The 85th Academy Awards ended on a bit of a surprise when the Michelle Obama presented the Best Picture prize live from the White House.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Five Easy Pieces Whenever I hear someone criticize Jack Nicholson as an overrated actor, just a crazy personality who repeats the same basic shtick again and again, I always point them toward this film. Nicholson plays Bobby Dupea, a shiftless early thirty-something who has forsaken his intellectual family of classically trained musicians in favor of a…

Actor Paul Rudd crosses a busy street in Adams Morgan while in town filming. Photo by Kim Maxwell Vu DCist witnessed D.C. Police escorting the production trailers for the Untitled James L. Brooks Project out of Adams Morgan last night, and we’ve since heard stars Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd have moved on to other locations, including spots along the 14th Street NW corridor (trucks are lined up today from…

>> We would have liked to have read about “The Best Bars in DC For Ensuring That You Will Not Run Into a Single Person Even Vaguely Connected With Politics or Media (crossposted to Gridskipper).” Good luck to you, Pareene. [Wonkette] >> A fire will be set Saturday morning on Metrorail’s bridge over the Potomac River as part of an emergency-response drill involving 100 firefighters from seven area jurisdictions. The Yellow line will be shut…

>> Diddy’s in town tonight, which means only the most masochistic of locals will be waiting in line to get in to new nightclub Ibiza. Our advice? Stay out of the 1/2 mile radius around 1222 1st Street NE completely starting from 10 p.m. to around dawn. It’s just going to be too full of desperate people looking to catch a glimpse of the party host — like a Saturday night in Adams Morgan…

Good morning, Washington. As you make your way into work on this fine morning, a note to fans of Canadian super group Stars: “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead”? Good song. “Set Yourself on Fire”? Good song. Setting your ex-lover on fire? Apparently not cool. Attack of the Dubyas: Washington Post Radio (WTWP) is shifting to a “personality driven talk format.” And whose personalities (I hear you cry) will be driven into us courtesy of the once-anodyne…

Between remakes of The Stepford Wives, and sitcoms ranging from “Desperate Housewives” to “Weeds,” it’s easy to think the catty, sterile, back-stabbing nature of suburbia has been played out recently as a topic for satire. It turns out that all you need is some super show tunes and some women who can fly to keep the genre fresh. The Witches of Eastwick, making its U.S. premiere at Signature Theater, after a successful run in London…