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She did a lot of campaigning during the voting period, and I guess also benefited from the category only having two sure nominations. I do wonder if part of their reason was strategic - people look worse when they decry the lack of nominations for Margot and Greta and don't mention her. It plays into "white feminism" discourse (not helped by Hillary tweeting today...).

Given the complaints I've seen people make about the Killers screenplay, that's interesting. A few days ago, in one of the Oscars prediction videos, one of the 'experts' was talking about how Margot and Greta stood a good chance of not being nominated because the Oscar voters do not want to reward this type of film, they don't take this type of movie seriously. Given the history of the Academy, that would seem to be true. The nomination for Annette Bening is much more of what they want to see from actresses, along with that cookie cutter long-suffering wife role from Carey Mulligan. I feel bad for America Ferrera as she's gotten so much backlash for her nomination, with people saying in one breath it's due to her being Latino and in another saying she's not Latino enough, saying it's just "woke" voters due to her speech, other people acting like it's an outrage that she got in compared to someone like Penelope Cruz or Rosamund Pike (who is certainly entertaining to watch but whose work in Saltburn I've seen too many times to count). There was also a viral tweet saying she's just like Jamie Lee Curtis. It feels like people are just jumping on her as an easy target, even though she isn't even going to win. I saw a tweet from Stephen King about how out of touch the Oscars were with the public, which confused me, as the most popular movies of last year got a lot of nominations. Maybe he's a big fan of Super Mario Brothers, GOTG3 or Wonka?

I'm sorry to hear about Gary. I haven't watched Alien Nation in a long time but he gave such an energetic performance that always kept you interested and was a perfect contrast to Eric Pierpoint. @jam6242 Sorry to hear about Charles Osgood. I thought he was already passed.

He was, yes. I was mostly bringing up the HW stint as a more direct comparison.

Mulcahey is definitely a legend, and some of the posts here have made me more excited about his return (I don't hold his GL HW run against him - the show had been stomped into the ground by that point and JFP was just doing whatever to make her pets viable). I do feel like he either won't last long, or we are in a situation comparable to Lorraine Broderick returning to send AMC off.

Their response is often "well if they are the same I just won't vote for either of them!" and then they claim, as many on the dead end left often do, that Trump can be molded and is more of a potential socialist hero than Biden will ever be. So much of this is posturing and optics, egged on by social media. Face the Nation, arming up the pro-Trump propaganda, had a focus group of Democrats who will not vote for Biden because of this issue, and one woman made sure to let us know what a big martyr she was by saying she won't vote based on protecting her reproductive rights because women in Palestine have no rights either. (one of the other panelists works for CAIR, which they decided not to mention) This type of self-loathing on reproductive or lgbt rights is also why so many of that crowd happily support Hamas, or Putin, even though they would be literally torn apart by their heroes.

That was a good read and expresses one of the reasons I don't have a good feeling about November - so many younger voters have just given up or are embracing fatalism by supporting Trump and claiming he will be better than Biden on Israel/Palestine - the one thing that matters for many of these voters. I do wish they hadn't included David Axelrod, who seems to be credited as some kind of impartial observer even though he's been critical of pretty much all aspects of Biden for years now. I do think Biden governed differently over the last few years, although part of that is down to Democrats losing the House (the other part is probably his new chief of staff).

This one really bums me out. His work in Dawn of the Dead is just fantastic - so many tropes that can feel forced, the angsty screwed-up wannabe alpha - but instead you get so much heart. And I thought he was just breathtakingly beautiful in that film.

Didn't know that. I imagine Sprina are on their way out anyway, so this situation will be a powder keg.

Feels like Carly is already in a very strong position on the canvas as it is, so I wonder if Korte already has a great deal of influence.

Speaking of media propaganda:

You're right. I have no trust in that paper. They have so much to answer for (as do the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Washington Post, etc.). I am just glad to see some part of the mask ripped off.

@Vee Thanks for the article. It's very much worth reading - I think we all knew how truly hateful and bigoted these people are, but seeing it in their own words (and knowing just how much they run this country) is sobering.

If he had been a much stronger candidate, and run a very different campaign, I think he might have had a chance of being competitive, but he never was. And he had some of the worst campaign people imaginable. Here's a profile on the top of that list: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/14/christina-pushaw-ron-desantis-georgia-00118242

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68051757 DeSassy has dropped out. This repulsive man put poor, black and lgbt people in his state through incredible hell, risked and ended the lives of so many through his grifting of medical paranoia, and is still doing so, all for the sake of what amounted to a vanity run, one of the worst Presidential campaigns I have ever seen. A complete and total piece of [!@#$%^&*]. I truly despise this man and what he represents. Oh and "Mama Bear" as well.

I mostly remember him from Port Charles when the show decided to give Joe more of an edge (even though Frank already filled that role). I was not watching very often by that point, but Gail was very handsome and charismatic, even if I still preferred the nice guy version of Joe. I remember him also being written out of Port Charles somewhat abruptly, leading to another recast (who was, IIRC, Latino, which led to some interesting contrasts with Frank and Mary). Sad to be losing so many soap actors lately who aren't that old. We hear a lot about how much life expectancy has cratered in America in the last few years, but it seems like we're truly feeling it now.

I can only assume Emerald Fennell is well liked (or has good connections) and it being British means it gets more support than American films along the same lines (although Glass Onion did get an Adapted Screenplay nod). It's also one of those "we're saying something...well not really," movies some voters love, like Crash or Green Book. Rosamund Pike is a gem but I would probably go for Carey Mulligan in Support over her (and take Carey out of Lead for Maestro). I would give Archie Madekwe a supporting actor nomination but there are already people even more deserving like Charles Melton who are going to be shut out anyway. Nothing about that screenplay deserves a nomination. They should invent a category for Barry Keoghan's ass before they give the screenplay any recognition.

I think all of that was retconned a long time ago.

I kind of wish they'd named it Ruby's, as Bobbie would have loved that. I wonder how many newer viewers even know Ruby.

https://variety.com/2024/film/columns/oscar-voting-closes-surprises-barbie-saltburn-1235873942/

@Vee We know how much the media turns a blind eye to Trump's endless race-baiting (like his latest attacks against Haley) but it's all the more pathetic, if not surprising, how much they ignore his clear decay, or even huge red sores on his hand. I don't think I could have more disgust for the press than I do today, which is saying a lot considering their history. And we're just getting started, especially with the dead end leftists and faux truth-tellers just waiting to remind us of how funny he is and/or how we shouldn't bother because nothing matters and the "uniparty" is what rules (although PS, Trump is still cool and real). And Haley will bend the knee in spite of his racism and now apparently blaming her for 1/6, because she is spineless and power-mad, just like Tim Scott, who just endorsed Trump, or this jackass, one of the most craven figures of all (and someone else the media worshiped and made into a god): So many of these egomaniacal grifters get so many passes that they then move into a realm where they can just spout whatever garbage they want and people either continue to peddle them as leaders or pretend they never platformed them into such toxic influence. Here's another from Andrew Yang, now swooped in to help Dean Phillips' blatant attempt to further drive down Biden's poll numbers. Loathsome beyond belief.

Thanks. I never did learn how to embed Instagram.