Oscars: Ugly gowns, old faces, and bad behavior
Posted By: PageTurner, 3/28/2022 10:05:10 AM
Remember Cary Grant? Spencer Tracy? Fred Astaire? Clark Gable? Gene Tierney? Grace Kelly? Olivia de Havilland? Audrey Hepburn? Hollywood and its Academy Awards ceremonies were once was amazingly elegant. Now, with the Oscars showing us Will Smith walking up on stage to punch announcer Chris Rock for making fun of his wife's bald head, they've become kind of wretched. The Oscars this year showed just how far the movie idols and their Hollywood juggernaut have fallen. It wasn't just a matter of toddler manners on display, although that certainly was prominent this year. There actually was a lot of ugliness.
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"I don’t know who has it," said [FBI Assistant Director for the Cyber Division Bryan] Vorndran.
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"Yes, sir. That's an accurate statement," Vorndran responded.
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Remember Cary Grant? Spencer Tracy? Fred Astaire? Clark Gable? Gene Tierney? Grace Kelly? Olivia de Havilland? Audrey Hepburn?
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Sean Penn is having a tantrum.
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He's going to hold his breath now, or well...
According to the Washington Post:
American filmmaker Sean Penn called for a boycott of the Oscars ceremony on Sunday if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t on the program, saying he would smelt his own awards in public if that turns out to be the case.
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Some things don't make sense.
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According to the Post Millennial:
"Who has it?" Gaetz asked.
"I don’t know who has it," said [FBI Assistant Director for the Cyber Division Bryan] Vorndran.
"What now you're telling me right here is that as the Assistant Director of FBI Cyber, you don't know where this is, after it was turned over to you three years ago?" Gaetz said.
"Yes, sir. That's an accurate statement," Vorndran responded.
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Fox News contributor Miranda Devine reacted on “Outnumbered” Tuesday to the federal tax probe into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings gaining momentum as some media outlets begin to acknowledge the “bombshell” controversy surrounding his infamous laptop.
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