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Has it started yet?

( Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press / February 27, 2011 )

We might have missed the beginning of the subtle opening to the 83rd Academy Awards, but it isn't our fault. When the commercials ended and the movie countdown peppered with the films began, it took us a second to realize the show started. Then hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway finally made an appearance -- inserted into Alec Baldwin's dream, an elevator with Morgan Freeman and in the Oscar-nominated films thanks to the magic of television. We loved Franco and Hathaway's Lowell accents from "The Fighter" and the brown duck spoof had us actually laughing out loud.

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