Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
#1Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 1:30am
Wow. It's even worse than I remembered...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qeygd0qPDM
#2re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 2:48amCyd Charisse still had it in 1989. Fabulous dancer
#2re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 3:01am
I'm not sure what my favorite part of this is- the dancing stars and the dancing tables and chairs, Alice Faye almost falling over, or the completely stone faced Robert Downey Jnr.
It just has to be an Alan Carr production!
#3re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 3:38amI always wanted to be a Dancing Table, one of the ones up the back.
#4re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 4:16am
Lily: "And just think a million and a half people just watched that." LOL, exactly.
Didn't Disney file a lawsuit or something for them using Snow White without permission?
#5re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 4:30am
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#6re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 9:01am
That little production number (well, along with the entire disastrous and gaudy show, which featured CHER giving out Best Picture) almost single-handedly took down the Academy Awards. Allan Carr lived out the rest of his life in seclusion and shame (although Ronald Reagan called his Awards the "best show he'd ever seen"), while Hollywood veteran Gil Cates led a comission to determine what exactly was wrong with the Oscars and how to fix it. One of the most significant reforms he enforced was actually paying the producer of the show, a move he greatly benefitted from when he himself was tapped to produce the awards the very next year (he later said that if he knew he would get the job, he "would have asked for more money"). Cates has produced the awards fourteen times since then, most recently the 80th awards in 2008 with Jon Stewart. He most notably took a break after the almost equally disastrous David Letterman show in 1995, which not only included the "Uma, Oprah" fiasco but a spinning dog that had nothing to do with film, and a car being raffled off, onstage, to Sally Field.
Read Steve Pond's excellent "The Big Show" for more information on this and 12 other Oscar shows.
#7re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 9:57amThe Oscars have never recovered from this.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#8re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 10:19am
I couldn't even watch that. Her voice was too annoying.
#9re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 10:28amDid Debbie Allen have anything to do with that?
#10re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 10:49amStockard, I agree. But I miss the days of those awful production numbers. At least there was something to laugh at. Now the oscars are so boring!
#11re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 10:54am
"Whenever you're down in the dumps, try putting on Judy's red pumps"
Wow that was hilariously cheesy!!
But on a plus note Rob Lowe is soo gorgeous!! :)
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#12re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 1:19pm
"Whenever you're down in the dumps, try putting on Judy's red pumps"
Are you aware that Jerry Herman wrote that lyric?
Do you even know who Jerry Herman is?
Updated On: 5/31/09 at 01:19 PM
#13re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 1:24pmSo what if Jerry Herman wrote it. It's still a stupid lyric.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#14re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 1:25pmWhy is that guy crawling around on the steps at the end?
#15re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 1:28pmI think it was an attempt to give Lily her shoe. He should have left it there
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#16re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 1:42pm
I remember watching it live...
My jaw on the floor...
Thanks for the acid flash black. I forgot how truly bad it was.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#17re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 1:44pmMade me look up that Rob Lowe video on line.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#18re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 5/31/09 at 4:04pmRob Lowe is still hot.
EVIE
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#19re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 6/1/09 at 3:30pm
"Why is that guy crawling around on the steps at the end? "
LMAO! That was my favorite part! LOL
#20re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 6/1/09 at 3:39pm
Ugh...Cheno.
Talk about chankles!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#21re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 6/1/09 at 4:13pm
"Did Debbie Allen have anything to do with that?"
Now you know she did (even if she didn't)!!!
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#22re: Remember This Academy Awards Disaster?
Posted: 6/2/09 at 12:37pmGod, that was like Lawrence Welk on meth. Yes...much worse than I remembered.
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