Avast readarrs! Today be Septembarr 19th -- Talk Like a Pirate Day, where land lubbers lounge with arrsome pirate lingo without pillaging saucy wenches, donning patches, or walking the plank. Ye might ARR the day away, or watch yeself some Petarr Sarrsgarrd. But maybe ye like to pull out the bung, drink up ye Grog, and fire up the VCARR. If ye do, here be a treasure chest of movie booty and pirate kings. Godspeed!

Sorry, this is as far as my pirate-speak goes!

The Pirate King -- The Pirates of Penzance (1983)

In 1980 New York City theater producer Joseph Papp fired up The Pirates of Penzance for his Public Theater, with a young Kevin Kline cast as the Pirate King. It was so successful that the cast brought it to Broadway, and then onto the big screen with almost everyone reprising their roles (Angela Landsbury was the lone change). Kline swaggered, swung his sword, and wrapped his tongue around 'often' and 'orphans,' because -- he is the Pirate King, Taran-tara, Taran-tara, and it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Pirate King!

You think you're feeling tired and overworked? Jon Stewart is so busy right now between running The Daily Show and prepping for his first turn as the host of the Oscars, he's putting his deoderant in his two-week old daughter's crib so she can have his smell near her in his absence. Okay, that's a joke - maybe. But what's not a joke is that the pressure is on Stewart to really turn it on at the Oscars, in front of a live audience packed with Hollywood bigwigs and a home audience of about 40 million of his closest friends, er, fans. An Associated Press article notes that by becoming the host of the Oscars, Stewart joins an elite list including Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Bob Hope and Johnny Carson; Chris Rock, last year's host, wasn't mentioned on the "elite" list. So who else is in the ranks of the elite - those fortunate enough to have hosted Hollywood's Spectacular Salute to Solipsism? Cinematical shares with you some of the more interesting and notable Hosts of Oscar Past.

[Special thanks to E! Online's 75 Days of Oscar, Oscarworld.net,  and Wikipedia ]