happy early half birthday, Kim!

yup, apparently the tv gods decided to celebrate your half birthday this year, Ms. KT. I give you:

Glee



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Gaga

(Glaga???)

for all my fellow nerds

this shit's sweet (though I think Colbert still wins for my favorite cover of this song). Gotta love a little Star Wars mixed with some Jay-Z with just a dash of Leia hair-bun headphones...

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

thanks to Cole for the link!

You know what? I'm just gonna say it...

I can't fucking wait to see Clash of the Titans. Go ahead, mock me. I'm not ashamed. I'm a smart girl; I see smarty-pants movies. My favorite movie of last year was a documentary about dolphin slaughter in Japan. And, currently, Clash of the Titans is the movie I am most excited about this year (keep in mind, it's still early). I've got the release date marked on my calendar. I make people shut up when the commercial comes on. I'm that girl. For some inexplicable reason I grew up with the original (somehow my sister did not, and sometimes I cry a little for her). I mean, come on.

I've taken some heat for this. Apparently you do not all agree (your loss, dudes). And it's very possible that a week from Friday, this link will tell me that the critics aren't on my side, either. But, seriously, tell me you don't want to watch this, i dare you:


sometimes I just need to air these things out with friends.

Health care: as brought to you by It's Always Sunny...

The voice of a nation- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...

honestly i enjoyed this WAY more than anything i saw from our "hosts" at this year's oscars

(with the notable exception of the snuggie bit. snuggies???? hilarious!)



BRING BACK JACKMAN!

"that totally explains the wolf thing!!!"- nancy case

are you ready for the best thing you've ever seen?? you sure? cause I don't know that you are. prepare yourself... after searching high and low for taylor lautner's twin...



...he has officially been located:



I'm not sure who the first person who spotted this was, but I'm pretty sure they deserve some sort of medal or something.

and, yes, upon seeing it my sister straight-faced, with an intensity usually reserved for Cage eyes, "That totally explains the wolf thing!!"

Happy St. Patty's Day!

I actually feel pretty dirty about posting this somewhat offensive bastardization of one of my all time favorite movies (and characters! I heart you, Jack Skellington), but it is holiday appropriate...

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

today in things i would see:

In case you didn't have any time to go to the movies in 2009...

But still want to know how they all end...

No, seriously, these guys are going to ruin 50 movies for you in 4 minutes. Like, the important (in some case, surprise) ending of each. It's impressive, but you have been officially spoiler-warned.

your betty white dreams have come true

The glorious Ms. White will be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 8th. The special Mother's Day episode also includes the return of many other fabulous former SNL ladies: Tina Fey (who will also be hosting an episode in April), Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch. Let's just hope they fully utilize her talents- myself, I'm hoping for a Samberg/White digital short.

Let's sit back and remember her fabulous SAG speech (which also makes me think, why the hell didn't we have Betty White do Sandra Bullock's introduction at the Oscars???)

lady gaga f/ beyonce: absurdity at its finest!!!!

and i present to you telephone, the latest from our little monster, lady gaga!!

tracking down the RDJ/Tina Fey awesomeness

... as referenced in the post Oscar Day post, one of our favorite moments in an otherwise lackluster Oscar ceremony was Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr.'s presentation of the screenplay awards. You can find it in all its glory here (at least until the Oscar fascists find it and take it down...)

OMG, I think I might have found my soul mate

I am in love with whoever created these. Movie quotes in graphic form??? Swoon...



(I can't get it any bigger and have it still be clear enough to read, but if you click on the image you'll get an enlarged view...)

i love her

I mean, certainly there are better people to direct it at, but she's a charmer.

Vanity Fair afterparty

all sorts of good stuff here, I do love seeing celebrities hang out with each other when there's booze involved...

Renner and Bigelow adorably appreciating their excess of golden men...


Gabourey Sidibe (looking amazing!) hanging out with spike lee


Sandy and her hot husband arriving at the show
(with Oscar)


Weirdest group of the night?
Stiller, Taylor, Ribisi, and Beck


I stand corrected. THIS is the weirdest group of the night.
What do you think Buzz Aldrin and Shaun White talk about?
Is Shaun giving him tips for Dancing With the Stars?


this is me fantasizing that they're discussing NPH's upcoming appearance on Glee, or possibly talking about being new best friends.
sigh...


And the only thing that could beat NPH and Matthew Morrison for Jessica's favorite pairing of the party? This adorable shot of Renner and Mulligan. Personally, Carey, I think he's way better for you than Shia LaBeouf. :)

OD2010: red carpet showdown!!!

the show sucked, but the fashion delivered! here are some of our favs from the big day!

vera farmiga in marchesa

mo'nique in tadashi shoji.
the gardenia in her hair was a gift from a friend of
hattie mcdaniel's family.
AMAZING!

nancy's spirit animal in chris march

luciana damon in salvatore ferragamo

kristen stewart is pretty intolerable, but she's rockin' this
monique lhuillier gown.
well done, weirdo.

elizabeth banks in versace

demi moore in atelier versace

this is getting panned, but we LOVE carey's prada gown!

sandy in marchesa.
the beads are vintage & were hand-placed.
LOVE!

Anyone else miss Hugh Jackman?

Oh, Oscar Day. How I hate when you are over. 364 days until the next one. sigh. Of course, you do make it slightly easier when you are like last night. Because, while I was happy with the winners (although my dream of a Colin Firth upset went unrealized), the show itself was so bleh. (See a story or list of the winners)

Let's start with the opening. Frankly, all I got out of it was why is NPH not hosting this show? Because his opening number was the best "host" type thing of the night. Baldwin and Martin? All my fears from the original announcement of you guys as hosts came true. Boring, not very funny, and the pace of the show ground to a halt whenever you were onstage. Your opening shtick went on about 15 people longer than it should have (the first 2 or so minutes are glorious NPH time, the rest, well...):



Then you did that weird dance thing for the nominees for Best Score. Did you really think that would engage people more than the Best Song performances you eliminated? Because, if so, you should not be producing awards shows. Further evidence in that you gave about 4 minutes to horror movies (which basically reminded us why horror movies aren't well represented at the Oscars (and, by the way, the Twilight movies are NOT horror movies)), and like 6 minutes to John Hughes (while leaving Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur off of the "In Memoriam" video). All of these led to a rushed finale for the Hurt Locker's big win and an anticlimactic feel to the end of the show.

There were some highlights. Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. were fantastic (shocking). Once I can find some video of that we'll get it up here. (UPDATE: Video located! Watch it here) And Sandy Bullock's speech was as charming as we could have hoped for.



We'll be talking about red-carpet fashion later, but i wanted to get some of our initial thoughts out to the interwebs. So, tell us, what did you think?

Oscar Day song!!!

In case you can't understand us (I can't imagine why that would be, so we squeezed in a few extra syllables) for the first time ever for public consumption, here are the Oscar Day song lyrics...

It's the most wonderful day of the year,
There'll be outfits for mocking
While Seacrest is gawking
When red carpet's here!
It's the most wonderful day of the year.

It's the hap-happiest day of the year,
With celebrity styling
And Hanks will be smiling
'Cause he's always there!
It's the hap-happiest day of the year.

It's the most wonderful day of the year,
There'll be Hurt Locker backlash
And Oscar/Razzie whiplash
For Sandy's pair!
It's the most wonderful day of the year.

There'll be Basterds for toasting,
Blog comments for posting,
As Kathryn tries to beat the men...
There'll be new voting rules,
That screw Oscar pools,
While 10 nominees vie to win!!!

It's the hap-happiest season of all,
There'll be James Cameron speeches
With Na'vi he preaches
He sees us all!!

It's the hap-happiest day...
It's the most wonderful time...
It's the most wonderful day of the year!!!

Happy Oscar Day!!!

It's the most wonderful day of the year! If you need help getting in the Oscar mood, 3pies4rolls favorite Cracked.com has provided a genius overview with a trailer for every Oscar movie ever...

charm incarnate

I know who I'm rooting for tonight for Best Actress. And her name is Charming McSandyBullock. Sandy is going for history tonight, trying to become the first person to win both an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year. And, showing just how awesome she is, she showed up last night to accept her Razzie (not something that people normally do). Let's just hope we get another Bullock speech tonight!!!

stay classy, oscars

life magazine has compiled some of it's best oscar photos. they're all black and white jobbers of the olden days. some of my faves are below, enjoy!

are you as nerdy about the oscars as i am?

chances are that if your name isn't kim or jess...you're answer is a big fat no. that's cool man, we still like you. no hard feelings. you can still hang out. sometimes.

ANYWAY, even if you're not as nerdy as us you may still wanna check out this darn entertaining story about how oscar got it's nickname ("what's the difference between the oscars and the academy awards?") and how much that sucker weighs. enjoy!

singing my song with his words

this awesome comic pretty much describes EXACTLY how i feel about the best actor category this year. first off, bridges is gonna win. there'll be no shocker there. secondly, let's be real people. bridges should have won for lebowski, end of story. but the academy screwed it up and he didn't, and they feel bad about it and this year he did a character movie where he had to sing and pretend to be drunk and he was good (as usual) so they're gonna make up for the huge ass mistake they made 12 years ago and give it to him. and i guess i'll feel pretty ok about it cause i love me some bridges.

but...the thing is that someone else seriously deserves to win. and that someone is colin firth in a single man. he's unbelievable in that movie and although i hate to say it, he's way better than the dude this year. c'mon academy, don't listen to the chicken! give it to firth!

here endeth the rant.

that's a bingo!

looking for a way to add even MORE fun to watching the oscars this weekend? seems impossible, i know! but the good folks at How about orange... have really stepped it up a notch with 2009 specific BINGO CARDS! they're PDF's and they rule. download 'em HERE (they've also provided a link to official ballots! a chance to impress your friends with all of the useful info you've learned from reading 3pies4rolls, oh my!).



many thanks to hot tipper sarah!

Nancy's Tippy Top Ten List of 2009!

Better late than never, right? I submit, for your consideration, my top ten of 2009! (p.s. if you haven't already check out jess' and kim's lists of awesomeness!).

That's What I'm Talking About sound bite Zoolander sound bites

THE LIST:

1. The Cove
2. A Single Man
3. Inglorious Bastards
4. I Love You, Man
5. Away We Go
6. The Damned United
7. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
8. An Education
9. Michael Jackson's This Is It & Zombieland (tie)
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox


HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Avatar, Coraline, Crazy Heart, District 9, Every Little Step, Herb and Dorothy, In the Loop, Julie & Julia, Precious: based on the novel push by sapphire, Sherlock Holmes, Sin Nombre, Star Trek, The Blind Side, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Informant!, The Messenger, The Proposal, The Young Victoria, This American Life, Live!, Up, Where the Wild Things Are.


BONUS FEATURES:

Dude who had a very good year: Woody Harrelson

Movie that was waaay not as bad as I thought it was gonna be: Wolverine.

The charming king of charmingstown: THIS short film. Best 12 minutes you'll spend today.

Movie that can GET BENT: The Lovely Bones & The Class (tie!)

Best way to watch a good movie while instantly improving your karma: buying a copy of the documentary Turning Points from your local Real Change vendor today! More info (including trailer) HERE.

Most amazing impression of a waste of space actress done by a sister who's first name ends in ica: enjoy below! (the magic happens about 12 secs in...and for a reference of what the hell I'm talking about go HERE or HERE)!

Things to consider when filling out your Oscar ballot...

which you'll all clearly be doing, right? Either way, this is good info for making your Oscar predictions.



The increase in Best Picture nominations from 5 to 10 has gotten a lot of coverage and critique. I'm withholding judgment until I see how it plays out, mostly because of the big change that gets overlooked- not only has the number of nominees increased, but the rules for how they will be chosen have changed as well. In the old system, you simply voted for which film you thought should win, and the movie that got the most votes won Best Picture. However, they (rightly, in my opinion) realized this wouldn't work for 10 nominations, because a movie could win with as little as 11% of the vote. Now, let's face it, it's not going to be that close (anyone out there think The Blind Side or District 9 are going to get almost as many votes as The Hurt Locker or Avatar?). But the rules still had to be changed. So here's what happens, courtesy of the BBC:

"Instead of choosing a single winner, Academy members have been asked to rank the 10 titles on their ballot form from 1 to 10.

Their ballots will then be sorted into 10 piles, based on which films they have placed in pole position.

If no movie wins more than 50% of the vote - a statistical unlikelihood - the film with the least number of first-choice votes will be knocked out of contention.

Its ballots will then be redistributed among the remaining candidates, based on which movies their owners have ranked in second place.

If there is still no movie with a 51% majority, the procedure will be repeated with the movie ranked ninth. Then eighth. Then seventh.

Eventually one movie will have an unassailable lead - even if it takes second, third or even fourth choices to achieve it."

Yup, that's how they're deciding the Best Picture this year. Meaning a movie could theoretically win without having the largest number of first place votes. So the real question is, whose favor does it work in? Is a voter who put one of the movies that's eliminated first, say The Blind Side, more likely to have voted for Avatar or The Hurt Locker in second place? Is a District 9 supporter a sci-fi person in general, thus making them more likely to have Avatar as number 2? Is this how Inglourious Basterds is going to sneak through and be the surprise of the night?

Personally, I think it helps Avatar the most, because it's the type of movie that people loved but might not want to put first, although it seems I'm in the minority on that opinion. I guess we'll see. 6 days to Oscar Day!!!

Glee live!

while all your attention should currently be focused on movies, top tens, and oscars, I just had to share this little tidbit- apparently the cast of Glee is hitting the road!

Sadly no Seattle date as of yet- there are currently only dates in Phoenix, LA, Chicago, and New York (no offense to my Arizona hometown, but one of these things is not like the other ones). Hopefully they'll be adding more!