Oscar Producer Mechanic: The Show Will Be ‘Emotional’

“This has a chance of being something exceptional, as opposed to just good”

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.

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