MY REACTION IS ANYTHING BUT SILENT: Via Alan Sepinwall comes word that this year's Oscar Awards will feature an applause-free Necrology montage. Yup, they're cutting the audience audio to prevent us from assessing the relative popularity of the deceased, and it sucks, because (again) now we need a new pool category, not that there was any way Paul Newman wasn't winning this year. (The real battle is between Charlton Heston and Sydney Pollack for second place.)
So watch and enjoy the 1996 Oscars parade of the fallen, with the subtle highlight to show which Andrews Sister is the dead one; the silent reaction to Ginger Rogers' passing; the raves for Ida Lupino, Haing S. Ngor and especially Louis Malle; and then George Burns with the big, umm, finish.
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