Sunday, March 5, 2006
Four times three
Four films won three Oscars each tonight: Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong.
Archive for March 5, 2006
Best Oscar line, so far
“Some gals are gathering over here to make catty comments during the Oscars and bat their eyelashes at Jon Stewart. … In my experience there’s no mercy in this game. This is the chick Super Bowl.”
Best Oscar line, so far
“I didn’t see any of the movies nominated for Best Picture. This is because I’m the parent of a 6-year-old, which means I see only those movies where the plot involves cute but lovable animals who talk in the voices of famous celebrities ….”
Dave Chapelle fans
… might be interested in knowing that the iTunes Music Store has the complete 90 minutes of his recent appearance on Inside the Actors Studio for $1.99.
Where did she inherit this obsessive/compulsive behavior?
Jill, official oldest daughter of NewMexiKen likes the Oscars:
I got up at 9:00 this morning on my only morning to sleep in and drove to Fairfax Corner to see the 10:15AM showing of Good Night and Good Luck. … Except that there was no 10:15am showing. It is a PM showing. And a 10:15PM showing only (no other options, not playing at any other remotely local theaters.) So I was screwed.
It was a mistake in their listing, so I threw a hissy fit with management and got a free pass for any time in the next month (so useful) [baby due March 23]. But, for only the second time in 14 years, I will not see all five nominees before the Oscars.
For the record, NewMexiKen has seen only three of the five best picture nominees (missing Munich and Brokeback). Also for the record, I seriously considered seeing both today.
And, for the record, my main picks: Crash, Ang Lee, Hoffman and Huffman, Dillon and Weisz. Not exactly going out on any limbs. (Posted at 2:30 PM MST)
Update: Just four for six for the main awards, but elsewhere I scored 17 of 24.
Oh, say can you …
Teen girl #1: Okay. Maybe I’m, like, retarded for not knowing this, but…did you guys know that other countries have national anthems, too?
Teen girl #2: Duh! It’s the same song, in different languages!
–Bay Ridge
Natalie Portman SNL Digital Short
Catch Natalie Portman’s gangsta rap while you can (from Saturday Night Live).
Update: NBC has it here.
3 CommentsOur Financial Failings
Meet the typical American family. It has about $3,800 in the bank. No one has a retirement account, and the neighbors who do only have about $35,000 in theirs. Mutual funds? Stocks? Bonds? Nope. The house is worth $160,000, but the family owes $95,000 on it to the bank. The breadwinners make more than $43,000 a year but can’t manage to pay off a $2,200 credit card balance.
That is the portrait of the median American household as painted by the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances.
Boston Massacre
On March 5, 1770 the Twenty-Ninth Regiment came to the relief of the Eighth on duty at the Customs House on King (now State) Street [Boston]. The soldiers, led by Captain Thomas Preston, were met by a large and taunting crowd of civilians. Captain Preston was unable to disperse the crowd and as they chanted “Fire and be damned” he ordered his troops “Don’t Fire!” With all the commotion the soldiers probably did not hear his orders and they opened fire on the crowd killing three men instantly and another two who died later.
It all started March 5 by a couple of boys throwing snowballs at British soldiers. A crown soon gathered throwing ice and making fun of them. Soon after, the British started firing wildly. Other weapons were clubs, knives, swords, and a popular weapon, your own bare hands.
The people that died are: Crispus Attacks, one of the more famous people who was an African American sailor, Samuel Gray, a worker at rope walk, James Caldwell, a mate on a American ship, Samuel Maverick, who was a young seventeen year old male, and Patrick Carr, a feather maker.
Both excerpts from the Boston Massacre Historical Society, which has a wonderful web site with everything about the “Massacre.”
Oscar
The Los Angeles Times has a very nice, one page printable list of Oscar nominees.
