Oscars Weekend!

I know you all are sick of me saying this, but being a former aspiring screenwriter, there are only 2 things I'm snobby about - film and architecture. Because as I've said, if you have enough money to do either, do it write - don't be throwing up crap in our faces and assaulting our senses and our intelligence.

Thus, the Oscars are a big deal to me.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine that I was going to be the first female director to win an Oscar and it would be for the big screen adaptation for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. 😂

Well, that of course didn't happen for me, but it did for others, and I'm glad it finally did. 

However, I have much to do for school before then, playing catch-up after tech issues sidelined me - hoping I get it all done - and we do have a bit of a Spring break next week  with school.

I still haven't seen One Battle After Another, which some believe will win, which I hope to watch on break tonight - I don't have much to say yet!

Except this - Sinners blew me away, we haven't seen anything like this, from an artistic perspective. And here was I, initially going "Ho hum, yet another vampire film."

Not so fast - this had societal satirical bite about vulnerable groups and power abuse getting flipped on it's head, too, with clever dialogue, emotionally memorable performances by cast - then tack on the cultural quilt fusion of music past and present, the dance scene where spirits of the dead from each culture return to dance with the living - brilliant.

But then on that last note, so does One Battle, I'm told. 

And I do love filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (FYI, he is comedian/actress Maya Rudolph's husband).

But it's just ... Leonardo Dicaprio ... bothers me. 

When I first saw him in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, I was blown away by his acting skills and what he could do.

However, over time, we've realized that it's only in "hunchback" roles, as they're called, that he excels - very OTT flawed or even disabled people.  

Or overprivileged douchebags like The Great Gatsby and Wolf of Wall Street. 

He can't play a husband or a father, no - because he has no idea what that's like and doesn't have the emotional depth to even imagine what that's like.

Even in Titanic, he appeared to me more like a whiny little girl rather than a sacrificial love-stricken man.

And then he only dates models under 25 still, despite being in his 40s, and openly makes fun of other people at awards shows, and that just turns me off, no matter how good his acting is.

There's a reason the academy ignored him no matter what he did for years, after all. 😂

Speaking of arrogant, overprivileged brats - what about Timothee Chalamet, this past week, saying no one cares about ballet and Opera?

Okay, listen, ya little sh*t ... 😂

You are standing in the shoulders of giants - there would BE no movies without the opera and the ballet - who are YOU to criticize somebody else's type of art performance?

Even if you don't personally like them, they were the original "movies" people went to see -  show some respect?

And your mom and sister danced for the NYC ballet!

Those people's daily lives are nothing but practice and drills, until they're exhausted or injure something.

What do you do, exactly?

Took a few acting classes in your overprivileged arts school, wrote some Instagram posts about your fabulous party life with Kylie Jenner all night, that's what. 

You've got the world by the tail (for the moment) and think you have the right to ignore centuries of performance before you by saying they don't matter anymore?

Boy, Bye! 😂

But the Seattle Opera got the last laugh - giving you a 30% discount if you used the code TIMOTHEE to buy your tickets! 😂

Yes, "gentlemen" - and I use that term loosely - that's exactly what we need in society, right now - more arrogant, overprivileged, pretty-boy white males who have no idea of what it's like to live in the real world, dissing everybody else as if they're beneath them.

Sarcasm. 😂

Two peas in a pod, those two - they have just enough real-world experience to know better than to be racist or pollute the environment, but don't ask them to really know or care about anything else.

I can give Timothee somewhat of a pass because he's so young, but Leo is 51 now - grow up, dude.

Why can't you two be more like Ryan Gosling?

Who, by the way, is killing it in his new film "Project Hail Mary"= critics LOVE it.

AND he invited local teachers to fill Jimmy Fallon's audience (because he plays a teacher that goes into space and befriends and alien).

AND he also surprised his beautiful wife of 15 years, Eva Mendes - who hilariously was not prepared, in jeans, a t-shirt, and a mom cardigan with basic makeup -  by bringing her out for a surprise "Happy Birthday" performance by her alma mater high school marching band!

For the record, this is how Eva looks when she's dressed up ... she's absolutely stunning. 

She also put her just blossoming career on hold to raise their 2 girls. 

You will hardly ever see them together at awards shows, etc., because they like to keep their relationship and family matters separate and private as none of our business - unless the paparazzi catches a glimpse of them ... 

But he does tell us funny stories about his 2 girls, he always has a funny story about them, as a proud, involved dad.

NOT how he whisked off to this party or that one internationally with this model or that one! (*yawn* ... unrelatable ... BORING!)

And THAT is how you behave as a talented, pretty boy, privileged actor, boys - learn from the real men!

You realize how lucky you are and show gratitude for it - you appreciate the people who have made it possible to do what you do - NOT throw shade on them for being less "important" than you!

Any young men reading, it's that kind of stuff that actually drives the ladies wild -  the right ones with substance anyway - not only are you ruggedly handsome, multitalented, and intelligent - you also have an dry, self-deprecating sense of humor and a good heart/humility. Sign us up!  🩷 

But I digress - I will watch One Battle because it's a Paul Thomas Anderson film and its subject matter - whilst being openly biased towards Sinners. 😂

Let's see if One Battle can top it,  in my mind (I'll let you know). 😂