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81 is the new "Presidential Minimum Age of 35," hahaha!

For the same reason the original screenplay of "Barbie" was moved to "Best Adaptation": To ensure a win.

Two-time Oscar Winner Tom Hanks and his filmography might disagree! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_filmography_and_performances

RDJr is also great in "Zodiac," along with fellow CC nominee Mark Ruffalo.

Dominic Sessa was so wonderful, so natural, in "The Holdovers," so important to practically all of the decisions made by (his teacher) Paul Giamatti, including THE most significant one, that he should have received his award more publicly. I missed it, but for a mention in the interview with Da'Vine.

Gold Derby predictions. I disagree with their pick of Bradley Cooper over Cillian Murphy for "Best Actor." https://www.goldderby.com/c/film/critics-choice-awards/

Brennan and Austin "shut down so fast and so completely" because they knew immediately that their brides didn't and were never going to, how shall I put this, stir their loins. The hot tub scene was painful to watch. Brennan wanted to be anywhere else. He will not touch or even smile at Emily. Apparently Austin has decided to play his part with a bit more energy, including putting his arm around Becca. But he's phony, too.

Best Supporting Actor: Realizing that the nominations must be narrowed to five, I yet think that one actor should have made the list, IDC who would then have been dropped! Given Paul Giamatti is a serious contender for "Best Actor" awards and did win a GG, IMO a major reason is the actor who shared 90% of Giamatti's screen time, and 9% of the screen without him. His character evinced that maddening, puzzling, and poignant moment of boyish immaturity on the brink of maturity, but not quite there. He accomplishes the feat, more than I think Giamatti's teacher does, at the end of having us wonder what will become of him. An actual Deerfield Academy student when chosen to play Angus Tully: Dominic Sessa. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Sessa

Re: Actresses. 1.) Michelle Yeoh, in accepting her Oscar last year, made a wisecrack about the musicians' hustling her off with music at their own risk. Somebody thought it was memorable and funny enough to repeat this year. It was neither. 2.) Da'Vine played yet another variation on "The Big Black Nurturing Female Domestic," a cinema favorite since "Gone With the Wind." But instead of working for a wealthy White family, she works for several in the kitchen of a private academy. Just as Octavia Spencer won an Academy Award for "The Help," Da'Vine will win for "The Holdovers." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammy_stereotype 3.) Lily Gladstone. Native American. Instead of one accepting the Oscar for a White man (Marlon Brando), the Academy will seize this unique opportunity to see to it that a NA woman will get to accept her own. ~~~~~~~~~~ The Academy Awards have always been about more than sheer performance.

Austin Butler won GG and BAFTA. Brendan won SAG and Critics Choice. "Elvis" had 8 Oscar nominations. "The Whale" wasn't even nominated for "Best Picture." Brendan wasn't the unanimous favorite. His Oscar win was simply the flip side of his GG loss. But his sentimental journey is over now. As for Best Actress: https://variety.com/feature/2024-oscars-best-actress-predictions-1235678121/

Lily Gladstone won the GG for Drama. She will win the Oscar. The upset last year was in Best Actor.

Re: Cillian Murphy. Never before have I read such a negative description of his stunning bone structure and complexion, never mind his eyes, nor his being referred to as some nameless "lead actor." Re: "[P]aired with and compared to 'Oppenheimer'." This was a deliberate move by Margot Robbie as producer: https://www.slashfilm.com/1463132/oppenheimer-producer-margot-robbie-movie-barbie-release/ She made a bad bet, as it turned out. Re: "Best Animated" team's absence. Attendance might have struck them as unseemly, given their acceptance message: https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-boy-and-the-heron-wins-golden-globe-for-best-motion-picture-animated-1235697769/

I guess Brendan is still miffed he lost the 2023 GG to Austin Butler.

I'm pretty sure it was a legal wedding, and that no way in Hades is any split going to be "highly publicized," at least not on the network that wants us to not stop believin'! I'm also pretty darn certain that not one person in attendance was "embarrassed" to be so. There's no crying in baseball, and there's no embarrassment in Bachelor Nation! This is REALITY TELEVISION. Publicity, commercials, interviews, articles, sequels, prequels, anniversaries, major events, and home visits are not tangential, not "milking"; they ARE the genre, the definition, the irreducible quantity. Jeopardy's Ken Jennings parlayed his wins into the esteemed hosting gig (and being a "Master Mind"), and nobody gives him grief. Athletes become TV show hosts in non-sports categories; is Jesse Palmer to be criticized? Perfumes, clothing lines, cookware, etc.---so many entertainment figures "branch out" of their niche both to make money and to stay in the public's eye with nary a peep of opprobrium. 🤫 So if in their 70s Gerry and Theresa want another grab at the brass ring of happiness and are willing to risk the slings and arrows of viewers of their Reality Show Merry-Go-Round, good for them. 🎠 🤞 Would I do it? Never! 🤪 But I also didn't change the channel. 😉

Get ready for Season 11 of "MAFS: AUS"! https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/25268172/married-at-first-sight-australia-cast/ https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/perths-chosen-singles-to-star-in-season-11-of-popular-aussie-dating-show-married-at-first-sight-revealed-c-13134953

A source for your comment: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/12/can-jews-go-to-heaven-vatican-reconfirms-yes.html Luckily for me, I'm a proverbial "lapsed Catholic"! 😉 But I am a great admirer of Pope Francis, who, by this declaration, is hoping to remove any vestiges of anti-Semitism (aka, the doctrine of "forced conversion") from the faith. But apparently the concepts of Heaven and Hell differ between Catholicism and Judaism. "I don't believe we've met. You are....? St. Peter? May I call you 'Pete'? I'm familiar with gated communities, but I kind of expected to arrive....well, nowhere, really. Or at least some place darker, given my behavior, you shouldn't ask. There's so much bright light here! I wasn't ready for....where am I, again? Heaven? Do you mean The Villages?"

Christianity is Christianity, not simply a moral code of ethics (NTTAWWT). I'd say more, but IMO there lies madness!

Not Gerry’s father. He wasn't able to be there: https://screenrant.com/the-golden-bachelor-wedding-who-is-gerry-turners-dad-not-at-wedding/ This article describes two wedding cakes. Were we shown them?

The Day After: Golden Bachelor newlyweds seen taking a romantic stroll https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12931939/Golden-Bachelor-newlyweds-Gerry-Turner-Theresa-Nist-romantic-stroll.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

Back in the day, Kathy got riled at Theresa for the latter's TMI about her early "connection" with Gerry. Turns out both women knew right away that it was so. ⚡😍 💍 Susan? Tone down the ABC hosting audition. Kathy's doing it better. 🎤 📺 Leslie? No regrets, girlfriend. You'll always have your Prince. 😉 🎸 Joey? Oh, Baby, I'll be there! (Why, he's practically my Homie, being from only two counties away!) 🥰 😄 🌹

Not quite sure what "Southern elegance" means, but I also am not quite sure what "carnival" means here, either. Re: Treesa's gown. I've opined on how the "Virginal Bride" look was completely wrong, given that the entire premise was how love could yet be found the second time around, so about the "Mermaid" style in particular: Not a good look for any actual human. An off-white "body-con" dress of "day length" would have shown Theresa's fit frame just fine.

What? No "spontaneous" Groomsmen Dance?! No Removal of the Bridal Garter?! No "cute children" cavorting?! No faces smeared with wedding cake?! No staggering Drunken Uncles?! No cringe-worthy speech by the Best Man?! Such a lack of dignity, I'm tellin' yas! Oh, not Theresa. Nope. 😉🤑

Call me Ms. Trash, because those perks sound pretty dang sweet to me! (Free trip to Italy? Yes, please!) I trust you didn't watch any weddings of the British Royal Family? 😆😆😆

I truly do not understand this comment, if you refer strictly to Theresa and Gerry. Yes, there were some nervous laughs on the bride's part, and Gerry’s vows were a bit too "Season recap," but I thought the vows part was otherwise pretty on point. Hey, at least we didn't get Stripper Couture as many modern wedding gowns resemble.

Mes amis! We are gathered here tonight to witness the marriage of Gerry (Indiana!), Widower Extraordinaire, and his Treesa, She of the Calming Hand and Head for Finance. A joint venture of Reality TV, by Reality TV, and for Reality TV. Thus, by the power invested in ABC, commercials will be shown, family will speak on camera, the Unchosen will "smile," and the Officiant will do Improv. God bless us, everyone.