The Oscars

I, for the first time ever, watched the Oscars all the way through, from start to finish.

John Stewart: You are everything i have ever wanted to be. Possibly the best hosting job I have ever seen. I have only one gripe and it is big. (read on)

Academy House Band: You are inappropriate and ruin the best moments in some peoples' lives. You cut everyone off. I realize that there are certain time restraints, but there are also some very unnecessary montages, as well as nominating 3 ridiculously high maintenance musical numbers from Enchanted. They each lasted like 10-12 minutes, complete with thirty-dancer cast and ironically cut way into the thank you speech of Marketa Irglova who, along with her musical partner Glan hansard, beat out the 3 Enchanted numbers nominated for best original song.

My Biggest Gripe: Why is it SO important that everyone mention the fact that screenplay writer Diablo Cody, used to be an "exotic dancer". Yes it is a little interesting tid bit of trivia, but it's not SOOO crazy that someone, somewhere, needed to pay bills and stripped for a while. What if she only did it for three months and the entire world has labeled her as "The EX-STRIPPER"? She wrote the most charming script of the year and everyone finds it so ironic that an ex-dancer had the perspective and intelligence to write a script. Give her that! She did it. Don't try to "understand" it, like it's some giant paradox. And John Stewart was the one who brought it up. He delivers perfect joke after perfect joke then mentions Her stripper past. Granted, it was a funny enough joke to be there, but so was everything else he said, I'm just sure that she is sick to death of that title. Anyway, Diablo Cody, I love you and your work. Keep writing and I'll keep watching. Maybe some day we'll all get over your "dark past" (B.S.).

-Anthony