What will a host-free Oscars look like? Hopefully not like 1989.
The year was 1989. “Rain Man” won best picture. Dustin Hoffman scored his moment best actor prize. “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” swept the technical categories. Lucille Ball made her final public appearance. But the 61st Academy Awards,orchestrated by veteran producer Allan Carr (“Grease”) and watched by more than 42 million Americans, is best remembered for the shamelessly over-the-top 11-minute musical number that opened the ceremony, and displacing the standard host monologue.
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