Oscars gaffe

I had an early dinner with Carolyn this evening and it was absolutely great to see her. She had booked us into The Sisters restaurant in Jordanhill which is one of her favourites, and I loved it too. It is small and friendly with delicious food and we talked of weddings and other plans. Special mention must be made of the dessert that Carolyn recommended to me; puff candy meringue with honeycomb ice cream & warm butterscotch sauce. Yummy. Very yummy.

When I got home James, Ally and I watched a James Corden sketch on YouTube about the recent Oscars fiasco, to which Cat had sent us a link. At the final presentation on Sunday night's Oscars ceremony, for "Best Picture", veteran actor Warren Beatty was handed the wrong envelope by the accountants (why accountants?) who were in charge of the envelopes containing the names of all the winners. Instead he was given a duplicate of the envelope for "Best Actress" so when he opened it he saw "Emma Stone, La La Land" After some hesitation he handed it to Faye Dunaway who read out "La La Land" which was quite understandable since she and Beatty were expecting to see the name of one of the films. The producers of La La Land got up onto the stage and started making their acceptance speeches, but then confusion reigned as the mistake was realised and the producers handed the Oscar over to the rightful winners; the producers of the film "Moonlight." Now in the grand scheme of things this was just a gaffe which can happen to anybody, and not even very important one - after all no one was harmed and it was quickly rectified. However it was a very public and embarrassing gaffe, and it has caused much hilarity and has been much discussed in the media. 

So anyway, James Corden (in drag) did a spoof of Emma Stone's song "Audition" from La La Land altering the words to make it refer to the mix-up on Sunday evening. It was very well written and very funny.