Reply #79: "Whoever the hell she is."

[CBHagman]

Dear Pats, that's precisely the sort of thing I was thinking. The announcer would give the name of some young actor or actress and I'd be thinking, "I have no idea who this person is." At least I knew Anna Kendrick was, having just seen Up in the Air yesterday.

And my personal WTF moment was when the Academy had Lauren Bacall and Roger Corman wave from the audience as though they were the accountants from PriceWaterhouseCoopers, or maybe the cameramen. Lauren freaking Bacall (geb. Betty Joan Perske), who made Key Largo and To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep!



I know they're cutting back on showing any awards not in the major categories, but somehow they found time for the Ben Stiller shtick and the salute to horror movies...and sometimes they're the same thing. :grr: