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February 28, 2005

Oscar Recap

Dave From Garfield Ridge watched more of the Oscars than I did (or at least he's willing to admit watching more), and he runs down his observations.

More interesting to me are his and his friend's quite-understandable feelings about Kate Winslet.

And he also finds fault with the Chris Rock's and Frank Pearson's empty stock-phrases of "support" for our troops:

It was nice to hear him praise the troops, but I must take issue with the generic "pray for the swift and safe return of our soldiers" line. Not because it's incorrect; everyone (well, *almost* everyone) can agree with it. It's just that it's an incomplete sentiment that reveals how low our definition of patriotism has sunk.
How come you never hear anyone in Hollywood, or anywhere in non-political public life, ever pray for the swift, safe, AND victorious return of our troops? Would such sentiment in favor of actually winning be too jingo for the crowd, too full of insensitive, ignorant bloodlust?

I can only imagine Gary Cooper at the 1941 Academy Awards praising "the troops," but never mentioning the hope that before they return home they might grab a few Nazi and Jap scalps on the way back.

I'm not sure when rooting for an American victory in a time of war became an obscenely controversial position, but apparently it now is.

Looks Like a "Linky" Kinda Day Update: I'm tired, burned out, and I have nothing much to say myself.

Plus, I'm finishing up the Haiku awards. So pardon me if I can only manage some linking today without much original content.

1. Lloyd Bridges in Hot Shots

2. The secretary at Boyd Aviation and Fletch (Chevy Chase), Fletch

3. Tom Cody (Michael Pare), Streets of Fire

4. Freddy/Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), Reservoir Dogs

5. Jack T. Colton (Michael Douglas), Romancing the Stone

6. Joana Stayton/"Annie" (Goldie Hawn) and Dean Proffitt (Kurt Russell), Overboard

7. Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Full Metal Jacket

8. ... (Roddy Piper), They Live

9. Mexican girl and ... (Chevy Chase), Three Amigos!

10. Veronica's Dad, Heathers

11. "The Electrician" (John Ratzenberger), House II: The Second Story

12. (Rodney Dangerfield), Back To School

13. Beetlejuice (Micheal Keaton), Beetlejuice

14. Lane (John Cusack), Better Off Dead

15. Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) and Jack Burton (Kurt Russell), Big Trouble In Little China

16. Papagallo, The Road Warrior

17. Chevy Chase, Spies Like Us

18. Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Blade Runner

19. Principle Vernon (John Gleason), The Breakfast Club

20. Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey), Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls

21. Ash (Bruce Campbell), Army of Darkness

22. Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler), Happy Gilmore

23. Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Cruel Intentions

24. Drunken Brother at Wedding (Steve Buscemi), The Wdding Singer

25. "Duckie" (Jon Cryer), Pretty in Pink

26. Carrie's Mom (Piper Laurie), Carrie

27. Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance), Halloween

28. Domino (Rachel Ward) and Sharky (Burt Reynolds), Sharky's Machine

29. Jack Burton (Kurt Russell), Big Trouble in Little China

30. Alison (Daphne Zuniga) and Gib (John Cusack), The Sure Thing

31. R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell), The Thing

32. Leopold (Hugh Jackman), Kate & Leopold

33. General Jack T. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, Dr. Strangelove

34. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas (Charles Grodin), Midnight Run

35. The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Pawn Shop Clerk, The Terminator

36. The Stranger (Clint Eastwood), High Plains Drifter

37. Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman), Crimson Tide

38. Freddy Benson (Steve Martin), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

39. Uncle Martin (Charles Grodin) and Clifford (Martin Short), Clifford

40. Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr (Steve Martin), The Man With Two Brains

posted by Ace at 04:28 PM

Comments

Where are these Kate Winslet comments you speak of?

Posted by: CraigC on February 28, 2005 05:33 PM

Mucho gracias, Senor of Spades.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on February 28, 2005 08:39 PM

Here you go (Sorry, don't know how to do the linky-linky thing):

http://garfieldridge.blogspot.com/2005/02/overheard-sunday-night.html

Posted by: Brad on February 28, 2005 10:31 PM

Posted by: on June 6, 2005 10:05 PM

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Days before the woman was stabbed in the neck by a taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer, in the same general area, another taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer attacked a boy and bloodied his head with a brick.
What is the UK Regime's plan for protecting the citizens from the savage criminals they've foisted on the populace? They offer NONE. They do, however, have a plan for protecting the savage criminals from the citizens: The citizens must STAY CALM and not get angry and not share videos of citizens being attacked by savage criminals.
The public keeps saying "protect us from the foreign savages you have imported against our wishes and over our objections" and the UK branch of The Regime keeps proposing plans to protect the foreign savages from the public. Soclose to what the public is demanding, just, you know, the complete opposite.
Just a thought: Maybe you wouldn't have to worry about the public attacking the savage criminals if you actually introduced a plan to protect the public from the savage criminals. Maybe they wouldn't feel as if it was necessary for them to protect the public through self-help.

Courtney Subramiam, one of the "journalists" who "previewed" her questions for the decrepit and demented Biden so that he could "answer" it with a pre-scripted response, rewarded by promotion to president of the White House Press Corps

Bonchie
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hahahahaha

This is the lady who gave her question to Biden beforehand, and he had it written verbatim in his notes with her picture.

You know what's really terrible? There are Daily Signal reporters in the press room. That's the Real Scandal Here!

English racist garbage-person who's on the wrong side of history warns the corrupt Regime that the people cannot take much more of this -- and won't take much more of this
The English have rebelled before.

All of the various Bob Dylans
by Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

TJM gets lost in the worlds of David Lynch

You might think that movie critics by nature are effeminate and bitchy, but, did you know that grass is green and red peppers are red?

"We have black ghetto fatigue"

Odd 90s-Retro Susan Collins ad against the Nazi Hotchkiss "hobby farmer"
I like the throwback AOL style of the ad.

Podcast: Sefton and CBD bounce around from Maine and its pet Nazi, to the cracks in the Democrat messaging, to the failure of California and its effect on the 2028 election, sea drones rescuing Apache crews, and more!

Seattle mayor shrugs off millionaire-tax concerns as 44% of business leaders consider leaving
It happens in all the blue states, but WA and Seattle will be different! [CBD]

TJM definitively ranks the films of Alexander Mackendrick

VOTE JEFF CARTER FOR NV STATE TREASURER!
[CBD]

Mary Margaret Olohan
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NEW: Five FBI employees were fired today over the infamous Richmond Catholic memo on "radical traditionalist Catholics," FBI source confirms to @realDailyWire.

Oof. Reviewers do not like Scary Movie 6. The criticism I keep hearing is that the movie mistakes a reference for an actual joke. The movie (they say) keeps Key Jangling a reference to another movie (or some other pop culture ephemera) and you expect there to be a joke but nope, the Key Jangle was the joke. Other reviewers say that the promise that "no lines will be uncrossed" is a fake-out, and that the movie is bland and inoffensively corporate.

TJM introduces you to the movies of Alexander Mackendrick

Whoops! I posted about Dan Goldman losing the NY congressional primary. He might do that, but it won't be tonight -- the primary isn't held until June 23.

One race to keep an eye on: the Levi's heir nepo baby and egregious "Designated Liar" Dan Goldman -- one of the Democrats from a safe district Democrats send out to spread their most indefensible lies -- may actually lose his lower Manhattan/Brooklyn set due to, get this, antisemitism in the Democrat primary electorate.
Antisemitism? In the anti-Nazi Democrat Party? Sounds crazy, I know, but apparently the anti-Nazi Party wants to eliminate Jews.

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Oh my Totenkopf Tattoo, that is a DRUBBING!
I'm usually very anti-antisemitism but if the Communist Antisemite Jihadists can pull this one off, Go Communist Antisemite Jihadists, Go!

Democrat Senator Rueben Gallego, who served his wife with divorce papers when she was nine months pregnant so that he could marry his side-piece, counsels us that we should not judge Graham Platner for his infidelity because these things are personal matters, Racists:

Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on Platner: "We know that Graham has lived not your typical political experience. He's been very clear and open with his wife, and they worked through whatever they worked through. At the end of the day, this man has had 60 more town halls than Susan Collins has. He's winning the polls, he's willing to accept that he has grown as a person, and I think we should accept that."

Gallego says the drip-drip of revelations won't harm Platner's campaign.

"I think you guys are all in a bubble here right now. The drip, drip that's actually happening is Americans are really, really hurt the fact that gas is still high, food is still high, they can't buy a home, you can't afford rent. They're not going to care about text messages and everything else like that that happened years ago, especially when it was worked out between spouses."

I like that he says that it's okay that Graham Platner sexted 12 different women within months of marrying the woman to sponge off her because he wasn't then "living a political life" -- the clear meaning being, "We all cheat, we just don't cheat when we're running for office, and he didn't know he was running for office when he was sending dicpics to half the women he ran into."
Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign.
And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life:

Podcast: CBD goes solo in a short segment...talking about Iran, the nativist issues surrounding Reform and Restore in the UK, and the delicious pain of an imploding Democrat Party, courtesy of Talerico and Platner!

TJM ranks all of John Ford's films. All of them. TJM is very tired.