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Oh poor Bradley Cooper
Get your chin off the floor
Here’s your silver lining
You’ll do “Hangover 4”
The final verse actually was the same as in the Sinatra original, something of a corner-bar benediction to everyone in the house:
Here’s the last toast of the evening
Here’s to those that still believe
All the losers will be winners
All the givers shall receive
Here’s to trouble-free tomorrows
May your sorrows all be small
Here’s to the losers
Bless them all.
That also required extra preparation, not just for the performers but also from the audience at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Zadan and Meron had show director Don Mischer ask audience members not to leave immediately following the reading of the best picture winner's name, which this year came from the White House in an appearance by First Lady Michelle Obama.
Oscars 2013: Backstage | Quotes | Best & Worst moments
“What usually happens on the Oscar telecast,” Zadan said, “is that as soon as best picture is announced, everyone is up out of their seats and running off to their parties. We didn’t know if they would listen. We were backstage with Seth for the whole show, watching on monitors. When we got to the end and they started to do the song, we were like, ‘Oh my God, everyone stayed in their seats -- no one got up.”
Said Meron, “I think maybe after the surprise of having the first lady on the show, they didn’t know what else we had up our sleeves.”
The reaction, Zadan said, has been “fantastic. People were thrilled that the show had an ending for the first time, a real, honest-to-God ending.”
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