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62nd Oscars – The Academy Awards

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Mar 1990

Special Interest

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Billy Crystal gets top marks as a wonderful host for Oscar -- Oscar, Oscar! -- but there is a lingering sense that the Academy did not do the right thing in a night marred by conspicuous snubs and uninspired set pieces.

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Peter Luck

Sydney Morning Herald

04/28/2021

I thought the awards were great this year, right from Crystal's opening line... Embarrassed at last by its wretched excesses, Hollywood showed there was still some hope for it by going international.

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Roger Ebert

New York Daily News

04/28/2021

After the fiasco of last year's opening production number starring Rob Lowe and Snow White, the opening monologue by Billy Crystal was a refreshing change.

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Greg Joseph

Arizona Republic

04/28/2021

Topping it off like tangy cherries and nuts sprinkled on a rich chocolate sundae was Crystal, who was formal enough to hold the show together but flip enough to keep it from turning into a procession of embarrassing oral job applications.

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Patrick Taggart

Austin American-Statesman

04/28/2021

Billy Crystal should be made host for life... Monday night he performed solo, and brilliantly.

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Bill Brownstein and John Griffin

Montreal Gazette

04/28/2021

The Academy brain trust stressed tight organization, 43-second acceptance speeches, and, for Hollywood, a minimum amount of glitz in presenting the most reasonable, balanced show in recent Oscar history.

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Aired Mar 26, 1990

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Network: ABC
Genre: Special Interest
Release Date: Mar 26, 1990

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