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Link: Final score: Fox – 1, Mouse – 0

And in answer to the question “How does it feel to be the only woman on the court?” [Justice Ginsberg] answers simply, “Lonely.

May It Please the Court, from the always fabulous And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog by Maira Kalman (update: and 9 hours later Kottke links to the same post, using the same quote…great minds and all that )

I love these videos anyway, but this one is made even better by the addition of Do Re Mi. Thanks for sending me this, Alex.

Another guilty late-night pleasure: watching Oscar acceptance speeches. A great Oscar speech is just as good as hanging out at the arrivals gate. For sheer, unbridled enthusiasm, I like to watch Cuba Gooding Jr and Roberto Begnini (who brings a unique Italian flavor to the proceedings); for the kind of charm only a French woman can exhibit, Marion Cotillard; and for unexpected eloquence, Tom Hanks, who won for Philadelphia, a movie that killed me when I first watched it in 1993 and then killed me again I finally got up the courage to watch it a for a second time a few weeks ago.

So, if you find yourself looking for something to do on a sleepless night, check out the Oscar speeches. They are full of little treasures: Bette Davis’ hat, Frank Sinatra’s jab at the Academy for not asking him to sing, Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson when they where young and svelte; and on and on and on.

(As an aside, my second viewing of Philadelphia found me touched by this movie in a new way. The final scene is a series of shots from the main character’s wake and ends with home videos of the main character when he was a little boy with curly brown hair. He is young and carefree and innocent, and still untouched by the hardships he will face as a man. Since the first time I watched this movie, I have fallen in love with a little boy with curly brown hair, whom I foolishly want to spare from all unbearable hardships, no matter how impossible or undesirable this may be.)

P.S. Martin, I updated the broken video link to my first guilty pleasure, in case you care to watch.