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73 Oscar Monologues and Opening Numbers Ranked, From Worst to Best
From Seth MacFarlane and Snow White to Chris Rock and NPH, with lots of Bob Hope in the middle.
Amazingly, the Los Angeles Times ’ Charles Champlin would write before the ceremony, “It wasn’t just a bad year for movies, it was a terrible year.”) The Academy recognizes this hallucinatory and consequential collection by giving us … what may or may not be a taped segment with none other than Ray Bolger leading an ever-more-elaborate dance sequence outside the hall. My God, the florists!”) The red carpet bursts with classic sights, with new stars like Sigourney Weaver, Timothy Hutton, and Michael Jackson, who sweeps in with Diana Ross, his co-star in The Wiz, rubbing shoulders with Alan Arkin and Loretta Lynn (the subject of Coal Miner’s Daughter). When we say, ‘Throw another shrimp on the barbie,’ it means we’re getting rid of one of our agents.” He pokes at the major nominees with hit, and mostly miss, humor: “ Children of a Lesser God — how to make love in a swimming pool without waking the neighbors.” Best line: “One giant firm now manufactures both television shows and garbage disposals … and sometimes gets the two confused.”
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