Well, the big day has finally arrived, a day of glitz and glamour, and this year with more than a little controversy preceding the event, as host television network ABC will institute a five-second tape delay during the Academy Awards telecast, the first time the network has ever done so.

All that controversy serves to do, though, is generate more interest in the broadcast, which averages 1 billion viewers each year.

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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