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Oscars

I watched the entire Oscars without interruption. Most women of my age and over will understand, how impossible that can get at times. Slumdog millionaire won 8 oscars. Rehman won 2 of them. He performed on the Oscar stage. When it won the best picture award, Danny Boyle, Dev, Frieda, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, and all the kids, stood proud on the Oscar stage. I lived the moment with them, just like I lived every moment of the movie. I loved the movie, and I already have a post that explains it. So I wont go into that. But here are some comments made by some logical people I know. My thoughts are interleaved. "I would have been happier if it was an Indian directed movie." It may have been nominated in the Foreign Film category, and the Japanese would have won it anyways. "We need a British to get us Oscars." We were given a chance with Slumdog, and the 8 oscars speak for themselves. Whatever, I enjoyed watching the Oscars, I had fun cheering for Slumdog, and end of th