Did throwing in a few Broadway-style musical numbers save the Oscars AWARDS SHOWS weary me.
I simply don’t have the patience to sit and watch the host think he’s funny in between seemingly random musical numbers and the endless commercials, when I can just go to bed and read the results on the Internet in the morning, like you’re no doubt doing right now. So in the attempt to help you skip the Oscars, I watched part of them&mdashjust the big musical numbers that were the spiced-up “show” Hugh Jackman promised during his pre-ceremony sit-down with Barbara Walters. I’m sorry to say that even the Broadway pandering in this year’s Oscars didn’t change anything for me. Don’t get me wrong, I love Hugh Jackman as much as the next girl, but even his singing and dancing couldn’t relieve the tedium of the Academy Awards. Actually, they may have aggravated it. Like that little opening number in which he summarized all this years films, in song, on sets he claimed to have made in his garage Oh, except The Reader, which he wasn’t able to see, so he just told us all about how he still needed to see it. Though he was trying his damndest to be funny, and it was kind of a cute for the first 10 seconds or so, I ended up kind of staring at my screen, mouth agape wondering how it all happened. It won some serious creativity points, but six minutes of miniature spoofing is just a little much for one girl to handle. In other news, who knew Anne Hathaway had such a set of pipes Wow. Perhaps musical numbers are considered a necessary distraction. Maybe they settle the stomachs of nervous artistes, dying for the approval of their peers. Regardless, this year’s Oscar night proved that though some musical numbers may not be praiseworthy, they often end up all the more entertaining for being so ridiculous.