Producers of the show hoped the presence of mouthy first-time host Chris Rock might boost ratings, particularly among younger viewers who may view the Oscars as too staid an affair.

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Beſides, this is a Counteſſe; and when your Counteſſes are Waiting-women, ’tis either to Queens or Empreſſes, who in their houſes are moſt abſolute, and are ſerved by other Wayting-women.

[…] like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears, Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses As they smelt music: