1.0 link 150879 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/caryn-james/a-plea-to-oscar-host-hugh_b_150879.html I like Hugh Jackman, really. Enough to forgive him Australia. But this year's Oscar host seems to be heading in a disastrous retro direction, even as he and the show's new producers promise to revamp that dead-weight ratings loser.

The producers, Laurence Mark and Bill Condon, are smart Hollywood guys but their last collaboration was Dreamgirls (Mark produced, Condon wrote and directed), not an auspicious start. And they have already evoked the ghosts of Oscars past. They praised...

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