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Monday, March 6, 2006 12:00 AM

Oscar castrates himself

The Academy celebrates niceness, bleeps out "bitch" and pats itself on the back for good behavior. And what did they do to poor Jon Stewart?
By Cintra Wilson

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  • Monday, March 6, 2006 06:55 AM

    So nobody was an asshole, therefore the ceremony sucked?

    The Oscars have never, ever, lauded, accepted and/or embraced bad behavior (at least not for more than a couple of seconds), which appears to be Ms. Wilson's raison d'etre. Fine, to each their own. Go watch the MTV Movie Awards for the kind of celebration you desire.

    As for Stewart, he did fine. Not fabulous, but fine. To be fair, his material was about 15 minutes out of a mercifully short 3 and a half hour broadcast. What he and his colleagues from TDS wrote was good. What the presenters had to utter? There was the dullness.

    —David Bruggeman

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