Last year he made headlines for inexplicably mispronouncing Indina Menzel’s name as “Adele Nazeem†and this year he was back with even more bizarre antics _letting his hands do the talking.
In a skit aimed at poking fun of his 2014 faux pas, Travolta got too close for comfort with a visibly uncomfortable Menzel.
Wearing a heavy sliver chain over his black suit and rocking some well-manicured eyebrows and suspiciously thicker hair, Travolta cupped Menzel’s face and laughed about the time he made her the joke of the industry by forgetting her name.
The strange skit came just moments after Travolta engaged in a creepy kiss with new mum Scarlett Johansson on the red carpet.
Meanwhile, what are our thoughts on host Neil Patrick Harris?
It is known as a tough gig and he had hard shoes to follow with Ellen DeGeneres blowing it — and the internet with her Oscars selfie — out of the water last year.
But the former Doogie Howser MD seems a little stiff and nervous and certainly hasn’t got the laughs quite yet.
“She so likable you could eat her with a spoon,†Harris said introducing Reese Witherspoon.
Cue awkward silence.
Meanwhile, the “seat fillers†segment was just as cringey. Emphasising how odd it was that ‘regular’ people were allowed to sit next to a-listers, just emphasised the ‘us and them’ and that stars are above us mere folk and was perhaps just a bit too self aware, even for the Oscars.
“There are seat fillers all over the place,†Harris said talking to the equally cringing seat fillers before heading to a ‘real’ star Steve Carell.
(Seat fillers definition: People who sit in a star’s seat as they prepare to present or after they have won an award).
And the awkward moments didn’t stop there.
Despite the music summing up their acceptance speech, Best Documentary Short Subject winners Dana Heinz Perry and Ellen Goosenberg Kent for Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 kept going.
Perry cut through the send off music to thank her son who she said had died from suicide.
The poignant moment was somewhat ruined when Harris returned to the stage only to dag her outfit, she was wearing a wrap around her gown made of fluffy balls strung together.
“Takes real balls to wear something like that,†he quipped at just the wrong time.
However, the Birdman homage, with Harris taking to the stage in a pair of briefs, yup that takes a whole lot of guts.
