Jon Stewart's doing fine. It's a tough room…big, cold, impersonal and full of people who really aren't there to watch a show. I like that he kept the monologue short and he isn't acting like this is An Evening With Jon Stewart.
Great to see Lauren Bacall there. I really think the Academy misses something by concentrating so totally on the current movie business. No viewers are going to tune out because of a couple of folks who represent bygone days. Okay, so she had trouble reading the prompter. She's still Lauren Bacall. What they need to do though is to connect the past and the present, and not just trot out a Lauren Bacall to introduce old clips.
And hey, wasn't that Stephen Colbert announcing those fake actress political commercials?