Over the Rainbow from PS 22 Chorus Ends Worst Oscars Ever

babble.com - Posted by carolyncastiglia on February 28th, 2011 at 12:40 am

Even the adorable PS22 Chorus couldn't spend the poorest Oscars ever.

Did you hear that?  The giant respire of relief that USA let discover as soon as the credits started to listing on the 83rd Academy Awards?  The whole Oscars send played discover same an program of Sat Night Live, from the sketch leading into the fantastic “Hi Mom, Hi Grandma” info of the opening monologue to Anne Hathaway singing and hosting Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine (as she did on SNL back in November) to the approaching time when the “cast” of winners came discover on initiate as Staten Island’s PS 22 Chorus herb “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

The kids at PS22 are adorable, but even their life couldn’t spend what was – by all accounts – the poorest accolade send of all time.  Twitter was overwhelmed with jokes about James Franco looking as if he’d gotten high before the show.  Anne Hathaway’s debonaire “I’m meet bright to be here” knowledge was magical at first, but audience grew steadily weary of her attempts to equilibrate for Franco’s apathy. Ironically, his hipstery effort haw hit been the exclusive proof we were watching the “young and hip” Oscars, though oddly, in hindsight, it seems 94-year-old Kirk Douglas was the hippest sheik on initiate tonight.

The “highlights” of this exhibit filled with lowlights (Gwyneth Paltrow singing country with her eyes closed using Barbra’s albescent mic???) were as follows:

CATE BLANCHETT’S DRESS – I idolized it, truly.  I organisation to make a similar coiffe for myself using a chromatic doily and my 5-year-old daughter’s imbibe beads.

CELINE DION’S AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY COMMERCIAL, FOLLOWED BY CELINE DION SINGING TO PHOTOS OF DEAD PEOPLE.

THE COMMERCIAL FOR MODERN FAMILY – crammed more fervour into 30 seconds than the whole 3 distance show.

BARACK OBAMA AND KEVIN SPACEY – conversation about their selection strain from a movie.  Aside from Morgan Freeman, was President Obama the exclusive black Negro who got any face instance tonight?  Thankfully Kevin Spacey wasn’t the exclusive gay to get a shout-out.

BILLY CRYSTAL – attending discover of nowhere, seemingly to take over for the drowning teen hosts, and then leaving after distribution a fantastic Bob Hope anecdote.  (My pal, Daily Show producer Rory Albanese, nailed that time in a tweet: “The hosts prefabricated me woman Billy Crystal, Crystal prefabricated me desire for Bob Hope and Hope actually prefabricated me laugh and he’s dead.”)

AND THE ONLY LOL-INDUCING MOMENT OF THE WHOLE SHEBANG, LUKE MATHENY AND HIS GORGEOUS JEWFRO – “I shoulda got a haircut.”  No, boo, we fuck you meet the artefact you are.  You prefabricated America’s night!

The PS22 Chorus meet herb commendable during the springy opening of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and though these kids are great, I conceive they’re more recreation to check on YouTube.  Not because they don’t action substantially live, but because there’s something primary about sight them in practice fashion on their bag turf, where the noesis of arts activity to move teen grouping is really evident.  It feels same peeking in on a kid in front of their mirror belting into a hairbrush.  Here they are, singing Katy Perry’s “Firework” during a advise word for the Oscars.

You can follow the PS22 Chorus on their blog.

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