The following is the second part of my interview with filmmaker Michael Moore.

We spoke on December 14, the day after he'd pledged $20,000 of Julian Assange's $316,000 bail, prior to his appearances on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddox Show. In this segment, we talked about the upcoming WikiLeaks documents from Bank of America, the massive fines against BofA for fraud and conspiracy, and how accused Private Bradley Manning slid down the pivotal crack between the Espionage Act and international law.

LW Let's talk about the material itself. What has WikiLeaks given us? The political equivalent of Gawker or People Magazine? Or is it another Pentagon Papers? Or is it another version of the Valerie Plame affair with some musical chairs going on — with ...

Earlier this month, I interviewed Oscar-winning filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore about Wikileaks.

It was the day after he'd pledged $20,000 to help free the embattled Wikileaks chief, Julian Assange, on bail.

The resulting 3,000-word interview is a look at Wikileaks, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, national security, the definition of journalism, Bank of America, the housing crisis, the rape allegations against Assange, the Nuremberg trials and transparency in our government, among other things.

The unbridled ranting that has become synonymous with Moore's name is met with my own efforts to ask him questions that would provoke less of his trademark reactionary spew and more of his razor sharp perceptions. When it comes to interviews, Moore is a first-rate conversationalist. Taking none of his alleged "facts" at...

Jennifer Lopez, back with her new rom-com, "The Back-Up Plan," has been around the block, on the train, through the mill, at the mall and on the red carpet. She's been trashed, celebrated, spit out and embraced. She's charted and tanked, smiled and endured. She's put scents in a bottle and clothes on the rack. She's opened a restaurant, divorced husbands and mothered her children.

This kind of turbo-charged activity could put an Olympian on crutches, but in the hands, face, body and voice of Jennifer Lopez, it's turned a multi-hyphenate performer into that rare Hollywood hybrid who's held her own over the years (thumbs up and thumbs down) as an actress, singer, dancer ... et cetera and so on.

And she does it in bold strokes, loaded with phenomenal Venn Power (see below), the kind of glossy, starlit, frenetic roller ride of a career that has "...

While 2009 was a groundbreaking year for filmmaking with the releases of "Avatar," "Precious" and "The Hurt Locker," the dire number of female-helmed studio films speak volumes.

We are nowhere close to equality. The sexist reasons that have managed to keep the number of studio films directed by women relatively flat for more than a decade need to be retired. 

Let's hope studio execs feel the same way some of you did about my list of reasons why. They are outrageous. 

I hope Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar nomination will do what Barbra Streisand's hit films should have done long ago -- make producers far more...