Don't blame Anne

I first became aware of Anne Hathaway when she played the high school sweetheart of the young Elder Groberg and I've liked her ever since.  For that reason I say "Don't blame Anne for the disastrous 83rd Academy Awards."  I taped it, started watching it the day after, fell asleep half way through, and have still to get around to watching the rest of it. 

It's not Anne's fault that she had to be up there on that stage with James Franco, who gave me the impression that he wished he were someplace else.  Just no spark to the guy.  (Okay, he was no Johnny Carson...) I think Anne came across much better when she was up there alone.  She did the best she could with the lame material the writers gave her.

There were a lot of other things wrong besides putting Franco up there.  Not a good idea to muddy the waters with ten rather than five nominees for best picture.  Most people never even heard of half those movies.  Musical numbers were poorly staged.... no real pizzaz any time.  You know you had a dull show when the highlight of the night was bleeping Melissa Leo's acceptance speech. 

Other than enjoying seeing Anne Hathaway, the only thing I liked was David Seidler's acceptance speech for writing the best original screenplay ("The King's Speech").  He thanked "her majesty" for not putting him in the London Tower for use of the F word in his script.

One more comment:  You know how I feel about the re-make of "True Grit".  Okay, it must be a pretty good picture; it was nominated for 10 awards, but didn't win a single one. Nyanya nyanya nyanya !!

And do you know why it didn't win?  Because Jeff Bridges wore the eye patch on the wrong eye!