Billy crystal

• NEW YORK — The return of Billy Crystal helped boost viewership for the Academy Awards but not enough to prevent a cultural oddity: The Oscars werent even the most-watched awards show on television this month. The Nielsen Co.
(Florida Times-Union)
• Billy Crystal, Angelina Jolies leg and French silent film The Artist brought the Oscars bouncing back from recent slack viewership, drawing a larger-than-expected 39 million TV viewers and setting social media abuzz. Some 39.
(msnbc.com)
• Billy Crystal returned last night for the ninth time to host the Oscars. The ceremony was given a retro Going to the movies theme, and much of the comedians schtick seemed to match that sentiment.
(YAHOO!)
• Oscar host Billy Crystal says it was great working with teen superstar Justin Bieber in a controversial segment for last nights 84th annual Academy Awards. Justin Bieber was great, Crystal gushes to the website Hollywood Life.
(New York Post)
• Many reviews of the 84th Oscars characterized the telecast as playing it safe – returning to the tried-and-true and attempting to embrace the glory days of Hollywood.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• Maybe the Justin Bieber stunt worked for Billy Crystal. Sundays Oscar telecast delivered a total of 39.3 million viewers, up 4% compared with last year, according to Nielsen.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Raise your hand if you expected a blackface controversy at this years Oscars. 2. Davis was a child in the 1920s. Oh, right, and 3: No one really does blackface anymore.
(Orlando Sentinel)