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From today EUR

STREETWATCH
Oh, What A Night!
This year's Oscars were too good to be true. Everything
happened exactly the way it should-including the situation with
Will Smith. He and Jada left the ceremony, left the dream-come-true moment of hearing his name announced among the Best Actor nominees, left Oscar history in the making-to tend to their baby girl who was sick with a 103 fever. Their daughter is okay.
This Streetwatch is dedicated to Will and Jada.

There was so much to comment on, we just numbered
them as they came to mind.

1) Did we really need Tom Cruise justifying acting post 9/11? He looked silly and pretentious, with his braces and his nominated
ex-wife staring a hole through him in the front row. Woody Allen's
NY speech, the NY film, the moment of silence and Whoopi's embroidered ode to the NYPD and NYFD at the end were perfect.
Tom's speech was over-the-top. Can the Pentagon victims get some love?

2) Ryan O'Neal was supposed to be minutes away from dying
last night, but rumors of his impending death from Leukemia were greatly exaggerated-We love remissions.

3) All of Gweneth Paltrow's people should be fired. Where were
they to tell her: a) stop slouching; b) we all can't wear our breasts out like that; c) the raccoon eyes were last year; d) the Miss Celie hairstyle isn't flattering; e) we all can't wear our breasts out like that. She shlepped on stage with the gait and carriage of a barnyard animal. Speaking of which...

4) Cameron Diaz's hair. It looked like she just had wild "Monster's Ball" sex in the limo before hitting the red carpet. She must've had the same hair stylist as...

5) J-Lo.

6) Donald Sutherland and Glenn Close, two distinguished, well-respected actors, were reduced to doing bumpers? Whose brilliant idea was this? They were a classed-up version of Kid Capri in the ol' Def Comedy Jam days.

7) Ian McKellen looked like a pedophile sitting there with his baby of a boyfriend. He's the gay, British R. Kelly with his own little "Lolito." Disturbing.

Now ...the personally satisfying moments. How perfect was
the following sequence of events:

8) Oprah has "a feeling" about Halle and Denzel, forgoes her Oscar-night tradition of watching at home in her pajamas while on the phone with Gayle, and actually flies out to LA for the Vanity Fair party.

9) Halle Berry, absolutely stunning in the most beautiful dress in the room, wins, cries, struggles up the stairs, cries, eventually mentions Oprah in speech.

10) Cut to Vanity Fair party: Oprah cries a false eyelash onto the table watching Halle in her moment.

11) Julia Roberts in Newsweek last month: "I can't fathom a world where I have an Oscar and Denzel Washington does not."

12) Julia Roberts presents Denzel Washington his Best Actor Award.

13) Denzel acknowledges the path forged by Sidney Poitier.

14) Sidney Poitier happens to be in the house fresh off of the best Oscar speech ever made.

15) Poitier's Honorary Award just so happened to be presented to him by Denzel Washington.

16) Vivica A Fox's name comes out of Halle Berry's mouth during the 2nd best Oscar speech ever made.

17) Cut to Vanity Fair party: Vivica is sitting with hubby Six-Nine watching Halle accept her award, hears her name, grabs her man's arm and begins to weep as hard as Halle.