Oscar snubs, part 1

It's difficult (nay impossible) to believe that anyone was left out of those interminable montages at the Oscars on Sunday night. Did you see our cameo?

But in failing to please anybody any of the time, the Academy producers managed to snub some Hollywood notables as they chewed up valuable air that could've been better used by having Jon Stewart play more Wii.

Whoopi and Steve Martin were mysteriously missing from the 80-years-of-hosts clip reel, with four-time host Goldberg and her cadre of "The View" cohorts seizing on the exclusion as another possible example of The Man Keeping The Black Woman Down. We're finding it tough to argue with that, though it pains us to agree with the inane coffee klatch on any matter great or small.

Brad Renfro and Roy Scheider didn't make the cut for the ones-we-lost montage. Sid Ganis and/or Academy lackeys have gone on record in various media to say that Renfro was left out, well, just because, (anything to do with that not-uplifting heroin overdose?) and Scheider didn't die at an opportune time for the production schedule. Deadline scofflaw!

And speaking of snubbed, the final numbers are in and, guess what, people who watch TV don't care about the Oscars. Look here for a THR video that tries to explain why fewer people watched the Academy Awards than tune in to the lame current season of "American Idol."