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In UY, my family and I had no problems laughing at the scene with Harrison and the recording machine.
And again going back to the 20s, there was Bunuel personally handing the razor blade in Un Chien Andalou.
I loved reading in one of the obits on Rickles that before he became well known, he was working a night club and Sinatra popped in. The two had never met, but that didn't stop Rickles from ad Libbing "Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit someone." To which Sinatra reportedly practically fell on the floor laughing and instantly became a fan for life.
Fritz Lang's M is about a serial killer of little girls with no murder actually shown. In an interview in conjunction with a PBS showing many years ago, Lang defended this artistic decision, claiming that anything he showed would not be as horrific as what the viewer could imagine. And his killer's method isn't discussed in the film either, although there is a chilling scene where he's stalking a potential victim and drops a knife from his pocket, which she obligingly picks up and hands back to him.
A straight razor too graphic for Psycho in 1960? In 1948's Unfaithfully Yours, we see Rex Harrison using one on Linda Darnell rather graphicaly for the time, albeit in a fantasy scene.
She does have a smirk on her face when Norman balks about entering her room. But otherwise, no.
One additional Oscar gaffe I actually saw was in 1964, when Sammy Davis presented the awards for both best original and adapted score. He read the nominees in one category, then opened the wrong envelope and read the winner of the other category. He quickly corrected this, and then, as if nothing had gone wrong, proceeded to read the nominees in the second category, and had the aplomb to smile and say: "Guess who won".
And this year's incident once and for all squashes the urban rumor that Marisa Tomei did not win the BSA but Jack Palance accidentally announced her being that she was the last listed nominee. They would obviously not have allowed that to go uncorrected.
Part of the problem which I haven't seen addressed is the predictability of the Oscars in recent years. Before the BP was announced, all of the acting, writing and directing awards had been widely predicted correctly. And LLL was the overwhelming favorite for BP. Faye may have realized this, and thought "what the heck? Everyone already knows the winner is LLL so let's go with it." Had, for example, the card said Casey Affleck for Manchester By the Sea, it likely would have given her pause.
And as some pundits have noted, this completes the trifecta of the presidential election, the Super Bowl, and now the Oscars. There are no more sure things.
And he did do new intros for movies he had introduced many times before, when TCM could have simply repeated the same one.
And I love the "Columbo moment" when he would stop in mid-sentence and say "oh, by the way..."
He will be missed.