Cameras ready, red carpet dry, celebrities in full bloom …it must be Oscar night at Casa de Canterbury! Whoopee…yawn. Another year, another Big Awards Show. Be still, my heart. No seriously – be still or Pretty will throw you out of the bleacher seats. Heh, heh. That Pretty. She loves her some movies and a good Awards Show.
Julia Roberts on the red carpet – she was nominated
(wearing black lace Givenchy)
Charlize Theron in front of Oscar she wasn’t nominated for
(wearing Dior and accessorizes with a 31-carat diamond necklace)
Law, you rich folks.
The Red Man watching at Casa de Canterbury
(wearing blue Puppia – accessorizes with matching
blue bone-shaped name tag)
So it was Ellen Does the Oscars Night in Hollywood for this year’s last hurrah for the Awards Seasons. At our casa held together by my two favorite lesbians the old woman Slow and Pretty, having Ellen host the Oscars is like having the Pope give a papal blessing from his balcony in the Vatican. Amen, Sisters!!
Most Famous Lesbian Ellen hosts Oscars
(she’s got Happy written all over her face – and why not?
Highest number of viewers for this telecast in a decade)
Julia Roberts thinks Ellen is very funny
(she didn’t win Oscar for Best Supporting Actress)
June Squibb thinks Ellen is funny, too
(she didn’t win Best supporting Actress, either
but she’s 84 years old and just happy to be alive)
I’d rate Ellen an A+ for her opening monologue and festive attire. Leave it to the Head Lesbian to not wear a dress. Yikes! The mind reels with the image of Ellen in a dress.
OMG – it’s Ellen in a dress!
Now that’s funny. The Red Man thinks she’s gone a little too far over the rainbow in this dress which she wore after a person named Pink sang the classic tune from The Wizard of Oz in honor of the 75th Anniversary of Dorothy and her yellow brick road.
Pink sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow
(just beautiful – oh yes and the song, too)
Bette Midler brought her A game
Thank God for you, Bette –
you’re still the wind beneath The Red Man’s paws
Ellen ordered pizza for anyone who was hungry
(and/or the most famous)
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts preferred cheese
Next she gathered a group for a Selfie
Easier said than done apparently
Finally the Tweet that stopped Twitter!
And so Amigos, this is what we’ve come to at the Oscars – Ellen tweets a Selfie to a gazillion people watching all over the world – and the Tweeter burps. A minor hiccup with a speedy recovery but nevertheless a blip on the radar screen of cyberspace.
And btw, as the evening wore on and the Celebrities snacked on pizza, Pretty licked her Sugar Daddies. Heh, heh. For those of you who are clueless about Sugar Daddies, they are caramel candies on a stick and you can buy them at the Mast General Store where Pretty works downtown on Main Street. She loves them.
The old woman Slow was our photographer for the evening and is clearly still not the Ansel Adams of digital camera pictures. Shit house mouse. Can she do anything right?
And as everybody who had anything to do with the Best Picture 12 Years a Slave crowded around director Steve McQueen and producer Brad Pitt as they clutched their golden statues, the curtain came down on another Awards Season.
Bravo! Paw Snaps and Twirls to all the Winners and Losers wherever they may be celebrating or commiserating – it was a great year for the movies and…
The Stars were shining bright
In the skies over Hollywood tonight.
Get me outta here Percy…I’m a poet and don’t know it…catch you next year Movie Lovers…
Red's Rants and Raves 
I watched the Oscars also and enjoyed it. I want that movie 12 days a slave so bad I can taste it!!!
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My dear friend Terry, this is not the best time for you to watch the Best Picture…it’s a hard movie to watch…if you do see it, pick a day that’s a better one for you! I saw Nebraska twice – an unbelievably funny movie. If I had a vote, that’s probably the one I would have picked…I think you’d really enjoy it! 🙂
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I’m counting on you to do a review of next months Academy of Country Music Awards. It will be way better than anything I could write. I’ll be waiting.
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Alas, plgcm, I will have to rely on you for that review! You will do a great job!! I’m afraid my love of country music is for the classics in the days when the only bands were a couple of guitars, a fiddle, a banjo and occasionally a wonderful harmonica. I will watch for sure but The Red Man won’t know enough to entertain you. We will wait for yours…:)
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Red Man, four paws down, you were the best dressed last night. It’s hard to look macho in those Puppia harnesses, but is there nothing you aren’t stunning in?!
Ma was glad to see Julia Roberts attacking a slice of pizza. She needs a good feeding.
As always we enjoy your unique take on award shows and other annual events. Sugar Daddies! Ma says the Mast General Store is drawing her like a magnet!!
Love to you and your pawsome family.
Miss Poppy Seed and Cassie Potatoes
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Oh Miss Poppy Seed and Cassie Potatoes,
Four paws down – we are laughing out loud tonight for your high praise and thanking our lucky stars for our friends in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania! We also hope you are staying toasty warm with your Ma and Granny.
Unfortunately, this will be brief because I sneaked into Pretty’s pocketbook tonight after everyone went upstairs and managed to snag a sack of chocolate malted milk balls before anyone suspected. I fear I may have a long night. I can’t remember how many I ate. 😦
And yes, they are sold along with the Sugar Daddies at the General Store, too.
Those candy barrels rock!! 🙂
Love to you all, too!!
The Red Man
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What a great evening. Ellen was amazing! 😀
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Yes, many of our friends talk about how BORiNG the Oscars are every year, but we absolutely watch them every year – and with gusto!! Ellen was fun and set the tone for a less stuffy affair – made the Stars avoid taking themselves too seriously!
So glad you enjoyed them, too – Cate Blanchett was a great Australian Ambassador for the Sydney theater!!
Keep writing…and thank you for stopping by for our foolishness…:)
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Wish we had the staying power but the show is on too late for us. Having Ellen host was nearly enough though! With this review Red Man, we almost feel we did – bravo 😀
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Thank you very much, O couriers of all animals across The Pond! We appreciate the sentiment here at Casa de Canterbury where we must endure the movie mania that reaches fever pitch during the months leading up to the Oscars while the two daft lesbians chase their own tails (hm…maybe not the Best Picture for your minds) as they attempt to see all nominated films. And not just SEE them, but discuss them for days!!
Ellen was really good, though, so maybe you can catch the opening monologue in cyberspace somewhere!
Safe Travels today and thank you for your encouragement!!
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Hey gals, you saw all of the films? Impressed! Not many make it here to france in original language so we tend to miss a lot 😦
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Hey, I actually saw more of them than Teresa this year, which is unusual but I lived in a “big city” in Columbia during the Oscar movies releases this year so managed to catch a couple of matinees when T was working. She missed Philomena and Captain Phillips, but I saw and enjoyed both. We love to go to the movies and it’s been fun this year. I totally get not wanting to watch dubbed films. Me, either.
Teresa loves to go to watch subtitled foreign films – we saw The Great Beauty a couple of weeks ago and she really loved it. I try so hard to read the subtitles I probably miss a lot, too! 🙂
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When we were in London we went every week. It’s the one thing, other than a good curry, we miss here 😦
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Oh yes, and we did see Blue is the Warmest Color this year – Teresa managed to see that one twice! I opted for one – I feared my heart couldn’t take two!! 🙂
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Red Man! I heard you were super nervous during the Oscars? All the papparatzi (sp?) is wearing on you I guess?
I get nervous too at Oscar’s Parties too due to an unfortunate “remote control incident” a few years back.
Safe travels to Texas!!
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Yes, exactly so…it’s hard to lead a “normal” life when the old woman Slow is running around taking pictures!! Gets on my last nerve…unfortunately, I believe I was present when the “remote control incident at Bee Ridge” took place. Oh, my. Even The Red Man was appalled. 🙂
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Oh, Red Man, may I say that you look totally hot in your Oscar attire? There, I said it, and I even think that Miss Joan Rivers would be hard pressed to find anything to criticize. 🙂 My human mommy is obsessed with Bette Midler, and loved seeing her on the show . . . that and the starved-star feeding frenzy when that pizza arrived!
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Oh Miss Harper Lee, you may indeed shower The Red Man with praise for being a Hot Dog on Oscar night!! However, I’m sure Miss Joan Rivers would detect a flaw or make some unflattering comment. Frankly my dear, etc. 🙂
Wasn’t Bette Midler the BEST??!! Slow absolutely adores her, too!! She was fabulous…
And thank goodness Ellen thought to bring pizzas for those poor people…Geez Louise. How long had it been since they’d eaten?? 🙂
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Red Man, you looked smashing!!!! We didn’t watch the Oscars, but Ellen is so funny!!!! I would have liked to have seen the part where she orders pizza…classic!!!! Have a wonderful rest of the week!!!! Hugs
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Thanks very much for the compliment, Trev! Of course, no one could ever be as cute as you, my dear boy! But Ellen was very funny, and the pizza thing was just what you said: classic!! Take care and love to all of your family…:)
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