A Team Effort
The Coen brothers got their due as directors last night at the Academy Awards where No Country for Old Men collected four Oscars including Best Picture. They’ve been at it a while, directing for close to 25 years since Blood Simple, but that’s not to say their win was overdue. This just happened to be their most balanced and mature work, if not their best. The Bourne Ultimatum also won three, for editing and sound, and that, combined with Ratatouille’s win for Animated Best Feature meant one third of the awards were of movies I had seen. The Netflix queue got a number of additions during the ceremony including three from the Coens’ back catalog and Michael Clayton, so there’s no lack of DVDs to watch in the upcoming evenings.
On at the same time as the ceremony, the visiting Lakers defeated the Seattle Supersonics 111-91, completing a perfect weekend of back-to-back victories that started with a 113-95 suppression of the Clippers on Saturday night. Purple and Gold are riding an eight game winning streak and have really begun to gel as a team, so much so that Kobe’s third quarter ejection last night for arguing with a referee wasn’t even much of an issue when all was said and done. After enduring their long road trip, LA gets to reap the rewards with six of their next eight games home at Staples, starting Tuesday against the Portland Trailblazers.
LA earned some different accolades as our tap water won the 18th Annual Berkeley Springs Water Tasting, held in West Virginia. 120 different entries from ten countries competed and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California came out on top, tied with water from the Canadian town of Clearbrook, British Columbia, so don’t be afraid to get your H2O fresh from the faucet the next time you’re parched. Parents, watch out for the evil talking Elmo doll that was discovered in Florida last week. The programmable Elmo Knows Your Name toy has taken to threatening the life of its owner, reminiscent of “The Living Doll” episode of The Twilight Zone with Kojak himself, Telly Savalas. Wear & Tear can guarantee that none of the Elmo costumes here will wish you any ill will, but we can’t responsible for the kids wearing them!
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