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Hollywood does NOT like Russia these days;)

I thought Jordan Peele's was a surprise. The same with the Frozen couple's song win (although that was probably just me, jonesing for a Sufjan Steven's win).

The Cast of Black Panther Won the Oscar Red Carpet By Lisa Ryan Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, and Danai Gurira. Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage Sad news for the rest of the celebs at the 2018 Academy Awards: they all lost as soon as the (very hot) cast of Black Panther showed up on the red carpet — because no one else could compete with the cast’s stellar Oscars looks. There was the king himself, Chadwick Boseman, in Givenchy couture. Chadwick Boseman. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage (Literal) Academy Award winner Lupta Nyong’o looked stunning (per usual) in Atelier Versace. Lupita Nyong’o. Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage And please, someone, give Danai Gurira an Oscar for her Gabriela Hearst look immediately. Danai Gurira. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Winston Duke was looking good in Etro. Winston Duke. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images And of course, Daniel Kaluuya, who starred in both Black Panther and Oscar-nominated film Get Out, looked award-worthy in Brunello Cucinelli. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage Sympathies to the rest of the Oscars attendees.

Just Like That, Coco Songwriter Robert Lopez Is the First Ever to Double EGOT By Dee Lockett Though it seems like only yesterday that songwriter Robert Lopez joined the EGOT club — because it was, in 2014, when he won the Oscar for Frozen’s “Let It Go” — he’s now in a league of his own. On Sunday night, he and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, won Best Original Song for Coco’s “Remember Me,” making him the first person in history to complete the EGOT for a second time. He now has two Oscars, two daytime Emmys (for Wonder Pets), three Grammys (for Book of Mormon, the Frozensoundtrack, and “Let It Go”), and three Tonys (two for Book of Mormon and one for Avenue Q). Lopez was already the youngest, at 39, to ever complete the EGOT the first time around; he’s now 43, meaning it only took him another four years to do it all over again. What have you done with your life? although, they are Daytime Emmys;)

The speech for COCO made me cheer almost as hard as I did for Mr. Ivory, but not because I was necessarily a fan of Coco... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cClLL7f3H8k

Still disappointed by this loss, but the couple from Frozen seem like terribly nice folks (although, they already have an EGOT, so...) Oh, to see without my eyes The first time that you kissed me Boundless by the time I cried I built your walls around me White noise, what an awful sound Fumbling by Rogue River Feel my feet above the ground Hand of God, deliver me Oh, oh woe, woe is me The first time that you touched me Oh, will wonders ever cease? Blessed be the mystery of love Lord, I no longer believe Drowned in living waters Cursed by the love that I received From my brother's daughter Like Hephaestion, who died Alexander's lover Now my riverbed has dried Shall I find no other? Oh, oh woe, woe is me I'm running like a plover Now I'm prone to misery The birthmark on your shoulder reminds me How much sorrow can I take? Blackbird on my shoulder And what difference does it make When this love is over? Shall I sleep within your bed River of unhappiness Hold your hands upon my head Till I breathe my last breath Oh, oh woe woe is me The last time that you touched me Oh, will wonders ever cease? Blessed be the mystery of love

and that's Chalamet on his shirt...

Congratulations to Mr. James Ivory!!!!

And now I feel even more sorry for your suffering...

Is it me or is he family? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNf6SolPvU

Of Course Barbra Streisand Cloned Her Dog By Madeleine Aggeler Babs and her clones. Photo: Courtesy of Variety Barbra Streisand exists on a plane beyond what other humans can possibly conceive. She is a cultural icon, a diva, a woman who built her own mall in the basement of her house, and nodded along, polite but unimpressed, while the biggest pop star of our time . So, when she told Variety that her two dogs, Miss Scarlett and Miss Violet, are clones of her beloved Coton du Tulear Samantha, who died in 2017, I was like, “Yeah, that checks out.” Before Samantha died, Streisand had cells taken from her mouth and stomach so she could be cloned, a procedure which costs about $50,000 per puppy. After the clones arrived, Streisand dressed one puppy in red and the other in purple so she could tell them apart, which is how they got their names. “They have different personalities,” Streisand told Variety. “I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have her [samantha’s] brown eyes and seriousness.” She also reportedly asked that the picture of her and her dogs be captioned “Send in the Clones.” Her third dog, Miss Fanny, is a distant cousin of Samantha’s, and probably feels left out a lot of the time, if I had to guess. Cloning animals is an expensive, and ethically questionable process, sure, but it does make sense for Streisand. I mean, how else was she going to top this?

Prison sex

@Reisr30, you're welcome...

Oh I won’t be complaining....

The stars are not wanted now; put out everyone.

Good news1 From nymag.com If you haven’t finished drying your eyes from the emotional closing scene of the Queer Eye reboot’s fourth episode, then don’t bother! Because the water works are going to start back up again when you hear the good news: the episode’s subject AJ is now engaged to his partner Andre. The couple has been officially congratulated by the Queer Eye Twitter feed. If you missed AJ’s episode, it ended with the Atlanta resident coming out to his stepmother. It starts with them weeping into each other’s arms about how much they miss his dad, with AJ then coming out to her by reading a letter he wrote to his father after his death. She touches his face. Smiles at him. Wraps him up as he sobs into her shoulder and says, “I’m always gonna be there for you.” It is simply one of the most heart-squeezing things that has happened in 2018. AJ even told his stepmom right there that he had a boyfriend, was very happy, and was even thinking about “possibly getting married.” Well, possibility has turned to party planning, with AJ and Andre bound for the altar. Start your Friday drinking early, and toast to the happy couple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_a-eXIoyYA

He is from Hunkary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEbxQzVbEU

Saoirsie Ronan in another adaptation of an Ian McEwan novel! It looks very promising... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG0GeNNNnNA

For my money, the best part of Black Panther. I’d like to buy a one-way ticket to Wakanda!

Andrew Sullivan, in an article on how to cope in these times, wrote about W.H. Auden. Lovely piece! I excerpted the part with W.H. Auden... I’m particularly drawn to W. H. Auden these days, not simply because of the transfixing wisdom and beauty of his poetry, but because of who he was, and how he led his life. I recommend two essays about him, one by Hannah Arendt in 1975 in The New Yorker and one by Edward Mendelson in The New York Review of Books. I stumbled upon both recently and am glad I did. Auden is an antidote to Trump and to our times. He despised celebrity; he ran from fame and money; he never “signaled” his many virtues to anyone; in fact, he went to great lengths to hide them from view. “Once at a party I met a woman who belonged to the same Episcopal church that Auden attended in the 1950s, St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery in New York,” Mendelson recalls. “She told me that Auden heard that an old woman in the congregation was suffering night terrors, so he took a blanket and slept in the hallway outside her apartment until she felt safe again.” He privately paid for the tuition of a succession of war orphans until his death; he made himself look like an asshole in demanding immediate payment for some work — but only so he could quietly give the money to Dorothy Day’s homeless shelter in New York. Mendelson also recalls how “I got a phone call from a Canadian burglar who told me he had come across Auden’s poems in a prison library and had begun a long correspondence in which Auden gave him an informal course in literature. Auden was especially pleased to get him started on Kafka.” It turns out that there were countless such acts of quiet generosity. He hated to grandstand. He knew the temptations of the easy political stance. He gave a public speech in the U.S. just after he arrived here in 1939 and got a rapturous response from the liberal crowd. But he wrote to a friend afterward: “I suddenly found I could really do it, that I could make a fighting demagogic speech and have the audience roaring … It is so exciting but so absolutely degrading; I felt just covered with dirt afterwards.” He took full, deep responsibility for his misjudgments born out of excessive, if well-intentioned, zeal. Arendt noted: “He turned against his early leftist beliefs because events (the Moscow trials, the Hitler-Stalin pact, and experiences during the Spanish Civil War) had proven them to be ‘dishonest’ — ‘shamefully’ so.” She goes on: “In the 1940s there were many who turned against their old beliefs, but there were very few who understood what had been wrong with those beliefs. Far from giving up their belief in history and success, they simply changed trains, as it were; the train of Socialism and Communism had been wrong, and they changed to the train of Capitalism or Freudianism or some refined Marxism, or a sophisticated mixture of all three. Auden, instead, became a Christian; that is, he left the train of History altogether.” Most important of all, he never succumbed to the belief that evil was always on the other side, that those fighting for the good weren’t also capable of great wickedness, and self-deception. He was not one of those, in Mendelson’s words, “who can say of themselves without irony, ‘I am a good person,’ who perceive great evils only in other, evil people whose motives and actions are entirely different from their own … He observed to friends how common it was to find a dedicated anti-fascist who conducted his erotic life as if he were invading Poland.” I love that line. But what he saw most potently was that victims are also capable of becoming victimizers, that the best intentions come wrapped in the crumpled tissue of human fallibility, that “I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.” He was, like Orwell, a patron saint of anti-tribalism.

Main Toby Stephens as John Robinson, the expedition commander. Molly Parker as Maureen Robinson, a fearless and brilliant aerospace engineer who makes the decision to bring her family to space for a chance at a new life on a better world. Ignacio Serricchio as Don West, a roughneck smuggling luxury goods on the side who finds in the Robinsons the family he never thought he would find. Taylor Russell as Judy Robinson, John and Maureen's eldest child. Mina Sundwall as Penny Robinson, one of the Robinson children. Maxwell Jenkins as Will Robinson, the youngest Robinson child. Parker Posey as Dr. Smith The Robot also appears in the series in a modified form.