CRYSTAL "MEH"
Billy Crystal tells the
Los Angeles Times that as recently as just before Christmas, Academy Awards producer
Gil Cates was lobbying him to again host the March 5 kudos-cast. Crystal, though, will have just completed the L.A. run of his one-man stage show,
700 Sundays, and as such, "I didn't want to go from that into a meeting where I'm saying, 'Give me
Brokeback Mountain jokes,'" he says. "It seemed so not what I wanted to do."
The Daily Show's
Jon Stewart will emcee the evening instead. Me, I'm just waiting for
Debbie Allen's
Brokeback interpretive dance.
