Suggestions to spice up the Oscars
FINAL Oscar voting has closed; all that's left to get through are a few parties, the red carpet and finally, on Sunday night, the ceremony.
Ah, the ceremony.
At 3-1/2 hours in a good year and with about two dozen categories to plough through, perhaps a quarter of which are of zero interest to the tens of millions tuning in, the raison d'être of awards season invariably feels like a marathon, without that post-race endorphin rush.
To move things along, changes have been implemented over the years. Winners have 45 seconds to speak before th…
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