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The Much-Needed Shock of That Emmys Marriage Proposal

The director of a famously chaotic Oscars injected some surprise into an otherwise dull awards show.
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Glenn Weiss was the director in the control booth during one of the most famous moments of live-televised chaos in history: when was as Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards instead of the rightful winner, . He’s since cracked that the mix-up had its upsides in making the show memorable. “Yeah, I’ve been joking the, referring to the producer who famously held up the slip reading “.”

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