What do you think about the show? Should these young men and women become instant tabloid celebrities?

“How does Cleary explain her popularity? ‘I wrote books to entertain,’ she told me. People often asked what she was trying to teach in her books. She would reply, ‘I’m not trying to teach anything!’ This was the same attitude she had when she was first reading. ‘If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book,’ she remembered.”

Here are some post-Oscar links:

The Los Angeles Times lists the Best and Worst moments of the Oscars.

Time reviews the awards ceremony.

Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tuckers gives a positive review of the Academy Awards hosts.

Here is the complete list of winners — and the show’s opening skit.

Other interesting L.A. Times stories:

A look the locations used to shoot The King’s Speech.

Casting directors would like their own Oscar category.

Speculation on why Natalie Portman might not win Best Actress.

The New York Times has an interactive Oscar ballot where you can share Oscar picks with your Facebook friends.