What was that?
The 85th Academy Awards — I know the producers opted to just call it “The Oscars,” but it really was the 85th Academy Awards — ended an unusual awards season with an unusual show.
Seth MacFarlane’s entire opening centered on how bad a host he might prove to be, hardly the most promising stance from which to proceed. He got Tommy Lee Jones to laugh with his first joke of the night — “And the quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh begins now” — and then acted as if he were determined that Tommy Lee should never laugh again.