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71st Oscars – The Academy Awards

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Mar 1999

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Whoopi Goldberg brings polarizing raunch to a 71st Oscars that feels curdled from the outset due to controversially aggressive campaign tactics.

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Howard Rosenberg

Los Angeles Times

Nov 11, 2019

Goldberg had some other nice moments too. But they were outnumbered by her gratuitously coarse language and one-liners, and cheap political jokes. Some of us would have applauded, but we were sitting on our hands.

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Mark Caro

Chicago Tribune

Nov 11, 2019

The longest-ever Academy Awards show, which was filled with surprises and nods to the past... The 4-hour-and-5-minute telecast was both achingly slow and particularly fraught with suspense.

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Slate Staff

Slate

Nov 11, 2019

The ceremony itself gave you no clue about the issues at stake, preferring to champion a more old-fashioned -- and meaningless -- concept of "heroism."

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Irish Times Staff

Irish Times

Nov 11, 2019

A soporific ceremony which dragged on for an all-too over-extended duration of more than four hours... Whoopi Goldberg, who was the compere for the evening, could not compare with Crystal's razor-sharp wit and ease with adlibbing.

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Aired Mar 21, 1999

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Network: ABC
Genre: Special Interest
Release Date: Mar 21, 1999

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