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Yaaaaaaaaaaawn. I Mean—Oscars!

I don't know about you, but if you ask me, the Oscars didn't hold a gilded candle to the Independent Spirit Awards. No, last night's never-ending broadcast was a yin-yang thing where everything good was also something very bad. And in the case of an awards show, bad means boring.

Ellen DeGeneres Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com

Ellen DeGeneres Is Funny—but Does a Little Bitchy Help? She was so at ease. She made her MySpace profile joke and shoved a script on Martin Scorsese. She's likeable, but one hour into it, I was like, Oh please can someone make some big nasty remark about Jude Law or something?

John C. Reilly Is Awesome—or Depressingly Awesome? The reference to Boogie Nights made me long for risqué works of years past—Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Fatal Attraction. Is there provocative, sexy, crowd-pleasing, sprawling and downright love-me-or-hate-me art being celebrated tonight? Well, no. Unless you count Jack Nicholson's bald head, which is maybe why they showed it so much on television.

Martin Scorsese Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com

We're All Really Good at Making Predictions—or Sucking the Fun out of Everything?  When Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas trotted onstage together, I was like, now Little Miss Sunshine has to win just so we can watch this trifecta blush when Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris walk onstage. I believe Martin Scorsese deserved to win, hell yes. But the trio of presenters felt like lame-o bias toward The Departed.

Jennifer Hudson Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com

Jennifer Hudson Is a Princess/Actress—for 15 Minutes: Now calm down. Yes, I saw Dreamgirls. Yes, she is fantastic. That voice, that ability to make Beyoncé seem almost invisible. But isn't it kind of more fun when an actressy actress wins? I think so. Plus, reporters in L.A. and New York have said the same thing to me, that in spite of how she talks about staying grounded, Ms. Hudson has "changed" since all the hubbub. Give her time. She'll change back. Marisa Tomei can teach her how.

Al Gore Has a Point—but Can't We Go a Few Hours Without a Lecture? It's an Inconvenient Truth, but taking your politics to the podium only works if you're Sean Penn, in which case it's exciting, or George Clooney, in which case, well, it's George Clooney.

Most boring of all: A lot of commentators are saying the same thing, which means I shouldn't go dive into a pool of Midol and Ritalin. Well, unless you guys think so.

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