Shameful Academy Awards March 2, 2014

The award show was excellent, Ellen DeGeneres was superb, better than any previous male host.  Alas, there was one incidence of a glaring error: when Kim Novak came onstage, everyone should have gotten on their feet and given her a standing ovation, as they did with Sidney Poitier.  In her day, from Picnic (1955) through Vertigo (1958) and Of Human Bondage (1964), she was one of the most beautiful women and one of the best actresses ever to grace the screen. And she should have been paired, if with anyone, with someone more prominent, like Robert De Niro (if not with Sidney Poitier), certainly not with Matthew McConaughey, who did not have maturity to treat her with due reverence as did Angelina Jolie Sidney Poitier. Shame on the organizers.