This movie is roughly 80% of the reason I don't own any pull-chain lamps.

I had a weird 90s crush on him because of that.

The black version of that SAT analogy is bacon-colored Rolls: Miracle whips :: block cheddar: Velveeta.

It doesn't happen all that often, but actors don't have to give English-language performances to be nominated. I want to say the last time was Javier Bardem a few years back.

I want that credits song played at my funeral.

It's hard to believe that 80s Whoopi and the current version are the same person sometimes. Plus, pretty much everybody acknowledges that that was a make-up for "The Color Purple".

There's Kingsley and Haing Ngor. You can sort of make an argument for Yul Brynner. He was Russian, but his hometown's damn near North Korea.

So we're not going to count Jon Voight in Anaconda?

Amazingly enough, Googling "Charlotte Rampling BAFTA snub" brings up more than one article mentioning Charlotte Rampling and BAFTA snubs, from this year. That's the part that's demonstrably false.

The fact that the BAFTAs exist doesn't negate the fact that non-Americans are eligible and regularly nominated for Academy Awards. An individual isn't even required to give a performance in English to be considered. They're handed out in Hollywood, though. I'll give you that one.

Jonny Moseley

She's nominated for a British film. We wouldn't be having this conversation if the Oscars were specific to the United States.

Well, black Academy Award winners, in general, are almost always one-and-done affairs. Aside from Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, none of them have been nominated again after winning. They drop out of the Oscar conversation instead of sticking around like Jennifer Lawrence, or even multiple nominees like Jonah…

Rampling's comments aren't specific to US-flavored racism, though.

C'mon man. He was just doing his Max thing.

For a moment, I got confused and thought we were still talking about Betty Draper.

My recently-deceased grandma adored De Niro, and a tiny bit of me is glad she won't watch this out of a sense of obligation.

I disliked Hazel so much on 30 Rock that Kristen Schaal's presence almost kept me away from Last Man on Earth. Had Will Forte not been the lead, I probably wouldn't have bothered.

Me either, but everybody knows it. Even Charles Barkley.

I'm embarrassed not to know this dude's work, both because it torpedoes my rap nerd cred, but also because I'm mad that I missed out on a dude who rapped in a sequin cape.