With Santa set to shove his massive, pie-encrusted bulk down your central heating pipes at any moments, it’s time for the film world to turn it’s 8mm eye Oscar-wards, various illuminati gathering to heap praise on any worthy drama that hoves into view.
Usually the whole event is shrouded in secrecy, but this year producer Adam Shankman has been letting a little more away than the academy would like thanks to his love of Twitter. Shankman, who has a modest following of..ooh..48,000 on the site, usually keeps his tweets innocuous, telling us of dinner with co-hosts Steve Martin and Greatest Actor In The World ™ Alec Baldwin and other boring claptrap, but all hell broke loose when he recently asked his followers exactly what they’d want to see in among the flurry of back-slapping and sub-par Forrest Gump flicks.
Not surprisingly, the web went into overdrive, and while a bizarre rallying call for Neil Patrick Harris as host caught our eye, there’s no surprise that Twilight fans would happily sit through 4 hours of boring yakking to catch a glimpse of R-Patz and Kristin Stewart together on stage (just like New Moon then…). Other idiots in the frame were ‘the new Olivier Zac Efron’, and a variety of musical buffoons from ‘Glee’.
This disturbing lean towards musical theatre has left STS scratching it’s head and wondering who we’d cast for the 82nd awards – current frontrunner is Bishop’s severed head from Alien – but how about you guys? Do you think the entire cast of Wicked would do a better job than Billy Crystal, or would the whole thing be safest in Van Damme’s capable fists? We want your dream Oscar host/presenters/showtune combos and we want them now!
