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While watching the Oscars last night, it seemed as though every five minutes the camera would cut back to George Clooney and he would be there, sitting and smiling, sometimes with an amusing facial expression or just a wink for the camera.

It was completely adorable.

I've only come to love Clooney in the past couple of years. Before that I thought he was an arrogant, smarmy asshole. He still might be but he's getting better press and doing good movies (except for 'Ocean's Twelve'. That was just terrible. An excuse for him and his friends to get together in Europe and film their in-jokes on camera).

Anyway, to capture all this adorable Clooney footage, they must have had a camera in front of him at all times. A 'Clooney Cam' if you will. 

I want to see all of the footage captured by this Clooney cam. 

In fact, maybe the Oscars would have been more interesting (Jon Stewart took ages to warm up and most of the jokes were just unfunny, and the majority  of the other presenters weren't so great either) if the whole thing was just Clooney cam.

Wouldn't it have been funny to see his expression when say, Reese Witherspoon won? Would he have been all happy for her or be like "Damn. I wanted Huffman to win." Or to see his reaction to the whole 'Crash' interpretive dance thing.

Yep. The oscars would have been more interesting to me if it was all Clooney, all the time. And maybe some Will Smith. With Steve Carell fluttering his eye lashes occasionally. Or if they'd given Gael Garcia Bernal a nomination. And with Dolly Parton and Izhak Pearlman alternately providing ALL the accompanying music (Dolly rocks and I studied the violin for 5 years). 

But even more than all that; what would have made the oscars really enjoyable for me was if every second speech didn't make acting and films sound like the most important and noble work in the universe. 

Because it isn't. It's entertainment and rarely anything more. For every 'Schindler's List' there are a hundred movies which revolve around bodily secretions and which require no brain power to watch.

So please, Academy members and anyone else in the film industry, DON'T TAKE YOURSELVES SO SERIOUSLY! Because really, we're only watching for the pretty dresses.