Our Reader Comment of the Week Award goes to Bob Champ, whose thoughts on the Academy Awards remind us of what Hollywood can be at its best, and what it is at its worst, which is all too often the case these days: I’m just glad the Academy didn’t hire some bozo comedian to host the show. The In Memoriam segment was hampered, for tv viewers, by the roving camera, which should have focused on the images of the departed actors and actresses. I do think that Queen Latifah did a good job singing "I’ll Remember You." The highlight of the night for me was seeing Sophia Loren. She looked, well, like what she is, an aging woman; but the way she stood with her hand on her hip was classic. How they lured her to take part in the show I haven’t the slightest idea. And why did Cuba Gooding, Jr., have to make an ass of himself in talking about Robert Downey, Jr.? Every other actor who talked about a fellow actor turned his talk into a tribute. But Gooding went off on some kind of race thing that made him look ridiculous and out of place. I

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