Oscar Predictions with Dennis and Sam

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Oscar Predictions with Dennis and Sam

February 25, 2011 by wondersinthedark

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Posted in author Dennis Polifroni, author Sam Juliano | 48 Comments

48 Responses

on February 25, 2011 at 4:14 pm | Reply Pierre de Plume

After watching this video, now I know why my ears were burning earlier today!
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:19 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Jason has never met you Pierre, but apparently he liked the sound of your name. Too bad he has not yet been privy to your brilliance.
on February 25, 2011 at 4:35 pm | Reply Sam Juliano

LOL Pierre!!!!

I did figure as much!!!!!

hahahaha!
on February 25, 2011 at 5:06 pm | Reply Maurizio Roca

Wonderful cinematography by Jaybird!!!!
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:19 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  That’s for sure Maurizio!
on February 25, 2011 at 5:17 pm | Reply Frank Gallo

hehehe… oh god this is a classic Sam! Jason G. is a talented fellow too! You use your hands like a true Italian. And how eloquent. I finally get to see Dannis, and he’s good!
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Glad you liked it Frank!!!
on February 25, 2011 at 5:47 pm | Reply Maurizio Roca

We also need to see the uncut version eventually. I wonder who Dennis compares to an Italian grandmother (Mr Rush perhaps). Great stuff.
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:26 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Yep, the uncut version ran for over an hour Maurizio, and it included a complete dissection of the award predictions.
on February 25, 2011 at 6:18 pm | Reply Just Another Film Buff

Ownage! Sam will be cast as Clemenza in my GODFATHER remake.

And check out these uber-cool oscar night video at the Julianos’ place as well;
http://www.youtube.com/user/jayybirds#p/u/2/-2cFog-SnNE

I so want to see a video for this year’s Oscar night (more than the Oscars, of course). Get the camera out, guys!!!
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:27 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  My friend, you are incomparable!
on February 25, 2011 at 6:28 pm | Reply Dennis

If you ask me, I think Sam and I could win awards for the finest impersonations of two old ladies with nothing better to do in life than bicker, gossip, moan and bitch.

God!!!!!! The camera makes me look like I’m pregnant…

Jason, gotta give him credit, did a fantastic job of editing almost 3 hours of raw material down to a lean 7 minutes…

Sam, do you and I get residuals on Special Edition versions? Does this mean we have to sit down to do a commentary track????

LOL!!!!!

Bravo Jason!!!!!!
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:24 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Bravo Jason indeed Dennis. He did quite a job I must say!
- on February 26, 2011 at 4:05 am | Reply jason giampietro
  
  Dennis, as I was editing I kept thinking how you don’t appear to have aged at all in the 11 years since the first video!
on February 25, 2011 at 9:13 pm | Reply ANDREI SCALA

And I thought the earthquake victims in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and Hawaii had it bad! To have to shovel down the slop they serve at the Boulevard Diner and then on top of that frightening experience to have to put up with the negative attitude of so many Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences members is close to unbearable.
I couldn’t do it.
This guy’s name Sam keeps dropping…Pierre le Plume. We might be related. My birth father was a French gangster who ran guns to left wing resistance movements in North Africa and Indochina in the 1950′s named Jean le Plume. After the latter date raped my mom in what is now Vietnam where she was serving as a lay Catholic religion indoctrinator, she became pregnant and they got married and named me Andre. So before I was Andrei Scala I was Andre le Plume (why should Felix be jealous of me!)
I wasn’t totally serious about the cockroach den the fellows were contaminating their innards in the other night. They do breakfast nice there I must admit but their half chicken isn’t worth bat turds.
Sam, as Fish said to Upham: “…once again I find myself curiously arroused by you.”
It’s those glasses…those lady glasses…
Noodles…
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:23 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  All joking aside (and this is VERY funny) Pierre is one of the most brilliant people I have ever come across. And he’s a very dear friend to boot.
on February 25, 2011 at 10:20 pm | Reply REBEL271

That Sammy is still a cutie!!!!!!!!!
- on February 25, 2011 at 10:22 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Why I thank you Rebel! Ha!
on February 25, 2011 at 10:51 pm | Reply Jaime Grijalba

Sickness.

I’d call it love.
- on February 27, 2011 at 5:54 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Ha Jaimie!!!!!
on February 26, 2011 at 1:14 am | Reply Jim Clark

Sam, Dennis: you both were right onstream to launch a diner-heist scenario! I loved it.
Also, your remarks about The Social Network getting blindsided intrigued me. Only very recently have we come to appreciate social media’s marketing potential. Gotta see that movie.
- on February 27, 2011 at 5:56 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Thanks Jim!!! Yes, the inexplicable fall from grace of THE SOCIAL NETWORK among the AMPAS fraternity will be a major story for 2010, though understandably many have already tuned out. I’d love to hear or read your views on David Fincher’s film!
on February 26, 2011 at 1:19 am | Reply Tony D'Ambra

Sam- The Remix
- on February 26, 2011 at 2:02 am | Reply Jaime Grijalba
  
  this reminds me of youtube poops.
- on February 26, 2011 at 3:59 am | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  OMG TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  Just got home from TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT, and just saw this re-mix!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  My daughter Melanie is beside herself with laughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  - on February 26, 2011 at 8:44 pm Maurizio Roca
    
    De Plume!!!!!!!!!!
  - on February 27, 2011 at 5:57 pm Sam Juliano
    
    And thanks for that terrific embellishment there Jaimie!!!
- on February 26, 2011 at 4:04 am | Reply jason giampietro
  
  Excellent work here Tony! You selected some of my favorite parts!
  - on February 26, 2011 at 8:04 am wondersinthedark
    
    Absolutely. Give him a show. It’ll be like The Office, no-one will know if it’s not a comedy mock-up or whether he’s actually real.
on February 26, 2011 at 2:59 am | Reply DeeDee

Hi! Sam Juliano and Dennis…
What an interesting conversation between you, and Dennis…I have already provided a link to your conversation on the sidebar and I plan to incorporate the video in the countdown post too!
Thanks, for sharing!
DeeDee
- on February 26, 2011 at 4:41 am | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Thanks so much for that Dee Dee, and for your constant attention to everything WitD related!!!
on February 26, 2011 at 4:47 am | Reply Samuel Wilson

An ingeniously non-linear piece of work that gets to the indulgently argumentative heart of filmbuffdom. Congrats to Mr. Giampietro and to Dennis and Sam J for being good sports.
- on February 27, 2011 at 5:58 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  You always nab the underlying value of just about everything Samuel, and this is no different! Many thanks in behalf of Jason, dennis and myself!
on February 26, 2011 at 5:52 pm | Reply Dennis

LOL!!!!

This stuff is GREAT!!!!!

Tony, take a bow for your terrific “alternate” cut. I looked at it just a few minutes ago and almost wet myself from spontaneous laughter.

It’s true, Sam DOES have a personality SO big that a weekly television show could only do him justice. Now, if we could only get Jason to follow Sam around on an hourly and daily basis we would have a reality show that could easily swamp AMERICAN IDOL, THE BIGGEST LOSER and THE APPRENTICE in viewerships and ratings. Fact is, most people don’t believe myself and those that tell stories of Sam’s adventures and escapades. In reality, the old saying, “you gotta see it to believe it” really does apply here. The story about Sam racing from school to school during his lunch break to commandeer this site is totally true, he DOES go into the dollar store and buy dozens of pairs of womens reading glasses (the skeletons of which are peppered all over the floor of his computer office at home and his rendition of “IF I WERE A RICH MAN” is far funnier when he’s wrapped in a shawl in front of his desk, looking like an Italian Grandmother and singing at the top of his lungs) and his animated gesturing and emphasis on detailed verbal story telling is the stuff that legend is made of.

Frankly, these videos are only the tip of the bigger ice-berg. To really fully appreciate the man you have to meet him and his family in person.

I’ve known Sam now for 20 years and he is, without doubt, the greatest source of amusement in my life, my most learned friend and proff positive that a good laugh can enrich and give meaning to life. To be honset, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if he weren’t in my life.

Whenever I call him on the phone he doesn’t say “hello”. Instead he holds the phone to the birdcage and lets the Parrots do it for him.

We need more of these video as a chronicle of one of the great characters the net has ever known…

Thanks to everyone here on WITD for the kind words they have labored upon me and Jason and the star of the day, dear Sam, for our work on this little look into our whacked out take on everyday life.

You guys and gals are the BEST!!!!!!
- on February 27, 2011 at 6:01 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Dennis, I am scanning through the comments, while simultaneously doing some Oscar related stuff, so I am not meaning to give you short shrift. I’m over my head with things to do, and that doesn’t even include completing the blogger appreciation piece posting tomorrow on Jeffrey Goodman, and the still-unstarted Diary. Suffice to say this is a tremendous comment from you that sizes things up most fondly!! Many thanks my excellent friend!!!
on February 26, 2011 at 9:04 pm | Reply Sachin

Wonderful Sam More please…I second JAFB in saying that I want to see a video of you & others watching the telecast. Just in case there may be an upset at the awards (even though that seems unlikely), I want to see raw emotions in the footage

Also, you and Pierre need to feature in the same video discussing the categories. Maybe a live webcast?
- on February 27, 2011 at 6:02 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  I’d love to have a webcast with Pierre Sachin, especially since he lives out in Minny. And I do hope tonight’s party is well documented by Jason-though I know it will be! Thanks for the flattering words and confidence! Much appreciated!
on February 26, 2011 at 9:14 pm | Reply Pierre de Plume

I’m so deeply humbled by the mere mention of my name — or should I say the mentions of my mere name? Either way, it’s an honor to be considered amongst such illustrious company by one equally illustrious Mr. Juliano.

And Andrei — I’ve reviewed my family’s geneaological records (which are extensive). Although there is a “Jean” in the de Plume background, the only allusion one might associate with “date rape” emanates not from the de Plume’s but, rather, from my mother’s side: Great-grandpapa Arthur the gigolo, who had countless affairs, 3 wives, and no divorces on record!
- on February 27, 2011 at 11:46 am | Reply wondersinthedark
  
  Yes, always loved your, excuse the pun, nom de plume. Sounds like a character from a W.C.Fields film. Like the neighboujr of Otis Cribblecoblis, of friend of Karl la Fong.
- on February 27, 2011 at 6:03 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Hahahahahaha Pierre!!! Love it!!!!!!!! Arthur the Gigolo indeed!!!!!!!
  - on February 27, 2011 at 6:08 pm Pierre de Plume
    
    “Arthur the Gigolo indeed!!!!!!!”
    
    The best part is that it’s actually true!
  - on February 27, 2011 at 6:19 pm Sam Juliano
    
    Oh Pierre I never had any doubt about it!
on February 27, 2011 at 2:12 pm | Reply Dennis

I just thought of something…

Did you ever notice that Sam is always shouting for Lucille from the basement but we never see her…

I think she’s hiding…

I know I would…

LOL!!!!!!!
- on February 27, 2011 at 6:04 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Yes, her ears are burning Dennis!!!!
on February 27, 2011 at 2:44 pm | Reply Pat

Sam -

Great video -great discusion! I think this should be a continuing series. You and Dennis could go viral!

I’ve got my Oscar post up at my Blogspot site today, and I’m gearing up for my friends’ annual party tonight.
- on February 27, 2011 at 6:06 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Ha Pat!!! You may be on to something. I’ll definitely be checking out your Oscar post momentarily, and have a great time at your party. i look forward to sharing notes with you, although I am not expecting too many surprises. The director’s race is a barn-burner, as is supporting actor. And some are now claiming that Bening is gathering steam. We’ll see!
on February 27, 2011 at 6:05 pm | Reply Jamie

While I’m late to the discussion it’s only because I wanted to watch these when I could sit down relax and take it all in, rather then friday at work in a rushed environment.

They are entertaining, and I wished the ‘meat’ of the discussions was given more air time, as I feel that’s were the true pearls probably reside (as funny as these shown hijinx are). Oscars and film talk is always fun.

Plus I’m dying to know what film Sam is refering to when he say “(it’s) austere, cold, nihilistic…” Though he’s in the negative I believe, it sounds like a film I’d like!
- on February 27, 2011 at 6:19 pm | Reply Sam Juliano
  
  Jamie, you are not the first one to indicate that the meat and potatoes was cut out. I must speak to Jason about a complete cut that contains the actual predictions, which is really the whole point of the meeting anyway.
  
  I do believe I was talking there about DOGTOOTH, a film I must say I dislike.
  
  Many thanks my friend.