My one bright spot in the whole show was the clip of Chris Rock interviewing people at the theater, just for the seconds where he sparred with Albert Brooks.
Regarding the Best Song, the winner, Jorge Drexler, sang a few lines of it as his acceptance speech. It sounded so much better than Banderas' and Santana's overwrought version that it made clear how shameful Gil Cates (the show's producer) was for not letting Drexler perform it in the first place (he insisited on B and S instead).
let the right person sing the songdeadmoviestarFebruary 28 2005, 20:36:39 UTC
I remember the first Oscars I watched in 1974 (pretty sure), and the song "Live and Let Die" was nominated. I was an early-phase Beatles junkie, owned the 45, so I was psyched to see McCartney come out and sing it. Instead, WELL into the tedious broadcast (being 10, I hadn't seen many of the early 70s nominees for anything, it being an r-rated time), they announce "Live and Let Die" as sung by...Connie Stevens. Yes, Connie Stevens. So she and the Bob Mackie Dancers SLAUGHTER "Live and Let Die" and I'm thinking, well, I guess they couldn't get McCartney to come do it. They cut to the audience, and there watching this abomination with wide eyes is...you guessed it, Sir Paul himself.
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Regarding the Best Song, the winner, Jorge Drexler, sang a few lines of it as his acceptance speech. It sounded so much better than Banderas' and Santana's overwrought version that it made clear how shameful Gil Cates (the show's producer) was for not letting Drexler perform it in the first place (he insisited on B and S instead).
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