Key Highlights
- Earlier today I did an interview with the BBC, and the reporter asked simply, “Is this a good move?” After riffing on it with him for a few minutes, I have firmly convinced myself this just might be the smartest, even most brilliant chess move AMPAS ever has done.
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- It’s simple, dummy!
- The Oscars already are on YouTube, and have been for a few years.
- Watch on Deadline Grandpa and Grandma, even Mom and Dad mighgt only know how to watch the often-bloated (timewise) Oscar show on network television — first in the 1950s on NBC, then in the ’60s on ABC, then in first half of the ’70s back to NBC and since 1976 exclusively on ABC again — but younger internet and iPhone-hip generations increasingly watch the show, as they consume many things, in bits and pieces.
