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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
?!?!? / Film Today in Articles I've Been Waiting My Whole Life to Read
Posted by David Schmader on Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:44 PM
The opening number to the 1989 Oscar ceremony will forever shimmer in infamy, featuring as it did then-hearthrob Rob Lowe and a helium-voiced human Snow White performing "Proud Mary." Here is the whole amazing thing:
Now, after 24 years, the poor actress tasked with playing Snow White has opened up about the ordeal in The Hollywood Reporter. You may read 'I Was Rob Lowe's Snow White': The Untold Story of Oscar's Nightmare Opening right here.
(And the 2013 Oscar ceremony goes down this Sunday night.)
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