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‘ Let the

Squirm

Build’

A TH R TV critic offers Oscar hosting

guidance to Jimmy Kimmel on his sequel

outing amid #MeToo, Envelopegate and

even Matt Damon By Daniel J. Fienberg

The best advice anybody

could give Jimmy Kimmel

on his second consecu-

tive Oscars hosting stint?

Don’t be Steve Harvey. The

worst thing the Academy

Awards could do is wal-

low in the highest-profile

goof, Envelopegate, in its

90-year history.

That isn’t to say

Kimmel has to ignore

the Moonlight/La La

Land chaos entirely. That

would be disingenuous,

but maybe limit it to a

joke at the top of the show

and then one midshow

callback? Might I suggest

an entirely straight-

faced, “Welcome back

our next presenters,

Warren Beat t y a nd Faye

Dunaway ...” followed

by a long pause to let the

T

audience squirm build?

(Just keep the jokes away

from the actual best pic-

ture presentation.)

Besides, Kimmel has

serious comedy to do and

a year of well-developed

gravitas to help him

address the #MeToo and

Time’s Up movements at

an event that previously has

been more than friendly

to Harvey Weinstein and

Kevin Spacey.

But with the Oscars’

insiderness, maybe

Kimmel doesn’t need to

make these tectonic shifts

as central to his mono-

logue as Seth Meyers did

at the Golden Globes

in January. Maybe leave

Matt Damon, still get-

ting flak for his #MeToo

comments, out this year

and use that time and

newfound sincerity to

welcome a few Parkland

students in place of famil-

iar man-on-the-street

shtick? Mostly, what

Kimmel should remember

is that before last year’s

show went off the rails

in the last 10 minutes, he

was doing a really solid

hosting job, and that, not

the fiasco, is what brought

him back.

‘Welcome back, Warren and Faye ... ’

Dolby Theatre 2002-present

Shrine Auditorium 1988-2001

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1969-2001

She got a

slice of 2014

host Ellen

DeGeneres’

pizza. Brad

Pitt stood

by with a

paper plate.

In 2013, she

skipped the red

carpet and

showed up later

to present best

actor to Daniel

Day-Lewis. She

wasn’t seated

in the audience.

Jennifer Lopez’s

and her response

to Patricia

Arquette’s

2015 acceptance

speech, which

called for gender

pay equity,

is now a GIF.

She got a

smooch from

fellow Kramer

vs. Kramer

acting winner

Dustin Hoffman

in 1980.

She sat in front of

Music of the Heart

co-star Angela

Bassett in 2000.

Her only

no-show as a

nominee was

1991, when she

was pregnant

with Louisa.

2012

2014

2009 2015

2003

1989

1988

1979

1999

1984

2000

Streepology 101

2017

On the eve of Meryl’s 22nd trip to the Oscars

(her 21st as a nominee), THR rounds up the stunning facts and

figures of Hollywood’s most decorated woman ever

By Rebecca Sun

OF

STREEP’S

NOMINATED ROLES

ARE REAL PEOPLE

(OR CLOSELY INSPIRED

BY THEM*)

57%

Karen

Blixen

Out of Africa

1985

Danish

author

Lindy

Chamberlain

A Cry in the

Dark 1988

Mother whose

baby was eaten

by a dingo

2006

1980

1986

(^19821983)
1996
2010
2007
WHERE MERYL SAT
FROM 1979 TO 2017
For her first Academy Awards
ceremony, Streep was seated
far from the stage. Oscar producers
haven’t made that mistake again
In the ’70s, I worked
in the Yale repertory
theater, and there
was talk about this
wonderful actress.
Then I found myself in
The Deer Hunter
with her, the Oscars
happened, and we
were all part of that
amazing night.
I re m e m b e r sit ti n g
at a table with
Meryl and her mother,
a ve r y n ice l a dy,
at the Governors Ball
afterward.”
CHRISTOPHER
W A L K E N ,
her co-star in
The Deer Hunter, which
won five Oscars in 1979