February 2012 FORTY YEARS OF OSCAR SNARK It’s an amazing insight when you realize you’ve been eating, drinking and suffering along with the Oscar telecast with the same people for almost 40 years. At first revelation you think, “How is this even possible?” Then you go to “Damn, we’re old,” and finally you settle into “Isn’t this absolutely wonderful.” So it was on the afternoon of Feb. 26 when I realized I’ve been “doing the Oscars” since the mid-1970s with my pals Don and Lee. In a stunning example of “The more things change the more they stay the same,” our lives, hometowns and even my sexual orientation changed (okay, revealed itself!) in the interim, but we are still sitting through the Sunday night telecast drinking, laughing and making snarky comments. Frankly, the tenor and quality of the comments has remained biting and hilarious (at least to us), even though the term snarky wasn’t even invented when we started bitching and moaning about the jokes and fashion faux pas.
