People forgive, but they don’t forget. Then again, after Sunday’s abomination I think Oscar fans will just try to repress.
Once the 83rd Academy Awards ended, and after I got over my initial disdain for James Franco’s hosting duties, I began thinking of who should do it next year.
No more dual hosting duties.
Not Billy Crystal.
Not Ricky Gervais.
The guy for the job in my opinion, is Woody.
That’s right, Tom Hanks should host the Oscars next year. He is witty and hilarious and that’s a recipe for success with award shows, for reference please see: Crystal, Billy and Gervais, Ricky.
For goodness sake he made a three-hour movie talking to a freaking volley ball! AND THAT WAS ENTERTAINING!
Hanks is a two time Oscar award winner, he won twice for Best Actor in a Leading Role for “Forrest Gump” and “Philadelphia.” The other key with him being able to host is that he more than likely won’t be nominated next year for anything he is doing. (comedies)
I submit Josh Baskin (Big) A.K.A Tom Hanks to host the 84th Academy Awards.
This might seem extreme but I am certainly not alone in these sentiments.
Last night as James Franco sashayed onto the Academy Awards stage holding his iPhone4, videoing everything, like a pompus prick, you could just tell where this was going.
Before the show I even noted that there is a strong possibility that Franco could bomb.
He did.
Venom, and vitriol poured out over the internet following the show. Critics of film and tv alike spewed paragraph after paragraph about the horrid performance of the hosts.
Much more directed at Franco than Hathaway.
There has been plenty of comments on the way Franco looked on stage, his nonchalant approach with lack of feeling or emotion. Franco seemed content standing there next to the alarmingly more pale than usual Hathaway, with his dumb smile and glazed over eyes.
See where I’m getting at?
Maybe Franco forget he was hosting and decided to reenact his role as Saul Silver from “Pineapple Express.”
He even posted live pictures of himself with Oprah backstage and this guy looked high as a kite.
Everyone wants to talk about how Ricky Gervais won’t allowed to be back to host the Golden Globes, how about this.
James Franco may never be allowed to come back to the Oscars…EVER AGAIN.
His antics and piss-poor hosting duties rivaled that of David Letterman from 1995. Franco is damn lucky to have had Hathaway there as a crutch otherwise I wouldn’t have been surprised if the Academy pulled an Apollo Theater and booed his ass off stage.
Franco may have actually ostracized himself from the Academy yesterday, seemingly worse than Christopher Nolan the way he was snubbed.
Way to go, not only have you not made any significant movies thus far in your career but you have gone and made a fool of yourself infront of millions of people.
For the sake of the Academy, the respect of the actors in the room and the people who watch the show, Franco needs to issue an apology and then take a long look at himself in the mirror, and re-evaluate his attitude towards this business.
So after all the hullabaloo about stickler English man, Ricky Gervais, and his brash approach to this years Golden Globes, the powers that be have said they’d want Gervais back.
Or so we thought.
Gervais joked that he had been asked to host the awards again, for the third time, but we now find that he was doing what he does best, kidding.
“There is no truth to this rumor. We have not asked him to come back. Nice try, Ricky,” Philip Berk, president of the Golden Globes, said in a statement.
The moment the Golden Globes ended, websites and social media went ablaze with hate and disgust aimed toward “The Office” creator; actors, fans, media all went at Gervais seemingly like an angry mob with torches.
While Gervais did touch on some sensitive subjects, such as Robert Downey Jr’s rehab stint, and the belief in God, it was all done in jest and I found nothing wrong with it.
Gervais had me rolling.
While Gervais says he still hasn’t found anyone who found his jokes offensive, the consensus seems to be that he took it too far.
Bollocks.
I honestly think he is the best host of any award show, everyone else tries too hard to be funny, the only one who can probably hold a candle to Ricky is in my opinion, his female counterpart; Chelsea Handler.
Frankly, Gervais should replace James Franco and Anne Hathaway, and host the Oscars!
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