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Oscar
Is it me . . . or is awarding Martin Scorsese an Oscar for The Departed a bit like nailing Al Capone for tax evasion? I suppose it beats damning him with a hastily arranged Honorary Award - Ennio Morricone looked singularly unimpressed with his having failed to land a statuette in 30 years of scoring top films. He got his revenge by making a speech in Italian with Clint Eastwood, a man who enjoyed a huge career boost with help from Morricone's famous score in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, translating in a somewhat haphazard style.
I know, I know . . . the Oscars hardly warrant a mention in our Culture section . . . but Pan's Labyrinth picked up a clutch and Al Gore's Eco Warrior documentary An Inconvenient Truth was honoured, which in some odd way gives me a glimmer of hope for the future.
Finally hats off to Helen 'get yer kit orf' Mirren, possibly the only woman on Earth who could make E. Windsor look horny. She's single-handedly created the headline all BBC outlets craved last night - 'British Triumph At Oscars!'
I'm off for a lie down.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph
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