The Oscars should be viewed less like a horse race and more like a NASCAR race. After stomaching months of prognostications, few winners will truly surprise. So to endure the telecast, we must count on metaphorical car wrecks: controversy (Michael Moore bashes Bush!), big screw-ups (debris lands near Steve Martin!), near nip-slips (J. Lo's gauzy top! Beyonce's perilous dress!) and scenery-chewing (Adrien Brody mauls Halle Berry!).
When it comes to watching, "I like when something goes wrong," says Lili Fini Zanuck, who produced the Oscars in 2000. That year, the biggest surprise was the "South Park" guys' arrival in knockoffs of dresses made famous by Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez. "Producers try to streamline it as much as possible. . . . Everybody is doing everything for this to not happen."
Hence the Oscars' rigid format: banter, award, applause, speech, musical number, commercial break, repeat.
"In a show which is very orderly and guards against those moments, how do you get spontaneity and surprise to come through?" wonders Gil Cates, who has produced 14 Oscar shows. "They happen on their own. Most good TV is accidental."
Source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/24/AR2011022403358.html
When it comes to watching, "I like when something goes wrong," says Lili Fini Zanuck, who produced the Oscars in 2000. That year, the biggest surprise was the "South Park" guys' arrival in knockoffs of dresses made famous by Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez. "Producers try to streamline it as much as possible. . . . Everybody is doing everything for this to not happen."
Hence the Oscars' rigid format: banter, award, applause, speech, musical number, commercial break, repeat.
"In a show which is very orderly and guards against those moments, how do you get spontaneity and surprise to come through?" wonders Gil Cates, who has produced 14 Oscar shows. "They happen on their own. Most good TV is accidental."
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