Every so often, I see a flicker of light through the black clouds of the mass human soul…

Lisa de Moraes in her column in The Washington Post on Peter Jackson:

And, you have to admit, even 43 million viewers would be an incredible accomplishment for a four-hour broadcast that was monopolized by a fat, rumpled, dreary little man — given that most people watch the Academy Awards to spend quality time gazing on beautiful, slender, glamorous and, at least superficially, interesting movie stars.

Then again.