The Academy’s attempts to fix the 2019 Oscars reveal a deep contempt for the awards show

In the Stephen King novel 11/22/63, school teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal in a pantry at the local diner that can transport him back to the year 1958. He decides to use this wrinkle in time to track down and kill Lee Harvey Oswald before Oswald can assassinate John F. Kennedy — a cultural inflection point that knocked the country decisively off course. Yet the closer Jake gets to Oswald, the more time and history pushes against him, growing into as much of a mortal threat as any other monster in King’s books. The past doesn’t want to be changed, and it’s determined to punish anyone who tries.

This is what’s happening with the Oscars this year, except the…

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