Oh, I totally disagree—I think all of these choices are aces, but that scene with Glen and Betty was so completely out of left field and yet strangely poignant, I never forgot it. I was bummed that they didn't develop he and Sally's friendship a little more; that would've turned the three-way dynamic between he,…

True, but the Disney studio didn't get the awards—Pixar and Miyazaki did, respectively.

Patrick Duffy….tiny little shorts….often shirtless. Pre-coming out adolescence made. (Yes, the shirtless underwater back cover picture of the tie-in novel was frequently all it took.)

The writing absolutely crackled this week, and Anderson toned it way down to the betterment of the show. (No principal's office dances.) All of the black actors nailed every line to the wall (especially Ross, who would be my #1 Comedy Actress Emmy pick were it not for Amy Pohler), but Beau Bridges gets special props…

There are people out there right now who are loudly insisting online that NPH asking Octavia Spencer to watch the briefcase was yet another example of a white man oppressing a woman of color, and turning her into his servant. Bizarre.

That would've been true—except no American movie about "the industry" ever won before 2006. No, voters in 2006 didn't want moral ambiguity in time of war ("Good Night & Good Luck" "Munich") and they didn't want homos ("Capote" and 24-Best-Picture-Awards "Brokeback Mountain."). So they went with the movie where they…

This was only Disney's 2nd Oscar for Animated Feature—other wins were for Pixar movies. And the first Best Animated Feature award went to Dreamworks' "Shrek"; I believe #2 went to "Spirited Away."

Hey, studly guys crying is hot.

Apparently he's said he's not gay, just a devotee of Alan Turing—which was odd, considering how much the script played down his love life.

They really wanted to give it to a musical—"the musical is back!"—after "Moulin Rouge," and "Chicago" was the best musical made in at least 20 years. It's also a razor-sharp dissection of fame vs. infamy, tabloid appeal, and cynicism—not everyone liked the way it was edited (a little frenetic during some numbers),…

The Oscars are very, very seldom about art. They're usually at about commerce and people rewarding their friends (or people they want to hire and thus make more commerce).

If you do that—and I think it's a great idea—it's helpful to list what else was nominated that year, as well as 2-3 that scored very highly on Rotten Tomatoes but didn't even get nominated. 1985 alone, the obvious winner should've been "The Color Purple" in a bunch that included "Prizzi's Honor" "Kiss of the Spider…

It's interesting to me that "Boyhood" is now suffering a backlash (as "the Imitation Game" "Selma" and "The Theory of Everything" have), "Birdman" was always a love it or hate it proposition—but "Whiplash" seems to be skating along untainted. That was one of the thinnest screenplays I've encountered in quite awhile,…

Yes, and the line starts behind me.

Two songs: the Stones "You Can't Always Get What you Want" (playing on the radio during our First Time) and the Walker Brothers' "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" the morning after I got dumped. I stare into space a lot when I hear those two—there are others' but especially those two.

A week or so after my mom died (climbing accident) I was home listening to a Standards channel and just beginning to tear up and get real emotional-and from the tv came Gogi Grant singing "don't cry' oh honey please don't be that way." The song ends with her repeating "Don't cry" several times in a row. You tell me.

It's no secret how a lot of people feel about Gwyneth Paltrow, but when she hosted they told her due to time constraints they'd need to trim her opening monologue by almost 2 minutes. She promised she could do it in the allotted time. Not only did she nail it almost to the second she's one of the only hosts to do so.…

I was an exchange student to Japan from fall of '82 through summer of '83, so though I read about "Square Pegs" (probably in TIME or Newsweek), I've never actually seen the series. This was thus a very cool article! Might track it down, but what I'd really like is for this series to do an in-depth on the OTHER great…

Most critics if they're mentioning "Just Shoot Me" tend to cite the faux-"Biography" episode centered around Nina (Wendy Malick, a deserving Emmy nominee).

"Frasier": Niles and Frasier open a restaurant. Daphne and the eel. Roz and the cherries. No contest.