Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Oscar Watch

As many know and many don't seem to care, the 77th annual Academy Awards will air tomorrow, which means the 20th annual Independent Spirit Awards show was on this afternoon. Which I forgot to watch live except for maybe the last half hour or so (congrats to Sideways), and then only spottily so I missed much of Robin Williams' schtick and, mercifully, most of Tom Arnold singing. But it did put me in mind of the cute bits Billy Crystal would do to "introduce" the nominated movies, and thankfully we don't really have to do without those this year, because Simbaud, King of Zembla, has provided us some. I think they're better than the Sideways one Arnold sang tonight. And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Gary Sassaman's live Oscar blogging will probably be well worth catching. [Addendum: The 25th Annual RAZZIE® Awards were also announced.]

0 comments: