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Last year, it was the “wickedly talented” Adele Dazeem:
And this year, the fictional star of the Oscars borne entirely from a flubbed teleprompter reading is Dick Poop. Yes, it’s juvenile; yes, it’s also hilarious. Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs was trying to say Dick Pope, the cinematographer nominated for his work on Mr. Turner, but what came out was way funnier.
The Academy will be grateful that at least this only happened during the live stream of the nominations; if it happened during the show itself, the Internet might have combusted. And at least we now know what’s constantly on Cheryl’s mind.
Sony Pictures Classics—who distributed Mr. Turner—seems to be taking the gaffe in stride:
It's Dick POPE, guys.
— Sony Classics (@sonyclassics) January 15, 2015Really, the biggest winner of all this is John Travolta. After being skewered for the last year after his flubbed reading, he’s officially been supplanted as the most talked about/laughed at Oscar reader.
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