Dinner was delicious. According to new data, 30% of heart attacks and strokes can be prevented in high risk people if they eat a Mediterranean diet. So we all cooked in olive oil and ate lots of vegetables, nuts and fruit.
Being of a certain age, we find that our film preferences are changing. Instead of the action movies, we like the ones with character development and themes we can relate to like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Quartet. Although outside our experience as of yet, we can still easily identify with the complicated emotions.
We don’t seem to be so naive anymore either. Last night no one assessed their lives against the backdrop of the glamour participants. We have all stood in grocery checkout lines and skimmed the tabloids. We know that, no matter how well put together the celebrities looked, none of their lives are perfect.
We sat around, enjoying the process and evaluating the commentary. Seth MacFarlane made us uncomfortable with his politically incorrect sarcasm about race, sexism and domestic violence. We turned down the volume when the music was too loud and discussed other ways the money spent on the production could have been put to better use.
Perhaps, with the media’s influence and technology’s grip on society, this kind of big screen voyeurism is the new intimacy. Don’t get me wrong. We were entertained by our peek into Hollywood life. The Oscars are a tradition we can count on year after year. And who doesn’t like a little celebrity obsession, escape from reality, time with friends and, in the end, envy of the winner of our $28.00 jackpot!
Log on here again on Thursday – I’ll be blogging about the Oscars and people with disabilities, focusing on Amour, The Sessions and Silver Linings Playbook.