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Fl color promo a img, fl color promo img border noneimportant. No surprises, no risks taken at Academy Awards. Jack Black and Will Ferrell’s song was among the of an otherwise boring Academy Awards telecast. Whatever, The th Annual Academy Awards was supposed to be ripe to kick up its heels after the past couple of years, when and the Iraq War put a damper on Hollywood flamboyance. Airing from Hollywood s Kodak Theatre, the ABC broadcast was slick and flub free. The unusually handsome art deco set kept the eye engaged with odd angles.

With host Billy Crystal in the cockpit for the eighth time, the program cruised with confident conventionality, airing live or sort of live, with the five second delay guarding against any chance slip of the tongue or bustier. Not that there was anything to bleep. Whether guided by decorum or a desire to play nice with Washington powers that be already incensed by the Super Bowl halftime show, everybody stayed safe. The evening began with Crystal s big comedy overture. The filmed piece was a parody trailer for The Return of the Host, heralding Crystal s return to the Oscars after several years absence and artfully plugging him into scenes from nominated films, even the computer animated Finding Nemo.

It was dazzling, with the funniest moment a cameo appearance from Michael Moore goofing on last year s Oscarcast appearance Shame on you, Hobbits Shame on you then getting crushed in a stampede from The Lord of the Rings.

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