Oscars

I admit it… I only saw a little of the delayed replay of the oscars. Basically from 10:30PM. There were frankly better things on TV than watching awards shows talking about movied I had not even heard of.

The Oscar for best song for a motion picture was interesting. Firstly, the song was won by a spanish song, or at least a song with a spanish version. Secondly, there was a nomination for “Learn to be lonely” from Phantom of the Opera. Nice as this song is, I am glad it did not win. It has charm, but does not have even the power of “Music of the Night” or most of the other songs in the movie. Then again, it was the only one especially written for the movie, so they were slightly restricted in what they could do I suspect.

I suspect that the song was sung during the closing credits of the movie. It sounds like that is where it would have been used. It has been just over a couple of months since I saw the movie, and the movie was fairly long.

The Obituary Roll in the Oscars was interesting, seeing which important showbiz people died during the week. Jerry Orbach from Law and Order. Marlon Brando too. Jerry Goldsmith, who composed music for so many SciFi movies. And Ronald Reagan.

Telstra Bill

I got a monthly Telstra bill yesterday. It was far more sedate, at only 18 pages. The value of the bill was significantly reduced too.