![]() ![]() ![]() That's what we're talking about when we refer to "unscripted moments." She claims that, when the winner was announced, Williams' 87-year-old mother tried to block her with a cane, and he outran her to the stage. Much bad blood between Burkett and director Roger Ross Williams, we later discover. I had no idea what she was saying, but I'm sure whatever it was made perfect sense to her. ![]() This one had just the one, when my former Miami Herald colleague Elinor Burkett, the producer of the short documentary Music By Prudence, interrupted the director's acceptance speech and launched into an incomprehensible speech of her own. Or was that just me, in my post-vacation daze?Īll Oscar telecasts are required to have unscripted moments. They're usually disappointing and tedious, to be sure, but the production numbers and montages didn't do much for me, the double-emcee format slowed the pace, all the winners were predictable, and everything felt a little flat. Sorry to disagree with my friend Hank: This one stunk. ![]()
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