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>    		boring....same old, same old...

Uh-huh.

 Didn't watch it and don't really care...




 Please get the apostrophe out of the title ;-)

    re .2
    Unless it's a bar...

    
>    	Oscar night...any opinions out there ?
    
>    		recipients...
 
    Was soooo glad that Gump won best director, picture, and actor at
    least.   
    
>    		Lettermen....
    
    His opening monologue was tired and not funny.  He felt compelled to
    belittle Gingrich to raucous applause from the audience.    
    
>                presentations...
 
    What I saw was unremarkable.   
    		
    >acceptance speeches....
    
    What I saw was unremarkable.
    
    >		boring....same old, same old...
    
    Worse than boring.  Tedious is a better description.  I watched a
    pre-show on E! where Joan Rivers and her daughter were interviewing
    stars as they walked up the promenade.  Joan Rivers is as materialistic
    as one gets, I  think, and she kept asking everyone what they were
    wearing (i.e. what designer).  She was going on to each one about how
    marvelous they looked, etc.  I was so repulsed I got shivers up my
    spine.  It was funny when she asked Tim Allen's wife what she was
    wearing and by whom and the wife just looked at her for a few seconds
    and then said,"I don't know."  She was not amused by the shallowness, I 
    could tell.
    
    All in all, it seemed like the pinnacle of the culture of emptiness.  I
    had an odd feeling that I might have been in Rome watching courtiers
    make a show of the masses.
    
    jeff

    .2
    
    it's a very good restaurant in the Seychelles
    
    ric

    
    
    From the report in .4, I'm glad I didn't waste my time... Wouldn't have
    watched it for any reason...

 Was everybody wearing red ribbons?

    Put me in the "who cares?" category.  
    
    -steve

    "Pinnacle of the culture of emptiness"...
    
    I like that, Jeff.  It pretty much sums this "event" up for me, too.
    
    -steve

    I caught about 10 minutes around midnight... they were doing their
    usual "People Who Died" retrospective for the year... so my question
    is... Where the hell was John Candy???? Talk about a horrible
    oversight!!
    
    -b

    I saw a clip of the Oscars on tv this morning. What a horrible bunch
    of "luvvies" they all were.
    
    Especially that prat Tom Hanks. "oh darling. oh luvvie. With my wife,
    I learn a little more about love each day".
    
    Yeah,right. And he`ll be getting divorced in about 6 months no doubt.
    

    
    
    
    
     
    Well, I live for the Oscars.  I haven't missed them in 17 years and I
    always have lots of fun watching them.  Last night was no exception. 
    Yes it was boring in places but I thought Dave did a great job.  I
    loved the stuff about the monkey screentest for Cabin Boy.  Most
    everyone looked great (Jodie Foster gets the Oscar for best dressed
    female, Deniro and Pacino tie for best male) and there was tons o'
    trash, trash, trash!!!!
    
    The problem is that people watch the Oscar presentation as if the show
    alone is supposed to be entertaining....it's not!  It's what you and a 
    group of friends can do in front of the television, yelling obscenities 
    and throwing pretzels and mocking everyone and timing acceptance speeches! 
    Aye, there's the rub!
    
    MJ
    

    I see your point.  As a group MST3000 kinda thing, it would have plenty
    of "fun" material.  That idea has possibilities, I'll admit.  8^)

    
    Well...I for one agreed with the two Oscars `Ed Wood' picked up
    (Best Supporting Actor {Martin Landau} and Best Makeup).
    

Speaking of Martin Landau, who was the blonde he had hanging off his arm
last night? Certainly not Barbara Bain, who has no doubt aged better
than he.

    
    So am I the only one who hasn't seen Forrest Gump ?
    
    Should I ?
    
      bb

    
    .17, Jack:
    
    THAT's what my fiancee said!   :^)
    

 RE .18



 No, I haven't seen it either.




 Jim

    nor me either.  Mah momma always told me to wait for the video tape as
    it will be cheaper to pop your own corn at home.  

  .18

 I haven't seen it either, but probably will.

I also have been remiss in seeing Gump.

    Haven't seen it either!

    Count me in, too...haven't seen it, probably won't.  Never really had
    the urge or curiosity to see it. 
    
    Maybe I'll give it a look when it comes out on video.  I'd rather spend
    $2 and pop my own corn, than spend $6.50 for the ticket and $8.00 for a
    small popcorn and coke.
    
    -steve

    
    Saw a little last night.
    All I know is one woman needn't be asked, when shopping,
    "cash or charge?"

    
    Gump is a refreshingly genuine film.  The characters are great and
    greatly portrayed in every case.  The story is funny, sweet, sad, 
    panoramic in its sweep of the past thirty years or so and terribly 
    current somehow.
    
    I would highly recommend the film.  Of course, the undue hype and
    politization might make some resist the idea of seeing it.  And then
    you might be disappointed.  But if you watch just to enjoy a story/film
    you won't be disappointed I promise.  Gump himself is an unforgettable
    character, one we'd all like to have in our lives.
    
    jeff

    
    
    I'll wait for the $1.25 rental....
    

    Was channel surfing when Letterman did his Top Ten - excrutiatingly
    UNfunny.  Later surfed back just in time to catch his tasteless
    remark to Jamie Lee Curtis about the "touching" incident at a diff-
    erent aware show.
    
    

 I may see it on video as well.  I rarely get to a theatre these days..last
 time was to see "The Brady Bunch Movie" ;-)

    
    re. 12
    
    I think John Candy died March 3 or 4 of 1994, and his death
    was mentioned in the last awards show.
    
    Dave
    
    
    
    

    re .?
    
    The blonde hanging off of Mr. Landau is the second Mrs. Landau.
    
    MJ

    
    I caught a bit of the Oscars last night, pretty boring actually. Did
    anyone notice that Sharon Stone looked an awful lot like Madonna???
    
    Maybe its just me, but I thought so.
    
    Mark

I like Oscars. My friend had some about 8" long. She fed them goldfish.
The Oscars would kind of look at them, then BAM! No more goldfish, just
some gold scales flit-flitting down through the water.

HTH,

Art

    
         David Letterman   made it  very interesting and funny.....
    
      man, some of you noters are so hard to please.......gaud !!!
    
    

    re. 26
    
    Can't remember her name, but the woman who didn't leave home without it
    won the best costume oscar for her work on The Adventures of Priscilla
    Queen of the Desert.
    
    MJ

    	Funny, the concentration of people in here who don't make it to
    	the movies.
    
    	Maybe you're spending too much time here!
    
    	Gump is a must-see.  It'll be on video shortly.  Unlike something
    	like Jurassic Park or Dances With Wolves, it won't lose much being
    	seen on the small screen.
    
    	I only turned the show on for the last half hour or so.  I didn't
    	notice anyone wearing red ribbons, though for many of the women
    	the cameras weren't showing anything they were wearing, what with
    	all those quasi-topless dresses they were all wearing...  Where
    	were they pinning those red ribbons anyway?

    re .37
    
    I disagree.  I think Gump should be seen on the big screen.  All of
    that blue screen editing magic is amazing!
    
    MJ

    I found Gump to be a rose colored romp through recent American history.
    Not bad for what it was, but BEST PICTURE ? It was far too two
    dimensional to deserve the Oscar (IMO). No charactor development,
    little or no plot, held together with "feel good" scenes, special
    effects and "groaner" humour. Compare this to "Schindlers List" and you
    see what I mean by Gump being too "lightweight" for best picture. I
    think it won a popularity contest, not a serious judgement of what the
    "best picture" of the year was.
    
     As the pre-oscar show I heard on the radio said:
    
    "Life is not like a box of chocolates, unless you put glass in some"
    
     You would need to do this to reflect the times that life just plain
    sucks. Or to put it another way, not everything life offers tastes
    as sweet as a chocolate.
    
    							Derek.
    
    
    								Derek.

    <----- I agree.  Of the five films nominated for best picture I would
    rather of seen Shawshank win (or even Pulp Fiction).  Gump was what it
    was but it wasn't best picture.  Neither, IMO, was Hanks the best
    actor.  Both Morgan Freeman and John Travolta did better jobs.
    
    Both Jessica Lange and Diane Weist deserved the win, but both Gary 
    Sinise (Gump) and Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp) were better supporting 
    actors then the sentimental winner, Landau.
    
    But the Oscars have never been about who is the most talented.  It's
    like <------ said.  It's a popularity contest or a sentimental
    obligation to vote for said nominees.
    
    Pulp Fiction would never have won best picture...Tarentino is way to
    much of a rebel and it's his first time out.  That scenario almost
    always wins best screenplay.  John Singleton and Boyz in the Hood was
    the exact same thing.  The academy feels (and in some ways, rightly so)
    that a nomination is as much as they shoud get their first time out.
    
    The only time that a first time director has won in recent years is
    Kevin Costner, and he was already a Hollywood Darling at the time he
    made Dances With Wolves.
    
    MJ
                            

    
    I thought Gump was easily the best picture of the year, Pulp Fiction
    an excellent movie, and the other three nominees just thrown in as
    fillers. Gump should definately be seen on the big screen.
    
    Paul
    
    

    I would not have picked Gump for anything.
    
    But then again, I didn't see it...
    

	I heard that a USA Today & Mello Yellow can made it into the Gump
movie. And unless he could travel back in time, they weren't in existance yet. 



SOURCE: Dateline


Glen

   Movies for $1000 Art.
   
   And it's the Daily Double.  The category, Movies.  You currently have
   $12,600 dollars, what is your wager?
   
   I'll bet it all Art.
   
   [audience murmers]
   
   And the answer is:
   
   "Get A Life"
   
   "What do you say to someone who spends all their free time looking
   for flubs?"
   
   That's the correct question!  Well done.  Well done.
   
   [audience applauds]
   
   								-mr. bill

Art?

I thought his name was Alex . . . 

Could this be .... a flub?  When Art hosted Jeopardy, I think Double Jeopardy
only got up to $200 or so.

    I taped the Oscars and watched 'em yesterday.  I can't say anything
    about the acceptance speeches 'cause I fast-forwarded through them. 
    Nor can I comment on the appropriateness of the awards, since I haven't
    seen most of the nominated work.  Dave was a little slow getting
    started, but he kept things moving.  I think they'll ask him back.  I
    skipped over the opening production number; it was all too muddled for
    me.  But I liked the "Circle of Life/Hakuna Matata" number.
    
    All in all, a fairly ordinary edition of the Oscars.

    >Dave was a little slow getting
    > started, but he kept things moving.  I think they'll ask him back.
    
    Rumor has it that Dave regreted taking this job before the ink was dry
    in the contract.  Even if asked back I don't think he'd go.  My bid is
    for Steve Martin next time around.  Not that I think Dave didn't do a
    good job...he did.  I just think he's above it.  His show is aces. 
    Stay there and keep up the fantastic work.
    
    As for the musical numbers at the Oscars I thought they were terrible! 
    It's just the same old Debbie Allen crud we've all seen a million times
    before.  They should try something new next year.
    
    MJ

    I love the Oscars, watch 'em every year, along with the country music
    awards show(s).  If I happen to available to watch Emmy night, I do,
    but don't make a point to do so.
    
    I just plain don't like Letterman, never have, probably never will.  I
    did like the "Cabin Boy" auditions, but otherwise didn't enjoy much of
    his hosting time.  Thought Whoopi was much better, but *nobody* does it
    better than Billy Crystal.  However, nobody really wants to do this more
    than once, so I doubt we'll see Letterman back again next year.
    
    IMHO - Thought the Russian man who won Best Foreign Film had the most
    "touching" speech. The "most deserved" award of the evening was 
    definitely Clint Eastwood's Irving Thalberg Award for his body of
    work.  "Most Predictable" were Dianne Wiest's Best Supporting, and Lion
    King's Best Score and Best Song.
    
    M.
    

    The inside track is that Nigel Hawthorne should have won 'best actor'
    but he was just too good for the Oscars.

    Rumour hath it that "The Madness of King George" should have won but
    not enough people have seen it...
    

      My wife watched it and I caught the 1st half hour with her.
    
      I thought Letterman's chronic "Umma...Oprah..." whatever's
      were absolutely pathetic.  It wasn't funny the 1st time and
      it wasn't funny the 10th.
    
      The only film I saw was Shawshank Redemption which I liked
      very much and I hoped Morgan Freeman would win.

    re .35: I'm a huge Letterman fan (have met him) and I thought he was
    awful.
    
    Mark.

     Letterman is fine being the Don Rickles of late night TV. That's his
    comfort zone- getting people on his show and insulting them. And doing
    weird and random things that amuse drunk and stoned college students.
    Take him away from that and he's nothing special.

    
    RE- The Madness Of King George...
    
    The film was to be titled "The Madness of King George III" but the
    makers dropped the III incase the yanks started asking about the
    first two movies.
    
    G.

    <----- Bwahahahaah!  

    re .55
    
    G.---- that was funny, I liked it !!!!

    Oscar SNARF!
    

    Madness of King George should have won.  Nigel Hawthorne was superb,
    and Helen Mirren, well there are few actresses in her class.
    
    

    My Aunt Agnes had a cat called Oscar once.
    

    Just thought of another Oscar
    
    
     Oscar Wilde.     8-)))))0

    Keiff just told me his local pub is called
    
    
    OSCARS.....wow who would have thought it.
    
    

    
    Oscars is actually an anogram of Scarlet O'hara 
    
    
    
    If you take some letters away and jumble the rest of them about
    abit(and add another s).....8*) ...
     

    Actually I was at the Oscars last year and it was the biggest load of
    CATS PISS I have ever witnessed.So bollocks to the lot of you.....

	How often do you witness cats pissing?

    
    Pamina hurries over to tinkie while I'm scooping the cat box.  I think she
    likes the company.                                        

    I would like the company too!

<----- oh my God!!!!  

    
    Potty is a private thing for me 8^).

    .64 who are you!
    
    Chip

    Re.70
    
    I am the phantom noter.I can strike anywhere at anytime.I am all
    knowing and all powerful.LOOK OUT THE PHANTOMS ABOUT.
    
    The Phantom.
    
    

    i thought of lots of words to describe you but phantom wasn't one of
    them
    
    ric

    Oh great...another Mailroom!
    
    Look Mr...I don't know from under which rock you crawled.  But I have
    been noting here a bit longer than you have.  I know what you are in
    for.
    
    So my advice to you would be....go back and crawl under your little
    rock from whence you came...before you get squashed!
    
    Rgds.

    
    
    Zatyu Jamie?
    
    
    

    What about that Tom Hanks eh? is he a big girls blouse or what?

I didn't think Dave did a good job at the Oscars.

Pulp Fiction was the worst movie I have ever seen!  I almost walked out.  
John Travolta did nothing in that movie and didn't even deserve the 
nomination.  What a terrible movie.  I went with my father and he said the 
worst movie he ever saw was Natural Born Killers, (he walked out, and so did 
4 other people in the theatre!) and he said Pulp Fiction was the second 
worst movie he ever saw.  I didnt see Natural Born Killers so I can't say 
but I can say that Pulp Fiction was real bad!!!!!!!

My opinion, of course.

-Kim

    Who's Oscar?

	Oscar Madison. He is a slob

    
    
    and he will be played by our very own mz_deb in may!!!!
    
    
    :> :> :>
    
    
    

    
    Typecasting, I tell you, typecasting 8^).

>    and he will be played by our very own mz_deb in may!!!!
    
In drag?    

    
    _The Odd Couple (transvestite version)_

    Is there a hermaphrodite version per chance?

Or a multiple personality version?

    
    That could be a one-person show then 8^)))))))))))))))))))))))).

    Then there's always the Oscar Meyer weiner......
    

    Oscar was the little baby in Ghostbusters II.... I fink?

    What a rude thing to do to a helpless child.

I believe Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) also named his child Oscar. 

Yes, the child _was_ a boy.


Chele

    Oscar, Veal Oscar, at your service.  

    Oscar Peterson.

    
    
    I think shall nominate my performance today for an Oscar. :*)
    
    
    
    
    Terrie
    

    
    I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
    That is what I'd truly like to beeeeeee
    Cuz if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener
    Everyone would take a bite of me.

    
    oscar de la renta
    
    

    
    RE: .94
    
    Your own version???
    

    Ya know, I've been noticing that Mz. Debra has been writing alot of
    inuendos lately...things that make you go Hmmmmmm...or
    MMMMmmmmmmmm...sepending on how strong your labido is that day.
    
    Hot dates...little chambers and all that....what gives??!
    
    -Meaty

Oscar Wee Wee

	Jack, that was a CLASSIC!!!!! 

	Oscar Meier Snarf!!!!

I was in L.A. the night the Oscars were on and you ain't seen hype until 
you live through it in Hollyweird.  Pretty dull show IMHO, however I did 
laugh at one of Letterman's jokes....

	"Eat, Drink, Man, Woman"

    
    .96
    
    Yes, my own version, Andy...after all, I figger everyone is ALREADY in 
    love with me, so I don't need to wish for that 8^).
    
    {snort} BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
    
    {ahem} sorry 8^).
    
    .97
    
    Meaty - labido?  That sounds kinky 8^).
    
    ...oh dear, there I go again 8^o!

    
    .98
    
    No no Chris...that's:
    
    Osky wa wa
    Wisky wee wee
    Holy mucky-eye
    Soak 'em Varsity!
    
    8^)

	Speaking of Oscars, Chris Farley should win one for what he did
yesterday. He went into congress dressed as eye of newt. he was saying a lot of
funny things, and tried to pass a new contract with america. at the end of it,
he said, "Well, I'm hungry. Racheal, go get me a school lunch!"  I couldn't
stop laughing. :-)


Glen

    Neither could Newt, reportedly.

	They showed him too. Yes, he was not just laughing, but clapping as
well. 

    State-of-the-art, experimental sex should be performed in the labido.
    
    Chris

      re: .73
    
      Beverly Hills Cop.  I caught it!!
    
      						Oscar Meier

    I think Suzanne should keep it to one topic!!!

    
    	OK, I give up ... was that put here for a reason?
    

    Don't be silly Shawn, of course it was.  Exactly why, we will most
    likely never know but I guarantee there is a reason.

    
    
    Come on guys!!! I admit it was, maybe too subtle... but it's there...
    
    :)