We spent the morning watching the 2012 Oscars. The Oscars began at 8:00 AM and finished at 12:30PM Tuesday morning. What a contrast, in Los Angeles it was a Monday evening affair with evening gowns and tuxedos. That is like Superbowl Monday.
I was thrilled "The Artist" won best film because the movie was filmed in black and white and was a silent picture. Mary Pickford thought silent films trained people how to act. I also had a student tell me last semester that he would never watch a silent film and nothing in black and white. That was the past and the films are boring. We are seeing many adds and commercials in black and white especially in high end stores.
We have seen a few of the winning movies. We loved "The Descendant," "Midnight in Paris" and "The Help" We headed to the movies this afternoon to see Meryl Streep who won best actress in "The Iron Lady" We thought she did a great job as Margret Thacher, but I am ready to see the other films to compare.
On the last Sunday of the month they have the Little Penang Street Market. We stopped and listened to a Malaysian lady who did a wonderful Connie Francis. She sang a lot of other old rock and roll songs but was at her best singing Connie Francis.
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