This year’s Oscar show scares me, and not just because it’s going to include a montage of horror-movie moments.
No, the show scares me for other reasons. It scares me because of things I’ve heard, things the producers have said, moves they’ve made, and fears that are hard to shake about a show that may be so desperate to attract a young audience that it could lose the essence of what the Oscars are.
Here’s something, for instance, that scares me: co-producer Adam Shankman has been saying that the opening number is going to be the greatest Oscar opening ever.