How to have more fun on Oscar night? Watch the L.A. Times webcast.
Can’t get enough of the Academy Awards just by watching them on TV?
The Los Angeles Times homepage can help.
On Sunday evening, we’ll be doing our best to augment your viewing pleasure with a “second-screen” Academy Awards experience. Times film critic Kenneth Turan and I will host the second annual Los Angeles Times Oscars webcast.
So what do you have to do?
Just keep our homepage open on your laptop, smartphone or tablet, and during the show’s commercial breaks, Turan and I will offer critique and analysis about what we’ve just seen.
We’ll be dishing about the awards, the speeches, and of course, the performance by Ellen DeGeneres, who is hosting the ceremony for the second time since 2007. Will she be a welcome change from last year’s polarizing host, Seth McFarlane, the talented but edgy animator who drew younger viewers but turned off plenty of folks with his puerile song “I Saw Your Boobs.” (I thought it was funny; Turan was less amused.)
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Turan offers his decades of experience as one of the country’s most respected film critics. His film criticism has appeared in the L.A. Times since 1991, and many public radio listeners know his voice from his weekly movie reviews on NPR. My columns, which appear on The Takeaway blog, usually focus on politics and pop culture, but I have a passion for the movies, and as a fashion editor in a previous life, a love of style.
The Times Oscar webcast begins on our homepage at 5 p.m. with red carpet commentary by Times fashion writer Adam Tschorn and Times staff writer Jenn Harris.
At 5:20 p.m., 10 minutes before the televised ceremony begins on ABC, Turan and I will begin our live webcast. We will be back during each of the show’s commercial breaks to share our thoughts with you. If you’d like to chime in, we’d love to hear from you during the webcast. Please tweet your thoughts to us using the hashtag #AskLATimes.
And of course, be sure to visit www.latimes.com before, during and after the show, and all day Monday, as our team of entertainment reporters, critics, photographers and web producers brings you the most complete Oscar coverage in the country.
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