No Rock And Roll Fun

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...: There are, of course, many blogs offering oscar perspectives, and we're not about to become a movies blog, but since Sky One chose Sharon Osbourne to co-present, we feel obliged to at least offer our apologies to movie fans. God alive, why did they think she would be any good? When she wasn't waving her yellow pencil around she was busily trampling over other people's gags; she's been bleating excitedly about how "we've got Elton John and Scissor Sisters coming up" - even although they've already been on; but with Sky's high school quality production, she might not have noticed the thirty seconds of this supposed highlight fritter itself away. Or maybe she was in denial: whatever they were doing, it sounded frightful. Not as bad as the Beyonce-Lloyd Webber duet, of course. It's a handy rule of thumb that the slighter the song, the larger the jewellery has to be to draw attention away. Beyonce was wearing a necklace that the Crown Jewels would reject as being too showy.

Jamie Foxx, accepting his Oscar for playing Ray Charles, thanked Ray for having lived. More honestly, of course, he would have thanked him for having died. But we have to wonder: is Charles the first person ever to be given a tribute at the Superbowl, Grammys and Oscars in the same month?

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