Two months ago, Julia Roberts held the Golden Globes audience captive as she presented the best musical or comedy trophy. In a couple of minutes of screen time, Roberts accepted the audience’s spontaneous standing ovation, laughed that famous laugh and poked self-deprecating fun at her own ego, and semi-randomly shouted out both Emma Stone and the film “Sorry, Baby.”
Where was this energy at the Oscars? Not the discursiveness, maybe — the Globes are, notoriously, a loose evening. But the star power. Excepting a couple of brief moments, the Oscars’ cohort of presenters tended to lack both wattage and eagerness to lean into making a moment. Producing the marquee
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