MSN critic and HE gadfly Glenn Kenny will be tomorrow’s Oscar Poker guest. We’ll be chatting around 1:30 pm Eastern, by which point he’ll have seen Robert Zemeckis‘s Flight so we’ll get into that along with the awards-season razmatazz. I’d also like to set aside at least part of our discussion for an airing of classic Wells-Kenny grievances. One of them will be the Central Park Five dispute (link #1 and link #2). Please submit any suggestions for other topics of debate.
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