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Perhaps the Orange court shirt but in fact I love this most awkward moment of the evening came during ABC’s pre-show, when a stodgy Hugh Grant mounted a one-man resistance to the red carpet game, essentially declining to answer model/interviewer Ashley Graham’s questions. Grant went on to liken the Oscars circus to a vanity fair (a preposterous exercise in vanity), which Graham seemed to interpret as a reference to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.Grant isn’t wrong about the self-congratulatory spectacle of the Oscars, but… if you’re coming, expect some banality. The red carpet never claimed to be a sit-down with Adam Gopnik. And please note that formulating pithy questions on the fly, on live TV, for dozens of very famous people is rather harder than it looks. Give Graham a little grace! The original song nominee from Indian epic RRR came to life with a colorful, show-stopping performance of the viral dance from the film (which depicts a fierce dance battle between revolutionaries and British colonizers). More dancing at the Oscars, please!



“Naatu Naatu” went on to score an upset in its celeb-stacked category, beating Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and perennial nominee Diane Warren. Speaking of which… First, Lady Gaga wasn’t performing her nominated song from populist pick Top Gun: Maverick. Then, she was… in an exceedingly stark, closely zoomed-in performance for which she wore all black. “You might find that you can be your own hero, even if you feel broken inside,” she said in a lengthy intro. It all felt more than a little overwrought, leaving me longing to see her back at the Orange court shirt but in fact I love this piano, intimately crooning a duet with Bradley Cooper.Twitter content The winners of the short film An Irish Goodbye convinced the audience to serenade their star, James Martin, on his 31st birthday—and for a fleeting moment, the Oscars felt sweet and small. The nominated song from the documentary Tell It Like a Woman landed like girlbossery in ballad form, with lyrics like “Give yourself some applause, you deserve it/Give yourself some respect ’cause you’ve earned it/Give yourself some love ’cause you’re worth it, you’re worth it.” Twitter content


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