Sideshow: Crystal to host his ninth Oscars

You two look mah-velous! Billy Crystal and Oscar are getting back together when the 63-year-old comedian hosts the Academy Awards on Feb. 26.

Crystal is stepping in for Eddie Murphy, who dumped Oscar like a hunk of hot metal on Wednesday after his bud, Brett Ratner, the show's producer, resigned under pressure for using a gay slur at a film screening.

Crystal tweeted that he's hosting the Oscar show "so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions."

But, seriously folks, "Some of the best moments of my career have happened on the Oscar stage," Crystal said in a later statement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "I am thrilled to be back there."

Crystal will be hosting for the ninth time, trailing only Bob Hope's 19 outings as master of revels. While we at SideShow welcome Billy, we'll miss Eddie. And while we're at it, we'll also miss the lovely Anne Hathaway, last year's cohost (but not her stone-faced colleague, James Franco).

After embarrassing himself with some clueless messages about Penn State coach Joe Paterno, Ashton Kutcher has decided his Twitter account has become too big for him to manage all alone. The star of Two and a Half Men has turned over the account, which has more than 8.2 million followers, to a team of professional handlers as "a secondary editorial measure to ensure the quality of its content." Kutcher tweeted a defense of JoePa on Wednesday before he knew the sordid details of the sex-abuse scandal in Happy Valley. Kutcher then recanted and apologized on Twitter.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their six kids are visiting Vietnam, birthplace of their adopted son, 7-year-old Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt. It was the family's first trip to Vietnam since the adoption of Pax, four years ago. The Asian sojourn included a stop in baseball-mad Japan so Pitt could promote his new movie, Moneyball.

Puerto Rican antiestablishment hip-hop duo Calle 13 cleaned up Thursday night at the Latin Grammy Awards. The band won the 19th overall award of its career, smashing the record of Juanes, who had a mere 17.

Brothers Rene Perez Joglar and Eduardo José Cabra Martínez also broke the record for most awards won in a single night, winning nine out of their 10 nominations.

Calle 13 triumphed during the 12th annual Latin Grammys in Las Vegas; they took home all but one award because the rappers were nominated twice for album of the year for their work on Shakira's Sale el Sol.

No other nominee came close to matching Calle 13's success, not even Shakira.