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Great piece, Richard

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

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

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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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