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2008 Oscar telecast … Go or No Go?

The big question on everyone’s mind this morning, after the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominees, is will there be a show or not? Will there be a show similar to the People’s Choice Awards with a a host and some entertaining interviews and taped bits of the winners receiving their awards? Or will there be a very shortened telecast with a few people just rifling out the winners’ names like the Golden Globes? Or will the Writers Guild have a change of heart and realize that the Oscars are so big, as we head into the 80th anniversary of the Academy Awards, and just allow some sort of deal to be worked out? Do we need David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants on the case?

We do know that the host of whatever show goes on the air will be Jon Stewart, the host from two years ago. Why Ellen DeGeneres isn’t the host again, we’re not quite sure. It could be any number of things at this point. Maybe they feel Stewart would do better without writers, or maybe she decided against crossing the picket line for the telecast, even though she’s already crossing for her show. Who knows?

There are only going to be a few awards given out I really care about the outcome anyway. Despite seeing one or two movies a week, for some reason I haven’t seen most of the movies up for awards. This is because of a variety of reasons. For one, some of them didn’t interest me (I’m not really into historic epics …) and for another, many of them were originally out in a limited release and weren’t offered to me here out in the suburbs.

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