I miss the accountants

So Bob Collins just strolled by and said, "Write something about the Oscars!"

Is there anything left to say? I talked about them for an hour already. So here are a couple of things I didn't mention:

Where were the accountants? I always liked the brief, awkward appearance by the bean-counters! Bring 'em back. It only took about 30 seconds. You could just shave a little time off the twenty minutes that the camera lingers on Jack Nicholson every year.

I am apparently the only person who loves those montages. Okay, the Nancy Meyers tribute to writers was clunky and pointless, but Michael Mann's tribute to America managed to be funny and have a political edge at the same time. Tom Shales mocked the foreign film tribute as being "presumably for people who had no idea what a foreign film is," but I enjoyed seeing those snippets. It's not to educate about us foreign film, it's to make us remember what it felt like to see Z or Closely Watched Trains. It's corny, but I grew up watching That's Hollywood. (They shoudl get Tom Bosley to introduce all the clips!)