Reviews for James Franco and his Oscar presentation.

The reviews for James Franco’s performance for hosting the Oscars are that he was “Distracted and blase”, according to sources. Another source has said he “bombed”.

“This was a disaster,” one TV executive told sources. “Before the show began something was wrong with James. His live interview on ABC backstage should have been a warning sign. He was awkward and looked as if he knew what a terrible evening was ahead for all of us.”

James made more than 20 short videos, sending them on Twitter, and was distracted by his cell phone.

James admitted to sources that he only had the weekend to rehearse so there was a lack of preparation. He chose to fly back to the East Coast weekdays to attend classes at Yale University.

“I’m not sure what happened,” one insider has said. “At rehearsals James and Anne were on fire. It seemed 20 minutes into the show as if James lost interest and just gave up while nerves might have gotten the better of Anne.”

When Billy Crystal, who has hosted the awards show eight time, the audience’s excitment level hit the roof. Sources from the Academy say they hope Billy will return again next year and provide the entertainment that was lacking this year.

The hosts of this years’ Oscars: Anne Hathaway and James Franco.

Anne Hathaway and James Franco will host this year’s Oscars on Sunday. The duo hopes to get some good laughs from the audience, but have no plans to heckle the crowd. Hathaway told sources, ‘I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it. Also, I don’t mean to sound overly serious, but I am the youngest host in history and I have no business being cynical or calling anyone out. I certainly haven’t earned the right to do that.’

Hathaway also told sources that the duo did not have to come up with their own jokes. They were given the script already written up.

Oscar Winning Documentary Team Expose Sushi Restaurant for Serving Whale meat

Recent Oscar winners for best documentary film, The Cove, move on to a new operation that involved undercover work at a popular Sushi restaurant that was serving endangered Sei whale meat.

The Hump is a posh restaurant that caters to Hollywood elite and is know for serving exotic forms of sushi. The sting took place around the same time as the Oscars where the documentary team along with undercover agents and environmental advocates who would order and then pocket the meat for testing.

Gary Lincenberg, lawyer for the restaurant, said the restaurant accepted responsibility and would agree to pay the fine’s associated with the crime, which is up to $200,000.

Howard Stern Versus Oprah on the future career of Gabourey Sidibe

The day after the Oscars, where Precious actress, Gabourey Sidibe, was nominated for best actress, and where Oprah called her a “true American Cinderella on the threshold of a brilliant new career,” Howard Stern vehemently disputed Oprah’s comments. Stern called Sidibe the “most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen.” He went on to say, “She should have gotten the Best Actress award because she’s never going to have another shot. What movie is she gonna be in?”

As for Oprah Winfrey, he called her a liar for “telling an enormous woman the size of a planet that she’s going to have a career.”

Sidibe and Winfrey have not yet commented but actions seem to speak louder than words as Sidibe has already been casted in the new Showtime series, “The C Word” as well as in the upcoming drama, “Yelling To The Sky.”

Sasha Baron Cohen’s scheduled act for the Oscars gets the boot

Borat star, Sasha Baron Cohen is no longer planning to perform a comedy routine with Ben Stiller at the Oscars….and apparently that is due to “creative differences.” The comedians were thought to have been planning to do a skit on the film Avatar but the two couldn’t agree on what should go into the skit so they decided to just call it quits instead.

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