I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but when I was a kid there were live-action segments with Walter Lantz during "The Woody Woodpecker Show," as he explained fundamentals of animation. And this issue came up. "Cartoon characters have four fingers. Why? I don't know." Points for honesty, Walt.

"Oscar Wilde always WISHED he was this gay." - re: Mr. B. Natural.

SNL used to take more chances with character actors as hosts - Strother Martin, Harry Dean Stanton, Broderick Crawford, Robert Mitchum - and it would inspire the writers to come up with material that wasn't interchangeable between This Year's Hot Actors. I wish they'd do that more often these days, and James Hong…

Ali is terrific, sure - but I don't understand why there was absolutely no awards buzz for Andre Holland.

My wife is angry about this because the show has always embraced multiculturalism and they killed off the only sympathetic white guy.

I've been a fan of Peter Gerety since "Homicide," and I thought he was the highlight of this exceptional cast. I'm really happy he survived the season.

And Donald Sutherland, giving the performance of his career, was not nominated. Never has.

I've always felt that the casting of Krabbe telegraphed his villainy too early. Imagine how much more surprising it would have been if they'd cast, say, David Strathairn at that point in his career. The audience would have seen "oh, that guy" early in the film, and then "Oh! THAT guy?" at the reveal.

What I loved about that last monologue was the misdirection of who it was being delivered to.

Damndest thing: as soon as I saw that one card, I had the weirdest feeling that I was listening to a garden club lecture next to Raymond Shaw, the most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

It's interesting that he mentions Jule Styne recycling songs, and in the same interview he talks about "Blacke's Magic." The first episode begins with a magician's stunt where he's in a coffin in a swimming pool for a prolonged period of time, he's brought up, the coffin is opened, and the attending doctor says,…

Thanks for the reply, Jesse. Of course the critics have seen everything at this point - otherwise we couldn't have Ten Best lists this early - but it just surprised me that, with the exception of "Toni Erdmann," all the "Best Scenes" were from earlier in the year, and no Big Christmas Movies were represented.

I'm curious - there are still lots of unreleased movies still to come this year, and there must be some great scenes in at least a few of them. Why compile a list now? Or is nothing in "Silence" or "Fences" or "Hidden Figures" or whatever worth noting?

Agreed - he also directed "State of Play." And now he's locked into Potterville for the next decade.

Good. I think that what makes this movie more exciting than most is that everyone is expendable. If all bets are off regarding survival by the end credits, that raises the suspense of any given sequence.

Plus, he was the very first villain on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

Me too. Not my favorite (proving the article's thesis), but in my top five. Certainly the most underrated. (I actually met Anthony Zerbe a few years ago, and complimented him on what is possibly the most grotesque death in ANY Bond movie. He laughed.)

I tried it for a day or so but it didn't stop at Trump. It also replaced Bernie Sanders. (Sounds like a joke, but it really did.) A great idea, though - and I still use my John Oliver Drumpf replacement extension.

Absolutely. Just after that series aired, and I thought, this is Cool Stuff, the Film Forum in NYC ran a two-week marathon of HK movies, and I went every single day. In 14 days I saw "Project A," "The Killer," "A Better Tomorrow," "A Chinese Ghost Story," "Peking Opera Blues," "Swordsman"… it was revolutionary to…

One aspect of this that I particularly loved was that I didn't know that Kate played piano. Imagine how different this would be if she didn't, standing by a piano while somebody else accompanied, or standing center stage alone. I felt that the act of sitting and playing by herself made it more intimate, more…