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Billy Crystal to host 70th Annual Academy Awards

Saying he's a "sucker for a free tuxedo," Billy Crystal will be back again this year to host the 70th Annual Academy Awards® Presentation, which will be held Monday, March 23, 1998, at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, and broadcast on ABC live starting at 6 p.m. (PST)

This is the sixth time that Billy will don the penguin suit and step out to host the Oscars®. After hosting four shows starting in 1990, Crystal hung up the tuxedo for three years, but returned in '97 to host the 69th awards. He's won three Emmys for writing and hosting the show and received five other Emmy nominations for his contributions.

As Academy Awards® telecast producer, Gil Cates, says about Billy: "...there is nobody like him!"

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