Word: irglova
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...nice impromptu moment, Stewart brought Czech actress-composer Marketa Irglova back to give the acceptance speech she didn't get to deliver for best song, from the weeny Irish film Once. It wasn't the best song - indeed, none of the five finalists deserved to be nominated in a category that has honored "Lullaby of Broadway," "The Way You Look Tonight," "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," "Over the Rainbow," "Under the Sea," "Streets of Philadelphia" and "Theme from Shaft" - but the gesture was cool...
...strike to be resolved in time for the show to go on, I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps the Academy would call a time-out on the more ostentatious aspects of Hollywood’s biggest celebration of itself. When Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performed—and later won the Oscar for—their tune “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” the show became for a moment genuinely entertaining—and from a musical number, no less! These hitherto unknown artists performed their...