Los Angeles Strip Clubs: Why the Oscars weren’t worth waking up for
Also, the In Memoriam section forgot conveniently to mention the passing of Farah Fawcett, Bea Arthur [ Images ] and Maurice Jarre, while an inexplicably major chunk of stagetime was given to the late John Hughes. I’m a massive fan and John was an important American filmmaker, but to single out time specially for a tribute — when this isn’t done for any others — seemed jarring.
Still, at least Matthew Broderick made us smile as he spoke of Ferris Bueller. Macaulay Culkin, who starred in Hughes’ Home Alone, has started looking alarmingly like an uninteresting version Steve Buscemi. The perils of splashing aftershave on your 8-year-old face, I guess.
That and wearing coked up strippers for a hat as a teenager, but lets not get into digs at a soft target: leave that to the Oscar presenters, with usually cool folk like Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr [ Images ] coming across as dullards. The latter, live and unarmed with a decent script, should really start getting Jon Favreau to snip his stage appearances into shape.
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