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Once Acceptance Speech
I know the Oscars were a few weekends ago, but I was just thinking about how bad I felt for Marketa Irglova who was cut off before making her speech.
If some of you didn't see the speech, Glen Hansard made his speech and then while Marketa started to make hers they turned off her mic and the orchestra started playing. She then had to walk off the stage in embarrassment while they went to commercial.
During the commercial I just sat there in shock and couldn't stop talking about how horrible it was for them to do that! If you saw the movie...it was very good. Not something that I would have normally liked but the duo just did a miraculous job through out the movie. So since I had seen the movie a while ago I felt extremely bad for her, since I knew the story of where they came from.
So I was so glad to see, once the show came back on, that John Stewart brought Marketa out again to give her speech. Did anyone notice after she spoke, that the orchestra didn't start playing at all. I thought that was pretty funny.
I'm just surprised they didn't cut Robert F. Boyle's 6 minute speech short. The 98-year old made an amazing speech (despite some of his random comments "thanking Nicole Kidman") but he was so well spoken. If they would have cut a man who was receiving the honorary oscar, I don't know what I would have done....probably cried.
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cool post.
I agree.
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Just watched Once for the first time last night and I LOVED it! It was just so beautiful and the music was great. The chemistry between the guy and the girl was so tangable!
Did you know they are a couple in real life? It made me so happy to hear that for some reason, they're just so cute!
I saw Glen Hansard and his band, the Frames, open for the New Pornographers here in Indy at Radio Radio in late 2001. They were really good.
They're pretty fascist when it comes to cutting people off, but what disappointed me more was that they were actually going to let her talk. They stopped the music, but she was already leaving, so they started it back up.
But Stewart bringing her back out was probably the classiest thing I've ever seen in an Oscar telecast. I'm sure it wasn't planned, and it's the kind of thing where usually they'd sacrifice the winner's moment so that the host can do his next lame joke or whatever, and Stewart decided "screw it, they can have their moment."