Comments on: The Amazing Race: 5 Suggestions On How To Make Next Year’s Oscars Better Than The 2012 Ceremony https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/ Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Jake https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81707 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81707 Let's go back to five nominees AFTER The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, and the musical adaptation of Les Miserables are all released in time for next year's ceremony. THAT'S the Oscar telecast I want to watch.

]]> By: bruce vilanch https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81708 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81708 dear mr. lyttleton — i had nothing to do with the show this year. check the credits. i am also 64 years old. check my birth certificate. i am also a person who encouraged hugh to bring in those writers and we all wrote and rewrote together. they got the credit on the opening song and won the emmy. i am sorry my best years are behind me. but so's my ass, which is pretty fabulous and gets a lot of work. this is really me. see what happens when you have google alert? you get to read all the misinformed crap that's written about you. enjoy your career!

]]> By: Edward Copeland https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81709 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81709 What really needs to happen is that the Academy needs to grow a pair and tell Disney/ABC that they will never have the ratings of the show's glory days because there are a lot more options than three channels now. They need to accept that the Oscars aren't going to get an audience by default. It is now niche programming and instead of attempting to attract new viewers that it's not going to get, it should cater to viewers like us that it will instead of continuously pissing us off. There will become a point when many of us get used to not seeing award shows such as BAFTA and the Spirits live and just seeing who won afterward and we might start choosing that option for Oscar as well. Why not watch something entertaining and just checking the Web every so often to see what's been winning? If that means missing Cirque du Soleil, I'll take that chance.

]]> By: StephenM https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81710 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81710 Yeah, it wasn't amazing, but when have the Oscars ever been amazing? Maybe back when Bob Hope did it, I dunno, but even then that was just some great one liners, and very little showbiz. Personally I thought this year was a big improvement over last year's, and in some ways the best in the last 3-5. It wasn't that the jokes were hilarious or not, it was more about the warm and respectful presentation without becoming narcissistic. Remember the way they had all the other actors compliment each other on what great people they were a couple years back? And everyone gave really good acceptance speeches this year, too–they didn't go on too long, and none of them went crazy or nothin'. So pretty solid and respectable, and that's all you can really ask for.

]]> By: Murphy https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81711 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81711 Poehler/Fey please.

]]> By: Bakunin https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81712 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81712 "but you can have fun without being mean-spirited"

Kind of contradictory considering Cohen was being mean-spirited with his new, xenophobic movie/character.

]]> By: david https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81713 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81713 NPH or GTFO.

]]> By: ben https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81714 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81714 Grazer axed Bruce Villanch this year.

]]> By: oogle monster https://staging2.theplaylist.net/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-20120227/#comment-81715 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:53:48 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/the-amazing-race-5-suggestions-on-how-to-make-next-years-oscars-better-than-the-2012-ceremony-112615/#comment-81715 Please fax this to the Academy ASAP.

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