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My favorite tv day of the year has come and gone (and gone and gone) and I came away mostly happy with the outcome. I completed my yearly quest to see all the Best Picture nominees just hours before the awards were handed out when I saw Capote on Sunday afternoon. I managed to see all the Best Actor nominee performances as well and I saw all the performances that won for the acting awards.

Let’s get right to it:
Best Picture Winner: Crash

This totally delighted me. I saw Crash in the theater way back last April with Christopher. He wanted to see it, I had barely heard of it and was ambivalent to seeing it in the theater at the time. But every now and again, Christopher shows good judgement of films and picks a winner. He redeemed himself from when we suffered through Friday Night Lights. As per usual, I digress. Anyway, Crash just blew me away. In a nutshell if you haven’t seen it, (and if that is the case, you should remedy that situation quickly) its a bunch of intertwining storylines and characters dealing with racism in the setting of Los Angeles over a period of so many hours. There are a lot of people in this movie: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock (playing totally against type in one of her best roles ever), Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillipe, and the list goes on. A true ensemble cast picture. Its a movie that leaves you stunned, shocked, and thinking about the prejudices that we all have to some extent, even if we don’t notice or acknowledge them on any regular basis. To me it was the best picture because I saw it going on a year ago and I’m still talking about it and a lot of other people who’ve seen it are still talking about it too.

[and now three weeks have passed and I have to finish this and post it before it eats my brain. mmmm. brains.]

Let me ’splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.*

Crash winning = good.
Jon Stewart hosting = funny.
Wendy = thinks too much.

Amazingly, other things have happened in my life and the world since I started this post… and i’ll finally get to those soon.

*bonus points to whoever names the source of that line first…