Rear Window

'We Saw Your Boobs'

Despite my Sunday post about only being able to enjoy the Oscars looking backward, I have to say I enjoyed this years show. Sure it went on too long, sure there were slow parts and parts that fell flat, but overall I thought it a great show. The Jaws music, INSPIRED!

Seth MacFarlane to me, brilliant! It was funny to see some bashing his abilities a mere 60 seconds or two into the show. Those first few minutes so many bashed ended up of course, just being part of the bit to follow. MacFarlane is funny, but I might have enjoyed him even more as a singer. Especially loved Joseph Gordon-Levitt doing the soft shoe with Daniel Radcliffe and Seth. Although his closing number was mostly horrible, I was still soothed off to dreamland by the beautiful tones he is able to create with those magical vocal chords of his. The 'I saw your' boobs' song was hilarious and all those claiming he went too far with the song or other jokes really should have just stuck in their VHS copies of Murder She Wrote. The entire point of hiring MacFarlane was to bring something new, something polarizing, something Billy Crystal, no matter how good, could never do.

Of course most of you heard the Orchestra drown out most of the nights vocals. Shirley Bassey however would have none of that, powering over the band whenever she could. She really stole the night vocally, although Barbara Streisand attempted a run at the crown. Jennifer Hudson surprisingly had an off night, but everyone is entitled to one now and then. The musical montage was fun, but if I were running the show, I would have shoved Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anne Hathaway and company stage right and watched and listened to Aaron Tveit for the entire night.

Watching the Oscars accompanied by social media was interesting. The funny people, continued to be hilarious (comparing Crowe with Susan Boyle, mean, but funny). The unfunny people continued to be unfunny and still don’t get mocking is only a talent when you have skill. Mocking without skill or talent is, well, cruel.

Oh how interesting that so many who filled their twitters and facebook pages the past 12 months with defiant and outraged anti-bullying comments spent the night tearing the shreds out of anybody who dared step out from behind the curtain. Poor Renée Zellweger, who gave us so many great movie moments over the years, will most likely never leave her house again. That is the Oscars I guess...

Best moment of the night, for those who stayed up (or watched the next day), was Channing Tatum making hot love to the top of the piano on Jimmy Kimmel. If you missed it, head to youtube STAT!