Welcome bookcasers. Good to have you back. Just like last week, we have some great stories for you this week. And I think Kate's going to come along, isn't she?

Yes, she absolutely is. This is Kate Gibson co-host, daughter extraordinaire. This week, I'm really excited. Well, I get really

excited about this week anyway that has nothing to do with books because it's Oscar week. And I don't

know, even if I haven't seen any of the movies, and this year I've seen a scant few of them,

I must admit. Even if I haven't seen them, I just get such a kick out of watching them.

It's sort of become a tradition

in our house. You guys sit in front of the television where you are. I sit in front of the

television where I am. And we snark each other via text. We send each other snarky texts about what

people are wearing and dumb speeches and who dropped the ball and what the heck was that about.

And so I love this week. I love watching the Oscars. It's always

fun. I feel the same way, even though I don't know a lot of the movies and things have changed in

terms of going to the theater with COVID. Anyway, the book this week is Oscar Wars. Michael Schulman,

who is a writer for the New Yorker, has been a writer for

the New Yorker about entertainment for a long time, and he covers the Oscars. And it's a delicious,

delicious book. There's all kinds of stories, including stories about the recent disasters

at the Oscars, the Cinderella number, which I think was, I've forgotten 1990 something earlier.

It was not Cinderella. No, no, no, no, no, no. It was Snow White. And I don't know why. Somehow that

makes it worse. I don't know why. I'm not sure why, but it was just dreadful, and it lasted 11 minutes.

And the Oscars that year, although they were kind of interesting, were declared a flop.

And then, of course, we had the wrong movie that got Best Picture two years ago.

And then last year, there was The Slap.

And I love Jimmy Kimmel's promo for the Oscars this year. He says,

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