Forrest Whitaker’s Oscar Speech

Thank god for YouTube; they reduced a possible four hours of marketing-saturated, passive boredom and bitchily self-indulgent fashion criticism into five minutes of clicking through “Forrest Whitaker” search results and two minutes of the most inspiring Hollywood speech of the last twenty years.

Sorry for the dickwad blathering right over the most important line; it seems that Oscar is a very controlling sort and has sent most of the video captures to the great bit bucket in the sky, where no doubt Lucy and Ricky are enjoying the bit where Helen Mirren performed “Borat” at this very moment.


Alas, YouTube is TheirTube and they have had this video killed. Found another for now.
The transcript still works, though!

Transcript over the jump

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The King and the Queen: Helen Mirren and Forrest Whitaker in love

The world just can’t get enough GRILF lately, Gwyneth Paltrow’s rumoured Oscar nipple slip notwithstanding. So here, for you acting royalty fetishists, is a fantastic mashup video of The King and The Queen, together again for the first time.

How history would have been different, had they only gotten together and made sweet jungle love. Vid over the jump…

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