Parker and Stone were in the audience. They came dressed in drag. Camille Paglia First of all, the awards show should be entirely about movies. The amount of time wasted on juvenile comedy routines by showboating hosts is ridiculous. The elimination of dance routines last year was idiotic.
Dance is one art form that is still thriving in America.
There should be abundant music and dance in an awards show that celebrates moviemaking as a performing art. The intricate craft of moviemaking should be much more stressed in the show. Instead of blinding, incoherent montages of bits from 500 classic films, care should be taken to prepare segments that inform and educate the mass audience about the technical expertise that produces and supports the image on the screen. Presenters should be sternly told to cut the shtick and act dignified and, for heaven's sake, learn how to say the nominees' names, particularly the foreign ones. Giggling, flirting and in-jokes at the podium are utterly adolescent and make the U.S. look silly and parochial to the worldwide audience.