Last night during the Academy Awards Show I noticed that when the montage of Best Actress recipients played that, as the decades progressed through the late 90's and 00's, the displays of emotion became more histrionic and over the top. In the late 70's, 80's 90's recipients like Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates, Marlene Matlin, Holly Hunter appeared to be poised, surprised, kind of dignified, thoughtful, and, sometimes, political...now it's like a therapy session gone bad after a poorly prescribed cocktail of meds. In the late 90's and 00's you got Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Halle Berry having an emotional meltdown and, then, Marion Cotillard last night...what's going on? Like their designer dresses, the displays of emotion have to be memorable and top of the line. What's so unglamorous about a simple thank you...works for the Cohen Brothers...

Ok, so I'll admit to my fantasy of receiving an award in a storm of humble tears...but that was years ago when I still thought that things like fame mattered...

It kind of made me glad that dream has never come true before I was able to (sort of) mature.

Just for today, I'm glad I've never been nominated (which would be impossible).