Did Heath Ledger win Best Supporting Actor? I don’t think I heard about that at all…
His performance is certainly the centerpiece of Dark Knight – the heart of, the brains of, the excitement of…I would say that he is The Dark Knight if Batman wasn’t already literally the Dark Knight. Ledger’s Joker is a menacing, [...]
Every year for a few days after the Oscar telecast I walk around muttering my own personal acceptance speech under my breath. I think about who I would thank and what I would say, how I would use that world stage to express gratitude for the people in my life who helped me along the [...]
I had this little yellow black and white TV in my bedroom when I was a kid. I have no idea where it came from, I don’t know whose it was before it was mine. It was this small sorry little thing with bent antennas and about two channels that would barely come through (after [...]
We here at The Devil’s Avocado know that everyone likes to rip A-listers down from their pedestals, and we all know that we know better than the Academy.
Here’s your chance. During the Oscars broadcast, Janine and I will be posting comments to this post right as the thoughts rattle into our heads. Now, we [...]
If only we could get a repeat performance of this on Sunday’s telecast of the 81st annual Academy Awards. Instead, multiple song-and-dance numbers courtesy of Hugh Jackman will cut into the time afforded to acceptance speeches. And, of course, a little thing called the FCC always gets in the way of anything truly spontaneous from [...]