February 15, 2002


at work right now. kinda tired...went to bed at 6 am last night for not such a good reason (i was burning cds). anyway, just wanted to mention how cool it was that LOTR got 13 oscar nominations. it was a great movie, and deserving of all of them, i think. but i have a feeling that it wont walk away with the big prizes--best picture or best director. im pretty sure it will get some for costume and visual effects and stuff...but i dont think the academy is gonna show love. i might be totally wrong, but i just dont think so. it probably wont be seen as that quality of movie that wins the big one. so it will probably go to beautiful mind or something. i hope that denzel wins best actor, though. i think he did a great job in training day. of course, i havent seen any of the other actors, so i dont have pts of comparison, but still, i hope he gets it.

so i just read on espn that they gave another gold medal to the canadien ice skating pair and allowed the russians to keep theirs. i havent seen their routine, so i dont feel as strongly about this as people who have seen it. but i think the committee did the nicest thing they could do. everyone turned out to be winners--the russians kept theirs, the canadiens got what they deserved. it's not fair to penalize the russians because the judges messed up...and they did BIG TIME. but at the same time, isnt there supposed to be only one winner? only one person in first place. so my first reaction to this decision was that they should just leave everyone to their medals, because what's done is done, and despite the blunder, they cant rejudge the competition because it's over, and part of the scoring element is that they are there, seeing it, and grading on their first impressions. but that's a harsh way to go...and by giving the canadiens their due medal is much nicer, and in the spirit of the olympics. geez, but cheating judges? that's not right at all. that's a sacred trust there, that they are as objective as possible. messed up.

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