One of them concerns Brendan Fraser, who was once a Hollywood superstar, acclaimed for his roles both in art-house dramas (Crash, Gods and Monsters) and mainstream fare (The Mummy, George of the Jungle).

Hollywood can't resist comeback stories, and two of them are being told at this year's Oscars. If there are mishaps this time, he told the Wall Street Journal, 'The only plan I have is to make sure to get up there onstage quickly.' He's too smart not to have a backup plan. He was hosting and caught off guard in 2017 when La La Land was wrongly announced as the best picture winner instead of Moonlight. Kimmel, easygoing and likeable, may be just the guy to defuse any tension. In a video spoof of Top Gun: Maverick, he is hired by Jon Hamm and Charles Parnell, as their characters from the movie, who are looking for 'a host who is unslappable and unflappable'. Jimmy Kimmel, hosting for the third time, has already started. But maybe it will all be turned into comedy. The Academy, having banned Smith for a decade, has hired a crisis management team in case of any ugly new incidents. Rock brought the incident back into the news with his recent Netflix special, letting his anger loose in a surgically-precise 10-minute rant against Smith. Will Smith might be watching from home in sweatpants, but he hovers over this year's Oscar show like a ghost, a year after he caused jaws to drop around the world when he slugged Chris Rock on stage.

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