maybe there are no black noms this year because the Academy voters finally got around to actually watching "Crash" and "Precious"

dead artform? if your current city has more than 500k people, there is probably
a functioning, if not thriving opera scene

Those five or six years were absolutely fantastic - Die Hard, the January Man, Quigley Down Under, Truly Mady Deeply, Closet Land, and Robin Hood POT - 6 top-notch, entirely different personas in a row.

Okkervil River has a pseudo-cover

Edith Piaf - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

the Mae Shi - Young Marks (or basically anything off HLLYH)

Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon

Apollo Smile - Thunder Box