So it's Sunday night and I just couldn't find any good WWE, Ultimate Fighting To The Death matches, ( I think that's the one where two guys are in a cage and the winner has to knock the other guy out and then kick him in the head until at least five teeth or one eyeball falls out) or even a Michael Bay movie on TV. I was therefore pretty much forced to watch the OSCARS which I reluctantly (cough) did.
I'm not here to do a review of the show or comment on who won what or who didn't. Overall I thought things went well with the one glaring exception of the segment where they pay tribute to some who have passed away in the previous year. What they have always done in the past is show the video feed directly to us but this year apparently they wanted to show off all the flat screen monitors they had going in the building and had the camera pan and zoom while the camera man was being chased around the room by a pack of wild dogs, or so it seemed. The ridiculous camera work rendered many of the names and faces unreadable and unrecognizable, was disrespectful and ultimately a big fat train wreck even if you don't ask me.
Luckily someone with access to the original video, not what was broadcast to all of us, has posted it on YouTube. So just in case you were frustrated like me, care at all, or are just a bit curious, here is the segment the way it should have been shown in the first place.
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Didn't see much of the Oscars, but thanks for putting that up Lorin. But did I miss something,....where was Heath Ledger? Didn't he die in 08?
Bernie Mac? Michel Crieghton?
When did those two men die?
That made me want to go watch a bunch of Paul Newman movies.
Marlan - Yes you're right, Heath Ledger did die in Jan. 2008 but he was included in last year's segment.
Tanis - I remember Paul Newman most from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and also from The Sting (the film from which the last shot of him in that montage is taken.) I remember going to see it when I was 10 or 11 at the huge and ever so glamorous Paramount theater in Lethbridge.
I also remember Marlan could play the theme song (The Entertainer) so perfectly on the piano.
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