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  • Batkid Segment Cut from Oscars Telecast

    03/06/2014 5:00:14 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    NBC Bay Area ^ | Thursday, Mar 6, 2014 | Chris Roberts and Geoffrey Eisler
    Was Batkid snubbed? The Academy Awards telecast on Sunday was supposed to feature a segment with Batkid -- 5-year-old Miles Scott, who captured San Francisco's hearts in such a memorable fashion last fall -- but the boy's Oscar moment was nixed just hours before the show began, according to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. A Make-A-Wish spokesperson confirmed the planned segment to NBC Bay Area on Wednesday. She said the segment was supposed to include Andrew Garfield, who is starring in the most-recent Hollywood iteration of Spider-Man. Garfield was supposed to introduce Miles as "the world's next superhero," Mashable reported. The segment...