Come back, Marketa Irglova!

A plea for Oscar acceptance speeches....(LA Weekly)

Every Oscars telecast wages a time battle between clip reels and acceptance speeches, and lately the awardees — often nervous people, most of them not performers, caught in a life-changing moment in which they have to cobble together words of gratitude and fight off the fear they'll forget someone — have been on the losing end of the fight for precious airtime.