I Am A Swede

Caroline Wozniacki becomes the first Danish player to win a GS singles title, beating Simona Halep 7-6 3-6 6-4 to win the 2018 Australian Open.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/42844093

21 hours ago, Faulkner said:

They did briefly have five previous winners in the same category, including the last winner, present the acting awards. I thought it was cool but time-consuming.

 

 

 

I hated this! When each presenter talked directly to the nominees.... it made me cringe.  

3 hours ago, ChitHappens said:

She's good but I'm hoping he works on that porn grunt of hers.  When you are worse than Sugarpimp, we have a problem!

 

Is it even possible to be worse than Sharapova? She doesn't grunt, she screams!

 

Lovely!

 

Even though it's only one episode I can easily see why this show was such a success. Such a diverse and strong cast of characters, and a setting which probably was something rare on tv at the time.

 

Personally I found it amusing to see an old acquaintance from my favourite tv-show ever, "Upstairs, Downstairs". John Quayle, who played Captain Platt in this episode played Bunny Newbury on that show. 

2 hours ago, Fevuh said:

These types of homophobic straight guys always crack me up.  Like he was in such danger in a gay bar.  Yeah, you stumbled into a gay bar where....no one noticed you because you were undoubtedly the ugliest guy and worst dressed in there.  They think because they're straight every gay guy wants them.  So silly and ignorant.  Look in the mirror hun, you're not hot.  You're safe as can be. 

 

16 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

Is that based on my spoiler spec?  I get what you mean, although I don't mind her when she's written as nasty, rather than a saint or romantic heroine.

 

The spoiler is part of it, but I don't think my disdain for everything Dingle-related is a secret.  

Debbie is everything I hate about the Dingles, and she is at the very top of my list of characters I would dump immediately if I got the chance. Her parents are up there too, but Charity at least has some wit and humour.

 

Why can't someone please rid the show, and us, of the black hole otherwise known as Debbie Dingle! Of all the Dingles I think she is the one I loathe the most. She's such a miserable, hypocritical bitch!

27 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

And to connect this to soaps (barring the obvious nomination of Margot Robbie), Rachel Shenton, who played the very popular Mitzeee Minniver on Hollyoaks in the early 2010's is part of the short film THE SILENT CHILD which is nominated for Best Live Action Short.

 

You also have Lesley Manville, nominated for Best Supporting Actress, who had a regular role on "Emmerdale Farm" 1975-76.

How disappointing that Ross is working with Cain against Joseph. I had hoped that he had gotten Debbie out of his system, but I guess not.... 

There goes my dream that he could have ended up with Victoria.

17 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

I was going to ask if you knew her character. I guess you do!

 

I don't think I've ever seen any of her episodes. 

 

I think this may be the first Emmerdale actor to get an Oscar nod.

 

She's actually part of my very first, very hazy memory of Emmerdale Farm. I had this vague recollection of a girl named Rosemary, no more than that. It wasn't until much later I got it confirmed that there had actually been a Rosemary on the show.

Her very first episode could be found on Youtube for a brief while, but it was taken down. But there are other episodes uploaded there now with her in them. Here's one for instance

 

Trivia: Her co-star, George Fenton, has gone on to become a famous composer, writing music for many acclaimed wildlife series produced by David Attenborough ("Planet Earth", "Blue Planet" etc), and also for many movies by Ken Loach. His breakthrough came when he collaborated with Ravi Shankar to write the score to the multi-Oscar winning "Gandhi" (1982)

^^

Old news! I posted that on the previous page.  

Wohoo, a woman is nominated in the Best Director category for only the 5th time in history.

And for the first time ever (!) a woman is among the nominees for Cinematography!

Congratulations to Emmerdale Farm alumni Lesley Manville on her Academy Award nomination!  

 

Lesley played Rosemary Kendall from February 18th 1975 to April 13th 1976, and appeared in 77 episodes.

 

Nadal is out! He's injured, again.....

Semi-final between Marin Cilic and Kyle Edmund.

4 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

it was Slovakian, Daniela Hantuchova, who blamed the Williams sisters for her lack of success.  

 

Talk about delusions of grandeur!

Here they are, the long-awaited Razzie Award nominations!   

 

WORST PICTURE

Baywatch

The Emoji Movie

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

 

WORST ACTRESS

Katherine Heigl / Unforgettable

Dakota Johnson / Fifty Shades Darker

Jennifer Lawrence / Mother!

Tyler Perry / BOO! 2: A Medea Halloween

Emma Watson / The Circle

 

WORST ACTOR

Tom Cruise / The Mummy

Johnny Depp / Pirates of The Caribbean XIII: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Jamie Dornan / Fifty Shades Darker

Zac Efron / Baywatch

Mark Wahlberg / Daddy’s Home 2 & Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

 

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Javier Bardem / Mother! & Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Russell Crowe / The Mummy

Josh Duhamel / Transformers XVII: Last Knight

Mel Gibson / Daddy’s Home 2

Anthony Hopkins / Collide & Transformers XVII: Last Knight

 

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kim Basinger / Fifty Shades Darker

Sofia Boutella / The Mummy

Laura Haddock / Transformers XVII: Last Knight

Goldie Hawn / Snatched

Susan Sarandon / A Bad Moms Christmas

 

WORST SCREEN COMBO

Any Combination of Two Characters, Two Sex Toys or Two Sexual Positions / Fifty Shades Darker

Any Combination of Two Humans, Two Robots or Two Explosions / Transformers XVII: Last Knight

Any Two Obnoxious Emojis / The Emoji Movie Johnny Depp & His Worn Out Drunk Routine / Pirates of the Caribbean XIII: Dead Careers Tell No Tales

Tyler Perry & Either The Ratty Old Dress or Worn Out Wig / BOO! 2: A Madea Halloween

 

WORST REMAKE, RIP-OFF or SEQUEL

Baywatch

BOO 2: A Medea Halloween

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers XVII: Last Knight

 

WORST DIRECTOR

Darren Aronofsky / Mother!

Michael Bay / Transformers XVII: Last Knight

James Foley / Fifty Shades Darker

Alex Kurtzman / The Mummy

Anthony (Tony) Leonidis / The Emoji Movie

 

WORST SCREENPLAY

Baywatch

The Emoji Movie

Fifty Shades Darker

The Mummy

Transformers XVII: The Last Knight

There are no words.... 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42766159

 

The White House has changed its answering machine message to blame Donald Trump's political opponents for its failure to answer calls.

The US is in the middle of a government shutdown, leaving many federal services without staff.

But callers to the White House comment line at the weekend were informed that Democrats were to blame.

The recorded message says calls cannot be answered because Democrats are holding government funding "hostage".

The recorded message was set up on the White House comment phone line, which accepts calls from members of the public.

"Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today because Congressional Democrats are holding government funding - including funding for our troops and other national security priorities - hostage to an unrelated immigration debate," the recording says.

"Due to this obstruction, the government is shut down."

 

It's a bit hard to tell, but it does look and sound like him.

Hyeon Chung, 21 years old from South Korea, ranked 58th, has just eliminated Novak Djokovic from this year's Australian Open.

In the quarter-final he will face Tennys (fantastic name for a tennis player) Sandgren, a 26-year old American, ranked 97th, who defeated Dominic Thiem.

 

Not exactly the quarter-final pair anyone would have guessed. right?  

 

19 hours ago, TimWil said:

Good job with listing all the bad bits but he was never an actual “villain,” just a young  guy who made a hell of a lot of mistakes! He’s a decent person who sometimes reacted badly to things.

 

I never said that I considered him a villain. I just said that I didn't particularly like him, and listed some of the reasons why. The one that was portrayed as a villain was always Robert. I really resented the way Jack almost always sided with Andy when the two fought. It was especially infuriating how little consideration Jack seemed to have for Robert's feelings towards Andy after he found out about Andy's involvement in Sarah's death. Jack had no trouble forcing Robert to leave Emmerdale after the accident that caused Max King's death, yet he went to extreme lengths, even going to prison himself, to keep Andy around.

13 hours ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:

 

Why didn't you like Andy?

 

 

 

What's there to like? He was an obnoxious child whose thoughtless behaviour was at least partially responsible for the deaths of Vic Windsor and Sarah Sugden. When he grew up he and Katie behaved completely childish when they decided to have a baby just so they could be together when they were clearly too young. Then his impulsive and reckless behaviour caused him to shoot and almost kill Jack Sugden.  He slept with an underaged Debbie Dingle and got her pregnant, thereby forcing the Sugdens to be forever tied to the Dingle family. His feud with Robert later caused the death of Max King.

When he finally got together with Katie he then proceeded to cheat on her with their lodger, Jo. After Katie left and he got together with Jo he started to abuse her, finally forcing her to flee from the village.

 

All the character did was cause pain and suffering, and I'm not particularly sorry that he's gone.

I never really cared for Andy, so that isn't something I would hold against Chrissie.  

I just hope that simply because she's dead all the other nasty things she did will be forgotten and people will mourn her or Lawrence. Most of the villagers didn't care about them when they were alive anyway.