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Oscars - that was one bad show

BY Dori Monson  on February 24, 2013 @ 10:26 pm (Updated: 6:39 am - 2/25/13 )

- Dori writes...

It's no secret that I'm not the biggest movie buff in the world but, as a talk show host, I have to stay on top of the cutting edge of pop culture. If it's true that a billion people watch the Oscars, then I figured I better tune in. Plus, my wife and daughters all wanted to watch, so it was a family event. Here are my random thoughts.

I actually Like Seth MacFarlane - but not tonight, not as an Oscar host. Painfully unfunny, way too self-conscious, did he have to laugh and clap at all of his own punchlines? They should just have a hologram of Johnny Carson host the Oscars every year.

Jennifer Hudson KILLED - man, she is a special performer.

And so is Adele - and that Bond song is great. But her voice was really weak tonight. I know she was having medical problems with her voice - that was quite apparent.

Random aside: During the broadcast tonight, I baked a pie - first pie I've ever made - cherry - outstanding.

My favorite line of the night: When Barbra Streisand sang the In Memoriam song, one of my daughters asked if she was a singer before she started acting in the Meet The Fockers movies - that movie was the only place they had ever seen her perform.

Daniel Day-Lewis is a funny guy.

Disgusting interjection of politics by having Michelle Obama introduce Best Picture. Is there nothing the POTUS and FLOTUS won't intrude on? The Super Bowl? Check. Leno, Letterman, Jimmy Fallon? Check, check and check. Jon Stewart? Double check. The Oscars?

Check

As one listener said to me tonight on Twitter: "Kim Jong-Un called the Obamas and advised them to tone it down a little."

Dori Monson, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dori Monson is host of The Dori Monson Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays Noon-3) and the pre-game and post-game host for the Seattle Seahawks Radio Network. There are three words that Dori thinks best describe him - competitive, competitive and competitive.
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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    Was it a disgusting interjection of politics...
    February 25, 2013 5:08 am
    ...when Laura Bush was on the Oscars? Cause I don't remember you griping about that.
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  • Rjammfam5 wrote...
    when was this?
    February 25, 2013 3:48 pm
    according to Reuters: "U.S. first lady Michelle Obama made a surprise and unprecedented appearance on Sunday's Oscars telecast when she presented the award for Best Picture, the first time a president or first lady has ever presented an Academy Award."
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  • carolynann1 wrote...
    How does anyone NOT know who Barabara Striesand is?!
    February 25, 2013 6:27 am
    I luv you, but you've culturally deprived your daughters by not allowing them to know who, and how fabulous, she is as an entertainer. I'm aghast!
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  • Oly80 wrote...
    barbra is...
    February 25, 2013 9:30 am
    not relevant anymore.

    although, there was a techno song called "barbra striesand" by Duck Sauce that came out a couple years ago. it was only cool to people over 25, or so.

    other than that, only my folks my age listenED to barbra...a long time ago.

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  • Oly80 wrote...
    whoops...
    February 25, 2013 11:24 am
    i meant to say my PARENT'S age.

    can't say i was ever a barbra fan.

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  • lisaj wrote...
    Adele's voice wasn't weak...
    February 25, 2013 6:29 am
    ...the sound mixing was awful. I was watching it with my boyfriend who is an audio engineer, and he picked out that the piano was drowning her out. That was the fault of the sound engineers - Adele's voice was as strong as ever.
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  • DW10 wrote...
    Seth
    February 25, 2013 7:11 am
    Cmon...don't get too old before your time! on Seth - He's actually pretty funny!
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  • cw1997 wrote...
    Seth
    February 25, 2013 7:35 am
    ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ best thing he did was sing at the end. Painful otherwise.
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  • eric von zipper wrote...
    It bugs me...
    February 25, 2013 7:36 am
    that in a profession that relies so heavily on pulp culture, a guy like Dori can't find the time to watch at least 3/4s of the best picture nominees? It really should be incumbent upon him to be abreast of that and if you listen to him prattle on about how he burns countless hours surfing the internet watching old, obscure clips and random crap, he can't use time as an excuse. Maybe he patterns his entertainment consumption after his dietary habits, eschewing vegetable and other substantial inclusions in favor of processed, unchallenging fare.
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  • flipper wrote...
    Best joke...
    February 25, 2013 8:33 am
    ...the last actor to get into Lincoln's head was John Wilkes Booth...wait...150 years isn't long enough?
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  • clevesside wrote...
    I miss....
    February 25, 2013 8:36 am
    ... Poehler and Fey, who made you look and listen. Co-host format actually does work better these days than a hologram of any past emcee. How about bring somebody from the VIEW or the TALK?! Awk!!
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Seth Was Great
    February 25, 2013 8:40 am
    He did a great job. He's was better than just about anybody over the last 20 years. Anybody remember when Whoopi Goldberg Hosted....Good GOD!Why on earth was Moochele Obama involved? Too bead Obama's campaign film Zero Dark Thirty got snubbed. Great movie, but didn't Obama pat himself on the back repeatedly for a year about single handedly killing Osama and then release classified documnets so they could make his little pet project propaganda re-election film???
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  • ohyea53 wrote...
    It took a while to find but here is Mrs. Bush's “appearance” on the Oscars
    February 25, 2013 9:34 am
    Here it is----Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who would later win Best Documentary at the 76th Academy Awards, made a short film that was shown during the ceremony. The film shows almost 100 people discussing movies. Those featured range from Laura Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev to Iggy Pop and Lou Reed to Kenneth Arrow (1972 Nobel Laureate in Economics) to Morris' son Hamilton. Morris would again make a short film similar to this one except the subject being the 177 nominees of the 79th Academy Awards five years later (also produced by Zinskin).------ Now to compare this to the Slobbering love affair Hollywierd has for Mochelle Obama is laughable at best!
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  • Lonestar wrote...
    Backscratchers!
    February 25, 2013 11:14 am
    Get yer backscratchers.
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