Chicago Escorts: Oscar Wild: The Academy Awards bring the crazy

Who’s the Cat That Won’t Cop Out? When propaganda wasn’t being propagated, insane musical numbers were. During the same Oscar ceremony that saw Fonda win for Klute, Isaac Hayes, wearing a “shirt” made entirely of gold chains, was pushed out onstage in an illuminated organ to lip-synch “Theme from Shaft.” As Black Moses emerged from a funky, Cocteau-ish, glory-holed passageway with assorted grooving limbs sticking through apertures, smoke machines activated and a camera zoomed in on some serious maxiskirted rump-shaking. A multiracial, coed throng of dancers — think Shindig! as choreographed by Huey P. Newton — clapped, shimmied, and gyrated around the bald Stax man, who, when accepting the Oscar for Best Song, extended most of his gratitude to his granny.
Making Sidney Poitier Proud
Hayes may have been outdone in 2006, when Three 6 Mafia’s performance of Best Song winner “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp” from Hustle and Flow ushered in the year of the bizarre country-ghetto fantasia, complete with krumping, a ho fashion-show, and cast member and vocalist Taraji P. Henson thinking she was on American Idol.

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