What do Lily Tomlin, Snow White, and Kenny Ortega have in common? They were all part of the 61st Academy Awards, a broadcast now remembered as the worst of all time, and masterminded by Allan Carr (lover of spectacle and producer of Grease). But awards season correspondent and New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman is here to argue that the tackiest, most disastrous Oscars of all time might just be... unfairly maligned.
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Michael's book Oscar Wars
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/oscar-wars-michael-schulman?variant=41063519387682
Michael's New Yorker page
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/michael-schulman
the video of the opening number
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mronRVvdmw
the video of Pee-wee and RoboCop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETFHeMSIMGc&t=63s
And the book Michael mentioned about Allan Carr, Party Animals, is here
https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/robert-hofler/party-animals/9780306818943/
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