While this morning's Academy Awards nominees sheepishly douse themselves in champagne, unsure about how outwardly excited to get about an upcoming ceremony that may consist of nothing more than a picket line of tuxedoed writers, another anticlimactic recitation of winners' names by the best TelePrompter readers show business has to offer, and a four-hour montage of Oscar's Less Strike-Hampered Glory Days ("There will be lots of clips — we have a long history, 80 years, to explore."), a truly sobering note has been struck by William Morris' Ed Limato.