I can’t resolve on my favourite a part of the efficiency — the stacks of octagons containing tableaus of Oscar-nominated performances, the golden Oscar statues coming to life on rolling risers or the sheer incredulity of the actors within the viewers who, ostensibly, had been imagined to really feel some model of flattered by their singing, dancing portrayals.
The remainder of the ceremony, hosted by Chevy Chase, was unremarkable compared to the opening quantity, and we don’t count on something in tonight’s festivities to match the heights that had been reached 35 years in the past. This Sunday, as we watch Jimmy Kimmel trot out one other three-and-a-half-hour reward fest that in all probability might have been an e mail, let’s remind ourselves of what Hollywood as soon as was — and what it might be once more.
If the Academy needs to make the Oscars watchable once more, they’d higher convey again the octagons.
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