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No Thank You, Oscar
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Are the folks at the Academy reading Feiler Faster?! After my post-Golden-Globe-rant about how recipients at award shows should throw out their thank yous and be rewarded with more time to give their acceptance speeches, Ellen Degeneres announces in EW that the Oscar broadcast is planning something similar, even adopting another idea I've been advocating for some time now, letting winners post their thank yous, even ones they might forget in the moment (Hillary Swank), on the Internet:

I thought I wrote the monologue about a month ago and I was really excited that it was done. It just came to me and it was just brilliant and since then I've thrown that away. I'm sure I'll do that five times before the actual night. We don't want to play anybody off [during his/her acceptance speech]. We think people should be able to talk as long as they want. Hopefully, people throw their lists away and speak from the heart. We're going to have a thank-you Oscar website where people can go backstage and thank whoever they want instead of doing it on the show. The more impulsive and spontaneous people are, the more comedy there's going to be.... I don't look at it as there are rules for anything. That's why I'm not wearing a dress. I'm wearing a tux. I don't care what I'm supposed to look like. And I want to do the same thing that I've done with other awards shows — I want to be in the audience a lot. I want to be in different places and show what really happens there.

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