Eric's Oscar Tweet-age

Tweets from Oscar night coverage by Tampa Bay Times TV/Media Critic Eric Deggans

  1. Regardless of how you feel about who won #Oscars, there's little doubt the telecast was terrible: bit.ly/xRjaZa
  2. Ojh my god, Edgar Winter just won Best Cinematography Oscar for Hugo! congrats! #Oscar.
  3. Zach Galifanakis sez he's wearing Garanimals at #Oscars. And I don't think he's joking...
  4. Cool idea: RT @ilyseh: Attending an Oscar watch party in LA with domestic workers inspired by The Help. Will tweet as it goes. #bethehelp
  5. Why Viola Davis shuld go with the 'Fro tonight: RT @ebertchicago: She hopes Viola Davis rocks her natural hair tonight. bit.ly/zDljXL
  6. Is it me, or does Nick Nolte look like a homeless drifter Karl Lagerfeld dressed up in one of his old tuxedoes? #Oscar
  7. It's all explained: RT @Nick_Nolte: I keep these sunglasses on so people can't see how dilated my pupils are from the ether.
  8. I agree with Jess Cagle that Bradley Cooper can do it all...except pull off that porn star moustache he's wearing now #Oscars
  9. Was SO hoping Tim Gunn would wrestle Brad Pitt to the ground and force a good haircut/shave on him. #Oscars
  10. Memo to ABC: Don't put curse words in the names of your new shows if you don't have the stones to air them #GCB, #TheBinapartment23 #Oscars
  11. Martin Scorsese's kid looked like she'd rather be hanging with Justin Bieber than watching Billy Crystal serenade her father. #Oscars
  12. This #Oscars montage seems to say: "Remember when people actually watched the movies we nominated?"
  13. Whoever decided to lead #Oscars with cinematography, set dressing and makeup awards should be forced to watch Jack and Jill. For a week.
  14. Octavia Spencer gets standng O: "Thank you academy for putting me with the hottest guy in the room." #Oscars
  15. Wish I could tell Octavia Spencer she just won an #Oscar. she can tell the guy telling her to wrap to eat some of that pie from the Help.
  16. Crystal: "When I came out of The Help I wanted to hug the first black woman I saw. Which, in Beverly hills was a 45 minute drive." #Oscars
  17. Word. RT @BorowitzReport: "The Oscars seem totally overhyped." -- Jeremy Lin #Oscars
  18. And the #Oscar for being totally committed to a not-so-funny Oscar bit goes to...Emma Stone and Robert Downey Jr.
  19. Christopher Plummer wins supporting actor #Oscar; gets standing O as oldest person to win. Nick Nolte looks like he wants to shiv him.

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Eric Deggans

TV/Media Critic for Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times; occasional NPR commentator and author of new book, Race-Baiter: How Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation. http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/media/

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