Frances McDormand, Fargo
Diane Keaton, Marvin's Room (play by John Guare)
Kristin Scott Thomas, The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves (the early peak of Lars von Trier)
Brenda Blethyn, Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh) [edit, thanks]

Rep. Bob Goodlatte is high in the House leadership. Read a letter in the Lynchburg News & Advance about him getting off a 70 mph speeding ticket in a school zone. http://www.newsadvance.com/… He runs the Judiciary Committee.

It's hard to compare 1964 with 2018 in these matters. The situation of the parties and the movements behind them are reversed. In fact I hope the Republicans are further along now in a cycle of revolution than the Democrats were at that time. Because if the R's are not in their 1970s-80s Democratic malaise and…

The car didn't randomly stop in a place with no cell coverage and Nikki behind it. People are guessing some kind of garage door opener hooked up to a kill switch kind of thing.

Was glad to see her on family-friendly Up channel's new series Date My Dad. And then to see her, um, confusing profile picture on IMDB. Here's the slightly cleaner version, with Ringo Starr from 1969: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

Or the who is the voters in the next election.

Books that refuse to take a stand and instead revel in the chaos, the inability to really know, and throw at us characters that take advantage of that situation… yes, it's annoying and often seems like a cop-out by the author. The reviewer has a completely legitimate point and it's dispiriting to see so many people…

Trump voters.

These cars can run on coal.

I linked to today's top investigative piece by the WP elsewhere. The part of Trump's business this "ooh, party planner" scandal is really all about was inherited from his father and turns a tidy profit, with federal subsidies.

(Inherited business from Fred of course.)

That regional HUD office manages several billion dollars. Today the WP is blasting the front page with a big picture of a semi-public high-rise* that Trump Co. makes millions off in Brooklyn. How's this headline grab gently brush you? Trump seeks sharp cuts to housing aid, except for program that brings him millions,…

Lots of people rank Dan Hedaya's Nixon right up there with the top portrayals. Even though it's a comedic take, it was in the shadow of Anthony Hopkins's over-hyped ponderous performance a few years earlier, in an Oliver Stone biopic to boot. So Hedaya was bit of a relief!

Can some Star Wars or Arrested Development fan explain why the South Carolina race today was closer than the Georgia race?

I only saw the one where Mr. Einstein really wants that Nobel prize, and charlatans are starting to take over German science. I kept wondering how much was fictionalized, it seemed so crazy. (In case anyone's wondering, we're talking about this because NatGeo Channel is now majority owned by Fox.)

Journalists of course thought Trump was ridiculous, on the whole, but
that did not stop the business from looking for a profit. Or stop the
journalists themselves (and pretend journalists) from looking for sensationalism. It's not exactly a financially secure job these days, aside from the few TV megastars and very…

* (Basically news likes the same stuff as SNL. A book length comparison could be written on that, the weaknesses and the strengths of the whole mountainous machine.)

I'll pipe up since you ask. The media has a bias towards action, nationalism, scandals, sentimentality, sob stories, outrage, portraying itself as selfless, and a bunch more - I am not an expert - but it's entirely obvious what they like.* As for why they do it, short-term ratings mainly. But that's not the whole…

Yeah, it does beat Mo Rocca on CBS Sunday Morning for sheer poignancy.

What did they change? "Oh come on!" is the best line in the movie. Or the worst?