The Oscars

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Tue Mar 26 17:51:25 PST 2002



>Not everything was trivial Joanna. A tribute to New York so sincerely done
>by woody Allen and Ms. Ephron was not trivial. Sidney Poitier's achievement
>is not trivial. Randy Newman's talent is not trivial. Neither was Mr.
>Morris' short documentary where we saw ordinary people, ourselves, and a
>couple celebrities like Susan Sontag talking half-seriously about movies.
>Why is "Sopranos" an exception, it comes from the same factory with same
>formulas? How's a commercial "Chekhovian'?
>Abdee

Yeah, the opening montage was weird. Along with Sontag, they had Lani Guinier and the First Lady.

And during a short film skit on the topic of costume design, Ben Stiller called Owen Wilson a goody-goody and a "company man" and sorta dissed the Academy, in an ironic way of course.

Peter



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