On Sunday, March 2, movie glitterati will rush Hollywood’s Dolby Theater for the 86th Academy Awards, hoping to rip golden statuettes from the trembling hands of the presenters. They’ll laugh and cry and quip and thank way too many people and be embarrassingly drowned out by the orchestra. But no matter: Almost everyone who’s anyone—at least in the entertainment industry—will be there.
And I’ll be there too.
Well, not exactly. Not in person, anyway. I will be one of the approximately 1 billion people who’ll flip on ABC and watch the telecast from the comfort of my own couch, sweatpants on, snack foods at the ready … and my smartphone in hand.
For the first time, I’ll be regularly tweeting during the Oscar telecast, both from Plugged In’s official Twitter outlet @pluggedin and my own much less official personal account @AsayPaul. Each will, theoretically, feature different sorts of content.
Our Plugged In tweets will be mostly about notable winners and nominees and link-backs to some of the stuff we’ve written about them. If Gravity wins Best Picture, for instance, we’ll be sure to remind you that we nominated it as one of our own “Best Of” selections for adults.
And if you also decide to follow @AsayPaul, you’ll get … well, me. I’ll tweet out my own personal Oscar ramblings—musings on the movies, the outfits, the speeches, the song-and-dance numbers, the quality of my snacks … whatever I feel like tweeting about. And if you have a question or thought you’d like to share, tweet me and I’ll try to respond.
Since I see so many movies for my gig, Oscar night is always fun for me—but it can be, in spots, a bit tedious. Spending a little time with y’all will relieve some of that and make the evening even more fun. Hope to meet up with you. But be sure to wear your fanciest, most formal pair of sweatpants: It is, after all, the Oscars.
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