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my picks for tonight’s 93rd Academy Awards (the Oscars for 2020’s films) (winners indicated)

Mon, Apr 26, 2021
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I correctly guessed 11 out of the 24 23 categories, which is slightly better than last year.

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OFCS 2020 awards winners announced

Fri, Jan 29, 2021
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curated: “Donald Trump‘s Presidency Was Supposed to Be Great for Art. It Wasn‘t”

Tue, Jan 05, 2021
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I personally have found it very difficult to focus on anything creative in the past four years (and it only got worse in 2020). And I wasn’t alone…

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AWFJ 2020 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 05, 2021
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The Rape of Recy Taylor documentary review: meet the unheralded badass Black women of recent American history

Sun, Dec 10, 2017
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Enraging, and eye-opening, the beginning of the antidote for how Black women’s lives get erased in America. Tells a story that we should recognize as epic.

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The Letters (aka Letters from Mother Teresa) movie review: utter nunsense

Mon, Nov 30, 2015
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A fatuous argument for Mother Teresa’s sainthood; credulous and willfully ignorant, and disregards everything about her beliefs that was nasty or skeptical.

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evening clickbait: Harry Potter postage stamps; girls do too like sci-fi; symphony crowd gasps as JFK assassination announced; Gravity if it was shot in Ikea

Thu, Nov 14, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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it’s Cumberbatch Time!

Fri, Oct 18, 2013
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Oh, the humanity! Everyone around the planet gets Benedict Cumberbatch on the cover of Time magazine this week, except the U.S.

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A Good Day to Die Hard (review)

Fri, Feb 15, 2013
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Bland generic action pudding that manages to be sociopathic, too.

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question of the day: Who is the entertainment person of the year for 2012?

Fri, Dec 21, 2012
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Please don’t say Honey Boo Boo or I will have to kill myself.

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