The Oscars are bit of a blowhard exercise - OTOH, our cinema is one of our best exports. Our movie biz does a lot to improve our favorability around the world.

Billy Crystal was the best but he's not getting any younger and is only human. Even he can't nail it these days. Jon Stewart didn't fall on his face completely but didn't knock it out of the park either. MacFarlane did have some winners - I like the one where he said something about a character who was a raging alcoholic, sort of like he will be in about 45 minutes.

I thought the line about the 9 year old girl being 15 years old away from being too old for Clooney was really poorly advised. The boobs song was too frat boy. I've read that some actresses really struggle with the showing the boobs thing, and often do so only if it really is called for. I mean any talent-free porn actress can show her boobs and more.

One of his lines that was funny (and probably almost accurate) was that everyone from Whoopi on down to Ron Jeremy declined the gig. If Billy Crystal calls me and asks me to take it for him I'd do it. Probably a good payday.

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