WEARY, BUT STILL UNDEFEATED

By Dan Miller
February 26, 2007

Somehow I made it through the entire 12 hours of the Oscar show.
Actually, I shaved it down a bit with the old digital recording gimmick.
You know the trick.... you start your digital recorder, then go out for a leisurely dinner.
While you're out, you avoid all television sets, so the long viewing ahead will still be full of surprises.

When you're back home and settled in, you simply start playback at the beginning of the show, while the final few hours of the telecast are still being recorded.
As long as your viewing doesn't catch up to real time, you can fast forward through any parts you don't want to watch, and this will trim the Academy Awards show down to a more bearable 7 or 8 hours duration.

The Academy Awards is, without question, the longest -- generally dullest -- telecast that most of us, for some reason, feel compelled to watch.
I hope you did well in the office pool.

Anyhow, what America really wants to know is.... who picked best, my co-anchor Demetria or me?

Well, out of the six categories, we each went 4 and 2.

We both missed Best Picture.... Demetria had selected "Letters From Iwo Jima"... while I selected "Babel".
The winner, of course, was "The Departed".

Demetria missed on Best Supporting Actor.
She selected Eddie Murphy, while I -- correctly -- picked Alan Arkin.

I was wrong on Best Actor.
I picked Peter O'Toole, while Demetria went with the winner, Forest Whitaker.

It was a tie.
I remain undefeated.

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