D'Oh!-prah, revisited.

So I finally got around to watching the Oprah "after" show with the cast of Shrek 2.

I realize the "after" show isn't meant to be as polished as the real show, but it's rather odd.

Antonio Banderas doesn't get a word in edgewise during possibly the first two-thirds of the "after" show. Seriously. He's little more than a decorative couch accessory. It was iffy enough when Oprah, during the real show, directed half her questions towards Melanie instead of Antonio (not intrinsically a problem of course--but one was an official guest; the other wasn't). And then, when one of the audience members finally directs a question towards Antonio near the end of the "after" show, it's "What does your wife think about you?"

I was all set to give Oprah back a little credit when she started expounding on the sexiness of his voice and made a nice remark about how when he first came to the US he didn't know English and now people are asking him to do voicework, only to roll my eyes when she added something to the effect of, "I have no idea what you're saying, but it sounds sexy anyway." Well, gosh. I have never heard that one before.

I don't watch Oprah often...is she usually this...flighty? Or was she just starstruck? Breaking out in off-tune songs from The Sound of Music once is amusing. It gets a wee bit thin after the third or fourth time, though.

And what was up with her audience? Someone asking Cameron Diaz if she planned to marry Timberlake after she and Oprah spent five minutes during the real show "girl, we could talk"-ing that marriage as an institution wasn't for them? Somebody else thinking Julie Andrews wrote her own songs in Mary Poppins? The hell?

D'Oh!-prah, revisited.

So I finally got around to watching the Oprah "after" show with the cast of Shrek 2.

I realize the "after" show isn't meant to be as polished as the real show, but it's rather odd.

Antonio Banderas doesn't get a word in edgewise during possibly the first two-thirds of the "after" show. Seriously. He's little more than a decorative couch accessory. It was iffy enough when Oprah, during the real show, directed half her questions towards Melanie instead of Antonio (not intrinsically a problem of course--but one was an official guest; the other wasn't). And then, when one of the audience members finally directs a question towards Antonio near the end of the "after" show, it's "What does your wife think about you?"

I was all set to give Oprah back a little credit when she started expounding on the sexiness of his voice and made a nice remark about how when he first came to the US he didn't know English and now people are asking him to do voicework, only to roll my eyes when she added something to the effect of, "I have no idea what you're saying, but it sounds sexy anyway." Well, gosh. I have never heard that one before.

I don't watch Oprah often...is she usually this...flighty? Or was she just starstruck? Breaking out in off-tune songs from The Sound of Music once is amusing. It gets a wee bit thin after the third or fourth time, though.

And what was up with her audience? Someone asking Cameron Diaz if she planned to marry Timberlake after she and Oprah spent five minutes during the real show "girl, we could talk"-ing that marriage as an institution wasn't for them? Somebody else thinking Julie Andrews wrote her own songs in Mary Poppins? The hell?