I love talking to you. I love talking movies. So yeah, I know you do. You're a big movie fan. I am huge movie fan. And I have thousands of movies on DVD VHS Blu-ray laser
disk. You got them all over the house. You know what I saw the other yesterday. My wife and I were watching fury with Spencer Tracy.
You ever see that movie? Oh, I certainly have. Yeah, that's an amazing movie. It is. And it was on TCM a few weeks ago. And I
I DV art, because I knew I'm going to want to watch it as a lot. Even the old movies are so good. You know, anyway,
anyway, let's talk about the Academy Awards last night. First of all, before we get to any awards,
overall, the show. I thought it was one of the best Oscar shows that they've ever done. And I'm going to say
something will make it drummed out of the core for this. But I thought one of the smartest movies they made
was only having the one song that everybody do was going to win because the other songs are not that good.
And you know, that's the one category every year where I think they really blow it. They have a lot of
songs that are not made every year, that are like sung over the credits. They have nothing to do with the
movie. And everybody knew golden was going to win. Everybody wanted to see it performed. Nobody cared about
anything else. And they said, you want to hear the other song? Here's a QR code. You can watch that. That was very
smart. It was at the K-pop song. Yes. Yeah. That's a little out of my age. I don't think they're looking at me
when they make the movie K-pop is their target audience. You know, I know what? It's an excellent, excellent movie.
I thought it was not going to be that great. And I didn't want it when it was first on Netflix.
And a friend of mine encouraged me. And I've now seen it with two, three times. And I think it's it's a terrific movie.
I made just an ounce of making a sequel. So yeah. Good line from Conan to the president and Netflix in the
audience. This is what a dancer looks like. That was a good line. He was he's an excellent host.
Conan keeps in moving. He did a great job. I love that opening sequence. And I hope everybody
stayed to see the little bit after the last award. Because that was very funny. That was based on,
of course, a famous scene in the Oscar winner. One battle after another. And just a little side note,
the guy who was murdering Conan at the end was Jim Danny, who was Conan's first mentor. And
it's the subject of a terrific documentary that just came out that's on streaming. He was a
Saturday Night Live writer for decades. And it's responsible for a lot of the ones that we
that are the most memorable in the history of Saturday. And I've been a lot of really funny stuff.
And it was great to see the two of them together. And I thought that was the cherry on the Sunday.
What I also liked was the Oscars started at six o'clock central time. That was great because they
were over a little after nine thirty. Perfect. When I was growing up on these coasts,
they just started eight o'clock at night. They weren't going to midnight. Yeah, I thought that
was another very, very good choice. I know it's very early for the people on the west coast,
but that's okay. They can all go in and out burger after and have a great time. I thought that
that was great. I thought this was the best in memorandum segments that they've ever had.
Yes, in memoriam, yeah. Yeah, in memor, sorry, in memoriam. It was so gracefully handled.
Rachel McAdams talking about Diane Keaton in Catherine O'Hara, Billy Crystal,
beautiful tribute to his best friend Rob Ryder. And I love the way that they kept the wife,
Michelle Fanger Ryder in there. And of course Barbara, as always talking about herself,
not about the person she chose to be talking about, but nevertheless, it was a very tender,
hard tribute to Robert. Yes, you wound up singing the way we were. And it was very
good. I thought that it was wonderful. I thought that was just a beautiful, beautiful segment.
And I was really, really happy about it. And also we have to talk about how, for the first time
in 98 years, they created this award for the cast director. The most interesting part of that
was not necessarily who won. It was the description of the process and how important the casting
director is in really giving us the movie that we want to see. And I thought that was,
and it was interesting to me that four of the five nominees were women. So love that.
Here's another thing. When you see, and I've seen this for years, especially on Woody Allen
movies, it's always a woman who's the casting director always to women of a special touch that
men just don't have when it comes to that. Because they're usually always women. Yeah, ready to see
a great documentary casting by is the name of the documentary. And it talks about the role of
the casting director. And you'll see some very, very early footage of some of the stars like
Robert De Niro who would not have ever been in a movie. If it hadn't been for somebody saying,
I believe in this guy. I know he's a little unusual, but you got to cast him.
What about them all on his face? Add a little way to work. We'll make it work. Don't worry about that.
We'll make it work. Everybody's going to want one after this. But I noticed that.
That one guy who was the casting director amongst the nominees, but it's usually always women.
It just that just guys don't have that sensitivity to pick out the right people for the movies.
Let me go over some more notes here. The opening bit I said like casting directors.
Oh, yeah, in the morning, you met Rachel McAdams. I didn't know that was her introducing
introducing. You know why they kept the audience a plus so loud over the announcer.
You couldn't hear what he was saying half the time. Lower the, I mean, they just wanted to make
it sound exciting. So they had him and you couldn't understand the poor guy.
Yeah. Anyway, so when the women Randy, something rather used to be the, she was loud.
You heard her talking over everybody. This guy you couldn't hear. Start time.
Here's something they should do. And I feel bad. These people finally win an Academy award.
Is there a big shot? It's, you know, celebrity. They'll probably never get it again.
A lot of these people, the smaller awards, they'll probably never get it again.
And they start making their speeches all of a sudden the music plays and they
pick the camera away. I feel bad for them. But, you know, you can't go on that long.
It's boring. You thank everybody under the sun. I understand you have to thank the producers,
the money. Then just want to thank my four kids. I want to thank my wife, my mother-in-law,
who was always there for me. Oh, and of course, my dog and the vet.
And the vet. Yeah, my vet who took care of my, to come on already. And that's why you get cut off.
So here's my plan. Get together with all your people before the Oscars. And in case we win,
if it's a long shot and we're going to win, here's the plan. I will talk for 10 seconds.
Everybody gets 10 seconds. Especially when they bring six people up there.
You know, yeah, I understand that. But unless you're an actor, you're not a professional performer.
I think they get very flustered. You can see that some of them had made that plan.
And still they got cut off. And I think maybe when it moves to YouTube, they can handle that
better. You know, they tried to do it once where they just said to all the nominees,
give us your list. And we'll run it as a crawl across the bottom of the screen when you're saying,
thank you. And nobody liked that. But I didn't think that was such a bad idea. Maybe when it goes
to YouTube, they'll have sort of an auxiliary where, you know, after they walk off, they don't go
back to their seat. They go to the press room where the press can ask some questions about their
award and their film. And I think maybe that YouTube can have a separate stream for that.
And we can hear more from these people after they calm down a little bit. And, and I would love
to hear the part where they're asking them questions. Or we could taste them.
Sometimes I've hidden with a taser. Yeah, all right. I was about to like, yeah, they do a belly
flop on stage. The movie mom, Nell Minow joining us this morning, also from Roger Ebert.com,
talking about the Academy Awards last night. It was a nice show. And by the way, it got off.
It was only a few minutes late over, which is really amazing. Because those shows used to go over,
remember a lot. So they kept it. Well, as you just said, they kept people off.
Ruth, luckily, they don't broadcast all the awards like they used to. They used to be a lot
more awards broadcast. They got rid of some of them. I thought it was going to throw off the timing
that there was a tie. That's, I think, would only the fourth time that happened in the history of
the Oscars? Good line, by the way. The longest presentation was the short subject award.
It took the most time to present. What do you think about the presenters? Some of them are
real cold fish up there. I mean, they for actors, I mean, they really don't have it together when
they do this, you know, this is the one area where the Tony Awards really outshine the Oscars.
Because those are theater performers and they're much, much more comfortable on stage performing
live than movie actors. And so you really see a difference there. Certainly one of the highlights
of the presenters was the cast of Bridesmaid's. Yes, yes, they were very good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They were clearly having a blast and that was a very cute little sketch that they did reading
letters from the audience. And so yeah, I thought they did a good job. It was fun to see
Bill Pullman and Louis Pullman. They didn't give her very much to say to each other, but it's great
to see that two generations was nice to see you and McGregor and Nicole Kidman. And I just have
to say a couple of words about the dresses because we saw some really spectacular ones last night.
And I think probably the most spectacular was Rose Byrne and Anne Hathaway who both had beautiful
dresses with flowers all over them. I thought they're just gorgeous. And I did not like to me
more dress at all. She was like, she was in a vampire picture. What? You mentioned before to me
more. Who were you talking about with the beautiful dresses? Anne Hathaway and I could. Yeah, sometimes
I couldn't hear what the announcer was saying when he's introducing them because. Yes, the
sound quality was not good with the announcer who was in London. Am I right about that?
I had a bridge. It's a bridge acted. But the volume wasn't high enough.
Yeah, yeah, Matt Berry, who is a wonderful actor, very, very funny, but he was doing the
announcements from London. I thought that was a little crazy. I had a plea playing it back to
who some of these people were. I couldn't understand the names because it was so nothing. It was
mispronounced. It was so low in volume. Now, I knew that I knew Jesse Buckley was going to win
because she won all the preliminary awards. You know, if you want to have a success with your
office Oscar voting pool, then what you want to do is watch the preliminary awards because if
somebody wins the actor award, used to be called the SAG award, the Screen Actors Guild award.
It's the same people voting for the Oscars. So you're the same thing with the DGA, the director's
guild, the writer's guild. If you look at who are the winners of those preliminary awards,
the critics choice awards, which I vote in, that's always a good indicator as well, although
Michael B. Jordan did not win there. You know, then you're you're you're good bat. So everybody knew
that Jesse Buckley was going to win and I'm happy that she did and she gave one of the best speeches
of the night. But if or me, I would have voted for Kate Hudson, not only for her, in my opinion,
excellent Wisconsin accent. She said her nanny growing up was from Wisconsin and she borrowed
the accent from that, but also just set a performance of such vulnerability, such
you ought to be such joy in the performing. Her chemistry with Hugh Jackman was off the chart.
And that was probably my favorite performance of the year and she was very cute in the
wardrobe left side interacting with the little baby Yoda. You know, it's wonder how was that
Kate Hudson? Who was acting with the Yoda character? Yeah, that was, yeah, I didn't recognize her.
I didn't recognize her. I didn't recognize her. You know, I always wonder when they lose their
accents now, I have a very thick New York accent, but you don't hear it a lot on the radio because
I control it. But when I go back home, then it comes back, you know, we start talking about the
stuff like that to my one by the talk. Right. And I can control it. And I always wonder,
how do they control the Australian accents? How do they do it? But, you know, I do it every day
because if I was to talk naturally, I'd sound like I'm from the Bronx, which I am.
I would sound like that. So I'd try to control it. We're going to get to get to that.
That is actually one of the things that really fascinates me the most is people that can do
accents. And Jesse Buckley, for example, is Irish. And he had an English accent. And
it wouldn't ham that where she got the Oscar. Yeah, I can only do where I come from and
just the Midwestern sound to get rid of it. I lived in South. I couldn't do the y'all.
It didn't come out right when I lived in Atlanta. Okay, we're going to talk about all the
actors coming up in a few minutes here. Trying to think something. Now, the Frankenstein surprised
me, winning a lot of awards last night. I didn't see that coming. Well, I was not surprised that
it got best costume design. We saw Frankenstein at a film festival. So we saw it on the theater,
where most people saw it on Netflix. And the costume designer was there and did a Q&A following
the film. And she was so interesting, so spectacular. I was not surprised that she won. And the
same thing with the production design. And, you know, it was just amazing. I'm happy to see,
by the way, Formula One, which I thought was just a wildly entertaining film and a lot of fun.
That one got some technical awards because their special effects and sound were excellent.
What about, um, what's his name, the guy from the ping pong movie? I can't
think of his name on his son. Timothy Schellman. Timothy Schellman. That movie got shut out,
didn't it? That's all right with me. I hated that movie. Okay, that's good then.
All right. Make sure I'm on your side. I don't want to be at odds with you.
I thought that sinners, and I didn't see it. But for whatever, I thought it would clean up and
take everything. And it didn't. It took a couple of major awards, but it didn't clean up like I
thought it would. Well, it did set the record for the most nominations, which gave it the
opportunity to have the most losses. But it got some very big awards. It got screenplay.
It got that actor. It got that cinematography. The first woman ever 98 years. First time a
woman cinematographer won an award. Remember, it's a genre film. It's got vampires in it.
The Oscars does not award vampire movies big, big awards. One of my favorite segments is a
couple of times here. We talked to Nell Minow, the movie mom, a film critic for Roger Ebert.com
and reviews movies as the movie mom. And this is your Christmas.
Well, it's my super ball. It's a super ball. Yeah, it's a super ball. And let's go for the list
of winners. Okay, because we haven't done that yet. Let's start off with the big one. Best picture.
One battle after another. Worth it? Was it worthy of best picture?
Yeah, I think it was. And it got that picture. It got that screenplay both for Paul Thomas Anderson,
who's been nominated many, many times, but it's never won before. And it got that supporting actor
with Sean Penn, who of course wasn't there to pick it up. His third Oscar, by the way.
And yeah, I thought it deserved it. You know, he took a book that was extremely difficult to adapt.
And he made it into something that was both about the past, about the future, about the present,
and had some heart to it, had some compelling performances, had some very high satire,
had some action, one of the great chase scenes in all the history of movies. And put that all
together in a surprising book coherent whole. So yeah, I thought that was a remarkable movie,
very, very well done. I don't know how many more times I'm going to watch it, but as I've sent you
before, there are two scales in looking at a movie. There's good or bad, and there's also
watchable and not watchable. A lot of movies that are truly great, but you're not going to watch
them again. Like if I had legs, I'd kick you, which Rose Byrne was nominated for best actress
from that. I'm never watching it again, but I have to admit it was a great movie. So yeah,
I thought one battle after another, very good choice for best picture. Bad title.
How there was a bad title? I don't know. It sort of, it grabs your attention. You're sort of like,
what? Where? What is going on? Yeah, I thought it was great. I thought that title.
I got people away. What's that? In the audience, the best reactor of the night was Tiana Taylor
from one battle after another. Even if you haven't seen the movie, you've probably seen the picture
of her shooting an assault weapon when she's got this big pregnant belly. She was so excited.
I know. Everybody. It was really fun to watch her. Yeah, she was trying to grab people
on the stage. And when you were dressed like that, you got to be careful what you're doing with it.
Yeah, exactly. You could see everything. Yeah. So yeah, she was great. If you haven't seen her
on Saturday night, I'd go back and watch it because she was great a couple of weeks ago on Saturday.
Let's see what else we got here. Best director Paul Thomas Anderson for one battle after another.
Yeah. And again, you know, he's been nominated many, many times. He finally won. I still think
Boogie Knight is probably his best film. But he did something very, very difficult. He put all
of those different pieces together and made it all part of a very organic story. And I thought
he did great job with it. So good for him. Okay. Now the best actor was Michael B. Jordan
from centers. But let's talk about some of the others. They nodded the caprio. Was he anything
special or did he just play Lee and out of the caprio in the movie? In my opinion, his best
performance is probably in Wolf of Wall Street. Yeah. As we know, he's a tremendously talented actor
going back to the Gilbert Grape movie where he just it was phenomenal. And of course Titanic.
I don't think the Revenant is his best movie, but he got the Oscar for that. He was great playing
very much against type in one battle after another playing a Shelby guy who is who loves his
daughter, but is really very ineffectual. And everything can't remember the password. So I thought
he did a great job. But I'm happy with the selection of Michael B. Jordan. Let's talk about
Michael B. Jordan. I didn't see the movie centers yet. So deserve it. He should get two Oscars.
He played twin brothers. And that means not only was he creating two very distinct different
characters, smoke and stack are their names. But he's acting against, you know, basically a tennis ball.
We'll fill in that in later. So I thought he did a tremendous job. He has been one of my favorite
actors since he was a teenager. And so I really wanted him to win. That was one of the ones that
mattered the most to me. And I was thrilled when he won. Good, good, good. I gotta see that movie.
I can't wait to see it. Let's talk about best actor is Jesse Buckley from Ireland. She
had a very nice, sweet Irish accent when she accepted her award last night.
She did. And that was the one that was a lock. She won every preliminary award. And so everybody
knew that she was going to win. As I said, I would love to see Kate Hudson win. That was my
favorite performance of last year. But Jesse Buckley was, I didn't love Hamlet the movie as
much as many people did. It's the story. If you don't know, it's inspired by the real life story
that Shakespeare may have been inspired to write Hamlet by the death of his child. And she
plays the wife. And she's just terrific in the movie. By the way, she's also in playing the
bride of Frankenstein and the bride, which just was released. Oh, yes. She can do anything. She can
sing. She can do comedy. And she gave, she was, she was always going to win an Oscar. She,
and, and I think this one was very, very well deserved. But there are a lot of good candidates
in that, in that category this year was a tough one. Best supporting actor, the best
sleazeball performance, Sean Penn. What a sleazewadi wasn't that movie.
Definitely. That's one battle after another. That was his third Oscar, by the way. He really
put everything he had into it and was terrifying. And particularly at the end when he's been
disfigured. Yeah. And yeah, I thought he was, I thought he was great in it. But that, you know,
the supporting categories are the ones that are the most difficult because Delroy Glindel
from sinners. I would love to have seen him win. You know, they were introduced to the
electoral from one battle after another, also really great. That was a very tough one. If I had
to pick one, if I were voting in that, I would have a very hard time. Yes, Sean Penn, though,
was such a sleazeball in the film. I don't know what he's like in real life, but they certainly
portrayed it in that film. Certainly as a humanitarian. I mean, the reason he wasn't there left
side is that he's in Ukraine doing humanitarian work. So I give him a lot of credit for that. Yeah,
and you know, the way they said it, always not here. It didn't show up. So, you know, it's not
that he didn't show up. He's busy. He's doing something to help you and come in. All right,
the best supporting actress Amy Madigan. See, I remember hers that cutesy actress from years and
years ago. I was surprised when I saw her because it, you know, everybody gets old. I know that.
But I was surprised when I saw her on stage. He was incredible. And again, very unusual,
very, very unusual for the Academy to give Oscars to what I'm going to say are genre films
rather than prestige films. This was a horror movie. Weapons. And I normally don't go to horror movies,
but I did see this one because I'd heard. And it is great. It is terrifying. It is great.
She is the villain in it. If you saw Conan O'Brien all dressed up with the orange wig on the
white makeup last night, he was not doing Chapel Rhone. He was doing Amy Madigan as an
increase in weapons. And she is absolutely terrifying. She's the wicked witch of the West
crossed with Maleficent and Carl DeVille. I mean, every bad lady in a scary film you've ever seen.
So she was great in that. Let's talk about the best animated feature,
K-Pop demon hunters. Now, I never saw any of these K-Pop things. I know they're extremely popular.
I just never saw any of them. They are, but it's important to remember that K-Pop demon hunters
was made by Americans. And it certainly has a lot of Korean culture in it, but it's very, very
accessible and a fantastic story. They announced this week that they're going to be doing a sequel.
They are even talking about doing a lot of action version or a stage version. It is very popular.
If you look at YouTube, there are many, many videos there of parents saying, oh no,
my kids want me to watch K-Pop demon hunters. And then they're like an hour later, the parent is
standing on the sofa, singing the song. The songs are all absolute bangers. They're just
wonderful. I'm very happy that it won best song. And it is a great, great story, really well done.
And they were up against the heavy hitters. They were up against Disney. They were up against
Pixar. And also the other non-US animated films. Arco, very, very good. They were just terrific.
All of them great. And that was a category where I'd seen all five of the films. And yet,
I also would have picked K-Pop demon hunters. This is a great movie.
You voting member? No, you have to be a filmmaker, not a film critic. I vote in the critics awards,
like the critics choice awards and the independent awards. I wasn't sure. I just, you sound like
you could vote. Yeah. It's not like one of those people talking to the movie mom, Nell Mendo
from Roger Ebert dot com. And also the movie mom movie mom dot com. You can check her
bar reviews. You really liked the movie out now with the H. I can't think of any of it. All
of a sudden, hoppers. I loved hoppers. I know you gave it four stars. Yeah, the top rating.
I love it. Yeah, you gave it. That's all you need to say stars. The New York Daily News is
to review movies and the show to the New York Times. The New York Times had to read the review
to find out if they liked it. But the Daily News, you just check the stars. I mean, if they had
four stars, I support that because you want to know why it gets four stars, because maybe it's
for a reason that you don't like. Yes, but I want to know fast. Does any good? And I used to see that
two stars. Not going to see it. Well, you can always go to Rotten Tomatoes. All my reviews are
Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rotten Tomatoes became big too. And yeah, very good, but you
don't like to see it for myself just to make sure. Okay, let's get down to some more movies here
on the list. Best Cinematographer and this set a press and a new new record. Talk about the best
Cinematographer. Yeah, first time in 98 years that a woman has won the Best Cinematography Award.
That's hard to believe. What I love, what I love is that Ryan Kugler, who started out making
a wonderful movie with Michael B. Jordan called Fruitvale Station, he, that movie had a budget of
about 25 bucks and he made it look gorgeous and he has kept all those people with him. He works
with the same people all the time production designer, Cinematographer, composers and he really
has built up a great community around himself. And what I loved about that was, and Ryan Kugler,
whom I'm interviewed, one of the sweetest, nicest, most sincere people that I've talked to.
As soon as her name was called, he ran to the back of the theater, picked up her little boy and
brought him to the front so he could watch his mom accept the award, which I thought was just so sweet.
I thought that's what you said about me. Kindest, most sweetest person I ever thought of. Now,
I find out there's somebody else. Well, you throw that compliment around like water, ham, okay.
A lot of a lot of sweet people in the world. All right, let's talk about. So yeah, that was,
that was really, really nice. It was great to see, it's great to see her win and the cinematography
is extraordinary in this film. Now, with the comes of screenplay, best original, best adapted
centers, Ryan Kugler one and so did, so did Paul Thomas Anderson one. Yeah. What are these
directors right there on movies too? That's not a work. Sometimes and actually my favorite directors
were the ones who wrote their movies, you know, in the old days, Preston Sturgis was one of my
favorite Billy Wilder, some like it hot. You can't beat that. So yeah, I like, I like people who
are writer directors because they, they know words and they know how to bring the vision to life.
So I think that's really great. You know, it's interesting. Those two movies,
sinners and one battle after another had been really the two front runners for the entire
award season and very unusually, they're both from the same studio. Normally, the studio puts on a
full-out spread in favor of the movie that they're promoting. But Warner Brothers really was kind
of stuck with the two front runners and they couldn't really push one ahead of the other.
So I love the fact that the screenwriting awards splits between adapted screenplay,
which Paul Thomas Anderson got based on a book and original screenplay just right out of the
imagination of the writer and that way both of them got awards, which I thought was really nice.
Now, originally for different decades, they had five best picture nominees. And the last
few years, they changed to 10 because they had to put some popular movies in there. All these
artsy-type movies were up for nominations that nobody ever heard of before and therefore nobody
watched the Academy Awards because they didn't have a dog in the race because they never saw the
films. So they said, we're going to get 10 and put five popular films in there so people now
can root for their favorite popular film. What happened? Now they got 10 artsy movies in there again.
Yeah, that's right because I think that the Academy tends to vote for movies that are
artistic achievements. I think they feel that it adds to their credibility. If they were going to give
the box office already gives the awards to the ones that are the most popular, but you're not
going to see a Marvel movie getting best picture. You're just not. And so that's why we have
movies that are nominated like trained dreams. The one that sort of anomaly of the 10 nominees this
year was F1, the Formula One movie with Brad Pitt, which I loved. I thought it was, this is why
we buy popcorn. This is why we go to the movie theater. It was just a purely entertaining film.
It was great to see it get some of the technical awards, which it really deserved.
But it was surprising to see it in the nominee's shortest picture.
There was, let's see what else was on the list here. This is the short subject.
You know, and people say, why are they doing that? Because the people who do short subjects put
their entire, a lot of time their own money into it and a lot of years into these short subjects.
And it's nice to get recognition is filmed. It's, remember, it's the motion picture association
of arts and sciences. So I mean, that's an art form short subject films. And they put a lot of
money and work into them. So I'm glad to see they win. You haven't noticed there's a correlation
between short subjects in the amount of people on stage and best picture of the amount of
people on stage. Short subjects seem to have the most people on stage for some reason.
Well, those people, you know, basically everybody who worked out the film is a producer. So they
all get to go up on stage. But yeah, remember also the short subject is where people start.
You know, they, the people that we may be seeing getting the big awards a few years from now.
And by the way, I want to mention that one of the two films, because they had a tie for best
documentary short, is a very, very moving film about a photographer who takes pictures of
the bedrooms. Yes, yes, who've been killed in school shooting incidents. And it's incredibly
powerful. I'm very happy to see it. The other film that tagged with it singers also a wonderful film.
So yeah, do try to take a look at those. You're going to love them. Do you see all these movies
that were nominated? Almost all of them. I always, I missed a bunch of the foreign films this
year, the international films, but I did see sentimental value, which was the winner for best
international film. And it's a very touching story. And it was interesting to me that it's just
a total coincidence. Two movies came out at the same time with the exact same plot. The other
one was Jay Kelly with George Clooney. And they were both about mid-age middle-age filmmakers
with two estranged daughters, one who's not talking to them, one who's barely talking to them,
and how they work that out. Helen Sauer's card, of course, was nominated. And for the supporting
actor, he was terrific in it. And so I didn't see all the, I saw Sirot, which was nominated,
which is like a real-life Mad Max. But I try to see as many of them as I can't, because you know
what? I try to see everything. The, it sounds like a former radio employer I worked for.
One was barely talking to me. I didn't talk to me at all. So, you know, all right. So let's
work quickly now. It's moving to YouTube in a couple of years, I don't know how many years,
about another two or three years, moving to YouTube. You know, a lot of people don't know how to work
that on their, I've been a lot of smart TVs. They just don't have them. And so is it a good move
or a bad move? It's a little bit of both. Maybe there'll be no ads, which is always good. And maybe
as I said, they could have an ancillary one where people give more, have more time to talk,
the winners have more time to talk. And there'll be a lot to swear. You know, the independent
spirit awards move to YouTube. And there's a lot of swearing this year. You know, they did a
takeoff from what it's going to look like on YouTube. Yeah. There was a funny bit with those
commercials, you know, skip in one, two. The bits were very funny last night. I think everyone
of them hit right on. They were very, very funny. Where they, yeah, everything's going to be
unvertical. And they'll just be cutting off both sides. That was good on your smartphone. And
they used the scene from when Harry met Sally. Yeah, which was very, very funny. All you could see
with the reaction mother in the back. You didn't see the actual thing going on on the right.
That was so good. Yeah, they did a great job on the Academy Awards. I watch it every time. I never
miss it. And I got to watch it from start to finish. No phone calls. Phones get shut off.
We don't deal with anybody. I bring it less. Nobody's allowed to talk to me while it's on.
And in two years, that's going to be something that's going to be the 100th anniversary.
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much. I love talking to you. Love talking to you.
Now, man, hold on a second. Don't hang up. The movie mom from redriebert.com and moviemom.com.
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