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Great piece, Richard

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Thank you Meriah!

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900 pound gorilla. Or Godzilla. Keep up the great work!

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Gorilla isn't enough to capture the bulk

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AGREE but neither is a 900 pound Godzilla! 😜❤️

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Show notes ...

Don't leave the stage. It's not a daytime talk show.

Don't have talent talk to camera. They talk to the audience.

Get the camera off the stage. The camera covers the event.

No coverage of audience talk during ad breaks. It's not the globes.

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The presenters talking to the camera from the stage thing I found incredibly unsettling. What was the idea there?

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Netflix's Anne Hathaway / Dee Rees muddle further reveals a culture that is struggling to make good, big movies.

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Amazing with all those resources that it should still be a struggle.

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The Academy is lost. They have so little confidence in the motion picture as an art form that they have turned the Academy Awards into the Grammys.

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They wish they had turned it into the Grammys, more like the MTV awards..

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