just missing deadline (academy awards live blog)
As far as I know, the Academy Awards were supposed to end by 11:30 p.m. There's a fixed end to the ceremony. That, as far as I've been able to tell, is why they "play people off" when their thank-you speeches go on too long.
Right?
That 11:30 cutoff is what makes it possible for little newspapers like mine to get their morning editions out on time. But with the Oscars running long tonight, there's no way we're going to make deadline. All we can do is sit and wait for the last award, the final wrap-up story from The AP.
And here they are, running "a look back at film" or something. WHAT? Come on. Isn't that the one thing you'd think they could cut from the evening without too much complaint? I mean, it's not like they could dispense with any of the awards, so.