Academy Awards are now not what they was once

We’re over the Oscars

Sam Mendes to direct “Empire of Light” with Olivia Colman and Colin Firth. Great. You’re advised everybody concerned with it both grabbed an Oscar or received nominated. Great. That’s the celebs, director, producer, images man, hair and make-up individual, editor, sound mixer, costumer. Great.

Bill O’Reilly’s coming e book is “Killing the Oscars.” He says the thought’s dead and the awards are dead.

This movie’s set round a 1980’s cinema on England’s south coast. Shoots in Margate and alongside the shoreline. Should be nice even when no Oscar nom. Oscars nobody cares about what occurs the twenty seventh. “Belfast” is up for seven. Then, Belfast — now, Ukraine.

Kenneth Branagh: “The necessity to tell the story is to understand the profound change of Belfast in the beginning of the lockdown. It’s really about what, in times of turmoil, can you understand and take comfort from? It starts with a sense of self and your own personal identity. The lockdown and uncertainty we felt helped produce this movie.”

Erin go Branagh.

Hitler’s course of destruction

After narcissistic demagogue Hitler burned down the Reichstag, which housed the German congress, he started his course of sedition and rebel. That particular destruction gave Hitler’s Nazi Party the excuse to take energy towards his deniers.

Thus started his course of sedition and rebel. One day after, Hitler enacted govt orders eliminating all opposition and started the cruel purge of political enemies. The subsequent month he opened Dachau, his first focus camp. “Mein Kampf” foretold that the Reichstag burning would assist frighten and divide the German individuals.

Dept. of destiny

Never2 referred to as the sharpest tack in DC’s drawer, a doddering old-timer with diminished schools, Biden’s mismanaged the economic system and can’t win one other election. Putin is evil however not silly. If Putin bluffed this invasion of Ukraine to make Biden look ridiculous, it labored . . . AND now defensive armor has made its solution to the runway. Military headgear, initially worn by Seventeenth-century troopers, shot onto the catwalk. Protective breastplates and shields hit Paris trend week through Balmain. Some is from Aspetto, Abbas Haider’s 007-style first bullet-resistant clothes line, which is speaking with the Department of State to supply real-time protecting gear — armor, plate carriers, ballistic goggles, shields, medical kits.

Showing face

BEING defensive is changing into at this time’s present place. Cuomo and Christie lunching collectively at Fresco by Scotto was reported earlier than their dessert. Cuomo’s been organizing meals for himself plus additionally first sniffing round to see who will come alongside — like Eric Adams — which was not a heavy elevate as a result of this mayor pants for publicity.

To redeem his picture, Cuomo’s new advert marketing campaign wants him to be seen out and about. Frequenting solely pleasant eating places, he’s now identified to rearrange a heat welcome with some not-so-random well-placed supporters who simply occur to be there on the exact time to greet him. Trust Mother, further sightings may be deliberate.

Last week on the Garden City Hotel Andrew Giuliani pitched for the Republican nom for governor. With him was Curtis Sliwa and daddy Rudy. As anticipated, Zeldin received the nod. Taking their shot was Westchester County’s Astorino and late-entry millionaire Wilson. The main’s in June.

LOCKED house over the pandemic a newly unemployed couple abruptly discovered variations of their marriage. They confronted divorce. The drawback? She worshipped cash and he didn’t have a dime.

Only in New York, children, solely in New York.