brought back the old days of song and dance. and i know i m old-time on this, but i thought bob hope and johnny carson were fabulous. i know everybody likes billy crystal. he brought back show biz. he really tried. there were over-the-top jokes about getting into lincoln s heads. coming back 50 years later singing goldfinger. i was trying to calculate it. the movie came out no, it was like 65. i saw it freshman year. i m telling you, it was old. 50 years ago. they call her the tom jones of tiger bay. she s an amazing figure. and barbra streisand coming back doing the way we were. what a great tribute that was. i thought it was great hollywood last night. really rich. and it s a great year for movies. mike was hoping for ursula andress to make her big comeback. a tremendous year for movies. every movie nominated was a
terrific movie. the interesting aspect one of the interesting aspects, to your point, david, we got all caught up, a lot of us, over the last five or six months on the historical narratives in the movies. it caused me to think maybe we re doing that because we live in a culture and a country now where very few people really pay in-depth attention to current events in history on many sad occasions is so poorly taught by schools. the height of this kind of debate came with the jfk movie by oliver stone which was lunacy. conspiracy thinking at the lowest level. and yet there s no doubt about it, oliver stone knows what he s doing as a filmmaker. you couldn t not watch that thing. and i understand we shouldn t get our history there, but unfortunately a lot of people do. this is not only how americans see ourselves sometimes. this is how the world sees america. the impact, the power, the soft power. you want to talk about soft
power. all the satellite dishes in the arab world. i think it s true. but i don t think we should hold film i think filmmakers should be held to the terms that they re doing it on. if the filmmakers of zero dark thirty tell us that this is the absolute historical journalistic truth, then their feet ought to be held to the fire. i didn t say it was anybody in particular. they claim that was kennedy. by the way, the best movies ever are not really ak are rccurate. laurence of arabia is my favorite movie. tv laurence wasn t even accurate was the basis for that film. you can t improve on that movie. biography s coming back, i noti notice, jon meacham s books, o reilly s books, anything on biography now, i think he s going to what do you call it jumping the shark, now we re going to killing jesus. i don t think that s going to work. oh, no, it will work. it will sell. i think it s the same
they re the two greatest actors we have right now. you get the feeling they could pull it off. meryl streep as lincoln would be brilliant. i d go to that movie. daniel day-lewis and meryl streep, without a doubt, are in a class by themselves. absolutely. as larry bird once said in the three-point contest, everybody else is playing for second. it was great seeing those two together last night. mm-hmm. it was a nice moment. rounding out the top awards, jennifer lawrence took best actress for her performance in silver linings playbook. i was really happy to see that. anne hathaway won best supporting actress. christoph waltz took home best supporting actor. there were lots of dresses. i don t know how to talk to you all about dresses. i know you re going to say something lewd. this is charlize theron, that s beautiful. anne hathaway had a beautiful dress on. well, me and jessie rodriguez were on the phone when she came out. we didn t agree.
carrying people around in dog collars? they ve mixed what we do, you know, and having them in dark dungeons when actually they were very clean, you know. john mccain is not the left. john mccain had real problems with this. john mccain is another issue altogether on the subject. i m not going to go there. i m just saying, i agree with your point. we haven t heard the other side of this also, chris, which is there s some abu ghraib in zero dark thirty. and i think coming both ways, this is a movie that wasn t going to win it at the end because of the backlash. yeah. i think i think the academy awards you were saying is really our second great mood ring, like our presidential elections. they really tell us so much about ourselves. they focus on race in the two big movies. django and lincoln. all about slavery. the first time i ve ever seen a plantation since gone with the wind. this was realistic. i thought seth macfarlane