I think it’s oversensitivity. I just looked at his his early work and he did seem doomed to play jerk best friend of romantic hero in a sitcom or movie until Silver Linings Playbook came along and I think he knows that.

What must it be like, every time Falcone and McCarthy are in the same room with network suits? Does it just go awkwardly unsaid, for fear of hurting McCarthy’s feelings? Or does no one give a shit?

The way I read it, which could be completely wrong, is that she gave him a compliment about getting nominated. Instead of just saying “thank you”, he got mad that she didn’t offer more praise and started focusing on the term “the nom” as if it was offensive. At this point, I assume hero female actress rolls her eyes…

She needs to stop going along with her idiot husbands ideas because she loves him. He’s a talentless hack and only she can’t see it. If you take everything bad she’s been in and everything good she’s made, there is a VERY strong idiot husband correlation.

I don’t dislike Falcone—and I’m glad he at least turns in a good performance here—but I can't help feeling he’s been dragging down his wife’s career for years.

McCarthy and Falcone?

See also, Ben Falcone.

I’m starting to get the impression Netflix doesn’t know what it’s doing.

It is written that it occurred “shortly after the [A Star Is Born] nomination.”

That’s definetely the thing that bugs me the most about Cooper. I get that it was his first big acting role. He had just come off of a critically lauded Elephant Man on broadway, and he gets a lead role in a Clint Eastwood film, so he was over the moon, and he tried to recharacterize Chris Kyle as a character morally…

You know when you’re getting a lecture from Will Arnett about personal reponsibility, it may be time for self-reflection.

That sound? It’s every Black actress rolling her eyes. Is there a creature any more frail than a rich white boy? Especially one where everybody but TWO people routinely kiss his ass? 

Aw man, now I’m imagining that all of Bradley Cooper’s negative interactions in Hollywood were with Laura Dern. It would just be delightful.

I wonder how many other male actors are going to get on the “She did it! She fucked it all up for me!” train that Depp just blew out of the station in.

Honestly, Cooper comes off as the dick in this story, thinking that Oscar noms means he’s somehow entitled to respect from his peers. Fuck that noise.  He may have more noms, but Pfeiffer (if she was the actress in question) is a freakin’ legend, and will be remember long after Cooper’s moment has passed.  

Sounds like he’s massively oversensitive, has no sense of humor, or both. 

Nice work! And if someone says that to you, and you’re standing next to Michelle freakin’ Pfeiffer, I don’t think that’s anything to get offended about.

So here’s my theory on the identities.  It’s a little unclear if the unnamed actress has won any of the three she’s been nommed for. But if we assume she hasn’t won, and if we eliminate those who are deceased, we are left with the following possibles

Joan Allen
Diane Ladd
Angela Landsbury
Piper Laurie
Laura Linney
Michelle…

Come now, if we started being mildly suspicious of every man who just happened to be arrested for serious violent sexual assault, while coincidentally awaiting trial on a DIFFERENT allegation of serious violent sexual assault, having unrelatedly been also accused of sexual assault by three OTHER different women, where…

I’m not at all saying it’s an invalidation of the themes of Brokeback Mountain. I’m saying that the voting body of the Academy would rather ignore that theme altogether for a ham-fisted dumpster fire like Crash because, at least at the time, they were not fully on board with a queer story being their pick for Best…