[quote=“Cola”]
But why can’t Jennifer Anniston pronounce ‘‘kimono’’ correctly? She said “kamono”… when introing the Geisha flick. I guess it’s saki and karriokey tonight for her![/quote]
Never mind that - but why can’t they give presenters a quick crash course in how to pronounce Chinese? They don’t have to be perfect - even people who have studied Chinese for years will still have an accent - but couldn’t they get a little closer than they do? I’m surprised that Zhang Ziyi even recognized that it was her name they announced.
[quote=“bababa”]
Never mind that - but why can’t they give presenters a quick crash course in how to pronounce Chinese?[/quote]
Chinese study English for years. They have English language TV, movies and radio and they still manage to mangle every other word.
It’s a well-known fact that Pinyin sucks.
I really liked the acting in March of the Penguins: very convincing. Those penguin suits look really impressive, and man, what courage. Imagine having to do a 3 month long shoot in Anarctica. I’d go bonkers.
I like my pinyin just fine. It’s silly Americans who never learned phonetics that’s the problem. How come they’re the worst spellers of their own language.
Yeah, me too. I feel the same way about CNN and other major news broadcasters, as well as the folks who narrate documentaries – shouldn’t you at least make an effort to ask how to pronounce it? Don’t tell me CNN doesn’t have anyone who speaks Mandarin working for them! Heck, at least 2-3 of their reporters do…
Who’s Brandt?
Why do you point this out? I mean: is it unusual in Oscar?
[/quote]
Because he thanked imaginary characters, not the lead actors.
Crash:
Racism is bad.
Racism is bad.
Want to see it again?
Racism is bad.
Want to see it in caps?
RACISM IS BAD.
Want to see it in bold?
racism is bad
Want to see it backwards?
dab si msicar.
repeat for two hours
And I haven’t seen this many outrageous coincidences since Dickens
I liked Jon Stewart’s line talking about all the remakes…
“There was ‘King Kong’…‘War of the Worlds’, another big money-maker …‘Walk the Line’,… that was ‘Ray’ with white people.”
And of course
"Picking out Steven Spielberg and citing his movies Munich and Schindler’s List, Stewart commented “I think I speak for all Jews when I say: ‘I can’t wait to see what happens to us next. Trillogy?’.” "
[quote=“MikeN”]I liked Jon Stewart’s line talking about all the remakes…
“There was ‘King Kong’…‘War of the Worlds’, another big money-maker …‘Walk the Line’,… that was ‘Ray’ with white people.”
And of course
"Picking out Steven Spielberg and citing his movies Munich and Schindler’s List, Stewart commented “I think I speak for all Jews when I say: ‘I can’t wait to see what happens to us next. Trillogy?’.” "[/quote]
And he said it was a chance for all the Hollywood stars to get together without having to give money to the Democrats. And, “This is your chance to vote for a winner for a change.”
John Stewart hosting actually makes me want to waste a few hours of my life in front of the TV…
Wish I had time. 
Ben Stein was not amused:
[quote]
Missed Tributes
By Ben Stein
Published 3/6/2006 2:08:21 AM
Now for a few humble thoughts about the Oscars.
I did not see every second of it, but my wife did, and she joins me in noting that there was not one word of tribute, not one breath, to our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan or to their families or their widows or orphans. There were pitifully dishonest calls for peace – as if the people we are fighting were interested in any peace for us but the peace of the grave. But not one word for the hundreds of thousands who have served and are serving, not one prayer or moment of silence for the dead and maimed.
Basically, the sad truth is that Hollywood does not think of itself as part of America, and so, to Hollywood, the war to save freedom from Islamic terrorists is happening to someone else. It does not concern them except insofar as it offers occasion to mock or criticize George Bush. They live in dreamland and cannot be gracious enough to thank the men and women who pay with their lives for the stars’ ability to live in dreamland. This is shameful.
The idea that it is brave to stand up for gays in Hollywood, to stand up against Joe McCarthy in Hollywood (fifty years after his death), to say that rich white people are bad, that oil companies are evil – this is nonsense. All of these are mainstream ideas in Hollywood, always have been, always will be. For the people who made movies denouncing Big Oil, worshiping gays, mocking the rich to think of themselves as brave – this is pathetic, childish narcissism.
The brave guy in Hollywood will be the one who says that this is a fabulously great country where we treat gays, blacks, and everyone else as equal. The courageous writer in Hollywood will be the one who says the oil companies do their best in a very hostile world to bring us energy cheaply and efficiently and with a minimum of corruption. The producer who really has guts will be the one who says that Wall Street, despite its flaws, has done the best job of democratizing wealth ever in the history of mankind.
No doubt the men and women who came to the Oscars in gowns that cost more than an Army Sergeant makes in a year, in limousines with champagne in the back seat, think they are working class heroes to attack America – which has made it all possible for them. They are not. They would be heroes if they said that Moslem extremists are the worst threat to human decency since Hitler and Stalin. But someone might yell at them or even attack them with a knife if they said that, so they never will.
Hollywood is above all about self: self-congratulation, self-promotion, and above all, self-protection. This is human and basic, but let’s not kid ourselves. There is no greatness there in the Kodak theater. The greatness is on patrol in Kirkuk. The greatness lies unable to sleep worrying about her man in Mosul. The greatness sleeps at Arlington National Cemetery and lies waiting for death in VA Hospitals. God help us that we have sunk so low as to confuse foolish and petty boasting with the real courage that keeps this nation and the many fools in it alive and flourishing on national TV.[/quote]
[quote=“jdsmith”]Ben Stein was not amused:
It’s a show about movies, not about Bush’s messes. 
Why does this idiot think that everyone should take every public opportunity to wave the flag? :loco:
Bullshit.
More bullshit. Gays remain the victims of prejudice in much of America, and bravery is still often required to stand up for them. Furthermore, it was brave to stand up for McCarthy, and it’s perfectly legitimate to make a movie honoring that courage.
What pathetic ultraconservative crap. Spare us.
Oh you. You love controversy.
:dance: