Sunday, February 24, 2008

The show: a post-mortem

I'll say right off the bat that Jon Stewart did a good job: much better than his uncomfortable first stint a few years ago and better than Ellen DeGeneres last year. The opening monologue was sharp even though some other jokes fell flat (the Yom Kippur-Atonement joke was the worst).

It was a taut, well-produced show, clocking in at about three and a half hours.

The biggest problem: A lack of drama. Marion Cotillard was a surprise, Tilda Swinton somewhat less so. But the last three awards (Daniel Day-Lewis, the Coens and No Country) were more or less anticlimactic. Day-Lewis was gracious but not very memorable; the Coens seemed detached and betrayed no emotion at all; by best picture I was ready to wrap it up.

The show has settled into a formula the past several years: a few montages, the best-song nominees performed, yada yada. The show needs a shake-up, but how to shake it up without flirting with disaster? There's the rub. Maybe we'll find out next year. What's Billy Crystal up to?

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