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Dead Tweeting The Oscars!

by Bob Garfield , Featured Columnist, February 23, 2015

AARCHERD @armyofone. Not sure, but I think Gloria Swanson has had some work done. #ReadyForMyBotoxMisterDeMille

JCAZALE @fredocatWhere’s Brando? Grandstanding by his absence. #custerslasttango

BOBGARFIELD @bobosphere RT@fredocat. You mean by his absinthe? loL

FENNER @mlpmeands If Emil Jannings wins Best Actor, I’m dumping all my stock. #1929

SKOWALSKI @mbrando Seriously? Jose Ferrer? Cyrano de Bullshit. #StreetnamedDisgusted

DNIVEN @pencilline A streaker! May I never live to experience such embarrassment again. #nutcase

ECKBERGA @swedenothings Bob Hope crax me up. Thanks for the memories! #USOMySides

HERESJOHNNY @carsonproductions RT@swedenothings Bob Hope crax me up. Thanks for the memory! #oscarless Meh.

JGARLAND @ohauntieem. That frigid poseur Grace Kelly just took my Oscar right out from under me. Drive carefully, be-atch! #ForeignCountryGirl

JCAZALE @fredocat By the way, you fat, arrogant method preener, they don’t come all that easy. I lost to George freakin’ Burns. #OhGod.

PFINCH @networked Every time I see that mumbling musclebound midget I get madder and madder, and I’m not going to take it anymore. #rockyroad #StyoftheTiger

SISKELANDEBERT @fourthumbs Harold and Maude FTW!

BHOPE @bobnooscarhope. Anita Ekberg, Grrrrrrrr! #CallMeBwannaVisitMeInMyTrailer

ROBINWILLIAMS @mork My in-memoriam was like “The Greatest Show on Earth” and “Million Dollar Baby.” Not the best picture. #mortifying

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David Vawter from Doe-Anderson, February 23, 2015 at 12:21 p.m.
Hilarious. But "Eye of the Tiger" was from Rocky III, I believe.
Sorry, gonna fly now.
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Bob Garfield, former editor at large for MediaPost, is a long-time public radio personality who currently hosts Booksmart Studios' "Bully Pulpit" podcast. A 30-plus-year commentator on media and marketing, he is co-host of public radio's Peabody Award-winning “On the Media” program; senior fellow at Wharton Future of Advertising Program, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management; founder of the Media Future Summit and author of five books.