Hat trick for Beyonce.

All right, this is too much. Her voice is fine, but there is such a thing as overkill. Why don't we just have Gweneth Paltrow or Kirsten Dunst present 3 or 4 awards in a row or alll the acting awards, or let Harrison Ford or Jack Nicholson come out and hand out all the awards in 20 minutes and spend the other 2 and a half hours watching great film clips.

Prince is on. Anything can happen now. This is real risk-taking television.

The best song winner just sang his acceptance speech in Spanish. I think the rough translation is "Che, they've taken your life and made it into a movie and I wrote a song about it and they've given be a great big golden statue of a naked Anglo man. Because, Because, I don't know why, just because."