I've been working on bringing my annual award tracker from my old website over to the blog, and while there are some small issues that I'm trying to work out, I think I'm at a good place where I can publish it now.
Let me know if you have issues, and check back often to see who's got all the momentum heading into this year's Oscars. (Just wondering, how is Jon Stewart going to host this show without WGA writers?)
Excellent. I think Ellen is great, I think Chris Rock is a brave choice, and I think Steve Martin is sublimely brilliant... but I do love my Jon.
Now, people absolutely have the right to disagree, but this article by Nikki Finke is just plain mean. To wit, here's a quote from her review the last time he hosted:
"Then he sets up what starts out like a winner, noting how 'a lot of people say this town is too liberal...out of touch with Mainstream America...a moral black hole where innocence is obliterated in an orgy of sexual gratification and greed...' But then he ends with, 'I don't really have a joke here.' Why not, for chrissakes? Didn't this gig pay you to write punch lines?"
Um, Nikki? That is the punch line. Someone has lost their sense of humor somewhere along the way methinks.
Yep, that about sums it up. So... thoughts?
I still think Steve Martin is the best, and Jon Stewart came in a close second. Everyone else is far behind. I'd like to see Conan O'Brien get a shot at it, but... what do you think? Ellen can definitely be funny.
Tom O'Neill, however, thinks she'll flop.
Defamer had a funny quote from Ellen herself:
"When Laura Ziskin called, I was thrilled," said DeGeneres. "There's two things I've always wanted to do in my life. One is to host the Oscars. The second is to get a call from Laura Ziskin. You can imagine that day's diary entry."
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