Hot! Billy Crystal To Host 2012 Oscars

Billy Crystal tweeted Thursday, inside what some construed like a joke, "Am performing Eddie Murphy .

A spokeswoman for any Academy with Motion Picture Arts and also Sciences wouldn't right away gain a contact attempting to get comment.

At age 63, Crystal are the oldest intended for of the show given that Bob Hope in 1978.

Crystal, that has hosted a few of Oscars' most effective contemporary telecasts, have been a popular public decision seeing that Murphy departed Wednesday. The chorus initial began as soon as Crystal appeared to the 2011 indicate presenting a tribute to help Hope.

During an appearance at this Aero theater around Santa Monica, Crystal accepted that he got "itchy" after very last winter's cameo on this Oscars knowning that he'd be willing to talk with regards to a come back to the actual world-wide point on the gala.

"It bought to get an excessive amount after a few years and the sameness around my life," he said. "That's exactly why I pulled back. And subsequently when I notion I may want to practice it again, they were up on various other people. It's generally fun. It's truly hard, but maybe a single or not one but two far more times? I really don't know. They recognize where I am."

Crystal, at the Santa Monica event, elaborated for the worry as well as pleasures from the one-of-a-kind Oscars gig.

"I thus value that you want when you carry out it," he said. "And I had a superb period undertaking them. I did tendencies regarding them. And you will need a long time. I kind of halted doing the work I would likely exercise with areas plus subsequently fortunately, I seemed to be accomplishing other suggestions which I were going to do. so that they can do the situations most people would plus transform the actual way a particular was taking care of your show. We commenced performing that medley by using Mark , then people acquired actually funny. Then many of us typed in the actual films, you know, cutting in the nominated movies, which commenced having a actually extended time. I was doing the job 4 or 5 a few months simply just within the Oscars."

The 84th Academy Awards will be sent out are living by ABC on Feb. twenty six out of this Kodak Theatre at the particular Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.