{"id":2021,"date":"2002-03-25T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2002-03-26T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2002-03-25T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2002-03-26T01:42:37","slug":"the_obligatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/25\/the_obligatory.html","title":{"rendered":"The obligatory Oscar blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s somewhat comforting that I am so infrequent a movie-goer, and so off-mainstream (in a goofy, not elitist, sense) in my movie preferences that I don’t have to be emotionally involved in the whole Oscar thing. I really didn’t expect LotR <\/i>or Moulin Rouge <\/i>to win anything, and (aside from the obligatory fx <\/a>and original score <\/a> and art direction and costuming <\/a>nods) they didn’t.<\/p>\n

(Though if Mr. Jackson manages to pull off with the next two installments what he did with the first, and he doesn’t end up with something <\/i>out of it, I might have to get medieval on someone.)<\/p>\n

It does let me sit back and view the coverage, since I “missed” the broadcast, in an after-the-fact, look-at-the-funny-pictures-mommy sort of way. It lets me wonder why Gwyneth Paltrow <\/a>was trying to look like she had just come from the Jerry Springer Show<\/i>. I remember Denzel Washington <\/a>when he was the intense young doc on St. Elsewhere<\/i>, and it was clear then he was going places. Ron Howard <\/a>has gotten incredibly bald. Poitier and Redford <\/a>are both richly deserving of special recognition. And I don’t know if the Best Picture should have been A Beautiful Mind<\/i>, but Uma Thurman <\/a>… wasn’t focusing on the mind thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s somewhat comforting that I am so infrequent a movie-goer, and so off-mainstream (in a goofy, not elitist, sense) in my movie preferences that I don’t have to be emotionally…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17926,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/the-well-dressed-con-goer-sdcc.html","url_meta":{"origin":2021,"position":0},"title":"The well-dressed Con-goer (#SDCC)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Jul-10 11:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Comics tee, badge and lanyard, backpack rakishly slung over shoulder ...","rel":"","context":"In "Comics & Comic Books"","block_context":{"text":"Comics & Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":81,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/memo_to_self.html","url_meta":{"origin":2021,"position":1},"title":"Memo to self","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jun-03 8:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge has a very goofy movie ordering system (not that I used it, just that I observed how goofy it was). 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