• A shocked Andy Towle (okay I audibly gasped as well) and various opinions on why Crash won Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain. [Towleroad]
• Give celebrities a camera at an Oscar party, and they’ll do some “wacky” things. [Moviefone]
• So how did Joan and Melissa Rivers do this year? Joan told Ludacris she always thought hip-hop was going to be “a fad that would come and go.” [popwatch]
• Backstage at the Oscars we learned more about the winners than when they were onstage. And George Clooney is a gentleman. [People]
• Nikki Finke thought that the ugly guy, Paul Giamatti, would win Best Supporting Actor. [Deadline Hollywood]
• US Weekly gives us a play-by-play of the Oscars. They caught something I didn’t. The woman who accepts the Oscar on behalf of the Crash producers gets flustered and says, “I’d like to thank my husband, my wife…” Oops. [US Weekly]
• While the Oscar goody bag contents are valued at more than $100,000, the downside is that the gifts are taxable. [LAT]
• Crash has problems. Two producers allege in a lawsuit that an “outsider” financially and creatively raped them in a quest for fortune and glory. That’s a bit harsh. [TMZ]
• While I enjoyed Jon Stewart as an Oscar host, the celebrities, and others, didn’t seem to. [MSNBC]
• The look at the Oscars as only goldenfiddle can do. [goldenfiddle]

(The Gay Oscar Montage from YouTube is via Celebrity Hijinx)