The Academy Awards Rocked for Diversity!

Hello from snowy Minnesota! Juls here. Did any of you watch the Academy Awards last night? We throughly enjoyed them! What a wonderful mix of diversity, from the host Ellen DeGeneres, to the excellent musical numbers and presentations between awards, the diversity of the presenters, the recipients, and the films themselves! We thought it was the best one ever! We thought Ellen did a great job for her first time as host for the Oscars. We were so thrilled that Melissa Etheridge won and was able to openly thank her wife! Things have definitely changed from when Ellen “came-out” and experienced a big dip in her career!  We were so happy for Jennifer Hudson for winning her first Oscar for supporting actress in “Dreamgirls,” for Helen Mirren, Forest Whitaker (good speech!), and all the other winners! And what a great representation of foreign film-making! And I don’t know the name of that group that did the “shadow pictures” or whatever it was called between things, but they were awesome! And the special Sound Effects choir! And acceptance speeches in Italian! Talk about diversity! OK, so they went long as they usually do, and maybe Ellen wasn’t as funny in every bit as she usually is, but for a first time effort, I thought she did well overall–sure beat some of the past “comedians!” Overall, I thought it was a great example of how richly diverse this country is and when we work together, what a great production we can put on! Kudos to all involved!