SHORT TAKES : Abdul to Choreograph Oscars
Paula Abdul will bring her high-energy singing and dancing style to this year’s Academy Awards as the glitzy Hollywood celebration’s choreographer, Oscar officials said Tuesday.
“Her exciting and contemporary style will complement this unique show as we enter the last decade of the 20th Century,” said the show’s producer, Gilbert Cates.
Although perhaps best known as a singer and dancer, Abdul was the choreographer for the movies “Coming to America” and “The Running Man.” She also won an Emmy for her work on television’s “The Tracey Ullman Show.”
She has won an MTV Music Award, a Soul Train Award and a National Academy of Video Arts and Sciences Award. Her album “Forever Your Girl” went to the top of the national sales charts.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present this year’s Oscars for outstanding achievement in film at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on March 26. ABC will carry the program live.
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