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New Oscars trailer has host Ellen DeGeneres dancing and lipsynching

By Steven Zeitchik
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If there was any doubt that this year’s Oscars will have a dance-y quality with Ellen DeGeneres on the stage, it was quelled Thursday afternoon.

The Motion Picture Academy has released a trailer for the March 2 ceremony on ABC, and it gets its “Singin’ In the Rain On.” The spot features the Oscar host walking down city streets/studio backlot lipsynching to the Fitz and the Tantrum song “The Walker,” particularly its maverick-ish lyrics “(I walk to the sound of my own drum”).

“The Heat” director Paul Feig helmed the ad, which is scheduled to run in theaters in the coming weeks and can also be viewed on the Oscars’ YouTube channel. About 250 tuxedo-clad move-busting, hands-in-the-airing dancers also join DeGeneres on her walkabout. There’s a modicum of break-dancing too.

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Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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