Oscar producers urge viewers to tune in early (AP)

LOS ANGELES – The people behind Sunday's Oscars show are urging people to tune in early for one of the program's best sequences.

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Bill Mechanic, who is producing the awards ceremony with Adam Shankman , promised "the most dynamic opening, from drama to spectacle to humor, that has ever been staged." Shankman said the show will be funny, lively and fun. Dismissing a gloomy weather forecast, Sherak said definitively that it will not rain at Oscar time. Mechanic quipped that it would "rain humor." And Shankman said that when you produce the Oscars , there's no one you can't call, so "I just called God." "Like everything in Hollywood, it's a negotiation," he said.

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