Hell yeah

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• Greg Ferrara says:

  November 29, 2010 at 11:11 pm

  Looking for­ward to his banter with co-host Noah Hathaway from The Neverending Story. Should be a lot of fun.

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• S. Porath says:

  November 30, 2010 at 1:55 am

  I think Hathaway is a great choice- it’s about time the Oscars let a dir­ect­or host the show, par­tic­u­larly one so out of fash­ion (has­n’t had a hit since Airport). It might get awk­ward if Hank says what he really thinks about the Coens tran­ish­ing True Grit, but Franco should be able to restrain him (noth­ing says classy restraint like Jess Franco).

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• jbryant says:

  November 30, 2010 at 3:53 am

  S. Porath: Had no idea Hathaway did uncred­ited work on some out­door stuff in George Seaton’s AIRPORT until your joke.
  I think the most awk­ward aspect of a Jess Franco/Henry Hathaway dual host­ing gig is that Franco is far less dead than Hathaway.

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• Griff says:

  November 30, 2010 at 8:27 am

  Glenn, this post typ­i­fies why I feel com­pelled to vis­it the site every day…

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• MovieMan0283 says:

  November 30, 2010 at 10:16 am

  Well, he’s got good taste at least (the actu­al host): http://www.criterion.com/explore/63-james-francos-top-10. Even to the point of men­tion­ing La Cotta – kudos.
  Now if they rein­stated the hon­or­ary Oscars (you know, the one time the Academy actu­ally gets it right) as part of the actu­al broad­cast and stopped thumb­ing their nose at their own his­tory, maybe I’d actu­ally watch the damn broad­cast this year.

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• The Siren says:

  November 30, 2010 at 11:28 am

  A loud amen for MovieMan’s second graf.

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• Pete Apruzzese says:

  November 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm

  Damn, I thought it was Franco Nero and Henry Hathaway…

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• otherbill says:

  November 30, 2010 at 5:57 pm

  If Jess is host­ing, I say we start the push to give Howard Vernon a posthum­ous Thalberg right here.

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