Pop quiz: The three oversize Oscars waiting to be erected outside the Shrine Auditorium are (a) working on their tans; (b) stargazing; or (c) victims of a Pulp Fiction-style execution. Answer: none of the above. They're just napping -- and you can hardly blame them. At three hours and 35 minutes, this year's Academy Awards ceremony was one of the longest-running Oscar shows in history. But was it boring? There have been far worse.
For those who nodded off before Dave's final quip, here's ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's condensed version: Gump was no schlump, Quiz Show got trumped, Pulp took its lumps, Newman was stumped, Shawshank got dumped, Landau's speech was bumped, Tarantino seemed pumped, and the late-night king hit a slump.
Now that Hollywood's biggest bash is over, the tuxedos are back in mothballs, and the stretch limos have been valet-parked for another year, a question still remains: How much of the festivities does the world recall? Probably only one thing: Tom Hanks was no chump.
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Written and reported by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, Jess Cagle, Bruce Fretts, A.J. Jacobs, Heather Keets, Gregg Kilday, Albert Kim, Beth Lerch, Cynthia Littleton, Chris Nashawaty, Beth Pinsker, Vicki Jo Radovsky, Jane Wollman Rusoff, Heidi Siegmund, Benjamin Svetkey, Michael Szymanski, Anne Thompson, Ken Tucker, and Michael Walker
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