If you want to boycott the Oscars but still watch 2 hours of celebrity back patting, horrible music revues, and Ford car commercials, tune into youtube for the Rolling Stone Magazine 10th anniversary special from 1977!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSz07mB5GuI
What you can expect to see:
claymation Jimmy Carter
Magical Mystery Tour with jazz hands
All singing-all dancing Helter Skelter with dancing Jimi Hendrix and Patty Hearsts.
Rubber masked Nixon and Kissinger ‘singing’ Back In The USSR
A rubber masked Carter impersonator singing Mother Nature’s Son
The Teri Garr/Steve Martin ‘scholarly’ look at the 60s seems as true as ever
The Coasters sing a song with Heavy Metal-ish animation
Duet between Jerry Lee Lewis and Bette Midler
Lou Rawls for Budweiser
Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen on the Viet Nam war
Two hours of my life I’ll never get back
Peter Graves for Natty Light
Keith Moon discusses trashing hotel rooms
A glam and glitter version of Life In The Fast Lane...
Pioneer high fidelity electronics (and Burgess Meridith) celebrate drum solos...
Capped off by a lengthy concert from Gladys Knight & The Pips, capped off with Art Garfunkel joining to sing A Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Now, that I would watch!