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Editor's Note: Join us on Twitter during the Oscars! We're using #blogher #oscars -- bring on the Academy Awards commentary ...
Hollywood is in countdown mode in preparation for the 82nd Academy Awards, airing Sunday, March 7. You can almost hear the rip of wax strips and tweezers all the way from L.A, can't you?
The shuffling of index cards as the nominees prepare to thank their beloveds and beloved politicos, just in case? Oh, to be a fly on Tarantino's wall as he plots the siege he hopes to take. To hear Tom Ford's detailed melancholic observations on the process. To watch Penelope Cruz try on dress after lovely dress, still searching for just the right cleavage to cradle her bosom for the evening.
Alas, I will not be there.
But, a close second: I'll have the best seat in the house via social media, because I'll be sitting next to the legions of smart and funny stargazers who watch the Oscars en masse. Some start as early as the red carpet pre-show and tweet or comment thread their bad selves on through the last orchestral strains. As charming as I hope hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will be (oh, please, hear my prayers and make these boys funny or the night will be long indeed), I know that the comments I find online will be infinitely more entertaining. Pop culture? Fashion? Art? Media? The Academy Awards is all of that, and bloggers consume it all, reflect, analyze, dissect, snark, metabolize and -- wham -- instantaneously turn that sucker inside out in 140 or less.
Like I said, second best seat in the house. The best seat would be in between Colin Firth and Meryl Streep. But second best is a pretty sweet sandwich too, between Chatter and Twitter and checking on my favorite entertainment websites after the party.
To get warmed up, I checked in on some of my favorite po-mo award show social media mo-fos to get their pre-Oscar thoughts.
SUZY SORO
L.A. comedian Suzy Soro blogs with authority, insider knowledge and a healthy slug of bitterness at Hollywood: Where Hot Comes to Die.
What are you wearing Oscar night? An orange jumpsuit. (See next question.)
What will you be eating and drinking? Takeout food and water. My sister runs her place like a minimum security prison.
Who would you put money on for Best Actress? Sandra Bullock just because it's "her turn." Hollywood is run like the second grade.
Best Actor? Jeff Bridges because everyone says so.
Best Film? If I didn't want The Hurt Locker to win, then I need to throw away my Betty Friedan Handbook.
Are any nominees in Timeout For Bad Behavior with you? It's Hollywood, they're all in time out.
Who will wear the fugliest dress, you just know it? Meryl Streep, who is always dressed by someone's dead grandmother.
Favorite John Hughes film? Ferris Bueller's Day Off. When Matthew Broderick comes out of his bathroom with a towel on his head I laugh every time.
Where will you be? I'll be watching with my sister and live tweeting from her place in Santa Monica. I can never watch the Oscars with more than one other person because people DON'T KNOW WHEN TO SHUT THE FUCK UP.
BOSSY
As John Cusack's probably-favorite girlfriend, Bossy knows Hollywood like nobody's business. She blogs at Alpha Mom and at her homebase, i am bossy, where you can read all about her (No) Book Tour 2010. Now THAT is the kind of media savvy you want to sit next to.
What are you wearing Oscar night? Bossy will be wearing a Great Dane stole. Oh wait, that's not a stole, that's just errant dog hair.
What will you be eating and drinking? Yes. Both. Bossy's alcohol will have alcohol in it. And the food will be wrapped in other food and plunged into sauces made from pureed food.
Who would you put money on for Best Actress? Bossy would put money on Meryl Streep for best actress, but only because the others are too skinny and the money would just slide right off.
Best Actor? Bossy would put money on George Clooney. Not because he delivered the best performance. But because Bossy knows right where she would tuck that money on George Clooney and Is it hot in here?
Best Film? Bossy's Very Educated Guess for Best
