The last eight minutes of Adrien Brody's speech are available online at www.iwontbeegregious.com
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Second only to the rapid growth of my children, the recurrent event that makes me most aware of the passage of time is the In Memoriam tribute montage at the Academy Awards.
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Mick Jagger, at 81, looks like an extremely energetic Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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Sean Baker is the Bon Iver of film
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Why the Bond montage now, with no new film on the horizon?--did Amazon just go ahead and buy the Oscars?
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Significant majority of Oscar winners so far are not American--so Trump is signing an executive order to deport them.
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Tautological update on new columnist from the "Times" today: "More columns will appear as they are published."
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Deepseek AI's journey: last week nobody had heard of it; yesterday it destroyed Wall Street; today it's probably editing this post without my knowledge.
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Reliably, when TV characters enter a troubled area--a bombed-out part of the city; a rebel-held strip; a gangland wasteland--one rubble fire lights each block of the danger zone. Art-directed chaos.
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RIP Lance Morrow, a great TIME writer of his day. His brief, pungent 1986 tribute to George Wallace captured an era. It closed with the notoriously racist leader receiving an honorary degree before a largely Black audience: "Wounded, in his wheelchair, subdued and sweet, he blew them kisses."
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Nothing like the heart-pounding excitement of feeding the first morsel into a new algorithm.
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