Brace yourselves everyone – it’s the Oscars on Sunday night which will make for some excruciating viewing for those of us who tune into breakfast news channels on Monday. There are many terrible things about the Academy Awards (dull, over-earnest and, at three-and-a-half hours, about three hours too long), but the sight of news reporters lining the red carpets desperately trying to grab a few inane words with a ‘movie’ face is surely the cherry on the top of a particularly distasteful cake. Worse still, they all seem obliged to have to turn up dressed to the nines as if they themselves were no…
