Every year, the challenge is there — but never is the need greater:
How in hell can they make the Oscar telecast exciting?
On Thursday, as co-Producer Bill Mechanic was busy overseeing the first technical run-through, he told Waxword he was finally getting optimistic.
“This has a chance of being something exceptional, as opposed to just good,” he said. “This is gorgeous, but in a really fun, funny, emotional way. I think it will be very emotional.”
How so, I wondered?
“We approached the show a different way,” he said, declining to tell me anything specific.
Well, we did get a few things out of him about the March 7 show.