The Oscars, as always, was studded with the glamourous, the talented, the not-so-talented, the weirdos, and the stoned. Right away with no dilly-dallying about the history of the Oscars or more witty yet insightful comments from yours truly, let's get to the crux of the event: the attention.
The awards, don't mistake me, are very nice and all, but in the end it's about dressing up and entertaining the world with a glimpse of the best slice of the American pie: Hollywood. For Argo and Daniel Day-Lewis, the little gold man was obviously well deserved. However, what will this year's Oscars really be remembered for? Going by all the memes on Reddit, Jennifer Lawrence's little trip up on the stairs, that's what.
While the world talks about the awards for the next two weeks max, fashionistas and style blogs are fawning over and making snarky comments about the women's ensembles. Reddit and Facebook are full of memes, and utterly pointless disappointment and delight.Twitter is a-tweet with 140-character rhapsodies. The TV telecast and recast were eagerly watched by many, many people in India who were patting themselves on the back for Life of Pi bagging four Oscars because we Indians are always very delighted with any attention we get from the rest of the world, and especially from something as over the top as the Oscars.
Any-whoo.
The Oscar trivia takeaway for this year, ye unfashionable TV watchers and people who don't really give a damn about who won, is:
The Oscar statuette's real name is Academy Award of Merit. Oscar is presumed to be the uncle of the then-Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, who thought that the statuette looked like him. Maybe he also stood on film reels without any clothes on, and carried a sword. Who knows.
Anyway, the people who named the little gold guy scratched their heads and said, 'Meh. Oscar's shorter.'
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