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The Defamer Guide to Saving the Oscars [Academy Awards]
gawker.com - 10/20/2009
The Defamer Guide to Saving the Oscars [Academy Awards]
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The show may or may not get higher ratings than the American Idol finale, but the subject of who will host and produce the 82nd Academy Awards telecast remains Hollywood's perennial obsession. And...

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Eavesdropping Is What Guests Do Best…
Guest of a Guest - NYC People, Places, Parties & Nightlife — ... Only a little over a hundred days till show time and the Oscars still doesn’t have a host. Which one of these crazy themes would you tune in to watch? [Gawker] ...

Defamer’s Guide to Saving the Oscars
Awards Daily — ... Defamer’s Richard Rushfield pokes some good fun at the efforts to help boost the ratings of the telecast — I kind of agree with this first one. Let’s face it, “fixing” the Oscars has never really worked. I have long believed that it isn’t the show but the films and the star power that matters. Bigger stars, more popular films is probably the way to go. And by popular films that doesn’t necessarily mean not-as-good-as-their-indie-brethren. It just means films many Americans have actually seen before the broadcast airs. Here is ...

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