After weeks of wrongheaded ideas, fruitless searching and thinly veiled affronts, the 91st Academy Awards are Sunday night. With the fervor of a younger, drunken Dick Cheney trying to straighten up after Lynne threatens to dump him in “Vice,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feverishly set out to make ABC happy by improving ratings for the venerable show. I’d like to not thank the Academy for the ridiculous notion of a category for “Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film,” the desperation-scented and eventually empty search for a host and the ill-received and quickly reversed decision to relegate some categories to commercial breaks. If the Academy can’t even plan a three-hour ceremony without numerous high-profile gaffes, it’s hard to have confidence in its ability to award the best in film from the past year.Read more on NewsOK.com

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