Itâs been a rough week for conservatives, Republicans and all Americans.
The torture started Sunday evening with the Academy Awards ceremony, which sounded like it was produced by the AOC/Stacey Abrams wing of the Democrat Party.
I say âsounded,â because I didnât actually waste three hours of my life watching Hollywood millionaires patting themselves on their backs for their awesome talents and even more awesome woke politics.
As Iâve done in past years, I waited for the media highlight reels to find out who won what and which stars made the biggest fools of themselves.
Apparently, I wasnât the only one to skip the latest episode of âOscars Death Spiral.â
EDITORIAL | Over and over our artists do us proud. They deserve true support South Africans must use their voices to ensure authorities invest in our artists, whether established or still unknown 29 April 2021 - 21:19
It feels like a long time since a week has started and ended with positive news, but that’s what happened this week and it’s thanks to South African artists.
It started on Monday when My Octopus Teacher won Best Documentary at the Oscars, with the brilliantly captured relationship between a man and an eight-tentacled mollusc capturing the hearts and minds of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the thousands who watched it. Approved critics on ratings website Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 100% score, and more than 500 users rated it at 93%, a testament to the doccie’s feel-good nature. ..
We all want to believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and Bernie Madoff, said Jordan Belfort, the real-life Wolf of Wall Street, last month.
He was speaking to the New York Times for a piece about the current renewed hysteria for the kind of dodgy unscrupulous speculative penny stock trading that launched Belfort s career.
The Times revealed there were 1.9 trillion transactions last month on the over-the-counter markets where such stocks trade, according to the industry regulator Finra – up by over 2,000 per cent from a year ago.
This has been partly driven by the general frenzy for get-rich-quick fads like Bitcoin, SPACs, meme stocks such as GameStop and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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Roman Polanski has announced his first film to be put into production since the director was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) in 2018.
According to Variety, Polanski has secured backing from Italian media giant Rai Cinema for The Palace, a drama Polanski has co-written with fellow Polish film-maker Jerzy Skolimowski. Rai Cinema’s CEO Paolo Del Brocco said that The Palace is set on New Year’s Eve in 1999, and is about “a big hotel immersed in the Swiss Alps where the lives of the guests and those who work for them intersect”.