Wonderful Moonlight, and it should have won. But the brother who directed it didn't win? Bullshit.

Warren Beatty better have gone through comical and protracted slips and falls.

Jason Chaffetz is on it.

So let's guess how this happened: Stone had her envelope? She puts it down next to the Best Picture envelope and someone picks it up and hands it to Beatty?

I would have been perfectly happy if La La Land had won. In my top three.

I have to admit—with apologies to the La La Land team—for a viewer, that flub was pretty awesome. And the best movie of the year actually won!

If we were going to get the first African-American director winner, it should have been Jenkins.

Adams presenting is a bit cruel.

How many long years has this Kimmel-Damon bit gone on? End it please.

Jackson did not look happy.

All the acting winners may be black.

The longer the show, the more commercials sold. The producers may think people won't watch just the speeches, so they add the filler.

I radically changed my mind on this bit because it shows how critics of celebrities actually react when meeting them.

For Oscar prep, I finally saw 13th. No matter how long and prolific her career will be, this could very well end up being Ava DuVernay's masterwork. And a big part of that, funny enough, is due to the film's graphics dept.

Very good point. Yes, gobs of corporate money due to lax campaign finance laws allow this to happen.

I knew about his poor reputation in the academic community before starting the book. There were things I learned. Generally though I find little value in reading a nonfiction work if the information and thesis are incorrect and easily disproved. Maybe if it were labelled Fiction I would take it more as one person's…

Your movie challenge sounds intriguing. Yes, damn, is Rachel Keller gorgeous. I didn't even notice it during Fargo, not to that extent, but maybe it's her character here. The Stone's "She's A Rainbow" was a perfect choice for her. Maybe you can get more specific in your movie challenge by watching a number of films in…

No movies, no movies—you're the movies! For book club we talked about Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is my first (and possibly last) read work of his. I liked all the subjects but felt he overstepped his training by covering so many areas he wasn't a specialist in. The thesis seemed awfully reductive,…

There's only so much ethnic insult razzing I can take, Steve Potter!

The bizarre reality of America: the party that has terrible and destructive ideas is ascendant while the party that cares about social and economic justice for all kinds of people is struggling to stay alive. This is the most cliched and fundamental of political thoughts, but, still, it's incredible.