Exorcising Those Ugly Oscar Demons as We Head Smack Into Emmy Season (COLUMN)
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeYou know what I’m talking about. The event that changed the course of Oscar history.
The act that consumed all of our lives for what seems like weeks on end after the ceremony ended. Hell, do you even remember what won for best picture? (It was “CODA.” Yeah, that was this year.)The Paley Center for Media’s annual Paley Fest event, a fan-centric celebration of some of the hottest shows on television, took over the Dolby for a week starting April 2, just days after The Slap that transpired in that same venue.
It was the first in-person Paley Fest in two years, after the COVID-19 pandemic put such gatherings on hold in 2020. I’ve been a big fan of the Paley Fest going back to when the Paley Center was known as the Museum of TV & Radio.
In the 1990s, the annual event focused on reunions of classic TV show casts, but in recent years, it’s become more of a Comic-Con style gathering of current series.
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