Deflating Oscar's Hot Air Balloon

"No amount of lesbians and Mexicans will save this ship."
-- Ryland Walker Knight
This year, the most shocking thing about the 79th Annual Academy Awards was no doubt Jack Nicholson’s fat, pale, bald head. A pageant like this should have some razzle dazzle but it seemed, in an effort to streamline, everything went, well, too smoothly.

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