Billy Crystal Hosting Oscars - You May Now Go Back to Not Caring
Thu, November 10, 2011 
That took quicker than expected.
Billy Crystal will return to Oscar-hosting duties after sitting on the sidelines for eight years. Following this tweet from his official Twitter account (See, kids, Billy is still hip! He does the Twitter!):
"Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show."
It's been subsequently verified by Variety, TOLDJA, etc.
So that's that then. After his 2004 duties when the reception was how Crystal's song-and-dance routine was tired and in need of rest, the Academy took to experimenting with awful results. Hugh Jackman was the only one that worked but, for some reason, he decided against hosting a second time. I guess enough time has passed for people to feel nostalgic for Crystal's schtick.
Although shouldn't he feel insulted he's only being turned to now after the Brett Ratner/Eddie Murphy experiment blew up in the Academy's faces and they're crawling back to him now when he made it known for some time he badly wanted to host again?
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Hugh Jackman is supposed to be filming Les Miserables when the Oscars are going on next year, but he's said in a few interviews that he definitely wants to do the show again eventually. Looking forward to Billy Crystal, though.