that Halle Berry and Denzel Washington paved the way for African-American actors and actresses to now have a more significant presence in the race for the Oscars.

If not for Halle Barry, Jennifer Hudson wouldn't have bagged the award for Best Supporting Actress in Dreamgirls today. She's new and not white (don't hit me please).

Forest Whitaker, on the other hand, rightly deserves to be recognised like so many other veteran African-American actors. He took home an Oscar for Best Actor in The Last King Of Scotland.

9. Both Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson gave thanks to God. The latter said,

"Look what God can do."

Indeed. He makes the impossible, possible =)

10. I smiled with *pride when Helen Mirren ended her acceptance speech by lifting her golden statuette saying,

"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Queen. Thank you. Thank you very much."

*Ridiculous, I know. Just because I studied in the UK -_-"
I don't even 'surge with pride' in my home country.
Wonderful! Very patriotic of me.
Actually, got la. Very rare one here.

11. Ellen DeGeneres look good in suits.

12. Reckon An Inconvenient Truth won both its nominations because it's Al Gore.

Dreamgirls had three nominations for Best Song: Listen, Love You I Do and Patience. And the award went to? Melissa Etheridge, I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth.

How convenient -_-

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Gosh, please don't tell me you fell for that? Of course not! It won because of the very important message the documentary conveys.

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That, and also because it's Al Gore =P

13. This is Freedom of Speech:

*"America did not vote for Jennifer Hudson and she's nominated for an Oscar. America voted for Al Gore and he didn't get... (claps and laughter from the floor)
It's a little confusing/complicated(can't remember)."

-Ellen DeGeneres

*Not verbatim.

14. Lilian Too, that Feng Shui lady predicted that Little Miss Sunshine would win Best Motion Picture when interviewed by Channel [V]. She claims that Feng Shui affects everything including Oscar Nominees. She said dunno what la. Something about the 'SUN' in Little Miss Sunshine outshining its competitors, stuff like that.

Ahem, The Departed won la, auntie!

So much for Feng Shui. Pfftt. *If you don't mind, I think it's best if you departed. Thankyouverymuch. Dooristhatway.

*I know, lame attempt at a joke. No matter. I like.

15. And these, my dear readers, are the things I make mental notes of. Excellent la.