Wow. Congrats to Philip Seymour Hoffman for winning the Oscar tonight for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Man, that is the one man Super Bowl of acting. Go, baby, go!
And, of course, congratulations go out to Marilyn O’Connor, without whom it would not have been possible…
Great call from your past show, Dan. Congratulations to your long time friend. Wonder if he will remark on his myspace blog :).
came here to say the same thing! 🙂
he seems like such a great guy & a wonderful actor. I can’t wait to see the film. (It just came out here).
Shame he’s probably too busy to do a Bitterest Pill, that would be amazing 🙂 xx
diane, i’m absolutely agree with you, that he is a marvelous actor and i hope to see this film as soon as possible!
Conratulations to both PSH and DK!
Yeah, but has PSH ever appeared on The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd??? Huh? I didn’t think so.
It’s obvious to me now that you guys really went to the same schools… he uses “literally” the same way you do. Dan, I love your podcasts, but you do tend to say “literally” a lot, especially when you really mean “figuratively.”
*Philip Seymour Hoffman reneged on a bet when he won the Academy Award for best actor for his role in “Capote.”
Years before his award-winning turn, he bet his college friends that if he ever won an Oscar he would bark (yes, like a dog) during his acceptance speech.
Backstage, he said he considered barking a few lines at the end.
But “I literally lost all control of my bowels up there,” he said.*
Scary to think he literally ruined his pants – but I don’t think he really meant “literally!”
Medusa:
Of course he did not LITERALLY lose control of his bowels.
This is a literary device known as HYPERBOLE. It involves EXAGGERATING a feeling or opinion for comic effect. You see, the emotional impact of his winning the Oscar(TM) was so strong that it merely felt AS IF he had lost all control of his bodily functions.
You need any other jokes deconstructed, just let me know.
Of course, I’m kidding. Don’t let me know at all.
Sorry, Scott, but the misuse of “literally” is not hyperbole, it’s just using another literary device incorrectly. A true hyperbole would be, as you indicated, to say “I felt as if I had lost control of my bowels!” A hyperbole is by definition FIGURATIVE, which is the opposite of LITERAL. A hyperbole could never be LITERAL or then it would be, simply, fact, and not hyperbole. See the difference?
And, yes, I get that he was making a joke. But “I think I lost control of my bowels up there!” is funnier, and hey, actually makes sense both in a grammatical and a humorous context.
Anytime you need help deconstructing a literay device, Scott, feel free to contact me. And, yes, I LITERALLY mean that.
I tried the bitterest pILL DONT DO IT~!!!!!H e left me this long advertisement of how he is so excited on my ipod and I cant get rid of it!!!!AAAAAhhhh!!!!!! I need help with this. Just let me delete it!