Welcome to the 84th Annual Academy Award liveblog. Or, more precisely, Crasstalk’s liveblog of Hollywood’s 84th annual night of self-congratulatory backslapping and too long speeches about people none of us care about. Billy Crystal has been dusted off and trotted out after a shake-up in the hosting and directing duties that took out Eddie Murphy. Grab your cocktail, set your TV over to ABC, and let’s get this 10 hour party started. Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 26, 2012
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The never surprising Best Supporting Actor/Actress race! No, not really. This award has been given to surprise recipients Marisa Tomei, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kim Basinger, and Jennifer Hudson. However, this does mean that you’d better be able to back this thing up with some stunning post-award greatness in order to ever land the top prize. This can happen! If not, though, you may be associated with the following comment, “Oh, yeah, Catherine Zeta-Jones won an Oscar! I totally forgot about that.” Or “Hey, whatever happened to so and so, didn’t they win an Oscar? See how this works Supporting Actor/Actress nominees?
So who will it be this year? Continue reading
By Missing Peace and Dancing Queen
The red carpet at the Oscars is the biggest runway/fashion event in the world. Given that, designers begin clawing their way to the nominees’ stylists to make them this year’s risk-takers or safe players. Last year, red was the color (how original). What will be this year’s big trend? Continue reading
Another installment in our series on abandoned places in the world. Continue reading
A new study by the American Journal of Epidemiology has linked hair relaxer use with uterine fibroids and early puberty in young girls. Continue reading
The Florida GOP primary may be a distant and not-too-grand memory for Rick Santorum, but an important and much more widely followed Florida event has attracted ol’ Ricky’s attention today. If you happen across Santorum’s name emblazoned across a perpetually left-turning vehicle on the television today, it’s not your hangover. That’s right, the sometimes-leader in the GOP presidential primary death-match has purchased a sponsorship of a car in today’s Daytona 500. Continue reading
The last two years have seen Colin Firth and Jeff Bridges win Best Actor while Best Actress has been won by Natalie Portman and Sandra Bullock. Sure, Natalie’s performance was good but was it really better than Annette Benning? Was Bullock better than Helen Mirren in The Last Station? Probably not. Save Bullock, all four of the aforementioned awards were fairly locked up before the ceremony. This year is shaping up to be a little more of a contest. Continue reading
You may have know them as tostones, but in Panama (and a few other Latin American countries), we call them patacones. They are made with green plantains. A plantain looks very similar to a banana, except that you typically eat it cooked. It is a staple of many Latin cultures, and I usually prepare this dish once a week. You can also cook plantains when they are ripe, but that is a recipe for another Sunday. Continue reading
Welcome and have a good day. Continue reading