I still need to see Chariots of Fire.

Perhaps an Oscar category for Best Visual Spectacle would siphon away some of the bad nominations. It certainly was the best visual spectacle that year. Hell, Troy might have won for its year.

Take the five that they would have nominated anyway, then add five more. Is there really a chance that one among the five more will win? I can think that it might happen only for a film that few voters had heard of gaining late momentum, so maybe some indie project could squeak in, but any big film would already be…

It can hold how many? 8?

Tell me about the rabbits, George, tell me about the rabbits…

The Artist and Crash for best picture would not have held up one year; any kind of filter between knee-jerk reaction leads to Cher somehow having an Oscar for flipping her hair everytime she spoke in Moonstruck would be fine with me.

Thanks! I had not heard of that.

Why not give the Oscars out five years after the films came out, so that we can see which films are actually standing up over time and which were just popular in the moment.

Charging $100 might have helped.

The after-show on Real Time qualifies with me as a debate, and he did not fare well. (I would say debating a troll on-line does not work; we both could right now devolve and act like assholes, which is much harder to do in person). I agree that Berkeley raised his profile, which got it high enough for the notice of…

Yeah. You're right. It probably just worked out that way without planning.

I think that they would have been ultimately better off (1) yes, protesting, (b), letting him speak, (c) debate him, (d) win easily. They would never have enough press coverage to make the victory matter that much, though, but it should have. Unfortunately, going past protesting plus not letting him speak got all…

People who fit his description still own most of it. By their rules, they are doing something right.

If someone read him as oddly passive during the opening segment, I do not think that they are way off base. Maybe he was baiting Milo so that the panel could do the real ripping.

Well, the guy did implode right away. I find that useful.

I felt oddly like he had not done his homework and just did not have better responses prepped for likely things his guest was going to spew.

I watch him all the time; I know the usual topics where I disagree with him. I do not need a clone of me to host a show before I can watch it.

He often mentions the specific objection to people not being willing to say that a given terrorist act should be linked to Islamic beliefs, even if they are linked to an incredibly messed-up version of Islamic beliefs. Perhaps if the press and politicians routinely labeled them "renegade [blank]" religious groups, it…

Captain Walker…

It looked like a second person to me, too.