My thoughts on the Oscar show:
Much better this year than in the past several years.
I still have issues with the Memoriam segment: To wit, it's about the dearly departed, NOT the on-stage talent. If you are in the auditorium, you can look wherever you like, but you still see the faces and names. At home, it does not work that way. Cuts to the artist, or long shots of the stage, deprive home viewers of seeing all who are being remembered. I have no idea what Lenny Kravitz has to do with remembering the dearly departed; I have no idea why any of that segment had to be about him.
My favorite moment was the Ke Huy Quan win for supporting actor. He was so very excited and overjoyed. It's nice to see that.
My two favorites for actor were Fraser and Butler. Am delighted for Fraser. Would also have been for Butler, but...I have enjoyed Fraser's career much longer, and I always felt he was cheated out of a nomination for "Gods and Monsters". He deserved a supporting actor nomination for that film.
Kimmel's monologue was pretty good. The comments about Robert Blake should not have happened.
The best song performances were horrible, to my ears. Just a cacophony of nothingness. That includes Lady Gaga's wailings.
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it!