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February 25, 2008

Felicidades Javi!

Last night all gathered around the fireplace of 715A to enjoy a night at the Oscars! Many of Hollywood Royalty were a part of the show...from George, to Johnny, to Jack, to Cameron...but it was the newbies that stole the show! As predicted by sweetchicken.stlouisblogs.org, Tilda Swinton won, as well as Daniel Day Lewis and Javier Bardem. No Country for Old Men was the big winner of the night, eventually winning the Oscar for Picture of the Year!
There were surprises as well, with Marion Cotillard who won in the Best Actress category for her portrayal of Edith Piaf, a singer from France. The whole seqence of her winning the award was beautiful. She was overwhelmed, and speechless; it was great. It makes you feel like..."Wow! Dreams do come true!" I've decided that Cotillard just might be the French version of Charlize Theron.

I say this because, one, she was a first-time nominee with an incredible performance of the late singer, and two, the look of utter surprise and amazement that she had actually won was as memorable as when the South African actress won back in '05 for Monster.
I need to mention again Javier Bardem, who won with his dark, yet quiet performance of the chilling Sigur. What can I say? He's a Spaniard. I was loving every bit of his time at the mic! I wish I could have been in the room with some of my movie-loving friends from Spain. I'm sure Manuel and Jorge and Jose Ramon, and others were all screaming for joy as if Spain had just won the World Cup. It was a great triumph for a country that has not seen a big-time win since Pedro Almodovar came on the scene about a decade ago. I was so proud of Spain representin'...not only Bardem, but Penelope Cruz made an appearance in a beautiful dark-blue gown. Wow! Muy Bien Javi! Muy Bien Penelope! You two should date...

I loved that the Coen Brothers won three statues! No Country for Old Men is one of the best films I've seen in a really long time! So original. I was horrified and yet couldn't look away at the same time. Those of you that know me know that I love chocolate. When I saw No Country back in November I took a pack of M&M's into the theatre, but never got around to eating them because the movie pulled me in from the get-go. If you haven't yet, you gotta see it...but bring an extra pair of underwear, it's a doozy of a movie...you'll pee in your pants, not that I did that or anything.
I loved, loved, loved that Enchanted didn't win a single award in the music category! Those songs were so Disney, know what I mean? The performance between Once stars, Glen Handsard and Marketa Irglova, was incredible. Talk about a show-stopper! I remember when I saw Once this past summer...I remember thinking, "that was a great film, to bad it won't get any recogniton...too small." Guess I was wrong. The people made that movie in three weeks with only $100,000!!! What a great moment when they won!
As far as the fashion goes...there wasn't a single woman this year that blew me away. I just found everything to be unexciting. There was no Halle or Charlize or Angelina. There was no, "Wow! That dress is amazing." There were, however, some, "that's pretty." But let's face it...people don't watch the red carpet to see pretty dresses they could buy at David's Bridal Wear...that being said, it was an uninteresting red carpet, I mean, except for Daniel Day Lewis' wife and the dress that had been attacked by the Bedazzle monster. OK, I'm starting to sound like Cojo, need to move on.
Last night I got together with a few friends to watch the festivities play out. We had a great time as we viewed the awards show while chomping on pizza and cookies and drinking frosty beverages in brown bottles! At the end of the night I got 12 predictions on the ballot right, I tied for the number one spot with some cool hipster in rim glasses, which puts me at a coolness level of the color red! Welp, the bad news is we have approximately nine months of CGI'd/Pixared/Romantic-Comedied movies to get through until the real stuff comes back. The good news is that we'll have sweetchicken.stlouisblogs.org to keep us all entertained and thought provoced until then!

| By Nathan Gemayel | 9:38 PM

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