Brilliant Ideas after the Oscar Broadcast

Put Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman in a musical together. Both Wolverine and Princess Mia are insanely talented, obscenely charming, and eye-blindingly beautiful. If, as Baz Luhrmann's horrible musical tribute to musicals declared, the musical movie is back, why not have these two gorgeous human beings lead the charge? Please, don't leave the job up to Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. The stakes are two great. Two ideas for musical pairings:
* A musical version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" I don't know why that idea intrigues and amuses me so much, but it does. My version would involve lines like "You once were pretty now your looks are abysmal"/"Thanks to the booze your sex skills are abysmal." Also, dancing bottles of bourbon. They might be too young, but that's what makeup is for.
* A remake of "My Fair Lady." I would do anything to erase the memory of Rex Harrison's talk-singing his way through that movie, and pairing his Prof. Higgins with Hathaway's Doolittle would do the trick. I'd definitely keep the weird homoerotic vibe between Higgins and Pickering (played by Matthew Broderick?) in the update.

Cut out the fat. I guess you can keep the humanitarian award and the "look who croaked" montage, but they could make the Oscars a full hour shorter if they cut out all the pointless cliplections (here's a bunch of random love movies! look at these non-nominated animated movies! bla de bla).

Beef up the Oscars Web site with nominated content. Most of us will never get the chance to see the nominated documentaries, shorts, and other flicks--put them on the Oscars site so average-Jane moviegoers like me can get their peepers on them.

Let nominees and presenters drink during the evening. I'm fairly certain the reason why the Independent Spirit awards are so fun is because there's huge bottles of Jameson's and champagne on the table. To that end, rather than dragging on, the Oscars would actually pick up and get more entertaining toward the end of the evening.

Keep the personal intros before acting awards. You don't get much from the 20-second clips of an actor's performance with no context. If you haven't seen the movies, Viola Davis's impassioned speech from "Doubt" just looks mildly interesting. Conversely, hearing from former award winners on why the individual performances were so moving and award-worthy not only gave Oscar viewers insight to the craft, they so moved the nominees that it had to take much of the sting out of losing away to the four people that didn't take a gold guy home.