The Academy Awards

For many years I have had this goal of seeing all 5 films nominated for Best Picture before the Oscars. I have never managed to see more than 4. I haven’t seen a lot of movies lately and this year I had only seen one, “No Country for Old Men.” It was a great film so I can’t argue with it winning. But I was rooting for Ellen Page and Juno. It’s a film I never got around to seeing. (I will be waiting for the DVD at this point.) But I have been really impressed with Ellen Paige since seeing her in Hard Candy.

As for the ceremony itself, my favorite Jon Stewart joke was:

You have to give Barack Obama credit, he's overcome a great deal. Not just he's an African-American. Barack Hussein Obama is his name. His middle name is the last name of Iraq's former tyrant. His last name rhymes with Osama. That's not easy to overcome. I think we all remember the ill-fated 1944 presidential campaign of Gaydolf Titler. It's just a shame, Titler had so many good ideas. We just couldn't get past the name. And the moustache

While I wasn’t old enough to vote (or even alive) in 1944, I couldn’t have supported Gaydolf Titler because I heard he plagiarized speeches from Menito Bussolini.