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Jimmy Kimmel Will Host the Oscars: a Boring, Perfect Choice

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The Academy is playing it down the middle with its controversy-free choice of Kimmel as Oscars host. But in a year already packed with controversy, it might be just what we need.

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It’s been a year of battle lines. The country has never beenmore polarized, and passionately so. Culture has never simmered so violently ina cauldron of outrage, smugness, joy, hope, hate, progress, activism, protest,silencing, and all other kinds of combustible emotions.

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