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Oscar Picks

BEST PICTURE –

Winter’s Bone– Never heard of it. I’ll bet a lot of voters share my ignorance
True Grit– Pluses: Good Movie. Remake. Hailee Steinfeld. Coen Brothers. Oscar winner Jeff Bridges. Outcome: Not a chance
Toy Story 3-Cartoon. End of story. Next!
The Kids are all right-No crippling disabilities or historical hurdles to overcome. Plus its a comedy. No.
127 Hours – I’ll gladly admit I didn’t see this. Once I saw Aron Ralston talk about his ordeal on 60 Minutes I lost all interest in a movie.
Inception– Too clever for its own good. if The Matrix didn’t win why should this?
Black Swan- A ballerina descends into madness. I’ll wait for the remake in 2016 called Out Of Control: The Charlie Sheen Story.
The Fighter – Has a puncher’s chance
The King’s Speech– Would be my pick to win if it was not for….
The Social Network– Considering how much time I spend on Facebook, and the fact that it beat the last four I named in the Golden Globes makes it my pick

BEST ACTRESS

It’s between Natalie Portman and Annette Bening. The question is great performance over Body of Work. I’m gonna go out on a limb and pick Body of Work. Annette Bening for the win.

BEST ACTOR

Javier Bardem, Biutiful – Did not see it. Am sure Javier turned in an amazing performance. Still, Nope
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network -Since best portrait of a billionaire is not one of the categories, No .
Jeff Bridges, True Grit-Won it last year. I liked him in this movie but did not think his performance was so remarkable. Nyet.
James Franco, 127 Hours-Remember Get Shorty? In one scene John Travolta’s character sucks up to Danny DeVito’s character about how much he liked him as the “handicapped gay guy” who climbed a mountain. I kinda think Franco’s gonna get that kind of support. Oscar voters love the sort of thing which is why….
Colin Firth, The Kings Speech – Will win. The voters love stories about overcoming obstacles. Which is why the movie adaptation of my overcoming unemployment will be the Ben Hur of its day.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mark Ruffalo, The Kids are alright- Before I say no riddle me this : How come he didn’t even get nominated for Rumor has it?

Speaking of which why no love for Jennifer Aniston? Not even a razzie this year. Did no one see The Bounty Hunter?

John Hawkes, Winters Bone – nope
Jeremy Renner, The Town – Nope part two
Geoffrey Rush, The Kings Speech – would win except that being snarky with the King Of England is not as enthralling as the cracked out antics of….
Christian Bale, The Fighter– let me get my Superhero fanboy bias out of here. I think he stands the greatest chance of winning.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – This is the one I’m most looking forward to. I think its the closest call of the major awards.

Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom-proof positive that critical acclaim does not equal Oscar Gold
Helena Bonham Carter, The Kings Speech-outside chance if the two Actresses from The Fighter split the vote
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit-My favorite performance of the year even more so than Danny Trejo in Machete. Therefore she doesn’t stand a chance. Unless she gets more than Helena Bonham Carter after the two for The Fighter knock each other off.
Amy Adams, The Fighter and Melissa Leo, The Fighter-I’m calling it now. If they don’t cancel each other out, Its a tie. Thank me later.

2011: 02/26
CATEGORY: Movies
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I had typed whole brilliant thing about why does she have this poor self image, why is she walking around with this handbag the size of Alaska, embrace your curves, look what it did for Kim Kardashian and she doesn’t have half the talent you have (I know I can’t believe I said that either), blah, blah, blah and then decided that it was mean stuff to say, even for me.

That being said I see her acting like this and I just wanna grab her and scream at her to cut this shit out. Then I want someone to grab me and smack the shit out of me for caring.

2011: 02/23
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Cedar Rapids

So I went to see Cedar Rapids. I liked it. Didn’t LOVE it like the hangover but liked it. I’m giving it a 2.50 out of 5. After leaving the theater I told my friend Hope I gave it a 2.75 out of five but I’ve since lost some of my enthusiasm for it. Ed Helms (The Office) stars as small town insurance salesman Ed Lippe, sent to the “big” city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to attend a convention and win a coveted prize for his company. I’ll leave it at this cause you know what’s coming by the poster-Ed’s not the most sophisticated man in world. He runs into Isiah Whitlock Jr. (Clay Daniels for all you The Wire fans), Anne Heche, and the one guy he was warned to avoid ,John C Reilly’s character Dean Ziegler-a life of the party if ever there was one. He nearly steals the movie.

Its a bit uneven at times but has some moments which made me laugh out loud. Stephen Root (Office Space), Kurtwood Smith (Forever Red Forman for me), and Mike O’Malley (those annoying Time Warner Cable commercials and Yes, Dear) and Sigourney Weaver fill out the principal cast. The question is would I buy it on DVD/Blu- Ray? Yes. It’s a nice picture to have in the collection but not something you’d break out at a party. A great rainy day movie for sure.

2011: 02/18
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2011 Grammy Notes

I wish he was still alive to bumrush when Lady Antebellum won. Or better yet interrupt J-Lo

Why is LL Cool J always licking his lips? You’d think Chapstick or somebody would hook him up.
Mick Jagger and his all Negro Orchestra made me say something I thought I’d never say: Belushi sang it better. (yes, yes I know Solomon Burke sang it best, but that’s not my point)
Who was that chick singing “I need a doctor” on that Eminem (Spell Check NEVER gets that right)/Rhianna/Dr Dre song? I thought she was amazing.
The album Resistance by Muse won for best Rock Album. I really loved the first single “Uprising”. But didn’t that album come out in 2009?
I never heard of this Esperanza Spaulding chick. My friend Hope told me she had other albums out and they sold quite well at my old job. Maybe they should change it “Best new Artist we just got around to hearing about”. Justin Bieber will be alright though.
What is the difference between Song of the Year and Record of the Year again?
I actually missed the Grammy pop ups for the non televised categories. OK maybe I don’t really care for who won best Polka Recording, but when they announced presenters “had already won an award tonight”, I kept thinking for what? Best Hawaiian Recording, Traditional?
Cee-Lo got robbed. I thought his performance of (lets all roll our eyes in unison) “Forget you” was a rather low key performance don’t you? The name of the song is FUCK YOU. Having the Muppets sing along with him only furthered the indignity in my view. (Yes, yes I know the FCC would have a fit and maybe it wasn’t proper for such foul language to be on the airwaves but it made that stiff ass Academy president they trot every year sound like a hypocrite when he said the academy would protect artist’s right to self expression. )
What the hell was going on when Arcade Fire performed the first time? It was like the lighting crew was trying to set off a mass epileptic fit like the one that happened Japan years ago with that Pokemon episode.
I like Nicki Minaj, I really do. But every time I hear her speak I imagine her doing the neckroll saying “And who was that bitch I heard you was grinding on in the club last night?”.
Non Televised award fiasco #1 – Not only should Paul McCartney be ashamed for accepting a Grammy for Best Rock Solo Performance for Helter Skelter, the idiots who voted for him should catch a beating as well. You don’t see Gary Glitter re-recording “Rock and Roll Part 2” over and over again do you? But then again Gary’s got enough troubles.
Don’t tell me Puffy’s ass wasn’t high when he announced-oh hell I don’t even remember, the sight of him makes my blood boil. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: God has a cruel sense of humor. Biggie Smalls is dead and Puffy walks the earth.
Yeah I sang along with Barbra when she sang “Evergreen”. Wanna make something of it?
Non Televised award fiasco # 2 – How is it Herbie Hancock and Pink won for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals over Gaga/Beyonce, B.o.B./Eminem, and Katy Perry/ Snoop?
Speaking of Mrs Brand why did she pick tonight to not have her tits hanging out? Didn’t she know I was watching?