Since #MississippiBurning is trending, I'll take the opportunity to remind people that not only Hackman and Dafoe nailed their roles, but Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif and the late Badja Djola hit it out of the park.
If you couldn't hear a pin drop during that razor blade scene in the photo, you didn't pay attention to the film.
What is it with Brad Dourif that the Academy keeps getting wrong. He's one of the most underrated actors there are and his role in Cuckoo's Nest was one of the best there was, EVER.
there is*
Did you read how he studied for that role. He put his soul into it and lost to George Burns in The Sunshine Boys?! Pleasant enough film but really?!
Small Oscar rant you didn't ask for
- A. Huston gives her Prizzi's Honor Oscar to Oprah for Color Purple
- K Bates gives A. Huston her Misery Oscar for The Grifters
- Kathy Bates gets the Oscar for Dolores Claiborne, instead
- Paul Newman gets The Verdict Oscar
Sorry, I did think Paul Newman's performance in The Verdict blew Gandhi's out of the water.
Also, I think Denzel Washington was better in Hurricane than Training Day and Sissy Spacek was better than Halle Berry.
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The Republican Party is so corrupt that they openly destroyed Liz Cheney, a member of their own team, for the cardinal sin of not helping them to cover their crimes. Why would they expect their constituents to follow laws when they can't even do it 🙄
Kevin McCarthy openly threatened corporations who cooperate w/ 1/6 Comm. They're all liked the idea of Vindman getting booted for telling the truth after serving his country for how long? No revelation, here, but this party is doomed,
Just a reminder that Lindsey Graham (R-Kiev) tried to get a state election official (not even his state) to throw out valid votes in an effort to keep a criminal in office.
I don't know what he's blackmailed with and I don't care, anymore. I just want him to be held accountable
NOBODY and I mean NOBODY gets to use their influence to tamper with the America election so that the outcome accommodates their candidate
I do not care what the Kompromat is. Keep your hands off my vote, Lindsey
It's okay, Clarence. We know you don't want to leave, even with your wife literally trying to steal our votes. It's okay that Ginni leaned on state election officials and wrote texts offering support to criminals. We'll just leave you be.
Not.
Clarence Thomas was the lone no vote against turning over the correspondence that implicated his OWN WIFE. Clarence says he's not recusing himself on any election rulings. Is Clarence day drinking? Get him out.
Clarence Thomas stumped for the very WEIRD Herschel Walker. Justices don't pose with GOP candidates unless they think laws don't apply to them. Just because his wife is a criminal, doesn't give him a pass to openly flip us off.
At the end of his term, I'd like to see Joe Biden have someone pack up 15 boxes of "such Classified Intel that it can't be discussed in an open setting", bring it into his home, invite the Democrats over to party, then say he "had the right to do it."
It works for the GOP!
Who do you guys think knew what intel to pack for him?
Navarro?
Kushner?
Did Ivanka stop servicing him long enough to pack it? Nah