Adele Dazeem, Meet Dick Poop

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs repeatedly stepped in it this morning in Beverly Hills

Let it go? Sorry, but as Ricky Gervais so delightfully reminded at the Golden Globes, that’s not the way these things work.

The major upside-down highlight of this morning’s announcement in Beverly Hills of the 2014 Oscar nominees was Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs’ struggles with the teleprompter. She woke up the crowd with a number of embarrassing stumbles, including calling Birdman “The Birdman” and Mr. Turner cinematographer Dick Pope “Dick Poop.” That’s Pope, pictured, standing on set behind director Mike Leigh.

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