Nellie pointed out tonight that we’ve seen four of the five nominees for the best documentary Oscar. The fifth — Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — is in the ‘ASAP’ slot on my zip list. We saw Murderball (my favourite movie of last year) and Street Fight at Hot Docs last year; Street Fight won the top audience award.

As usual, many of the documentaries carry political themes, but I’m glad that so many films with sociopolitical themes (Crash, Good Night And Good Luck, Munich, Capote) were nominated for the top prize as well. Not that Brokeback Mountain won’t win the whole schmeel, which is too bad. It was a good movie, but it doesn’t deserve to beat any of the other four.

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I. Love. Keith Olbermann.

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To paraphrase Jon Stewart: after the whuppin’ that Oprah gave James Frey, what do you think she’ll do to Dr. Phil when she figures out how full of shit he is?