It's even crazier than you thought.

Salon.com got an interview today with two of Oscar's most puzzling characters: the producer of "Music by Prudence," Elinor Burkett, and the film's director-producer, Roger Ross Williams.

You may remember that Williams was in the middle of his acceptance speech for winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Short when Burkett ran up and interrupted him, totally hijacking his speech in what is being called, "Oscar's Kanye Moment."

The short version of the story: They hate each other's guts. Get the full version from Salon's Kerry Lauerman. 

Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood
8pm, Turner Classic Movies

I have always preferred Looney Tunes to Disney. Give me the smart-alecky Bugs Bunny over that sugary little mouse any day of the week.

If we're on the same page here, you'll love tonight's half-hour film on TCM which explores the childhood influences of Chuck Jones -- one of the geniuses behind many of those twisted Looney Tunes creations.

Lucky folk who have HBO 2 can watch "The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306" tonight at 8pm. It's an Oscar nominee this year for best documentary short subject.

The Witness is Rev. Samuel "Billy" Kyles who was on the Lorraine Hotel balcony when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. It's a role that at first plagued Kyles, and then gave him purpose.

The 30-minute film explains the context of that time; King was in Memphis to support sanitation workers who sought only to be treated as men as part of his Poor People's Campaign. That campaign represented a shift in King's mission from civil rights to economic rights, and some believe that made him a bigger target and sealed his tragic fate.

The film gives background on the last days, including the Mountaintop speech, as well as the last moments. Kyles was with King during his last hour.

After his death, and a nine-week strike, the sanitation workers got a 10-cent raise.

Other air dates:

Feb 20@ 9:15am

Feb. 22@ 4:30pm

Feb. 26@ 5:15pm

Feb. 28@ 11:30am

February, you might have heard, is Black History Month (or African-American History Month, depending on your leanings).

What better way to celebrate than to actually learn a little history? And what better way to learn than through your television? Isn't that what it's for?

Mark your calendar.

UNC-TV will air four Independent Lens films. Unfortunately, they will air at 2am on Friday mornings. DVR, tape, or stay up -- they are all worth seeing. (If anything changes in the airdates, I'll update.)

So, early on Feb. 6 is "Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene" a film about the late, great outrageous Washington, DC TV and radio host. Don Cheadle, who played Greene in an underseen, underrated 2007 movie "Talk to Me", narrates. If you saw that film, you really only got a taste of Greene and his vast influence. (Two words: Howard Stern.) And Greene's family didn't like that dramatization. The documentary must be more to their liking; Greene's children participate. It includes footage of Greene on his DC TV show that was presumed lost for 25 years. Artist Ernie Barnes, sports broadcaster James Brown, actor Robert Hooks are just a few of the folk whose lives Greene touched.

It's tough to figure out how to feel about Ted Haggard after seeing
"The Trials of Ted Haggard" which premieres tonight at 8 on HBO.

He's been out promoting this film (probably for money since he's flat broke) endlessly, doing what's cynically known as the shame tour, when public figures go out bravely confronting/admitting their sins, asking forgiveness or pleading innocence, rehabbing their broken images.

Or maybe he's been doing what Christians are supposed to do: confessing his sins, sharing his testimony and professing his faith as an example of God's glory.

I don't think we can report/write/talk/think enough about Hurricane Katrina, and the day New Orleans drowned, and the people whose lives were affected.

Frontline's "The Old Man and The Storm" tonight at 9 p.m. on UNC-TV tells that story through one family, the Gettridges, a family split and scattered by the storm, and the family patriarch who insisted upon coming back and rebuilding, so he can bring his wife home.

There is this principle among journalists that good stories are often found by reporters who linger after the other reporters leave. Producer June Cross proves that with Mr. Gettridge, a master craftsman who not only built his home, but worked on other historic New Orleans homes. He's gotten lots of press in the local paper and appeared a few times on CNN with Anderson Cooper.

Foodies, this is one for you.

"Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven" is a behind-the-scenes documentary that looks at the family behind that New York restaurant.

If you're not familiar, Le Cirque can be fairly called iconic; it was opened in 1974 by Sirio Maccioni, and almost immediately drew the power and social elite like Henry Kissinger, Tony Bennett, Regis Philbin, Donald Trump.

The problem is, by 2004, the New York restaurant scene had changed and attracting those names was, well, so 1974. The loyal regulars were still coming, but Le Cirque's business dropped. It wasn't the "in" place anymore.

The documentary begins as Le Cirque leaves its original location at the Palace Hotel, and begins a two-year move to the Bloomberg Tower.

Just watch "Jesus In India," on the Sundance Channel tonight at 9 and then discuss it with the family.

The documentary explores the controversial theory that Jesus Christ's " lost years" -- from about the ages of 12 and 30 -- may have been spent in India.

At the center of the film is author Edward T. Martin, a man who grew up attending a Fundamentalist Christian church in small town Texas. At bible school one day, he asks his teacher about what happened to Jesus during those years, since only a single passage in Luke (2:52) makes reference to those hidden years.

Often when I watch a reality show, I think "They must be faking, there can't really be people like this."

And then I see a documentary like "Cat Dancers," which airs tonight on HBO, and I know it could all be true because there are some freaky people out there.

"Cat Dancers" is the story of one of the world's first exotic-animal entertainment acts. It starts with Ron and Joy Holiday, a couple who met as kids in dancing school in Maine. They eventually married and become well-known as an adagio ballet team (it's a kind of acrobatic ballet typically performed by a man and a woman).

Later, after Ron has a dream about their stage act and sees his wife in a cage, changing into a cat, actor/animal lover William Holden gives the pair a leopard cub. That launches them into a wild animal act. They get so big they need a partner, and so in the late 80s, add Chuck Lizza, turning the Cat Dancers into a trio.

"Every father who is in a war, should think about his children. When they've grown up, when they see w hat their fathers did, they will be in the same situation that I am. And they never will live a normal life."

Those are the first words spoken in "Inheritance," a documentary airing on UNC-TV, and they're said by Monika Hertwig, a German grandmother who sets out on an emotional journey to reconcile the memory of the father she remembers with the father she discovered after his death.

Hertwig's father was Amon Goeth, the Nazi commander of a Polish concentration camp; if you saw "Schindler's List," he was the man played by Ralph Fiennes. If you didn't see that movie, let me make it plain: he was a sadist, a man who whistled after he murdered. He wasn't just following orders. He enjoyed killing.