The Academy of Motion Picture once again created a monster. In fact, these guys are the Dr. Frankenstein of our time and they don't seem to slow down any soon. the monsters they create are of different kinds: on the one hand there are the legendary actors like Peter O'Toole who never got any Oscar out of 8 nominations (the Honorary Award is his only consolation) and Meryl Streep who gets nominated every year and only has 2 Oscars. Martin Scorsese had also been a monster for many years until he eventually won his award for The Departed. Another kind of monsters are mediocre actors that give a performance slightly better that usual and get awarded for that. That is the case with Charlize Theron in Monster (how ironic), Halle Berry in Monster Ball (how ironic again) and Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line.
The latest addition to the monster family is Sandra Bullock for her part in The Blind Side. Sandra is a great cult actress and her movies are almost always fun to watch, but I would never consider even as much as nominating her for an Academy Award. The case becomes even more grotesque when considering the fact that 24 hours before winning the Oscar she won a Razzie. This can't be good.
Sandra didn't have much time to celebrate as she discovered together with the whole world that her husband was pulling a Tiger-Woods on her. Now, if there's a bigger idiot than a bunch of guys who decide to give Sandra Bullock an Oscar, it must be the guy who's cheating on her.

I know I haven't been most fertile with posts lately, but it's only because celebrity news are as boring now as the latest Lost episodes. I am sure nobody wants to hear about the new bookshelf that I bought and assembled all by myself. But the Oscars are coming up and I promise to keep up with the news. Even though the most exciting thing about the Oscars are not the mediocre movies that came out this year, but the two hosts of the evening - Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, and not just for every one of them being a supreme comedic being but also because this means Tina Fey will take an active part in the show. That's why this year's Oscars will be a real treat.
As to the winners, not much surprises are expected. The only tension is between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock for the Best Actress award, and between James Cameron and his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, who just might become the first woman ever to snatch the Oscar for Best Director. But no harm can be done to the family, they're already divorced.

I'm Team Conan!

If I were considerably older, I would get a serious case of deja vu out of the recent events at NBC's primetime. Luckily, the history is all documented, or else I would have been surprised at how low this network's executives can get in order to attain some ratings. But I'm not surprised, and David Letterman is not surprised - this is all a part of the history repeating itself.
This time NBC's victim is it's brightest star, a funny guy who devoted 16 years of his life working and flourishing for the network at an unreasonable time slot, waiting for his big break at the Tonight Show. When the wait finally pays off, he leaves his old life behind and moves from New York to Los Angeles for the show. Now, he is getting treated like trash just because Jay Leno couldn't get his new show to perform in the ratings.
Conan is acting like a real gentleman, but showing that he is not a pushover despite his reputation as a nice and soft guy. Staying at The Tonight Show is his biggest wish at the moment, but there are much more important things than that, something that the NBC executives will never understand. What Conan cares for more than his own career is the show itself and the show of Jimmy Fallon, which used to be his own. That's why he won't do with the planned shiftings.
Conan will have no problem finding another job, probably another show of his own, on another network. Jay Leno can learn a lot from him, but he will probably stay and take all the spotlights on himself.