Whoa – just when you thought the Oscars had lost its capacity to surprise, along comes news like this. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have been tapped to co-host the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony next March.Martin, of course, has hosted the ceremony before on two occasions, but this will be Baldwin’s first time. The ceremony has had multiple hosts before, but this is the first time, according to The Hollywood Reporter, that two people will have hosted the Oscars while standing in the same room since the very first ceremony in 1929, when Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and William C. DeMille pulled double duty. And who can forget how that turned out.We’ve no idea how this new pairing will work, but frankly we’re hugely excited. It’s something fresh and different, even if the potential for Roy Evans/Gerard Houllier-style disaster is very real, and the Oscars can...
- 11/4/2009
- EmpireOnline
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