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Pic of the Day: “The wind rises, electric. She’s soft and warm and almost weightless. Her perfume is a sweet promise that brings tears to my eyes. I tell her that everything will be all right. That I’ll save her from whatever she’s scared of and take her far, far away. I tell her I love her. The silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot. I hold her close until she’s gone. I’ll never know what she was running from. I’ll cash her check in the morning.” (20th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “What if I told you I’ve got a plan worked out to get it all? I’d tell them that I could fence the stuff myself, you see, promise them cash on delivery. Then when the time comes, I simply wouldn’t have the cash, you understand? I’d tell them it’d take a few more days to raise it. I’m certain I could get them to leave the stuff with me while they’re waiting.” “Go on.” “Then I’d disappear. I’d take a plane to another country, to another life. The gold and platinum I could melt up and sell as bullion. And the rocks, sell them one a time. Be no hurry, it’d last a lifetime.” (75th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: “At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you… everything’s going to go south and you’re going to say, this is it; ‘This is how I end’. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem… and you solve the next one… and then the next. And If you solve enough problems, you get to come home.” (10th Anniversary)
97th Academy Awards Recap
Another one down.
This was an interesting year because in the end, there was a consensus, even if it didn’t feel (to me) like there necessarily was one throughout the process. But they got there.
Also another year absent any major surprises. The biggest surprise was, “Oh, so they went all in on Anora.”
Otherwise — not a whole lot of note for me about the awards or the show. Felt like it went crazy long again, even with the earlier time slot. Conan did exactly what Conan does. They went for a more classical ‘movies are magic’ feel. Definitely doesn’t feel as innovative as last year’s ceremony, though they did a few things that felt like they were trying to be innovative (having one presenter talk about all the nominees — though notice they distinctly didn’t do that for the lead acting categories — or having the filmmakers discuss aspects of the film during the video packages).
Mostly this is just a ho hum kind of ceremony to cap a ho hum kind of year. Read the rest of this page »
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