11:16: Time for my favorite award, Best Original Screenplay." Charlie Kaufman wins for the year's best film, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Which is great, because I'll probably see that 50 more times in my lifetime, while I'll almost certainly never see "Million Dollar Baby" again.

Look at the last fifteen years of Original Screenplay winners, and the last fifteen years of Best Pictures- which list has more good movies?

Kaufman looks a lot like Seth Green, and is closer to his age. Green probably should've played him in "Adaptation" instead of Nicolas Cage.

11:23: The presentations have been cut down to about five second each, as Charlize Theron does Best Actor. I expect some Fox News pundit to bust out the DiCaprio "don't you talk down to me- you're a movie star, nothing more" clip next time some actor says something about Bush.

Foxx wins. And I realize I haven't gotten one wrong yet on my picks. I always assumed Jim Carrey would be the first "In Living Color" alum to win an Oscar, though I knew it wouldn't be a Wayans brother.

11:32: Julia Roberts presents Best Director, and will likely jump into the lap of whoever wins. And it's Clint- damn, sorry Marty. It's a shame, because Eastwood did a much better job acting in that than directing it.

11:36: Hoffman and Streisand give out the Best Picture award, in character from "Fockers." And the winner is... "Million Dollar Baby." Ugh. We got hope early on when "Aviator" won all the technical awards, but then MDB wasn't really a "technical awards" kind of movie. Only four Oscars, but they were for Picture, Director, Actress, and Supporting Actor.

Overall, not a particularly memorable year- though, quickly, name two things that happened at last year's. Rock was decent, but this was far, far, FAR from his best work, and the super-rushed tone of the final hour pretty much ruined it.

Meanwhile, IFC started a showing of "The Usual Suspects" right as the show was ending. So much better than everything that was honored tonight...