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AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

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The Oscar goes to hell in a handbasket.  One way ticket to palookaville. 

Journey to oblivion.  On the road to nowhere.  For 84 years the Oscars have commanded attention and in many cases provided a wonderful evening of entertainment and good feelings.  But no more.  In recent years each show seems to get worse and this year's show was the worse yet.

This year's nominations for best picture were among the least attended nominated movies in history.  Bringing back Billy Crystal as host looked like a good idea on paper but turned out to be a dud.  What we got was a comic who is rusty, has lost his timing and that clear sharp voice that made him such a standout.  And he wasn't helped by some of the most inane writing yet.  Crystal seemed to find his groove about 2 hours into the show...2 hours too late.

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 The presenters seem ever more self-conscience and the audience seemed likewise.  Everyone knew how to act.  Gone are the days of wonderment, joy and innocence, replaced instead by the cynical and I'm so cool attitude that seems to permeate our media in all platforms.

  And then there is the red carpet.  What seems like a hundred hours of bad interviews and empty chatter.  A fashion show that could easily be squeezed into 90 minutes. Then there was the Cohen guy about as funny as a hemorrhoid.  Also ABC had a woman on the red carpet with a British accent doing interviews that rendered the word dumb, useless.  And the Oscar goes to......

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