Sideshow: White men dominate Oscar nominations

Whelp, Thursday morning they announced the Oscar nominations. It was a great year for movies, artistically if not at the box office (down 5 percent), and not all the good stuff could get in. But when the dust settled, it was weird. And it was . . . white. And guy. As in white guy.

We're sort of ticked that such Sideshow favorites as Amy Adams and Jennifer Aniston were snubbed. But it's nice to see Laura Dern recognized in the best supporting actress category for her work in Wild. . . . Also, The Lego Movie got bupkis. . . . Waaaaaah.

Check out Inquirer film critic Steven Rea's look at all the Oscar nominations elsewhere in today's Inquirer.

Kim Jenner, the true marketing genius (make no mistake, world) behind the global Kardashian juggernaut, wants hers to remain a House of Kards. Sure, she's had daughter Kim, son-in-law Kanye West, and baby North around the house, but they are moving out. So Kim, who has sent soon-to-be-former hub Bruce Jenner packing (their divorce will be final in March), says, Hmm, well, maybe I'll adopt another one! She's said to be serious about it. Oy and vey. (Hey, the show has to have new plots and subplots.) Meanwhile, daughter Kourtney is preggers with bairn three. We may have Kardashians forever.

Sideshow favorite Mariah Carey has inked a secret, enormous contract to step in for Celine Dion at Caesars in Las Vegas. She'll hold down the unofficial position of Vegas Diva until Dion, who's on hiatus, returns late this year or early next.

Stevie Wonder has been on the road, reminding the world why he is still the best. His Songs in the Key of Life tour, which poleaxed Philly when it barreled through here in November, has added 10 new dates due to popular demand.       Closest he gets back here is either Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore on April 9, or the big tour-closer, which promises to be a truly fab basheroo, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on April 12.

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are not the usual kind of folks who appear in Sideshow. But they are and should be celebrities this morning. See, since Dec. 27  they have been climbing what's called the Dawn Wall, the sheer, 3,000-foot rock face of El Capitán in Yosemite. They "free-climbed" it, meaning ropes and hands only, no crampons, pitons, pressure bolts, none of the high-tech tech of the contemporary climber. It's being called the hardest, most dangerous climb ever done. It took them seven years to plan it, and they got to the top Wednesday afternoon to a cheering throng. Unbelievable. May you lie in featherbeds for weeks, lads.

We return now to the Oscars. On Thursday morning, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, helped out in the big reveal of the Oscar nominations. . . . She read the names and so forth. The fateful moment came when she arrived at the name of Dick Pope, nominated for best cinematography for his beautiful work in Mr. Turner.

Reader, she read out his name loud and clear . . . as "Dick Poop." Twitter went mad, as it will. Neither she nor, worse, he, will ever live it down.