The one truly generous, daughter-of-an-icon memoir is by Maria Riva, Marlene Dietrich’s daughter. (Which, now that I think about it, is more a biography Dietrich than a memoir of Riva. But I digress)

Ha!

She could have gotten the same damn picture by standing up.

It’s like they flipped through a look book and said, “Give him The Harry Potter”

*except when it begins with being cornered by your drunken manager in the hallway of a DoubleTree.

She could have gotten the same damn picture by standing up.

I respectfully disagree. I loved that moment. He didn’t just grab it. He snatched that shit and in doing so took control of chaos. Bravo, La La Producer dude.

And I just saw a screenshot of the accountant David Oyelowo was probably referring to. Dude definitely looks like he could be Matt Damon’s dad.

Beatty didn’t announce La La Land; Dunaway did.

I know. I totally did not think this was a prank. Just too shitty and cruel; even for Jimmy Kimmel.

The report you saw is right. I saw video of Emma Stone talking to the press pool about how she had the Best Actress card with her.

I feel bad for him, too. They have got to stop trotting out elderly actors for this stuff. Beatty really did not know what to do in that moment when he realized he had been handed the wrong envelop and Dunaway - who thought Beatty was just vamping - didn’t look all that closely at the card.

And the card said “Emma Stone - La La Land”. Beatty realized it was the wrong card and looked for another card in the envelope. He didn’t know what to do and Dunaway just thought he was vamping. So he handed the card to her and she just said the name of the picture - either not noticing or caring about the Emma…

I rewatched the moment when Beatty announced the winner. The envelope wasn’t sealed. It was already open. This, to me, points away from it being a prank. Somehow the envelop for Best Actress got handed to Beatty before he walked out.

Kimmel is known for shitbird pranks, but I don’t think this is one. At least I hope not because to do that to the La La Land folks (who REALLY did not look like they were in on any kind of joke) and make Warren Beatty look like a senile ass would be massively shitty.

I might believe that Indianans were about to vote Pence out if they didn’t turn around and elect his Lieutenant Governor as Governor. That doesn’t seem like much of a rebuke.

I think perhaps we’re not on the same page. I’m agreeing with you. It makes me happy that the movie gives you (and me) hope because that certainly wasn’t the intention of the execrable John Milius. The comeuppance I referred to is on him.

Reading that the original Red Dawn movie is giving you hope in Trump’s America makes me smile. It’s a kind of karmic justice as the writer/director of it is, by his own admission, an ultra-right-wing lunatic.

I definitely did and I envied that she found her tribe so quickly at the end.

Nirvana’s cultural importance cannot be overstated. I was a fat, friendless, quirky 10 year old who couldn’t see anything in pop culture - which at that time and in my place was still L.A. glam metal or pretty teen pop - that reflected who I was or what I might become.