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Let me make this clear. I love Cintra Wilson with a capital "L". Her writing about celebrity is funny and insightful, and in the past I awaited her Oscars recap with giddy anticipation. But, boy, did she phone this one in and I'm not just referring to her snarky podcast with the regrettable Camille Paglia either. I, like many others seem to have watched a different show altogether. Sure, the Academy Awards suck, but this year some of the writitng was pretty good and Stewart was well, Stewart. I mean if you want Billy Crystal, hire him. It should be pretty obvious that the Oscars are a huge stumbling beast which attempts to appear noble while wallowing in absolute glitz and glamor. Even Chris Rock couldn't straddle that immense contradiction and come off looking spontaneous.I mean, Jon Stewart did about as well as anyone could've expected with what is obviously an outmoded pageant of pseudo-respectability by an industry that is driven by a bigger-is-better-profit-making aesthic. Besides, with the advent of reality TV, Andy Warhol's "15 seconds of fame" dictum is coming truer by the minute and so who really gives a shit what Felicity Huffman wears?!
