Sunday Night Special – Oscar “Coverage”

Billy Crystal’s filmed opening was fine. The Oscars is an advertisement for Hollywood, and he gave them just that. Then he walked out in his tuxedo and I had a flashback to when I was a boy and first learned about the Oscars. “Those people look old,” I felt. I feel that again, tonight. And then Tom Hanks comes out and starts the broadcast by gesturing to an aged “seat holder” who has worked at the Oscars for 59 years. No amount of Justin Bieber is going to rid this thing of smelling like mothballs. Oh, look, Billy Crystal is doing his aging vaudevillian routine! Maybe if they let Scorsese’s grandchild take the stage?

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