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This is interesting: lots of love for Black Panther for Best Picture and all 20 anonymous voters said they’d cast ballots for Rami Malek for Best Actor.

Speaking of Ryan,

Ha. Ben got dragged around the block for that. No Steffi, KOURNIKOVA.

Well, Miss Genie.

I was a big fan of Ryan’s first solo record when I was in college, but shortly thereafter, all these stories came out about how much of a toxic megalomaniac he was (and his substance abuse issues), going back to when he was in the band Whiskeytown in the ‘90s. I was actually somewhat surprised Mandy Moore hooked up with him at the time, as she seemed savvier than that. At a concert, when some heckler started calling out Bryan Adams songs, Ryan stopped playing and went on such an unhinged, endless rant that attendees left in droves. He’s a big presence in Meet Me in the Bathroom, and he seemed like this charismatic self-promoter who’d leave a path of destruction in his wake. A lot of it dealing with drugs.

I know. It’s certainly more than just his French charm. Davis Cup groups. If top players actually participated, Group B would be the group of death.

Weird, flat taglines. Interesting that Dorinda gets the last word.

Wow. I didn’t actually think Amazon would pull out of NYC.

This is really great.

Oscar nominee Regina King had a bit of close shave at an NBA game last night.

From the Grammys... I loved this.

I suppose the music industry is long overdue for a real reckoning. We had Russell Simmons, R. Kelly, and Ryan Adams so far, alongside a couple of lesser-known execs. Certainly nothing on the level of what the film, TV, and news industries have seen: The story on Ryan supplying Albert Hammond, Jr. of the Strokes with heroin:

Apparently Ryan posted this earlier but deleted it: His new response to the story:

Ryan Adams the alt-country singer who used to be married to Mandy Moore, NOT Bryan “Summer of ‘69/Everything I Do (I Do It For You)” Adams. I read Lizzy Goodman’s Meet Me in the Bathroom, and Ryan sounded like a manipulative mess who apparently got one of the Strokes addicted to heroin.

Alex Landi, who plays a gay doctor on Grey’s Anatomy.

Hmmm.