David Carr in Yesterdays New York Times Blog:

[lsanderson]

Missing Link

The Bagger was really busy backstage and his headset was working only intermittently. He heard a number of touching speeches — Diablo Cody fell apart when she thanked her family for loving her as she is — but it all went by too fast.

Live-blogging an event is a great way to miss a great deal of subtext. Even so, he was pretty sure he heard Scott Rudin give a shoutout to his boyfriend. But when the official Academy transcript came, it ended this way: “I want to thank my friend, Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility — with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This is for him.”

And then the Bagger learned, from the eagle-eared kids at Defamer, that Mr. Rudin “closed his Best Picture acceptance speech with a special mention to ‘my partner, John Barlow. Without you, honey, this is just hardware.’”

The Academy later updated its post, saying that the words had suddenly appeared. Good move, AMPAS. Once somebody has thanked the love of their life in front of tens of millions, the fact that all kinds of people love all kinds of people is pretty much out of the bag. Link

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. I heard him say it. Millions of people heard him say it. Did they think no one would notice that the Academy pretended he didn't say it?