©Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com8:15 p.m.: When Jon Stewart told "Once" songstress Markéta Irglová she could complete the acceptance speech she never got to start, she was dumbfounded. Irglová, it seems, has seen her share of Oscars and heard a lot of Oscar winners cut off before their time. "It didn't make much sense," she says of the do-over she was offered. "But it was great to get the chance. I'm really grateful."
8:18 p.m.: Funny thing is, back here, where Irglová has just about all the time in the world to say whatever she wants, her partner Glen Hansard is doing almost all the talking.
8:24 p.m.: The goopy secret of There Will Be Blood has been revealed! According to Robert Elswit, its Oscar-winning cinematographer, the oil in the oil saga was made with "industrial material used by McDonald's to thicken their milkshakes—and I'm not kidding."
8:46 p.m.: Boy, you'd never know the writers went back to work only a week and a half ago—until you look at the clock, and see that the show ran less than three hours.
8:50 p.m.: Er, scratch that—the show has time-warped my brain. I just put a call into the ever-helpful Academy librarian, inquiring about the last time an Oscars ran so short, and she informed me that the show ran about 20 minutes long. As she reminds me, "It's been on since 5:30."
8:51 p.m.: Oh, that 5:30.
8:52 p.m.: In any case, the librarian tells me this terribly, terribly long show is actually the briefest Oscars since 2004's clocked in at about three hours and 15 minutes.
—Filed by Joal Ryan