79th Oscar - Worst Award Show Ever !

The producers of this years Oscar award show have decided to wait with the big ticket Oscars until the end of the show to make us all stick around the TV set. Very considered of them for everybody on the East Coast, to have to sit there Sunday midnight, still waiting for the real deal. Well, it did not work out this time around anyway. This award show was so poorly produced, bland and outright boring, that even the oldest producer trick on the books did not keep the audience around. Although the viewer numbers wont be out till later Monday afternoon, I will predict that these numbers stink and more progressively so towards the end of the show. This was supposed to be the annual Super Bowl of the most powerful entertainment industry entity in the world - Hollywood! By comparison, Ellen DeGeneres' daytime show is more entertaining, and Ellen herself most definitely is more funny on one of her afternoon TV shows. No jokes about anything current, Al Gore being the bad actor that he always was, a bland and uneventful stage and shadow puppets (!) that's all these guys can come up with? The Academy has all the money in the world and access to all the talent in the world and ABC was paying a fortune for this show. Where did that money go? Certainly not into Ellen's wardrobe. Different color pyjama style tuxes a la Hugh Hefner, a smile and a pair of cheap sneakers is all she needed to do this gig. The stage was the worst Oscar stage that I can remember. There was just nothing there and maybe that did not really matter either - after all there where no real acts to put on it, with maybe the exception of the "Dreamgirls" medley. That brings me to the awards itself. It was most definitely an off-year. The line-up of stars and movies was still more than capable to top the show, which really is not a compliment towards the quality of the nominees and movies! And what is up with that "Babel" pushing? The movie did not sell in the US. Nobody wanted to see it and Brad Pitt and Miss Jolie did not even bother to show up for the event. And my two personal favorite Latinas, Miss JLo and Penelope Cruz where there to count how many nominations were Hispanics - Viva la razza! By JLo's standard the Oscars getting better every year by the mere fact that more and more Hispanic movies, actors and performances are nominated. I did not know that Hispanics had this sure fire hold on good movies, music and acting. Al Gore invented the Internet, he is just about to cure cancer and since 30 years he is trying to make us aware of the global warming problem. This despite the fact that the popular believe amongst scientist in the 70's (about 30 years ago) still was that there might be a global cooling coming our way. And apparently he was driven to the Shrine in a hybrid limo, after arriving in L.A. in his private jet. Don't you just love it when the rich and all VIP Hollywierdo's tell you to be more careful with our planet and not to use too much gas, whilst being driven around in over sized limo's and flying in on private jets. This years 79th Academy Award show was a low point and most probably the worst Oscar presentation I ever saw. The movie and talents to go with it, wasn't much better. At one point you couldn't even tell the difference between the actual show and the commercials. The "Apple" comercial for the iPhone was done with movie snippets of different characters of different movies picking up a phone and saying hello. That was done better than the presentations of the movies inside the actual award show. Which - last but not least - brings me to the one and only bright spot about tonight; It can only get better from here on out! Next years Oscar cannot be possibly worst then this years. And I have a prediction to make; Next years host will not be Ellen DeGeneres but Jerry Seinfeld. If anybody ever successfully auditioned for the job during the tenure of his predecessor, then Jerry did tonight. His 2 minutes as a presenter where a little teaser of what this show and its presentation ought to be like. Look forward to see him getting that job and if I'm right, I will also tell you that he will do that for many years to come. Always remember; You heard it here first!