Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats
- Posted on March 3, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal here