"Televisions blare from every room in the Chateau Marmont. Reagan's in surgery... Jim Brady's near death... Dan Rather's in tears. The coun­try's gone crazy. The world's about to col­lapse... And the Oscars have been postponed until tomorrow."

Marshall McLuhan said TV was a ‘cool’ medium. Wolcott’s criticism was always hot.

“The black Woody Allen, a camera-wielding Sharpton, a gifted charlatan, an inspiration, a generous sort, a media hound (or barker)”

Oscar doesn’t make whoopee even when it goes cuckoo