These are the things that make the Oscars fun.
More Quotes from Robert Thompson:
For some people, it's never going to be time for this event to be the subject of a movie. But that doesn't mean, I think, that we as a culture reduce ourselves to silence about it.Robert Thompson
To have a public intellectual host the Oscars, that doesn't happen too much. My biggest worry would be that he'd upstage the entire night.
Robert Thompson
It's hard to remember life without eBay. It's one of those things like fast food or Disneyland. Once they make their appearance on the American landscape, they become part of the language.
Robert Thompson
When Ellen came back with the Emmys (in November 2001), she was coming back to a culture that had been put on total and complete hold, ... a felicitous coincidence.
Robert Thompson
It was fun to watch these bad people get trashed, and Simon was really good at it. Which was why he became so well-known so quickly.
Robert Thompson
No one would ever likely confuse reality TV with Masterpiece Theatre.
Robert Thompson
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