The atmosphere was odd from the start, with a woman dressed as Snow White being told to follow gigantic golden stars with disembodied female legs, while she tried to shake hands with actors in the crowd as she made her way to the stage. The hosting gig was the subject of an Amy Poelher and Tina Fey gag at the Golden Globes years later. Your email address will not be published. FIRST LOOK AT SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT REMAKE, KIRSTIE ALLEY JOINS JAMES WOODS TO REMAKE BIRTH OF A NATION, HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 3 CONFIRMED, SHARON STONE’S VAGINA IS REMASTERED BY THE BFI, JUPITER ASCENDING 2 ‘WILL HAVE SMALLER BUDGET’, PATRICK STEWART DISOWNS DAUGHTER, KRISTEN STEWART, DAVID LYNCH TO FILM WILD AT HEART TV SERIES FOR NETFLIX, HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: TOM CRUISE AND BEING GAY, PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON TO DIRECT SHARKNADO 7, RICHARD KIND SLAMS COLIN FARRELL FOR NORM-FACING, DENTISTS PROTEST BRANDON CRONENBERG’S POSSESSOR, IF YOU PLAY TENET BACKWARDS IT MAKES SENSE, TROLLS WORLD TOUR FAVORITE TO WIN BEST PICTURE OSCAR. His mother is Jewish and his father was of Portuguese and Swedish descent. From the get-go, Franco (who was also nominated for an Oscar that year) looked like he just didn’t want to be on stage and was waiting for it all to be over. He was smoking something that later found out was for his glaucoma. "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons - fresh, exciting and multi-talented," telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer said yesterday. I love her, but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway.”.
The Academy Awards recently revealed which stars would be helping present at the 'hostless' Oscars this year. This “incensed” co-host Bob Hope, who was a firm Nixon supporter, according to host Shirley Maclaine and led to Hope to force host Frank Sinatra to read out his “response” to Schneider’s message. The pair were apprehended and a back up car was called. Uma. The 1983 Oscars walked so that Anne Hathaway and James Franco could run. ", Franco later told David Letterman, “I've thought about it. The big night will mark Hathaway's fifth appearance on the Academy Award stage. But who was the worst Oscars host? The following year, the Academy decided Chase could do it on his own - unfortunately, they were wrong. "We hope to create an Oscars broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world" when stars and industry chiefs gather for the show at Hollywood's Kodak Theater. Anne Hathaway doesn’t deserve this, but James Franco certainly does. Back then, the Academy decided four hosts were better than one - only it didn’t anticipate nearly all of them would be catastrophically unprepared for their opening number. The two Hollywood actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been arrested and charged with attempted kidnapped, after they were discovered early this morning hiding outside Chris Rock’s house with rope, duct tape and a large Persian carpet.
The lion's share of the barbs were reserved for Franco, who was variously described as smug, distant, bored. Mentioning everyone from Meryl Streep to Naomi Watts (whose face fell in a heartbreaking slow motion moment), he enlisted an entire choir of men to join in a rousing chorus and included lyrics such as, “[Your boobs] made us feel excited and alive.”. (Eileen Bowman, who played Snow White, recalled that Michelle Pfeiffer was “so embarrassed, she could not even give me her hand.”). "In what could go down as one of the worst Oscar telecasts in history, a bad and risky idea – letting two actors host – proved out in spectacularly unwatchable fashion on the biggest of all nights for the film world," wrote the Hollywood Reporter's Tim Goodman. Last year the annual show was hosted by veteran funnyman Steve Martin and actor Alec Baldwin, while Australian heart-throb Hugh Jackman was a surprise choice in 2009. At least Hathaway can laugh about the trainwreck now.
I think I know why [I bombed]. They are idling at half-speed, scared of giving offence. Congratulating Hathaway for her Les Miserables nomination, Tina Fey quipped, "I haven't seen you so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were on stage with James Franco at the Oscars. The 1983 Oscars walked so that Anne Hathaway and James Franco could run. When the camera panned to her, the unimpressed actress hid her face in her hand. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2020. The two Hollywood actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been arrested and charged with attempted kidnapped, after they were discovered early this morning hiding outside Chris Rock’s house with rope, duct tape and a large Persian carpet. Learn how your comment data is processed. Hathaway, a Best Actress nominee for Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married in early 2009, was this year’s Oscar ceremony co-host alongside Best Actor nominee James Franco (for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours). James Franco and Anne Hathaway will take to the stage to co-host the 83rd Academy Awards in February it has been confirmed. They handed me this piece of paper, and I read it.”, Seth Macfarlane, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe Getty Images), Seth Macfarlane with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Daniel Radcliffe, David Letterman and Tom Hanks watch Sadie the dog perform a stupid pet trick, Snow White preparing for her Oscars opening number, Snow White and Rob Lowe performing the Oscars opening number, Liza Minelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor and Walter Matthau, and celebrity lifestyle news every week, by email. While there's no knowing how the likes of Timothee Chalamet , Mark Ruffalo and Mindy Kaling are going to fare on February 10, if they do bomb they can comfort themselves that many have gone before them. The most awkward moment came when Rob Lowe, whose sex tape with a 16 year old girl had made headlines the year prior, proceeded to sing and flirt with Snow White onstage for the rest of the performance. Suspicion was raised when an off duty police officer observed the Les Miserables star and her Spider-man 3 accomplice crouching in the bushes outside the grounds of Chris Rock’s house in the Hollywood hills. * Her big-screen debut took place in 2001. The Guardian’s Marina Hyde quipped that the pair “couldn’t hit a gag with a trunkload of IEDs” and Baldwin gave off nervous energy as they both struggled through jokes to polite chuckles. She was singing something about there was a time when men were kind, their voices soft their words inviting. The 83rd Academy Awards were hosted by two very beautiful people — the Oscar-winning Anne Hathaway and Oscar-nominee (nominated in the same ceremony) James Franco. Other clangers include Seth Macfarlane 's sexist musical number 'We Saw Your Boobs' to Bob Hope forcing Old Blue Eyes to read an awkward message. The two Hollywood actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been arrested and charged with attempted kidnapped, after they were discovered early this morning hiding outside Chris Rock’s house with rope, duct tape and a large Persian carpet. You can’t be your own manager and agent and soothsayer—you have to take risks. ", Back in the States, USA Today's Robert Blanco said Franco "seemed to be preparing for a remake of Dazed and Confused", while Moviefone's Alonso Duralde wrote simply: "Franco flopped. Letterman may have once been the king of late night television, but the talk show host recently called his 1995 hosting gig an “explosion of excrement.”, A last minute joke with no preparation led Letterman to open to the show with a now notorious line, which literally went, “Oprah.
"It was as if the telecast's producers were so desperate to compensate for the fact that this year's big winner would only appeal to the over-50s that they decided to hand over hosting duties to a couple of children.
"Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout. Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. Remember when James Franco hosted the Oscars?.
Unfortunately, we do too. The police say they are baffled as to the motive as both Hathaway and Franco are rightly regarded as the best Oscar hosts ever. Register with your social account or click here to log in.
It was a great night for The King's Speech, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Natalie Portman, among others. The sheer lack of chemistry between the two seemed to stick out like a sore thumb. Film critic Roger Ebert said, "Despite the many worthy nominated films, the Oscarcast was painfully dull, slow, witless, and hosted by the ill-matched James Franco and Anne Hathaway. He recalled that he was “perspiring” in his suit and that the show was an “embarrassment”, especially as one of his idols Steve Martin later cracked a joke at his expense.
Notify me of follow-up comments by email. He turned to a sexist original composition called ‘We Saw Your Boobs’, which named actresses who had stripped down for onscreen roles. Although the Writers’ Guild of America was on strike which certainly didn’t help with joke-writing, the host was reviewed as arrogant and smarmy - opening the show with the line “good evening, Hollywood phonies.".
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