Jimmy Kimmel as Oscar host? An emphatic “no” has come from a top Academy insider who really looked horrified when I mentioned the name recently. There was a strong case being made for Kimmel based on a lot of things– his show on ABC by March 2nd, 2014 will be under siege from Jimmy Fallon’s move to the Tonight show at 11:35pm.

ABC really wants Kimmel for the Oscars, I am told. And he’s turned into a friend of many younger Hollywood types. If Kimmel were to host the show, he could just go across the street and do his own show, live, extending Oscar night. It does make sense. But unless something really changes, the chances of Kimmel hosting the next Academy Awards is nil.

Of course, you never know. The Academy gets a new president this summer when Hawk Koch’s term is up. The new guy or gal will have ideas of their own. And then returning show producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan will have input. But Seth MacFarlane has already said no to a return. Billy Crystal is done. Neil Patrick Harris could score a hat trick by hosting the Tonys, Emmys and Oscars, but I doubt it. Hugh Jackman is always a possibility.

And you know: whoever does it will be panned the next day for minute reasons. No one leaves the Oscar host job unscathed.

Mel Gibson came under some fire last night at the Mel Brooks tribute, still the butt of jokes after his career ending moves with the police, anti-Semitism, racism, drinking, philandering, accusations of violence against his baby mama, and so on. And of course “The Beaver.”

But now I’m told that Gibson will appear in “The Expendables 3,” the third installment of Sylvester Stallone’s shoot em up series that also features his former Planet Hollywood buddies and partners Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. There’s no confirmation, but the source seemed serious.

Also featured in “E3” are Jackie Chan and Milla Jovovich.

Gibson, sources say, will play “the villain” in the new movie. He’s lucky to be included in a film with other stars at this point. After all his scandals and “The Beaver” he can’t open a film. He made a movie two years ago that was released to video on demand. Basically, there’s very little demand to pay for  Mel Gibson in a movie theater.

Stallone had Tweeted back on April 13th that Gibson was not interested in directing “Ex 3.” But I guess he changed his mind about appearing in the film which also features Nicolas Cage.

No one could figure out exactly why Susan Lucci hasn’t made it onto the revived online version of “All My Children.” But Lucci and her clever manager husband Helmut Huber may have dodged a bullet in the end. Today Prospect Park Productions, owned by Jeff Kwatinetz and Rich Frank, have gone on hiatus on “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” two weeks early.

The early hiatus comes just a couple of weeks after Prospect Park announced a surprise: instead of showing four new episodes each week of both soaps, they cut way back. The company said it would show only two new episodes a week of each show, with a catch up show on Fridays. Their reasoning was that fans couldn’t keep up with the amount of new shows.

Anyone who believed this also bought land in Pakistan.

Prospect Park says it shut down early in a dispute with IATSE, the union that built their sets and keep their shows going in a new studio in Stamford, Connecticut. Under their agreement with IATSE if costs for the shows rise above $120,000 per episode, the union fees go up. Clearly, the costs of both soaps are more than that. Prospect Park says it can’t pay higher fees.

It seems in retrospect that when Prospect Park announced the cut back to two episodes per week rather than four of each, the company knew it was running out of money. Now they’ve doubled how long their backlog of episodes will last. So it had nothing to do with their “viewer survey.” It was simply about stockpiling episodes.

None of this should come as a surprise. Prospect Park has run this operation in disarray from the start. They sued ABC, which licensed the soaps to them, over the move of three characters from “One Life to Live” to ABC’s “General Hospital” while the online version of the former show was being planned. Instead of making an arrangement to cross-promote the “OLTL,” Prospect Park instead took an adversarial approach.

Again no surprise to anyone who covered or knew about Kwatinetz in his prior incarnations. A Hollywood manager with a checkered past, Kwatinetz burned a lot of bridges in the music business during tenures with Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson. He merged his company, The Firm, with Mike Ovitz and Rick Yorn’s AMG ten years ago. The whole thing collapsed quickly, with Ovitz leaving the business and Yorn taking top clients like Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz. Kwatinetz’s personal life also attracted attention with major drug issues– chronicled in a 2002 Vanity Fair profile– and a brief engagement to the late actress Brittany Murphy.

Lucci and Huber obviously felt they weren’t on stable ground. When Kwatinetz first tried to relaunch the soaps, he couldn’t secure the “All My Children” star. In the press Prospect Park made it appear that Lucci was wildly demanding and unreasonable in her salary negotiations. But Lucci and Huber told me last winter that in the middle of talks, Prospect Park simply cut them off.

In the end, they may have lucked out after all. But that doesn’t help the crews and casts of both shows who bought into Prospect Park’s promises.

Tom Hanks has been announced as a presenter on Sunday night’s Tony Awards? But will they give him one for his excellent performance as late reporter Mike McAlary in “Lucky Guy”? I sure hope so. The Tony voters this year have been very anti-Hollywood, snubbing Bette Midler, Sigourney Weaver and a raft of movie stars who boosted Broadway’s bottom line this year.

Hanks was the exception. He made what had to be the easiest transition ever from Hollywood to the stage in Nora Ephron’s play. And while it does seem like Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” will win Best Play, Hanks should be shoo in for Best Actor.  Either way, he’ll be on the Tony show, hosted again by Neil Patrick Harris.

Hanks joins a lot of stars on this year’s Tonys including Cyndi Lauper, whose “Kinky Boots” we’re betting on for Best Musical, plus Weaver, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, Zachary Quinto,  Sally Field, Audra McDonald, Alan Cumming, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Megan Hilty, Andrew Rannells, Jane Krakowski, Matthew Morrison, Laura Benanti, Steven Van Zandt, Hal Prince, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Barrett Foa as well as Scarlett Johansson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jesse Eisenberg, Jon Cryer and Martha Plimpton.

Did I mention Mike Tyson? Yes, indeed. Mike Tyson, for some reason, is going to be on the Tony Awards. The show begins at 8pm Sunday on CBS.