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Oscars…

Chris Rocked the place, the set was beautiful, i actually enjoyed it quite abit. MSM (Mainstream media) has covered the highlights.
Chris Rock looked rather dapper, Morgan Freeman was eloquent and you
know how he oozes absolute cool, i could bathe in his sweat. The comedy
was the best part ofcourse. There was a bit where Chris interviewed
several black people at the magic johnson theatre, and ofcourse most of
them had not watched most of the oscar nominated movies. Why is that? I
really did not even know i would pose that question. On the African
front, a south african movie called Yesterday was nominated. For a
synopsis please click here. The camera spent all of 2 seconds on Don cheadle’s face, i wished i could have seen more. Jamie Fox, awesome ofcourse.

On
the other hand, you do not give an opera type song to someone who sings
‘I need a soldier…and he carries big things if you know what i mean’
and expect it to turn out well. Beyonce does pop very well…Opera..not
so well. IMHO, Denyce Graves would
have been spectacular. At one point Chris Rock referred to ‘chemistry’
between Josh Groban and Beyonce when they were singing ‘believe’. Oh
dear, by the end of the song, i was atheistic or perhaps agnostic…No
it wasnt chemistry it was a major voice mismatch. I may not be much of
a musical person, but it just didnt sound right. Counting Crows sounded
great with the song from ‘Shrek 2′. the producers really tried to funk
it up, in some sense they succeeded, but giving Beyonce 3 songs was
kinda much. (she must have an uber agent). All in all organized and i
just might watch next year…if they get David Chapelle to host!!

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