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Rating the Performances
by Richard Zoglin E-Mail this
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Jerry Seinfeld
Grade: A

Introducing the award for best documentary, he crammed more laughs into his three-minute stint than Ellen did in the entire night. Complaining about movie theaters that ask you pick up the garbage: "The deal is, you rip us off on overpriced, oversized crap... In exchange for that, when I'm done with something, I'm opening my hand." He confessed that he likes documentaries: "I find them to have a very real quality." And he has a very Oscar host quality.






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