Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Watch What You Say, Oscar

It is unbelievable how dumbed down the Oscars were on Sunday night. I was completely satisfied with the awards and recipients, but Chris Rock's monologue was not nearly as funny as it could have been for fear of offending anyone. For example (I heard this on Howard Stern this morning so who knows if this is accurate), when Rock said that Renee Zellweger had to put on 20 pound to play Bridget Jones, and that she'd have to put on another 80 pounds if she were to play Deacon Jones (which was a pretty old reference), he was supposed to say Star Jones instead. Interesting.

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