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UPDATE: Neil Patrick Harris tweets, “I will not be performing a duet with Martin Short to open the Oscars. Misinformation, I’m afraid. Should I maybe pull a Kanye, mid-show?”
EXCLUSIVE: Stop reading if you want to be surprised, but I know how the Oscarcast will get underway Sunday night. (That is, if Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman don’t change their minds because of this spoiler.) The first 2 men on stage won’t be hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Instead, the show will open with a silhouette of a pair of guys only … wait for it … they’re Neil Patrick Harris and Martin Short. Anything can change, but that unlikely duo has been rehearsing an original opening song and dance routine that is one of 2 big production numbers choreographed by executive producer Adam Shankman. (The other involves extreme street dancers who’ve performed on So You Think You Can Dance where Shankman is a judge and who’ll hoof to samplings from the Best Original Score nominees.) Though Harris is predominantly a TV star, he’s an awards show regular. Short also is a TV regular these days, but he has a long relationship with the broadcast’s musical director Marc Shaiman, who put together the opening number. In fact, Shaiman/Short collaborations go back to Saturday Night Live, and include The Martin Short Show and the one-man stage show Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. I heard the producers had approached Robin Williams, but he declined.
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Nikke, if NPH is doing a musical number I’ll watch but Steve Martin should be remanded to the fossil heap! He’s NEVER been funny in my book and is a big waste of space! Baldwin enhances him too.
Steve Martin has “never” been funny?
WTF?
*rolls eyes* TWO production numbers? *sighs in resignation*
I think that Neil Patrick Harris and Martin Short with material by Marc Shaiman is a smart idea because of Shaiman’s creativity. The dance routine idea to the original score is insulting to the audience , the composers and their work. These pieces were composed for film and are works that should be shown based on their merits to the picture not as a modern dance piece created by Adam Shankman.
NPH and So You Think You Can Dance? At the Oscars?? Gag.
Excuse me, but where are the women??? This looks to be an *extremely* lopsided Oscars telecast. I just finished reading a list of additional presenters who were announced today AND THEY ARE ALL MEN. (Bradley Cooper, Tom Ford, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Pine, Keanu Reeves, Sam Worthington, Ryan Reynolds, and Gerard Butler) Now, I hear that possibly the first FOUR stars on stage will be men, in addition to the two male producers. What up, Academy???? Apparently these big shots in Hollywood like to talk the talk but are complete chauvinists who can’t walk the walk.
Cool, N.P.H. hitting for the cycle.
This actually doesn’t sound too bad!
i like shankman’s hairspray flick but this show is gonna be a gayfest (i’m gay) tawdry campy mess… ugh!
you had me at NPH…
Wow, sounds about as irrelevant and unnecessary a pairing as Rob Lowe and Snow White. :shakesheadindisbelief:
So they’re going to pop-and-lock to “Up!”, “Avatar”,”The Hurt Locker”,”Sherlock Holmes”,and “The Fantastic Mr. Fox.”
Thank god Marvin Hamlish wasn’t nominated, otherwise I might mistake this for a scene from “Bring It On!”
This promises to rival the absurdity that was the 2006 interpretive dance to Bird York’s “In The Deep.”
Sounds positively DREADFUL. I’ll be sure to be in the kitchen grabbing a soda during the first 10 minutes.
FYI From Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter
I will not be performing a duet with Martin Short to open the Oscars. Misinformation, I’m afraid. Should I maybe pull a Kanye, mid-show?
Neil Patrick Harris just tweeted that he’s not doing a duet with Martin Short at the Oscars… he says it’s misinformation.
Wrong. NPH just confirmed on twitter he is not doing this. Quote, “I will not be performing a duet with Martin Short to open the Oscars. Misinformation, I’m afraid. Should I maybe pull a Kanye, mid-show?”
Not happy with the TV-afication of the show. I know it’s on television but does it have to be so, TV like? When you’d rather have reality show personalities and TV people producing and starring on the Oscars, you’ve got a problem, AMPAS.
WRONG! NPH has squashed this rumor via his twitter
…of course, I like how you cover your @$$ by saying “they might change their minds because I leaked this.” Just man up and admit you had wrong information.
Per the Greg In Hollywood blog earlier today (3.3.10) NPH is says the rumors are false.
I agree with part of the ideas in the post,thanks a lot.
I can always get much knowledge here,so wonderful.
Well don’t know whats going on but its not a Good way to do this. in my opinion we have to look again about this issue