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Oscars 2012: We're Live-Blogging All The Action

The Oscar statue is seen at the entrance of the Hollywood & Highland Center before the 84th Annual Academy Awards.
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The Oscar statue is seen at the entrance of the Hollywood & Highland Center before the 84th Annual Academy Awards.

Tonight at 8:00 p.m., I will be joined by my live-blog partners Marc Hirsh and Mark Blankenship, and we'll bring you the lowdown on all this year's festivities. If you want to comment, feel free to leave your comments right on this post, just as you normally would — we find that feeding them into the chat stream directly is kind of like a thousand people trying to instant-message each other simultaneously. But do share your thoughts, and do join us to see Billy Crystal sing, George Clooney smile, and Meryl Streep wear something that says, quite understandably, "Not this again."

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Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.