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What Really Happened at Waco, Texas? Thirty Years Later, An Avoidable Tragedy Has Spawned a Politically Ascendant Mythology.

— By Rachel Monroe | April 12, 2023 | Letter From The Southwest

The Branch Davidians appeared to see a kinship between their struggle and those of other victims of state violence. In the decades since, the people who have got the most mileage out of the tragedy have told a narrower story. Photograph by Susan Weems/AP

The federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound, thirty years ago, was flawed from the start. The Branch Davidians were a fringe offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and, in the early nineties, they were led by David Koresh, a charismatic long-haired man who believed that the end of days was imminent. The Davidians lived on a compound called Mount Carmel, twenty miles northeast of Waco, and were well known to local law enforcement, who considered them relatively benign.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms suspected the Davidians of illegally converting semi-automatic rifles into fully automatic weapons. (The weapons allegations seemed to inspire more reason for action than reports that Koresh was sexually assaulting his followers’ underage daughters.) During the ensuing investigation, A.T.F. agents repeatedly overestimated their capacity for subterfuge. When a group of undercover agents posing as college students moved into a house across the street from the Branch Davidian compound, their rental cars gave them away. The agents hosted a party to deflect suspicion, but it had the opposite effect: “Some of the Branch Davidians showed up, mingled, and reported back to Koresh that these were federal agents for sure,” Jeff Guinn writes, in the recently published “Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage.” Another agent, Robert Rodriguez, posed as a potential follower to gain access to the group. Koresh quickly pegged him as a Fed but kept inviting him to Bible study anyway; after all, as he reminded his followers, Jesus had preached to a Roman centurion.

The day before the Sunday-morning raid, Treasury Department officials in Washington attempted to call it off, concerned that it relied on unnecessary force. Why couldn’t Koresh be arrested when he was away from the compound? But a plan, once in motion, has a certain momentum, and the A.T.F., which had a congressional budget hearing approaching, was in need of a splashy, successful operation. One A.T.F. agent was so confident that the mission would be over in a few hours that he booked tee time in Houston for Sunday afternoon.

The Texas and the ATF flags fly at half staff April 23, 1993, over the only structure left standing after a fire destroyed the the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas on April 19. J. David Ake | AFP via Getty Images

On the morning of February 28, 1993, Rodriguez, still ostensibly undercover, listened as Koresh was tipped off that a raid was imminent. Rodriguez rushed to report the news to his superiors, sure that they would abort the mission, since the plans relied on maintaining the element of surprise. Instead, the raid proceeded, disastrously. Agents swarmed the compound and were met with heavy gunfire. When the battle ended, a few hours later, four federal agents and six Branch Davidians were dead, and many more wounded on both sides.

The fifty-one-day siege that followed deteriorated into the most dangerous kind of conflict, one in which both sides felt as though they were backed into a corner. This was much more true for the Branch Davidians, of course, who were barricaded in a compound with plenty of canned food and bullets but a dwindling water supply. But the federal agents surrounding them also felt a sense of desperation. The raid, intended as a show of A.T.F. competence, had instead devolved into a prolonged spectacle of defeat. “The hostages were not those Davidians in there,” Bob Ricks, the F.B.I. special agent in charge of the operation, said later. “The hostage in this whole process was the F.B.I. We had to respond to the demands of David Koresh. We were like actors in his play . . . In the final analysis, everything rested under the control of David Koresh.”

The shootout at the Mount Carmel Center dominated the news for two months of 1993. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix, Guardian USA, Tuesday 21 March, 2023

As the siege wore on, tensions emerged between the F.B.I.’s negotiators and its Hostage Rescue Team (H.R.T.), specialized units that preferred to resolve conflicts quickly, through the tactical use of force. (Shortly after the shoot-out, the F.B.I., which is responsible for investigating the deaths of federal agents, took command of the operation.) Negotiators believed that Koresh could eventually be coaxed into surrendering peacefully, though the dominant H.R.T. view was that Koresh was a liar who would never emerge of his own volition. The two F.B.I. factions were working at cross-purposes: a negotiator would make headway with the Davidians only to learn that the tactical team had just run over one of Koresh’s beloved vintage cars with a tank.

Weeks into the siege, Koresh claimed that he would surrender peacefully as soon as he finished writing a treatise on the Book of Revelation. Davidians had been communicating with the outside world via messages painted on bedsheets, hung out of windows. Then they displayed one reading “Let’s Have a Beer When This Is Over.” Instead, the tactical faction received approval to end the situation more rapidly. Early on the morning of April 19th, federal agents rammed the Mount Carmel building with tanks and pumped tear gas into the holes they had created. Around noon, someone reported seeing flames. Agents expected to see people flooding out of the building to surrender, but only nine did; more than seventy others, including two dozen children, were crushed as the building collapsed, died by suicide, or were killed in the fire. (One toddler died of a stab wound in the chest.) The government’s heavy-handed, deeply flawed approach enabled Koresh’s transmutation into a martyr.

David Koresh. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix, Guardian USA, Tuesday 21 March, 2023

The Branch Davidians appeared to see a kinship between their struggle and those of other victims of state violence; one of their bedsheet messages read “Rodney King We Understand.” In the decades since, the people who have got the most mileage out of the tragedy have told a narrower story, one of a powerful and oppressive federal government waging war on gun-loving, God-fearing citizens. (In this fable, the Davidians are implicitly coded as white, even though at least two dozen of them were not.) Timothy McVeigh travelled to Texas during the siege, where he sold bumper stickers with slogans like “Fear the Government That Fears Your Gun” and “A Man with a Gun Is a Citizen, A Man Without a Gun Is a Subject.” McVeigh, who was already steeped in white-supremacist rhetoric, became obsessively focussed on Waco. On the second anniversary of the fire, he blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in Oklahoma City. Five years later, Alex Jones attached himself to efforts to rebuild a church in Mount Carmel. Jones was then twenty-five, had recently been fired from his job as a talk-radio host in Austin and had just launched Infowars. He led a memorial service, during which other speakers referred to the events in 1993 as “our second Alamo.” “All of it—it’s all about public opinion,” Jones told a reporter that day. A few months later, Jones would release a video, “America: Wake Up or Waco,” in which he claims that F.B.I. agents intentionally machine-gunned women and children. The film follows the template that Jones has used successfully ever since—using the government’s real failures to build a paranoid mythology that he bends to sinister ends.

That mythology, and its attendant rhetoric of grievance and aggression, is politically ascendant in many parts of the country, even as its most vocal proponents consider themselves beset on all sides by enemies. Earlier this month, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene staged her own mini-confrontation with the A.T.F., showing up at a gun store in Smyrna, Georgia, during a routine inspection. “This is a prime example of Joe Biden and the Democrats weaponizing federal agencies to silence and intimidate their political opponents,” she tweeted later. “I fear this is just the beginning and they are directly targeting our Second Amendment and our right to protect and defend our families.” Koresh and his followers wanted to be left alone; the growing cohort of self-identified Christian nationalists want control of school boards, city councils, and state legislatures. The kind of tactical-firearms training that the Davidians used to prepare for their war with Babylon is now a significant nationwide industry, one that attracts dentists and real-estate agents to weekend classes on urban combat. And there are twice as many privately owned firearms in the U.S. as there were when the Waco siege took place. ♦

— The New Yorker

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Hi due to some things happening I’d like to say a few things about the webcomic The Glass Scientists because I keep seeing lies about it.

First off, if you don’t know, TGS is set in VICTORIAN LONDON because it’s a mad science fantasy comic with a dark academia twist. This is extremely important to the story, considering how easy it is to set things on fire, how the two of the three main characters have a shitton of Victorian repression, and how Hyde, the other main character, came to be in the first place.

Now, I’ll be talking about Hyde’s actions/what happens to him throughout the comic, the way Sabrina, the author represents POC, the two white main characters and how that’s not a bad thing, the claim that it’s a bad representation of D.I.D, when consuming problemactic media becomes a problem/why problematic media is needed, and finally what is and isn’t a lie. And, spoiler warning for the entire comic.

Edward Hyde’s Actions and the Plot Points Surrounding Him

Edward Hyde is the on and off narrator for TGS, and is also, in my opinion, one of the main characters. His actions have greatly befitted the plot, from when he manipulated Jekyll into letting him go free for a night so he could visit Blackfog, when he set a third of London on fire on accident, when he started using “nightmares” to torture Jekyll into letting him out to go to Blackfog again, him discovering he could take control of Jekyll’s body, becoming what my friend and I call Green Eye, and finally Rachel and Hyde’s relationship which started before the comic even began. These are just the ones off the top of my head, but there are more.

I’ll talk about Rachel and Hyde’s relationship first, because it’s used as a plot point multiple times. At first glance, it could appear that Rachel is abusive towards Hyde. One could make that arguement, and I only slightly agree. The reason for Rachel’s actions towards Hyde is because her deceased little brother, Eli, looks an awful lot like Hyde. Rachel blames herself for Eli’s death, and believes if she was there for Eli more he wouldn’t have died. This is explained by Rachel’s older brother, Patrin, to Hyde. I don’t believe Rachel is trying to be abusive, commonly people don’t realize their actions are, in fact, abusive. That gives others time to show them the error of their ways (However, there are people who know they’re being abusive, and that is not a good way to view the world). Rachel is not intending to abuse Hyde in any way, she simply believes that she can “rescue” Hyde from a life of crime and thievery, doing what she couldn’t with Eli. This, in and of itself, is not bad. Their relationship is only slightly toxic. If Rachel can get over Eli’s death, and stop blaming herself for it, I’m sure their relationship will be less toxic.

Now onto the things Hyde does. Hyde is meant to be a bad person. Hyde is everything Jekyll’s repressed, and clearly Jekyll has had some nasty thoughts. It’s also good to keep in mind that neither Hyde nor Jekyll are a full person. Jekyll drinking the HJ7 split his personality in two. Both Hyde and Jekyll are missing important parts of themselves, so, in my opinion, neither of them could be classified as a full human, but they are the same person. I bring this up because Hyde relied on Jekyll to take care of maintaining looks, paying bills, and other responsibilities that Hyde didn’t want to deal with. And Hyde has been shown hating the idea of being trapped. So, what does Hyde do? He manipulates Jekyll into giving him what he wants. But we run into a problem when people expect Hyde to be perfect and a saint. That isn’t his character at all. His character is supposed to be considered evil by Victorian society. So he’s not going to be unproblematic. He’s based off the book Hyde, who literally trampled a little girl and committed murder. The explanation I just listed is the reason behind most of Hyde’s actions throughout the story, and they commonly carry the plot forward.

Sabrina’s POC Representation

I’d like to go on record and say that the representation in TGS is nice to see, however I am white myself. I’ll be going off of what I’ve heard other POC say about the representation, and my own personal opinions. The main criticism I see is Lanyon and Lucy being portrayed as black stereotypes. Except they aren’t. First off, Lanyon isn’t even a full black man. He’s biracial (half white half black). I’m not too sure about Lucy, but given the fact she is darker than Lanyon I believe she is a full black woman. Neither of them play into stereotypes. Now you could say that Lanyon is the gay black best friend, except that would be diminishing him to half of his racial identity, his sexuality, and his relationship with Jekyll. The comic is good at showing that Lanyon doesn’t fit that mould perfectly, or in fact at all. Lanyon’s actions are fueled by the want to keep the Society for Arcane Sciences afloat, and keeping Jekyll alive and well. His sexuality also plays a role in the plot because before the comic started, it’s shown that Lanyon and Jekyll clearly have a history, and as you read further you can infer that it was sexual in nature. Why would a straight man in Victorian London sleep with a man?

Now, onto Lucy. We don’t know a lot about Lucy, but we do know that she was poor as a child, and was able to create an empire of thieves and provide housing, childcare, and income to a lot of women. Now, tell me how that’s playing into a stereotype for black women. Or, really, black people in general. From what I’ve researched, a lot of stereotypes about black people are rooted in racism and slavery. You could argue that because Lucy’s a thief, it’s negative and racist. But if Sabrina was racist, wouldn’t Lanyon also be a thief instead of being well off? And wouldn’t Lucy not have been able to create something of this magnitude, because the entirety of London knows about her empire.

Another criticism I saw is the fact that Rachel’s name doesn’t fit her race. And that Eli being a thief is a negative stereotype. As far as we know, all of Rachel’s blood-bound family is Romani. But here’s the catch, we don’t know if Rachel’s parents are immigrants or not. They could have very well have been raised in London themselves which is why Rachel has her name to begin with. I’m not entirely sure about the Eli stereotype, but I know it wasn’t meant to be like that. Eli is meant to be like Hyde, and Hyde has problematic traits and does problematic things. It’s supposed to be a parallel between the two, which is why Rachel acts the way she does with Hyde.

Why Having Two White Men as Protagonists Isn’t a Bad Thing

I know I’ll get backlash, but not every piece of media needs a POC main character. Especially not when it’s set in Victorian London. However even with my first statement, in TGS there is a biracial gay man as a protagonist. And even though Hyde and Jekyll are white and are men, they aren’t straight. Jekyll is bisexual and Hyde is pansexual. So there’s still some representation for the LGBTQ+ community, which I am a part of. I’m a transgender man and bisexual myself and I like seeing bisexual men be represented.

Why Jekyll and Hyde Isn’t the Thing You Turn to for D.I.D Representation

J&H was never meant to be D.I.D representation. And even if it was, it was written in the times where people were sent to asylums for briefly thinking they heard something when they didn’t /not serious, joking. As someone who has two systemmates, I can assure you that J&H isn’t meant to be D.I.D representation. And if people are trying to claim it is, you should maybe just try and talk to them to see where they’re coming from.

Problematic Media

Consuming problematic media doesn’t make you a bad person. Creating it doesn’t make you one either. It becomes a problem when the person or you creating it tried to romanize certain toxic behaviours, or claim problematic actions are perfectly okay. We need problematic media because we don’t know the story behind it. The person making it could just be venting and trying to heal, or if they write a success stories, like I do, it creates a well of hope in them. Because they believe if this character can do it, then so I can I. Now, how does this tie into TGS? Characters in the comic have shown behaviours that are problematic. Rachel, Hyde, Frankenstein, Moreau, and even Jekyll to an extent. However, their behaviours are framed in a way that puts them in the wrong, but they aren’t bad people, aside from Moreau.

What is and isn’t true?

TGS is not a “yaoi uwu gay soft bois” comic.

Characters are allowed to be problematic because no one is perfect.

No one’s sexualities have been the butt of any jokes.

No one has been sexually assaulted within the events of the comic or what has been shown.

Lanyon and Lucy are not black stereotypes.

Hyde and Jekyll being white and men aren’t a problem.

#the glass scientists #tgs

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thegirlandthewardrobe · 3 years

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Here’s a little blurb about me💙

• Age: 27

•Why I Created this Blog: I love reading(obviously), writing book reviews and recommending new books, so I thought creating a book blog would be a great way to do that! I'm also currently working working on my Master's in Library & Information Science!

•Currently Reading: See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Soloman, Jinxed by Yve Vale, Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco,

•Recently Read: A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Hexed by Yve Vale, Grave Mistakes by Ivy Asher, Summer Knights by Ariadne Breyland, Gluttony by Kira Roman

•Reading Next: Ghost by Kat Blackthorne, Harem of Freaks by Crystal Ash, Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco

•Favorite Genres: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal, Dark Romance, Sci-Fi, RH or any combination of these

•Favorite Authors: Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Leigh Bardugo, M. Sinclair, Elle Thorpe and many more!

•Favorite Books/Series: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas, Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, Wicked Gods by Michelle Hercules, Dark Gods by River Ramsey, The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black, Saintview Psychos by Elle Thorpe, Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco, those are just a few.

•Favorite Trope: I’m a sucker for a good enemies to lovers story

•Guilty Pleasure: Reverse Harems and Bully Romance novels

•Favorite Book to Movie Adaptations: Catching Fire, The Chronicles of Narnia, Divergent, Everything Everything, Shadow & Bone(ok not a movie, but an amazing tv show adaptation), and The Darkest Minds(I know it wasn’t a huge fan favorite, but I really enjoyed this one!

•Highly Anticipated Reads: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (November 2023), Forged by Malice by Elizabeth Helen (Beasts of the Briar book#3 December 2023)

•Lastly, I’ll post the link to my Goodreads profile as well. I have a couple different book lists I’m working on if you’re in search of something new to read!

Happy Reading!

-❤️

P.S. Here are the links to my book reviews, recommendations, and Goodreads lists for those of you on mobile.

Book Reviews: https://thegirlandthewardrobe.tumblr.com/bookreviews

Book Recommendations: https://thegirlandthewardrobe.tumblr.com/bookrecs

Goodreads Book Lists: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/26457054-ari

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It's finally here—the day we've all been waiting for ever since the “Moonlight”/ “La La Land” Best Picture fiasco: the Oscar noms have been announced. It's been a tight race, in which “Three Billboards” appears to have established itself as the frontrunner for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and maybe even Best Picture, while “The Shape of Water” has proven a nomination favorite this awards season but not necessarily the most likely to win. It leads this year's Oscars with 13 nominations.

In more exciting news, “Get Out” scored noms for Jordan Peele for Best Directing, Picture, and Writing, making him only the third director ever to receive all three noms on a debut feature. Daniel Kaluuya also scored a Best Actor nomination for the film.

Greta Gerwig, too, did well for herself, earning noms for Best Directing and Writing, and “Lady Bird” also has been nominated for Best Picture, though since Gerwig isn't a producer on the film she can't technically claim the same record as Peele.

“Call Me By Your Name” was nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet. Also notable is that “A Fantastic Woman,” the Chilean film starring trans actress Daniela Vega, was nominated for Best Foreign Film.

The Oscars are hosted this year by Jimmy Kimmel and take place March 4 on ABC. Take a look at the full list below:

BEST PICTURE

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges and Marco Morabito, Producers

DARKEST HOUR Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten and Douglas Urbanski, Producers

DUNKIRK Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers

GET OUT Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr. and Jordan Peele, Producers

LADY BIRD Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Evelyn O’Neill, Producers

PHANTOM THREAD JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi, Producers

THE POST Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale, Producers

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Call Me by Your Name

DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Phantom Thread

DANIEL KALUUYA Get Out

GARY OLDMAN Darkest Hour

DENZEL WASHINGTON Roman J. Israel, Esq.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

WILLEM DAFOE The Florida Project

WOODY HARRELSON Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

RICHARD JENKINS The Shape of Water

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER All the Money in the World

SAM ROCKWELL Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

SALLY HAWKINS The Shape of Water

FRANCES MCDORMAND Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

MARGOT ROBBIE I, Tonya

SAOIRSE RONAN Lady Bird

MERYL STREEP The Post

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

MARY J. BLIGE Mudbound

ALLISON JANNEY I, Tonya

LESLEY MANVILLE Phantom Thread

LAURIE METCALF Lady Bird

OCTAVIA SPENCER The Shape of Water

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

THE BOSS BABY Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito

THE BREADWINNER Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo

COCO Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson

FERDINAND Carlos Saldanha

LOVING VINCENT Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart

CINEMATOGRAPHY

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Roger A. Deakins

DARKEST HOUR Bruno Delbonnel

DUNKIRK Hoyte van Hoytema

MUDBOUND Rachel Morrison

THE SHAPE OF WATER Dan Laustsen

COSTUME DESIGN

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Jacqueline Durran

DARKEST HOUR Jacqueline Durran

PHANTOM THREAD Mark Bridges

THE SHAPE OF WATER Luis Sequeira

VICTORIA & ABDUL Consolata Boyle

DIRECTING

DUNKIRK Christopher Nolan

GET OUT Jordan Peele

LADY BIRD Greta Gerwig

PHANTOM THREAD Paul Thomas Anderson

THE SHAPE OF WATER Guillermo del Toro

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman

FACES PLACES Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda

ICARUS Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan

LAST MEN IN ALEPPO Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen

STRONG ISLAND Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

EDITH+EDDIE Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright

HEAVEN IS A TRAFFIC JAM ON THE 405 Frank Stiefel

HEROIN(E) Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon

KNIFE SKILLS Thomas Lennon

TRAFFIC STOP Kate Davis and David Heilbroner

FILM EDITING

BABY DRIVER Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos

DUNKIRK Lee Smith

I, TONYA Tatiana S. Riegel

THE SHAPE OF WATER Sidney Wolinsky

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Jon Gregory

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A FANTASTIC WOMAN Chile

THE INSULT Lebanon

LOVELESS Russia

ON BODY AND SOUL Hungary

THE SQUARE Sweden

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

DARKEST HOUR Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick

VICTORIA & ABDUL Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard

WONDER Arjen Tuiten

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

DUNKIRK Hans Zimmer

PHANTOM THREAD Jonny Greenwood

THE SHAPE OF WATER Alexandre Desplat

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI John Williams

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Carter Burwell

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

MIGHTY RIVER from Mudbound; Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson

MYSTERY OF LOVE from Call Me by Your Name; Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens

REMEMBER ME from Coco; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

STAND UP FOR SOMETHING from Marshall; Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren

THIS IS ME from The Greatest Showman; Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

PRODUCTION DESIGN

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola

DARKEST HOUR Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

DUNKIRK Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis

THE SHAPE OF WATER Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

DEAR BASKETBALL Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant

GARDEN PARTY Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon

LOU Dave Mullins and Dana Murray

NEGATIVE SPACE Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata

REVOLTING RHYMES Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

DEKALB ELEMENTARY Reed Van Dyk

THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK Derin Seale and Josh Lawson

MY NEPHEW EMMETT Kevin Wilson, Jr.

THE SILENT CHILD Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton

WATU WOTE/ALL OF US Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen

SOUND EDITING

BABY DRIVER Julian Slater

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Mark Mangini and Theo Green

DUNKIRK Richard King and Alex Gibson

THE SHAPE OF WATER Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce

SOUND MIXING

BABY DRIVER Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth

DUNKIRK Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo

THE SHAPE OF WATER Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson

VISUAL EFFECTS

BLADE RUNNER 2049 John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick

KONG: SKULL ISLAND Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Screenplay by James Ivory

THE DISASTER ARTIST Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

LOGAN Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold

MOLLY’S GAME Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin

MUDBOUND Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

THE BIG SICK Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani

GET OUT Written by Jordan Peele

LADY BIRD Written by Greta Gerwig

THE SHAPE OF WATER Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI Written by Martin McDonagh

#Oscars #Oscar Nominations #movies #Call Me By Your Name #Timothée Chalamet #Armie Hammer #Greta Gerwig #Saoirse Ronan #Lady Bird #The Shape of Water #Three Billboards #Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri #The Big Sick #Phantom Thread #The Post #Darkest Hour

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essaywriterspro-blog · 3 years

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Discussion on moral dilemma relating to cultural diversity

Instructions For this assignment propose a scenario where you or someone you know are confronted with a moral dilemma relating to cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It cannot be the same as what was covered in the week one discussion. Cultural diversity refers to religious, sexual, racial, and other forms of social difference. A moral dilemma is a situation in which one must make a decision between two or more options such that the options involve seemingly ethical and/or unethical conduct. Address the following questions: · What was the situation? What did the dilemma involve? · What would a subjective moral relativist say is the right approach to the dilemma? Why would that kind of relativist say that? · What would a cultural relativist say is the right approach to the dilemma? Why would that kind of relativist say that? Is that approach correct? · What did you the person confronting the dilemma decide to do? What moral justification did they give? Is that approach morally correct? · Was there an objective moral truth (the objectively right thing to do) in this situation? Why or why not? Remember, the dilemma should be detailed with description and dialogue. Regard the questions as requirements. This is an essay, so rather than simply providing a list of brief answers to questions, provide an in-depth reflection regarding a difficult ethical situation.. Cite the textbook and incorporate outside sources, including citations. Writing Requirements (APA format) · Length: 1.5-2 pages (not including title page or references page) · 1-inch margins · Double spaced · 12-point Times New Roman font · Title page · References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources) please include this one · Rachels, J. (2003). The Elements of Moral Philosophy. New York, McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Instructions For this assignment propose a scenario where you or someone you know are confronted with a moral dilemma relating to cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It cannot be the same as what was covered in the week one discussion. Cultural diversity refers to religious, sexual, racial, and other forms of social difference. A moral dilemma is a situation in which one must make a decision between two or more options such that the options involve seemingly ethical and/or unethical conduct. Address the following q uestions: · What was the situation? What did the dilemma involve? · What would a subjective moral relativist say is the right approach to the dilemma? Why would that kind of relativist say that? · What would a cultural relativist say is the right approach to the dilemma? Why would that kind of relativist say that? Is that approach correct? · What did you the person confronting the dilemma decide to do? What moral justification did they give? Is that approach morally correct? · Was there an objective moral truth (the objectively right thing to do) in this situation? Why or why not? Remember, the dilemma should be detailed with description and dialogue. Regard the questions as requirements. This is an essay, so rather than simply providing a list of brief answers to que stions, provide an in - depth reflection regarding a difficult ethical situation.. Cite the textbook and incorporate outside sources, including citations. Writing Requirements (APA format) · Length: 1.5 Read the full article

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Current Lip Sync Songs Masterlist

Listed in alphabetical order by song title.

Aaron’s Party - Aaron Carter (Richard Harmon, Pink: Round 1)

Africa-Toto (Camila Mendes, Pink: Round 1)

Ain’t My Fault- Zara Larsson (Nina Dobrev, Green: Round 2)

Ain’t No Other Man- Christina Aguilera (Tyler Seguin, Orange: Round 2)

Ain’t Your Mama- Jennifer Lopez (Perrie Edwards, Gold: Round 2)

All Eyez On Me- 2Pac (Stephen James Hendry, Red: Round 2)

All I Do Is Win- DJ Khaled (Sophia Bush, Pink: Round 1)

All The Small Things- Blink 182 (KJ Apa, Blue: Round 1)

Alpha Omega- MGK (Dylan O’Brien, Orange: Round 2)

American Girl- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (Elizabeth Olsen, White: Round 1)

Applause- Lady Gaga (Courtney Act, Gold: Round 1)

Auston Matthews- SVDVM (Auston Matthews, Red: Round 2)

Baby One More Time- Britney Spears (Ashley Benson, Purple: Round 2)

Back To Black- Amy Winehouse (KJ Apa, Blue: Round 2)

Bad At Love- Halsey (Hailey Baldwin, Red: Round 1)

Bad Blood- Taylor Swift (Matt Daddario, Gold: Round 2)

Bad Medicine- Bon Jovi (Sharon Needles, Blue: Round 2)

Barbie Girl- Aqua (Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Turquoise: Round 2)

Beauty and The Beat- Justin Bieber (Sarah Drew, Blue: Round 1)

Believer - Imagine Dragons (Lili Reinhart, Red: Round 2)

Best of Both Worlds- Hannah Montana (Alfie Deyes, Pink: Round 2)

Bet On It- Zac Efron (Zac Efron, Orange: Round 2)

Bitch- Meredith Brooks (Lily James, Pink: Round 2)

Black Widow- Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora (Jennifer Morrison Blue: Round 1)

Blow Your Mind (Mwah)- Dua Lipa (Adelaide Kane, Yellow: Round 2)

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen (Taylor Swift, Green: Round 1)

Born To Run- Bruce Springsteen (Troian Bellisario, Blue Round 1)

Bottoms Up - Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj (Eliza Taylor, Green: Round 2)

Bye Bye Bye- NSYNC (Darren Criss, White: Round 1)

Cake By The Ocean- DNCE (Olivia Holt, Green: Round 1)

Can’t Stop The Feeling- Justin Timberlake (Chris Wood, Blue: Round 2)

Careless Whisper - George Michael (Karlie Kloss, Pink: Round 1)

Caught Up - Usher (Richard Harmon, Pink: Round 2)

Celebrity Status- Mariana’s Trench (Marie Avgeropoulos, Yellow: Round 1)

Chandelier- Sia (Marzia Bigonin, Yellow: Round 2)

Chantaje- Shakira (Paulo Dybala, Orange: Round 1)

Chunky - Bruno Mars (Joe Jonas, Green: Round 1)

Come To My Window- Melissa Etheridge (Elizabeth Olsen, White: Round 2)

Confident- Demi Lovato (Nina Dobrev, Green: Round 1)

Cool Girl- Tove Lo (Adelaide Kane, Yellow: Round 1)

Cruella De Vil- Selena Gomez (Genevieve Gaunt, Gold: Round 2)

Daddy Lessons - Beyonce (Zendaya, Yellow: Round 1)

Dance Dance- Fall Out Boy (Rose McIver, White: Round 1)

Despacito-Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee (Auston Matthews, Red: Round 1)

Dick In A Box- Justin Timberlake (Katie Cassidy, White: Round 2)

Dirrty- Christina Aguilera (Marie Avgeropoulos, Yellow: Round 2)

Diva- Beyonce (Saoirse Ronan, Pink: Round 1)

Dog Days Are Over- Florence and The Machine (Toby Regbo, Orange: Round 1)

Don’t Blame Me- Taylor Swift (Keegan Allen, Red: Round 2)

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina- Madonna (Bianca Del Rio, Gold: Round 2)

Drop It Like It’s Hot- Snoop feat. Pharrell (Tom Holland, Gold: Round 1)

Dream On- Aerosmith (Delta Goodrem, Orange: Round 1)

Drummer Boy - Misterwives (Sarah Hyland, Purple: Round 1)

Emperor’s New Clothes- Panic! At The Disco (Charlie Heaton, Turquoise: Round 2)

Encore/Numb mashup- Jay Z and Linkin Park (Katie Cassidy, White: Round 1)

Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)-Backstreet Boys (Dominic Sherwood, Turquoise: Round 1)

Everybody Wants To Rule The World- Tears For Fears (Danielle Panabaker, Green: Round 1)

Ex Factor- Lauryn Hill (Tori Kelly, Orange: Round 1)

Express- Christina Aguilera from Burlesque (Olivia Holt, Green: Round 2)

Eye To Eye- From The Goofy Movie (Brendan Urie, Green: Round 2)

Felices Los 4- Maluma (Paulo Dybala, Orange: Round 2)

Fight Song- Rachel Platten (Madelaine Petsch, Pink: Round 1)

Filthy- Justin Timberlake (Justin Bieber, Gold: Round 1)

Finesse- Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B. (Dianna Agron, Blue: Round 2)

Flawless- Beyonce (Amber Heard, White: Round 2)

Footloose- Kenny Loggins (Jack Lowden, Turquoise: Round 2)

Forgot About Dre- Dr. Dre feat. Eminem (Stephen Amell, Turquoise: Round 2)

Free Your Mind- En Vogue (Tori Kelly, Orange: Round 2)

Fuck You- Lily Allen (Selena Gomez, Purple: Round 1)

Galway Girl- Ed Sheeran (Domhnall Gleeson, Yellow: Round 2)

Gangsta’s Paradise- Coolio feat L.V. (Lily Collins, Blue: Round 1)

Gas Pedal (cover)- Mike Stud (Tyler Seguin, Orange: Round 1)

Girl I Know- Avenged Sevenfold (Hailey Baldwin, Red: Round 2)

Girl Next Door - Saving Jane (Eliza Taylor, Green: Round 1)

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun- Cyndi Lauper (Zac Efron, Orange: Round 1)

Give Your Heart A Break- Demi Lovato (Adore Delano, Yellow: Round 1)

Gold Digger- Kanye West (Phoebe Tonkin, Green: Round 2)

Gotta Tell You - Samantha Mumba (Caity Lotz, Yellow: Round 1)

Green Light- Lorde (Lily Collins, Blue: Round 2)

Gucci Gang- Lil Pump (Henry Cavill, Orange: Round 1)

Gust Of Wind- Pharrell feat. Daft Punk (Bill Skarsgard, White: Round 1)

Hallelujah- Rufus Weinwright (Blake Lively, Turquoise: Round 1)

Happy- Pharrell (Witney Carson, Yelllow: Round 1)

Harder To Breathe- Maroon 5. (Chris Evans, White: Round 1)

Havana- Camila Cabello (Bella Hadid, Yellow: Round 1)

Heartbreaker- Pat Benatar (Willa Holland, Yellow: Round 1)

Hello-Adele (Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Turquoise: Round 1)

Here I Go Again- Whitesnake (Skeet Ulrich, Purple: Round 2)

Hips Don’t Lie- Shakira (Gal Gadot, Red: Round 2)

Holding Out For A Hero- Bonnie Tyler (Benedict Cumberbatch, Red: Round 1)

Hold Me Tight Or Don’t - Fall Out Boy

Hold On We’re Going Home-Drake feat. Majid Jordan (Alycia Debnam-Carey, Blue: Round 1)

Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. (Zoe Sugg, Orange: Round 1)

Honey, I’m Good - Andy Grammar (Grant Gustin, Red: Round 1)

Hook-Blue’s Traveler (Roman Josi, Green: Round 1)

Hopeless Wanderer- Mumford and Sons (Alex Galchenyuk, Orange: Round 2)

Hound Dog- Elvis Presley (Bob Morley, Blue: Round 1)

Hot In Herre- Nelly (Bob Morley, Blue: Round 2)

Hotline Bling - Drake (Zendaya, Yellow: Round 2)

Hot ‘N Cold- Katy Perry (Kendall Jenner, White: Round 1)

How Long - Charlie Puth

Humble- Kendrick Lamar (Taylor Hill, Gold: Round 1)

I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith (Chris Wood, Blue: Round 1)

I Get Off-Halestorm (Alexandra Park, Blue: Round 2)

I Just Had Sex- The Lonely Island feat. Akon (Sophia Bush, Pink: Round 2)

I Like it - Enrique Iglesias (Crystal Reed, Yellow: Round 1)

I’m Real- Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule (Emily Bett Rickards, Purple: Round 2)

I Wanna Dance With Somebody- Whitney Houston (Ashleigh Murray, Blue: Round 1)

I Want It That Way-Backstreet Boys (Taissa Farmiga, Turquoise: Round 1)

I Want To Break Free- Queen (Adam Devine, Blue: Round 2)

I Was Made For Loving You- KISS (Adam Devine, Blue: Round 1)

I Write Sins Not Tragedies- Panic! At The Disco (Rose McIver, White: Round 2)

Ice, Ice, Baby - Vanilla Ice (Melissa Benoist, Turquoise: Round 2)

Idiot Boyfriend- Jimmy Fallon (Margot Robbie, Pink: Round 2)

IDGAF- Dua Lipa (Harry Styles, Pink: Round 1)

If I Had You- Adam Lambert (Bill Skarsgard, White: Round 2)

If U Seek Amy- Britney Spears (Natalie Dormer, Orange: Round 1)

Instruction- Jax Jonest feat. Demi Lovato, Stefflon Don (Kat McNamara, Orange: Round 2)

In The Navy- Village People (Alexander Skarsgard, White: Round 2)

It Must Have Been Love- Roxette (Emmy Rossum, Red: Round 1)

It’s All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion (Aaron Rodgers, Purple: Round 2)

It’s Gonna Be Me- NSYNC (Darce Montgomery, Purple: Round 2)

It’s My Life- Bon Jovi (Darce Montgomery, Purple: Round 1)

It’s The End of The World- R.E.M. (Stephen Amell, Turquoise: Round 1)

Just Like Fire- P!nk (Jennifer Morrison Blue: Round 2)

Ladies Choice- Zac Efron (Alexandra Daddario, Green: Round 1)

Let It Go- Idina Menzel from Frozen (Blake Lively, Turquoise: Round 2)

Let You Go- Machine Gun Kelly (Justin Bieber, Gold: Round 2)

Lights Down Low - MAX feat. gnash (Jordan Fisher, Blue: Round 1)

Like A Prayer- Madonna (Danielle Panabaker, Green: Round 2)

Like A Virgin- Madonna (Ashley Benson, Purple: Round 1)

Living La Vida Loca- Ricky Martin (Delta Goodrem, Orange: Round 2)

Livin’ On A Prayer- Bon Jovi (Skeet Ulrich, Purple: Round 1)

Look What You Made Me Do- Taylor Swift (Domhnall Gleeson, Yellow: Round 1)

Lose Yourself- Eminem (Daisy Ridley, Orange: Round 2)

Love Doesn’t Stand A Chance- From Once Upon A Time (Zayn Malik, Green: Round 2)

Love on the Brain - Rihanna (Nick Jonas, Red: Round 1)

Love You To Death- Type O Negative (Henrik Lundqvist, Pink: Round 1)

Mama Don’t Make Me Put On The Dress Again- Trixie Mattel (Katya Zamaolodchikova, Purple: Round 2)

Mama Say- Betty Who (Gigi Hadid, Gold: Round 1)

Mamma Mia-Abba (Emilia Clarke, Turquoise: Round 2)

Man! I Feel Like A Woman- Shania Twain (Harry Styles, Pink: Round 2)

Mi Gente - J Balvin, Willy William

Milkshake- Kelis (Henry Cavill, Orange: Round 2)

Miss You - Louis Tomlinson (Natalia Dyer, Yellow: Round 2)

Monster- Nicki Minaj (Vanessa Hudgens, Gold: Round 1)

My Heart Will Go On- Celine Dion (Cole Sprouse, Green: Round 2)

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up) - Fall Out Boy (Nick Jonas, Red: Round 2)

New Rules- Dua Lipa (Bella Hadid, Yellow: Round 2)

Never Gonna Give You Up- Rick Astley (Alfie Deyes, Pink: Round 1)

Nothing Compares To Uou - Sinead O'Connor (Trixie Mattel, Turquoise: Round 2)

No Rain - One Blind Melon (Stephen James Hendry, Red: Round 1)

Often-The Weeknd (Selena Gomez, Purple: Round 2)

One Dance- Drake (Amber Heard, White: Round 1)

Only Girl (In The World)- Rihanna (Gigi Hadid, Gold: Round 2)

On Top of You - Enrique Iglesias (Jordan Fisher, Blue: Round 2)

Oops... I Did It Again- Britney Spears (Saoirse Ronan, Pink: Round 2)

Out of Your Mind - True Steppers, Dane Bowers feat. Victoria Beckham (Willa Holland, Yellow: Round 2)

Paper Planes- M.I.A. (Perrie Edwards, Gold: Round 1)

Paris in the Rain - LAUV

Part of Your World- From the Little Mermaid (Lindsay Arnold, Turquoise: Round 1)

Perfect-Ed Sheeran (Emilia Clarke, Turquoise: Round 1)

Play That Funky Music- Wild Cherry (Tom Hiddleston, Gold: Round 2)

Poker Face- Lady Gaga (Natalie Dormer, Orange: Round 2)

Pony- Ginuwine (Jason Momoa, White: Round 2)

Pour Some Sugar On Me- Def Leppard (Danneel Harris, Yellow: Round 2)

Power- Little Mix (Kat McNamara, Orange: Round 1)

Praying- Ke$ha (Lea Michele, Yellow: Round 1)

Pretty Fly For A White Guy - Offspring (Aaron Rodgers, Purple: Round 1)

Prince Ali- Robin Williams from Aladdin (Camila Mendes, Pink: Round 2)

Purple Rain- Prince (Toby Regbo, Orange: Round 2)

Rap God-Eminem (Alex Galchenyuk, Orange: Round 1)

Rebel Yell- Billy Idol (Andy Biersack, White: Round 1)

Redneck Woman- Gretchen Wilson (Danneel Harris, Yellow: Round 1)

Reet Petite- Jackie Wilson (Jack Lowden, Turquoise: Round 1)

Reggaeton Lento (Bailemos)- CNCO (Emeraude Toubia, Purple: Round 1)

Repeat Stuff- Bo Burnham (Dylan Sprouse, White: Round 1)

Replay- Zendaya (Tom Holland, Gold: Round 2)

Rockin’ Robin- The Jackson 5 (Ian Harding, Gold: Round 1)

Rhythm Nation- Janet Jackson (Sarah Drew, Blue: Round 2)

River - Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran (Sarah Hyland, Purple: Round 2)

Roar- Katy Perry (Marzia Bigonin, Yellow: Round 1)

Roses- Outkast (Lindsey Morgan, Red: Round 1)

Run The World (Girls)- Beyonce (Troian Bellisario, Blue Round 2)

S&M-Rihanna (Alexandra Park, Blue: Round 1)

School’s Out- Alice Cooper (Zayn Malik, Green: Round 1)

Sex Addiction- L.A Guns (Henrik Lundqvist, Pink: Round 2)

Sex On Fire- Kings of Leon (Zoey Deutch, Green: Round 2)

Sexy Back-Justin Timberlake (Chris Evans, White: Round 2)

Shake It Off- Taylor Swift (Lucy Hale, Purple: Round 2)

Shape Of You- Ed Sheeran (Madelaine Petsch, Pink: Round 2)

She’s Country- Jason Aldean (Jensen Ackles, White: Round 1)

She’s In Love With The Boy- Trisha Yearwood (Carrie Underwood, Red: Round 1)

She’s So High - Tal Bachman. (Zoe Sugg, Orange: Round 2)

She Thinks My Tractor Is Sexy- Kenny Chesney (Roman Josi, Green: Round 2)

Should’ve Said No- Taylor Swift (Lea Michele, Yellow: Round 2)

Shout- Lulu & the Luvvers (Benedict Cumberbatch, Red: Round 2)

Sign of the Times - Harry Styles (Louis Tomlinson, Pink: Round 2)

Sister Christian- Night Ranger (Justin Baldoni, Pink: Round 1)

Sk8ter Boy - Avril Lavigne (Trixie Mattel, Turquoise: Round 1)

Slow Hands - Niall Horan (Louis Tomlinson, Pink: Round 1)

Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson (Grant Gustin, Red: Round 2)

Somebody Told Me- The Killers (Dianna Agron, Blue: Round 1)

Something Bad - Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert (Natalia Dyer, Yellow: Round 1)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow- Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole (Jason Momoa, White: Round 1)

Sorry- Justin Bieber (Emeraude Toubia, Purple: Round 2)

Sorry Not Sorry- Demi Lovato (Niall Horan, Orange: Round 2)

Spice Up Your Life- Spice Girls (Courtney Act, Gold: Round 2)

Starman- David Bowie (Daisy Ridley, Orange: Round 1)

Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne (Joe Jonas, Green: Round 2)

Stay The Night- James Blunt (Keegan Allen, Red: Round 1)

Step In Time- Dick Van Dyke from Marry Poppins (Emmy Rossum, Red: Round 2)

Stronger (What Doesn’t Make You Stronger)- Kelly Clarkson (Carrie Underwood, Red: Round 2)

Sucker for Pain - Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons (Cara Delevingne, Turquoise: Round 2)

Superbass- Nicki Minaj (Kendall Jenner, White: Round 2)

Swalla - Jason Derulo feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign (Sebastian Stan, Turquoise: Round 2)

Swish Swish- Katy Perry (Matt Daddario, Gold: Round 1)

Talk Dirty- Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz (Justin Baldoni, Pink: Round 2)

Talk that Talk by Rihanna feat. Jay Z (Alycia Debnam-Carey, Blue: Round 2)

Tear You Apart- She Wants Revenge (Dylan O’Brien, Orange: Round 1)

Telephone- Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce (Darren Criss, White: Round 2)

That’s My Girl- Fifth Harmony (Lucy Hale, Purple: Round 1)

That’s What I Like- Bruno Mars (Alberto Rosende, White: Round 1)

The Bare Necessities- Phil Harris (Tom Hiddleston, Gold: Round 1)

The Best Damn Thing - Avril Lavinge (Chyler Leigh, Green: Round 2)

The Boys (English Ver.) - Girls’ Generation (Crystal Reed, Yellow: Round 2)

The Champion- Carrie Underwood (Brie Bella, Pink: Round 2)

The Creep- The Lonely Island (Dylan Sprouse, White: Round 2)

The Greatest- Sia (Taylor Hill, Gold: Round 2)

The Look- Roxette (Phoebe Tonkin, Green: Round 1)

This Ain’t A Scene It’s An Arm’s Race- Fall Out Boy (Brendan Urie, Green: Round 1)

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Taylor Swift (Karlie Kloss, Pink: Round 2)

Thong Song- Sisqo (Sebastian Stan, Turquoise: Round 1)

Thrift Shop-Macklemore (Taissa Farmiga, Turquoise: Round 2)

Tightrope - Janelle Monae (Melissa Benoist, Turquoise: Round 1)

Tough Lover- Christina Aguilera from Burlesque (Alexandra Daddario, Green: Round 2)

Under A Paper Moon- All Time Low (Charlie Heaton, Turquoise: Round 1)

Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield (Chyler Leigh, Green: Round 1)

Uptown Funk- Mark Ronon feat. Bruno Mars. (Lindsey Morgan, Red: Round 2)

Valentina- Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 (Sharon Needles, Blue: Round 1)

Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun (Cole Sprouse, Green: Round 1)

Wait (The Whisper Song)- The Ying Yang Twins (Margot Robbie, Pink: Round 1)

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go-Wham! (Ashleigh Murray, Blue: Round 2)

Welcome To The Black Parade- My Chemical Romance (Zoey Deutch, Green: Round 1)

What About Us- P!nk (Gal Gadot, Red: Round 1)

What Dreams Are Made Of - Hilary Duff. (Lili Reinhart, Red: Round 1)

What Lovers Do- Maroon 5 feat SZA (Emily Bett Rickards, Purple: Round 1)

What Makes You Country- Luke Bryan (Brie Bella, Pink: Round 1)

Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons (Cara Delevingne, Turquoise: Round 1)

White and Nerdy- Weird Al Yankovic (Ian Harding, Gold: Round 2)

Work It - Missy Elliott (Caity Lotz, Yellow: Round 2)

Worth It - Fifth Harmony (Lindsay Arnold, Turquoise: Round 2)

Wrecking Ball- Miley Cyrus (Taylor Swift, Green: Round 2)

Yonce/Partition-Beyonce (Vanessa Hudgens, Gold: Round 2)

You & I- One Direction (Alberto Rosende, White: Round 2)

You Don’t Know Me- Jax Jones feat Ray-Z (Genevieve Gaunt, Gold: Round 1)

You Gotta Be- Des’ree (Lily James, Pink: Round 1)

You Got The Right Stuff- New Kids On The Block (Alexander Skarsgard, White: Round 1)

Young, Dumb and Broke- Khalid (Niall Horan, Orange: Round 1)

You’re The One That I Want- From Grease (Witney Carson, Yelllow: Round 2)

You Shook Me All Night Long- AC/DC (Andy Biersack, White: Round 2)

You’ll Be Back - Jonathan Groff from Hamilton (Bianca Del Rio, Gold: Round 1)

Zombie- The Cranberries (Adore Delano, Yellow: Round 2)

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7th Element- Vitas (Katya Zamaolodchikova, Purple: Round 1)

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90TH OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

LOS ANGELES, CA – Actress-comedian Tiffany Haddish and actor-director Andy Serkis, joined by Academy President John Bailey, announced the 90th Academy Awards® nominations today (January 23) live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms, a satellite feed and broadcast media.

Haddish and Serkis announced the nominees in 11 categories at 5:22 a.m. PT, with pre-taped category introductions by Academy members Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson and Michelle Yeoh. Haddish and Serkis announced the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT.

For a complete list of nominees, visit the official Oscars website, www.oscar.com.

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories beginning Tuesday, February 20 through Tuesday, February 27.

The 90th Oscars®, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

A Complete List of 2018 Academy Award Nominations

Best Picture

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

Get Out

The Post

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Shape of Water

Lady Bird

Call Me by Your Name

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Actor in a Leading Role

Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Timothee Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread

Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World

Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water

Actress in a Leading Role

Meryl Streep, The Post

Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water

Margot Robbie, I, Tonya

Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Actress in a Supporting Role

Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread

Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Mary J. Blige, Mudbound

Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Animated Feature Film

Ferdinand

The Boss Baby

CoCo

The Breadwinner

Loving Vincent

Cinematography

Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour

Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk

Rachel Morrison, Mudbound

Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water

Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

Costume Design

Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water

Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast

Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour

Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread

Consolata Boyle, Victoria & Abdul

Documentary (Feature)

Icarus

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Last Men in Aleppo

Strong Island

Faces Places

Documentary (Short Subject)

Knife Skills

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Edith+Eddie

Heroin(e)

Traffic Stop

Film Editing

Lee Smith, Dunkirk

Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya

Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss, Baby Driver

Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water

Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Foreign Language Film

The Square

On Body And Soul

The Insult

A Fantastic Woman

Loveless

Makeup And Hairstyling

Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard, Victoria & Abdul

David Malinowski, Kazuhiro Tsuji and Lucy Sibbick, Darkest Hour

Arjen Tuiten, Wonder

Music (Original Score)

Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread

John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water

Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk

Music (Original Song)

“Mystery of Love,” Call Me by Your Name

“This is Me,” The Greatest Showman

“Stand Up for Something,” Marshall

“Remember Me,” Coco

“Mighty River,” Mudbound

Production Design

Paul D. Austerberry, The Shape of Water

Dennis Gassner, Blade Runner 2049

Nathan Crowley, Dunkirk

Sarah Greenwood, Beauty and the Beast

Sarah Greenwood, Darkest Hour

Short Film (Animated)

Lou

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

Short Film (Live Action)

DeKalb Elementary

The Silent Child

Watu Wote / All of Us

My Nephew Emmett

The Eleven O’Clock

Sound Editing

The Shape of Water

Baby Driver

Dunkirk

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Blade Runner 2049

Sound Mixing

Dunkirk

Blade Runner 2049

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Baby Driver

Visual Effects

Kong: Skull Island

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

War For the Planet of the Apes

Blade Runner 2049

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Mudbound

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, Mudbound

Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter, The Disaster Artist

James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name

James Mangold, Michael Green and Scott Frank, Logan

Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water

Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick

Jordan Peele, Get Out

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

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#Film #Mudbound #THE SHAPE OF WATER #90th academy awards #90th Oscars #2018 Oscars #2018 Academy awards #Get Out #Lady Bird #The Big Stick #Oscars #the record company #Naomi Richard #naomijrichard #Naomi Jean Richard #RCV #Red Carpet View

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i noticed y’all have been enjoying my novel masterposts. so im just going to keep posting because im obsessed with books like that T.T

for my study-like-rory studyblr friends who want to read all the books mentioned in gilmore girls (because hello?? who doesn’t??), here’s a list! pls let me know if i missed a book, but i think it’s quite a complete list! enjoy!!

1984 – George Orwell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon

An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser

Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

Archidamian War – Donald Kagen

The Art of Fiction – Henry James

The Art of War – Sun Tzu

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

Atonement – Ian McEwan

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy

Babe – Dick King-Smith

Backlash – Susan Faludi

Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Beloved – Toni Morrison

Beowulf – Seamus Heaney

The Bhagava Gita

The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy

Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel

A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary McCarthy

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Brick Lane – Monica Ali

Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner

Candide – Voltaire

The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer

Carrie –Stephen King

Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

The Celebrated Jumping Frog – Mark Twain

Charlotte’s Web – EB White

The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman

Christine – Stephen King

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse

The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare

Complete Novels – Dawn Powell

The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton

Complete Stories – Dorothy Parker

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac

Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber

The Crucible – Arthur Miller

Cujo – Stephen King

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon

Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende

David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin

David Coperfield – Charles Dickens

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)

Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

Deenie – Judy Blume

The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson

The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, & Nikki Sixx

The Divine Comedy – Dante

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells

Don Quijote – Cervantes

Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe

Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe

Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn

Eloise – Kay Thompson

Emily the Strange – Roger Reger

Emma – Jane Austen

Empire Falls – Richard Russo

Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol

Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton

Ethics – Spinoza

Eva Luna – Isabel Allende

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer

Extravagance – Gary Kist

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore

The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan

Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien

Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein

The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce

Fletch – Gregory McDonald

Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes

The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem

The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger

Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers

Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut

Gender Trouble – Judith Baker

George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg

Gidget – Fredrick Kohner

Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen

The Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

Goldilocks & the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford

The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

The Graduate – Charles Webb

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

The Group – Mary McCarthy

Hamlet – Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi

Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare

Henry V – Shakespeare

High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons

Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris

The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton

House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III

The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer

How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss

How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland

Howl – Alan Ginsburg

The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo

The Illiad – Homer

I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Inferno – Dante

Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee

Iron Weed – William J. Kennedy

It Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

Julius Caesar – Shakespeare

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito

The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal

Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman

The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield

Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis

Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens

The Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway

The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson

Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott

Living History – Hillary Clinton

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

The Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

The Love Story – Eric Segal

Macbeth – Shakespeare

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

The Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)

Marathon Man – William Goldman

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

Memoirs of Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir

Memoirs of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman

Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris

The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer

Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken

The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

The Miracle Worker – William Gibson

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin

Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor

A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman

Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret

A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall

My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh

My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken

My Life in Orange – Tim Guest

My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult

The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer

The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco

The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri

The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin

Nervous System – Jan Lars Jensen

New Poems of Emily Dickinson

The New Way Things Work – David Macaulay

Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich

Night – Elie Wiesel

Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen

The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain

Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

Notes of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Old School – Tobias Wolff

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

On the Road – Jack Keruac

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life – Amy Tan

Oracle Night – Paul Auster

Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood

Othello – Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War – Donald Kagan

Out of Africa – Isac Dineson

The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton

A Passage to India – E.M. Forster

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition – Donald Kagan

The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky

Peyton Place – Grace Metalious

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Pigs at the Trough – Arianna Huffington

Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi

Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain

The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby

The Portable Dorothy Parker

The Portable Nietzche

The Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Property – Valerie Martin

Pushkin – TJ Binyon

Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Quattrocento – James McKean

A Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall

Rapunzel – Grimm Brothers

The Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham

Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi

Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant

Rescuing Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman

The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien

R is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton

Rita Hayworth – Stephen King

Robert’s Rules of Order – Henry Robert

Roman Fever – Edith Wharton

Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare

A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf

A Room with a View – EM Forster

Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin

The Rough Guide to Europe

Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi

Sanctuary – William Faulkner

Savage Beauty – Nancy Milford

Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James

The Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum

The Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne

Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand

The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior

The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

Secrets of the Flesh – Judith Thurman

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

A Separate Place – John Knowles

Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

Sexus – Henry Miller

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron

Shane – Jack Shaefer

The Shining – Stephen King

Siddartha – Hermann Hesse

S is for Silence – Sue Grafton

Slaughter-House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut

Small Island – Andrea Levy

Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway

Snow White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore

The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht

Song of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos

The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker

Songbook – Nick Hornby

The Sonnets – Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophie’s Choice – William Styron

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner

Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov

Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach

The Story of my Life – Helen Keller

A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams

Stuart Little – EB White

Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust

Swimming with Giants – Anne Collett

Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald

Term of Endearment – Larry McMurty

Time and Again – Jack Finney

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar

To Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

The Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare

Travel and Motoring through Europe – Myra Waldo

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

The Trial – Franz Kafka

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson

Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett

Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unless – Carol Shields

Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann

The Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Velvet Underground – Joe Harvard

The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

Walt Disney’s Bambi – Felix Salten

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

We Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker

What Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles

What Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell

When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka

Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee

Wicked – Gregory Maguire

The Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion

OTHER RESOURCES:

19th Century Novels Masterpost

20th Century Novels Masterpost

21st Century Novels Masterpost

Rory Gilmore’s Reading List

Series Masterpost

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You have NO IDEA how excited I am this is out! I think I found ur blog just after you took down sensual summoning to prep for publishing, so this whole time I’ve been hooked on just the description! Congrats on publishing, devouring the book now 🩷🩷🩷

Ahhhh oh my gosh I'm sorry I kept you waiting for so long! But I am so touched that you're still here after all this time and I cannot WAIT to hear what you think of the story now that it's available to read again. Come back and tell me what you think, yeah??

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The Morning After - The Golden Globes 2020 Edition

Morning/Afternoon/Night have lost meaning to me in this post holiday stupor, but I assure you I watched Sunday night’s awards. Our methods of media consumption have altered every so slightly each year that at least 1/3 of the celebrity outfits I was checking out this year came from my Twitter app compared to the big TV screen in front of me (which often had a split screen happening to begin with). No matter, it made it all the easier to share via my own twitter and to send to friends who sent me their comments and input through the pre-show and ceremony.

Even more than usual, the Globes felt like a warm-up to me this year. I’ve barely digested the turkey and finished my Top Films of the Decade list and we’re already off to the award season races. As a result, I’m not quite prepared to comment on every single win/loss, but what I can say I have embedded in the list below:

Best Motion Picture — Drama

“The Irishman” (Netflix) “Joker” (Warner Bros.) “Marriage Story” (Netflix) “1917” (Universal) (WINNER) “The Two Popes” (Netflix)

1917 has rocketed to the top of my movies to see list as a result of last night’s Best Drama and Best Director win. Need to see this before the SAG Awards.

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

“Dolemite Is My Name” (Netflix) “Jojo Rabbit” (Fox Searchlight) “Knives Out” (Lionsgate) “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Sony) (WINNER) “Rocketman” (Paramount)

Let it be known here and now, 2020 is going to be the first (and hopefully only) time I speak out against Quentin Tarantino winning an award. I don’t dislike Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood, not at all, I just didn’t think it was anywhere near his best and in the awards race, there were far better this year. I’ve seen all the films in this category with the exception of Rocketman and I liked Jojo Rabbit and Knives out much more, and Dolemite is My Name equally as good as Once Upon A Time.

Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama

Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”) Scarlett Johansson (“Marriage Story”) Saoirse Ronan (“Little Women”) Charlize Theron (“Bombshell”) Renée Zellweger (“Judy”) (WINNER)

I’ve actually only seen Marriage Story and Judy in this category. Renee is phenomenal no doubt, but part of me did question whether her performance would shine through an otherwise mediocre film. Turns out it did.

Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

Christian Bale (“Ford v Ferrari”) Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”) Adam Driver (“Marriage Story”) Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”) (WINNER) Jonathan Pryce (“The Two Popes”)

Joaquin was the favourite in his stacked category, but I recommend all of these performances (though The Two Popes slightly less as a film, not my cup of tea). I was really on the fence about his acceptance speech though, the delivery was channeling too much Joker though the message was in the right place.

Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

Ana de Armas (“Knives Out”) Awkwafina (“The Farewell”) (WINNER) Cate Blanchett (“Where’d You Go, Bernadette”) Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart”) Emma Thompson (“Late Night”)

Another stacked category (I’m gonna make the assumption that Emma Thompson was great in Late Night), these are all movies to see. Awkwafina being recognized in a non-comedic role is a boon for the Asian community. Sidenote: I seem to be in the minority when it comes to Where’d You Go Bernadette, but I quite liked that movie.

Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

Daniel Craig (“Knives Out”) Roman Griffin Davis (“Jojo Rabbit”) Leonardo DiCaprio (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”) (WINNER) Eddie Murphy (“Dolemite Is My Name”)

I’ve not seen Taron Egerton’s performance but predicted he would win anyway.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”) Annette Bening (“The Report”) Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”) (WINNER) Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”) Margot Robbie (“Bombshell”)

Should have been J. Lo. (opinion based on having seen 2 of the 5 performances) Not that Laura Dern isn’t spectacular in everything she does, but is her character in Marriage Story not identical to her role in Big Little Lies?

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

Tom Hanks (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”) Anthony Hopkins (“The Two Popes”) Al Pacino (“The Irishman”) Joe Pesci (“The Irishman”) Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) (WINNER)

Brad Pitt’s good, and this is one of the awards that I’m cool with Once Upon a Time picking up, but was he better than Pesci and Pacino? I mean, is anyone??

Best Director — Motion Picture Bong Joon-ho (“Parasite”) Sam Mendes (“1917”) (WINNER) Todd Phillips (“Joker”) Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”) Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)

Again, the winner is the only film I haven’t seen. I can vouch all the other directors were great.

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”) Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin Won (“Parasite”) Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes”) Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) (WINNER) Steven Zaillian (“The Irishman”)

Ok, it pains me to say this, but Tarantino should not have gotten this one. Give his film any other award but this one! He did a decent job of directing, his cast gave great performances, the wardrobe and production design was fabulous, the editing is solid, even the music was alright (ok, fine, don’t nominate the film for its music neither)... but the weak link in Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood is the story. It’s so beneath what QT can do, it’s like QT made palatable. So please don’t recognize him for this script out of all his scripts. Don’t encourage him to write more scripts like this one. Nevermind that every other film on this list had a better script than his. If I got to pick, I’d have chosen The Irishman, but would have accepted any of the other three as winner.

Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language

“The Farewell” (A24) “Les Misérables” (Amazon) “Pain and Glory” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Parasite” (Neon) (WINNER) “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Neon)

“Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films” Preach Boon Joon-Ho! I’m actually very impressed with the list of nominees this year and I’m even more pleased the best film won.

Best Motion Picture — Animated

“Frozen 2” (Disney) “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” (Universal) “The Lion King” (Disney) “Missing Link” (United Artists) (WINNER) “Toy Story 4” (Disney)

Best Original Score — Motion Picture

Alexandre Desplat (“Little Women”) Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker”) (WINNER) Randy Newman (“Marriage Story”) Thomas Newman (“1917”) Daniel Pemberton (“Motherless Brooklyn”)

I don’t know that any score in particular stood out for me this year, but now that you mention it, Joker did have a pretty great score. It was mentioned that Hildur Guonadottir also wrote the score for Chernobyl and that one was affecting.

Best Original Song — Motion Picture

“Beautiful Ghosts” (“Cats”) “I’m Gonna Love Me Again” (“Rocketman”) (WINNER) “Into the Unknown” (“Frozen 2”) “Spirit” (“The Lion King”) “Stand Up” (“Harriet”)

Why don’t I know a single one of these songs?

Best Television Series — Drama

“Big Little Lies” (HBO) “The Crown” (Netflix) “Killing Eve” (BBC America) “The Morning Show” (Apple TV Plus) “Succession” (HBO) (WINNER)

I should watch Succession.

Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy

“Barry” (HBO) “Fleabag” (Amazon) (WINNER) “The Kominsky Method” (Netflix) “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon) “The Politician” (Netflix)

I should really watch Fleabag.

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

“Catch-22″ (Hulu) “Chernobyl” (HBO) (WINNER) “Fosse/Verdon” (FX) The Loudest Voice (Showtime) “Unbelievable” (Netflix)

Everyone should watch Chernobyl. I stood in front of Reactor 4 shortly before the series aired and when I shared my photos from overseas people were freaking out. I got home and watched the series for myself and truly understood why.

Best Actress in a Television Series — Drama

Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”) Olivia Colman (“The Crown”) (WINNER) Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”) Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies”) Reese Witherspoon (“The Morning Show”)

Best Actor in a Television Series — Drama

Brian Cox (“Succession”) (WINNER) Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”) Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”) Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”) Billy Porter (“Pose”)

Best Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy

Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”) Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Kirsten Dunst (“On Becoming a God in Central Florida”) Natasha Lyonne (“Russian Doll”) Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”) (WINNER)

Best Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy

Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”) Bill Hader (“Barry”) Ben Platt (“The Politician”) Paul Rudd (“Living With Yourself”) Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”) (WINNER)

Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Kaitlyn Dever (“Unbelievable”) Joey King (“The Act”) Helen Mirren (“Catherine the Great”) Merritt Wever (“Unbelievable”) Michelle Williams (“Fosse/Verdon”) (WINNER)

Michelle Williams for best acceptance speech for the night - amiright?

Best Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Christopher Abbott (“Catch-22”) Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Spy”) Russell Crowe (“The Loudest Voice”) (WINNER) Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”) Sam Rockwell (“Fosse/Verdon”)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Patricia Arquette (“The Act”) (WINNER) Helena Bonham Carter (“The Crown”) Toni Collette (“Unbelievable”) Meryl Streep (“Big Little Lies”) Emily Watson (“Chernobyl”)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Alan Arkin (“The Kominsky Method”) Kieran Culkin (“Succession”) Andrew Scott (“Fleabag”) Stellan Skarsgård (“Chernobyl”) (WINNER) Henry Winkler (“Barry”)

Well, that’s me and my two cents. Between the SAG Awards being a couple weeks away and us being in the midst of our January 30 Films in 31 Days film challenge I gotta get back to watching more films stat!

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The 49 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2020

Here is the list of the 55 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in August 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on Amazon; the “on this site” links to the book’s page on this site.

The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects by Laura Arnold Leibman (on this site)

At the Last Moment : The Jewish Struggle for Emigration from Poland before the Holocaust by Irith Cherniavsky (on this site)

Backyard Kitchen: The Main Course by Sarina Roffe (on this site)

A Child of the Century by Ben Hecht (on this site)

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon by Eric H. Cline (on this site)

European Genizah; by Andreas Lehnardt (on this site)

Faith And Courage: Plus: Del Monte And The Pocketknife by Meir Marcus Lehmann (on this site)

The fate of the Jews of Rzeszow 1939-1944. Chronicle of those days by Francis Kotula (on this site)

Fing’s War by Benny Lindelauf (on this site)

Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland (on this site)

Full Bloom: A Novel of Food, Family, and Freaking by Judith Arnold (on this site)

The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever by Avrom Sutzkever (on this site)

The Ghost in Apartment by Denis Markell (on this site)

The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain (on this site)

Hip Set by Michael Fertik (on this site)

The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand (on this site)

The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 CE by Sacha Stern (on this site)

The Jewish Ethic of Personal Responsibility Volume 2: Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky (on this site)

Jewish Folk Tales in Britain and Ireland by Liz Berg (on this site)

The Jewish Journey Haggadah: Connecting the Generations by Adena Berkowitz (on this site)

Ladder of Light: Parashah Insights on Sefer Bamidbar by Rabbi Yaakov Hillel (on this site)

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman (on this site)

Latkes of Love by Sara Marks (on this site)

LifeLines 3 Ordinary People; ¦Facing Extraordinary Challenges. Their Stories – and the Stories Behind Their Stories by C. Saphir (on this site)

Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany by Mark Roseman (on this site)

Lot Six by David Adjmi (on this site)

The Misadventures of Rabbi Kibbitz and Mrs. Chaipul: a midwinter romance of laughter and smiles by Mark Binder (on this site)

The New Jewish Canon by Yehuda Kurtzer, Claire E. Sufrin (on this site)

Now for Something Sweet by Monday Morning Cooking Club (on this site)

Of Bitter Herbs and Sweet Confections by Susan Shalev (on this site)

Opening Your Heart with Psalm 27: A Spiritual Practice for the Jewish New Year by Rabbi Debra J. Robbins (on this site)

Our Man in Jerusalem by Rabbi Nachman Seltzer (on this site)

The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany by Debra Kaplan (on this site)

Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 by Emma Kuby (on this site)

Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis by Eric Lichtblau (on this site)

Social Stratification of the Jewish Population of Roman Palestine in the Period of the Mishnah, 70-250 CE by Ben Zion Rosenfeld and Haim Perlmutter (on this site)

Spinoza’s Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy by Daniel B. Schwartz (on this site)

Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics (on this site)

The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing by Adam Frankel (on this site)

A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night by Allison Ofanansky (on this site)

Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime by Max Hirshfeld (on this site)

The Takeaway Men by Meryl Ain (on this site)

There Was a Young Rabbi: A Hanukkah Tale by Suzanne Wolfe (on this site)

Thinking about God; Jewish Views by Rabbi Kari H. Tuling (on this site)

The War of Return by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf (on this site)

What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism by Robert Schoen (on this site)

Who Really Was the Biblical Elijah? by Israel Drazin (on this site)

Winning Every Moment. Soul Conversations with the Baal HaTanya by Dr. Yehiel Harari (on this site)

Worse and Worse on Noah’s Ark by Leslie Kimmelman (on this site)

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How to Not Die in America by Molly Osberg at Splinter News:

On that second Tuesday in June 2017, I found myself in what I worry could be a fleeting moment in my life, one in which the institutions around me find it advantageous to protect rather than screw me. I find it baffling that, since my illness, well-meaning people have repeatedly referred to me as a “survivor,” as if the fact that I got to go on with my life had to do with some inherent moral strength, rather than the material forces put in motion long before I got sick.

The Many Lives of Pauli Murray by Kathryn Schultz at the New Yorker:

Murray’s silence about her gender and sexuality is striking, because she otherwise spent a lifetime insisting that her identity, like her nation, must be fully integrated. She hated, she wrote, “to be fragmented into Negro at one time, woman at another, or worker at another.”

Yet every movement to which Murray ever belonged vivisected her in exactly those ways.

Socialism As A Set Of Principles by Nathan J. Robinson at Current Affairs:

The instinct that “people should be able to shape their own destinies” leads socialists to endorse what I think is the core meaning of “democracy,” namely the idea that people should have decision-making power over those things that affect them. If we think people’s choices should be valued, then they should be included in decision-making that affects them.

Hence all this business about the “means of production.” The workers in an auto plant are strongly affected by the decision as to whether or not it should close and move production elsewhere. Yet because they do not “own” it (i.e. have any decision-making power), the choice will be made without the participation of those it will impact most. This violates the core principle of democracy. The whole reason socialists are critical of the concentration of private property in few hands is that it constitutes a concentration of socially consequential decision-making power.

How The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today’s Nightmare Politics by Zach Carter and Arthur Delaney at Huffington Post:

ACORN had survived for more than 40 years. Its sudden collapse was a defining moment in 21st century American politics. The explosive cocktail of racism, dishonesty, incompetence and cowardice that brought down the organization reveals as much about Washington Democrats as it does about the conservative movement. It marked the Republican Party’s full transition from the coded winks and nods of Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” to the bellicose white nativism that defines Donald Trump, and it exposed a Democratic Party establishment unprepared for dirty tricks in the Digital Age and unwilling to defend many of the black voters and activists it claimed to represent.

The Spy Who Came Home by Ben Taub in the New Yorker:

[O]ver the years he came to believe that counterterrorism was creating more problems than it solved, fuelling illiberalism and hysteria, destroying communities overseas, and diverting attention and resources from essential problems in the United States.

Meanwhile, American police forces were adopting some of the militarized tactics that Skinner had seen give rise to insurgencies abroad. “We have to stop treating people like we’re in Fallujah,” he told me. “It doesn’t work. Just look what happened in Fallujah.”

The epic mistake about manufacturing that’s cost Americans millions of jobs by Gwynn Guilford at Quartz:

Thanks to a painstaking analysis by a handful of economists, it’s become clear that the data that underpin the dominant narrative—or more precisely, the way most economists interpreted the data—were way off-base. Foreign competition, not automation, was behind the stunning loss in factory jobs. And that means America’s manufacturing sector is in far worse shape than the media, politicians, and even most academics realize.

Inside the Massive U.S. 'Border Zone' by Tanvi Misra at Citylab:

Agents can enter private property, set up highway checkpoints, have wide discretion to stop, question, and detain individuals they suspect to have committed immigration violations—and can even use race and ethnicity as factors to do so.

That’s striking because the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population, and around 75 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population, according to a CityLab analysis based on data from location intelligence company ESRI. This zone, which hugs the entire edge of the United States and runs 100 air miles inside, includes some of the densest cities—New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Other Favorites

Science

This Roman ‘gate to hell’ killed its victims with a cloud of deadly carbon dioxide by Colin Barras at Science Magazine

The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease: a historical perspective by Syed S Mahmood, Daniel Levy, Ramachandran S Vasan, and Thomas J Wang in the Lancet (full text here) - this article describes how the death of President Franklin Roosevelt from heart disease impacted cardiovascular research in this country

Twitter thread by Ask An Entomologist @BugQuestions - “What we now call 'queen' bees-the main female reproductive honeybees-were erroneously called 'kings' for nearly 2,000 years. Why?“

Diary of a Local Data Reporter by Rachel Alexander at Source - “Telling the story of health care workers dying from opioid overdoses in Spokane, Washington“

Method to identify undetected drug suicides wins top NIDA Addiction Science Award at the NIH website - what the post title fails to mention is that the method was discovered by a pair of high school girls. Hell yeah, teenage science nerds making the world a better place. <3

Tech

Inclusion Riders in Tech by Nicole Sanchez at Medium and, conversely, Sorry, Hollywood. Inclusion Riders Won’t Save You by Rebecca Chapman at the New York Times

Stop Being Sexist, Siri at One Foot Tsunami - an example of algorithmic bias vis-a-vis the devaluation of women’s sports

The Aggregator Paradox by Ben Thompson at Stratechery - Facebook, Google, and their relationship with publishers and advertisers

Double Buffer by Robert Nystrom in Game Programming Patterns - a delightfully clear explanation of the kind of problem double buffering solves (graphics rendering in games) and how to implement it

The Universal Design Pattern by Steve Yegge at their personal blog - a long, detailed, and admittedly decade-old pitch for the properties design pattern

Four cents to deanonymize: Companies reverse hashed email addresses by Gunes Acar at Freedom to Tinker

Georgia bill could stifle the state’s booming cybersecurity community by Seth Rosenblatt at The Parallax - yet another example of why legislators at all levels need more technical experts on their staff

Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention by moxio0 on the Signal blog

Invisible asymptotes by Eugene Wei at Remains of the Day - designing social media and other software products for growth

12 Fractured Apps by Kelsey Hightower at Medium - a practical guide to implementing 12FA philosophy when using Docker

Politics

America’s poor subsidize wealthier consumers in a vicious income inequality cycle by Aaron Klein at The Brookings Institution

Markets aren’t natural: governments have to make them work by Steven K. Vogel at OUPBlog

Black Teens Have Been Fighting for Gun Reform for Years by Lincoln Anthony Blades in Teen Vogue

The Persistence of Tyranny by Ken White at PopeHat - “Tyranny is mouthing platitudes about liberty while cheering its suppression. Tyranny is our capacity to rationalize exceptions to rights for our enemies. Tyranny is our willingness to dismiss violation of rights as unimportant or minimal. Tyranny sold you your morning coffee.”

How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will by Yves Smith at naked capitalism

How Conflicts (Don’t) End by Richard English at Lawfare - four elements of conflict resolution as exemplified by the Northern Ireland peace process

Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns by Jeremy Adam Smith at Scientific American

We have to build the future out of the past by Quinn Norton at emptywheel - “This is the myth of the truth of the moment — that we are powerful beyond our own understanding, and broken and angry within our dysfunctional family.”

In A World That Polices Black Movement, ‘Black Boys Dance Too’ Is Revolutionary by By Ja’han Jones at Huffington Post

Inside Russian Women’s Fight For Their Lives by Madeline Roache at The Establishment - how legislation decriminalizing domestic abuse has made life even worse for women in Russia

Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don’t Survive to Become Seniors by Ed Kilgore at NYMag

History

Becoming Trans: Transgender Identity In The Middle Ages by zac clifton at Medium

Heroes, Identity and the Realm of History by Meg Foster at JHIBlog - on the Australian semi-mythic figure of the ‘bushranger’

Rethinking the “Lessons” of the First World War by Michael Neiberg at Lawfare

Misc

Why dictators find the lure of writing books irresistible by Lucy Hughes-Hallett at New Statesman - a review of a book which is itself a series of reviews of books by Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Mussolini, etc.

What Fullness Is by Roxane Gay at Medium - Gay writes about getting weight loss surgery

The non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka, and their plan to do the same around the world by Robery Wilbin at 80,000 hours - this title is wildly misleading but the content is interesting

Words Matter by Siderea on Dreamwidth - Small changes in language can have big effects.

“Who Do You Think You Are?”: When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity by Tressie McMillan Cottom in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology

Black Issues in Philosophy: A Conversation on Get Out at the APA Blog - an analysis of the film Get Out by political theorist Derefe Kimarley Chevannes and philosopher Lewis Gordon

A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain by Glenn Fleishman at The Atlantic - I’m so excited, you guys! For the first time in my adult life, we’re going to get a mass release of public domain material! If Disney doesn’t get to it first, anyway.

The Rise and Fall of Dr. M. by Bernd Kramer at Elephant in the Lab - a story of academic fraud

Short & Sweet: Change Makers by forestofglory at ladybusiness - a short list of short stories about ordinary people making political change, all available to read for free online

Tendrils of Mess in our Brains by Srah Perry at ribbonfarm - what makes a mess a mess?

When does your company stop paying women in 2018? by Josh Holder, Alexandra Topping, Caelainn Barr and Antonio Voce at The Guardian - an interactive map

nontoxic masculinity by Katie at her personal blog - lifting up examples of non-toxic masculinity

“When Tables Speak”: On the Existence of Trans Philosophy by Talia Mae Bettcher at Daily Nous

A Deep Dive into the Harris-Klein Controversy by John Nerst at Everything Studies - an extremely thorough and thought-provoking analysis of someone else’s debate (bonus follow-up post)

I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye by Ta-Nehisi Coates - as a white person I don’t feel comfortable opining on this except to say it’s really, really worth reading

The Nice Cop by Nick Slater at Current Affairs - “Is this because cruel people become cops, or because becoming a cop makes people cruel? I used to think the answer was obvious, until I watched my friend kill a man on Facebook Live.”

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'Shape of Water,' 'Three Billboards' lead Oscar nominations

NEW YORK/January 23, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) — Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director and “Mudbound” director of photography Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman nominated for best cinematography in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.

Oscar voters put forward nine best-picture nominees: “The Shape of Water ,” Martin McDonaugh’s rage-fueled comic drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ,” Gerwig’s nuanced coming-of-age tale “Lady Bird ,” Jordan Peele’s horror sensation “Get Out ,” Joe Wright’s Winston Churchill drama “Darkest Hour ,” Steven Spielberg’s timely newspaper drama “The Post ,” Christopher Nolan’s World War II epic “Dunkirk ,” Luca Guadagnino’s tender love story “Call Me By Your Name ” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s twisted romance “Phantom Thread .”

“The Shape of Water” landed just shy of tying the record of 14 nominations by “All About Eve,” ”Titanic” and “La La Land.” Del Toro’s dark fantasy — a Cold War era ode to outsiders about a mute cleaning lady and an amphibious creature — scored a wide array for nominations for its cast (Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer), del Toro’s directing, its sumptuous score (by Alexandre Desplat) and its technical craft.

Reached by phone Tuesday in Los Angeles, del Toro said he would celebrate by working and eating an extra chicken sausage for breakfast. “That will be my indulgence for the day.”

The Mexican filmmaker said “The Shape of Water” has resonated because it explodes “the myth of ‘us and them.'”

“You realize that we are all, in some way or another, a bit of an outsider in different ways,” said del Toro. “Not fearing the other but embracing the other is the only way to go as a race. The urgency of that message of hope and emotion is what sustained the faith for roughly half a decade that the movie needed to be made.”

The cascading fallout of sexual harassment scandals throughout Hollywood put particular focus on the best director category, which for many is a symbol of gender inequality in the film industry. Gerwig follows only Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola and Kathryn Bigelow, the sole woman to win (for “The Hurt Locker”).

Also nominated for best director was Peele. He becomes the fifth black filmmaker nominated for best director, and the third to helm a best-picture nominee, following Barry Jenkins last year for “Moonlight.” He’s also the third person to receive best picture, director and writing nods for his first feature film after Warren Beatty (“Heaven Can Wait”) and James L. Brooks (“Terms of Endearment”).

“What’s the opposite of the Sunken Place?” said Peele on Twitter.

Though all of the acting front-runners — Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards”), Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”), Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”), Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards”) — landed their expected nominations, there were surprises.

Denzel Washington (“Roman J. Israel, Esq.”) was nominated for best actor, likely eclipsing James Franco (“Disaster Artist”). Franco was accused of sexual misconduct, which he denied, just days before Oscar voting closed. The category’s other nominees were a retiring veteran — Daniel Day-Lewis for what he’s said is his final performance (“Phantom Thread”) — and a pair of breakouts: Timothee Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name”) and “Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”).

Christopher Plummer, who replaced Kevin Spacey in Ridley Scott’s “All the Money in the World,” also sneaked into the best supporting actor category. Added to the film in reshoots little more than a month before the film’s release, 88-year-old Plummer is the oldest acting nominee ever.

Perhaps most unexpected was the broad success of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” which scored not only nods for Day-Lewis and Lesley Manville, for best supporting actress, but also nominations for best picture, Anderson’s direction, costume design and Johnny Greenwood’s score.

Anderson likely displaced not only Steven Spielberg (“The Post”) but Martin McDonagh, the director of the film many have tapped to win best picture, “Three Billboards.” His absence is a major knock for a film that has endured the harshest backlash of the contenders, with many claiming it’s out of touch in matters of race.

Still, “Three Billboards” scored seven nominations Tuesday, behind only “The Shape of Water” and Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk.” The World War II epic, thus far little-honored in Hollywood’s awards season, emerged especially strong with Oscar voters, taking eight nominations, many of them in technical categories. It’s Nolan’s first nomination for best director.

Though the favorites are largely independent films, a number of blockbusters fared well, including five nods for “Blade Runner 2049,” four for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” three for “Baby Driver,” two for “Beauty and the Beast” and two for Pixar’s “Coco,” which is up for best animated feature.

Still, Patty Jenkins’ “Wonder Woman,” which became the highest grossing movie ever directed by a woman, failed to receive any Oscar nods despite an awards campaign. (Sean Baker’s far lower budgeted “The Florida Project” also managed only a supporting actor nomination for Willem Dafoe despite hopes for a best picture nod.)

But the box-office hit that carved the most unlikely path to the Oscars was “Get Out.” It opened back in February on Oscar weekend, and went on to pocket $254.7 million worldwide. It scored four nominations.

Though many minorities were still absent from the acting categories, the film academy, which has worked to diversify its membership, put forward a field of nominees almost as diverse as last year when “Moonlight,” ”Fences” and “Hidden Figures” powered a rebuttal to the “OscarsSoWhite” backlash of the two years prior. Four black actors — Washington, Kaluuya, Spencer and Mary J. Blige (“Mudbound”) — are among the 20 acting nominees.

Meryl Streep, who stars as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham in “The Post,” notched her 21st Oscar nomination. She was joined for best actress by McDormand, Hawkins, Saoirse Ronan (“Lady Bird”) and Margot Robbie (“I, Tonya”).

“I am honored beyond measure by this nomination for a film I love, a film that stands in defense of press freedom, and inclusion of women’s voices in the movement of history,” Streep said in a statement. “Proud of the film, and all her filmmakers. Thank you from a full heart.”

The 89-year-old French filmmaking legend Agnes Varda, an honorary Oscar winner this season, is also up for best documentary for her co-directed “Faces Places.” The other nominees are: “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” ”Last Men in Aleppo” and two Netflix entries: “Icarus” and “Strong Island.” Yance Ford, the director of “Strong Island,” about Ford’s investigation into his brother’s 1992 murder, becomes the first transgender filmmaker nominated for an Oscar.

Some had lobbied for “A Fantastic Woman” star Daniela Vega to become the first transgender actor nominated. While Vega didn’t garner a nomination, her film, from Chile, landed in the best foreign language category. The other nominees are: “The Insult,” from Lebanon; “Loveless,” from Russia; “On Body and Soul,” from Hungary; and the Palme d’Or winner “The Square,” from Sweden.

Last year’s Oscars broadcast, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, drew 32.9 million viewers for ABC, a four percent drop from the prior year. More worrisome, however, was a steeper slide in the key demographic of adults aged 18-49, whose viewership was down 14 percent from 2016.

Though the show ran especially long, at three hours and 49 minutes, it finished with a bang: the infamous envelope mix-up that led to “La La Land” being incorrectly announced as the best picture before “Moonlight” was crowned.

This year, the academy has prohibited the PwC accountants who handle the envelopes from using cellphones or social media during the show. The accounting firm on Monday also unveiled several reforms including the addition of a third balloting partner in the show’s control room. But the movie business has larger accounting problems. Movie attendance hit a 24-year low in 2017 despite the firepower of “The Last Jedi,” ”Beauty and the Beast” and “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2.”

It was a dominant if bittersweet day for 20th Century Fox. Its specialty label, Fox Searchlight, is behind both “Three Billboards” and “The Shape of Water,” and Fox released “The Post.” Yet Fox’s leading 27 nominations may soon count for the Walt Disney Co., which last month reached a deal to purchase Fox for $52.4 billion.

Both Amazon and Netflix failed to crack the best picture category but earned nominations elsewhere. Netflix’s “Mudbound” scored four nods and Amazon’s “The Big Sick” grabbed a nomination for Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s original screenplay about their real-life romance.

“At times we worried it would be insurmountable, or would rip us apart, or even worse — that no one would like it,” Nanjiani and Gordon said in a joint statement. “The fact that it connected with audiences is exhilarating, and this nomination proves that our love is real. We have decided to stay married.”

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2018 oscar nominations

my oscar “to do” list. bolded the ones i’ve seen.

Best Picture Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actress in a Leading Role Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Meryl Streep, The Post

Best Actor in a Leading Role Daniel Day-Lewis, The Phantom Thread Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role Mary J. Blige, Mudbound Allison Janney, I, Tonya Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Actor in a Supporting Role Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Feature Film Coco Ferdinand Loving Vincent The Breadwinner The Boss Baby

Best Cinematography Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049 Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water Rachel Morrison, Mudbound Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk

Best Costume Design Jacqueline Durran, Darkest Hour Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread Consolata Boyle, Victoria and Abdul Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water

Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best Documentary (Feature) Faces Places Last Men in Aleppo Strong Island Abacus Icarus: Small Enough to Jail

Best Documentary (Short Subject) Edith + Eddie Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 Heroin(e) Knife Skills Traffic Stop

Best Film Editing Jonathan Amos, Paul Machlis, Baby Driver Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Tatiana S. Riegel, I, Tonya Lee Smith, Dunkirk Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water

Best Foreign Language Film A Fantastic Woman Loveless On Body and Soul The Insult The Square

Best Makeup and Hairstyling Beverly Binda, Victoria and Abdul J.D. Bowers, Megan Harkness, Ailsa Macmillan, Robert A. Pandini, Wonder David Malinkowski, Lucy Sibbick, Anita Burger, Darkest Hour

Best Music (Original Score) Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread Carter Burwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk

Best Music (Original Song) “Mighty River” from Mudbound by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, and Taura Stinson “Remember Me” from Coco by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez “Stand Up for Something” from Marshall by Common, Andra Day, and Diane Warren “The Mystery of Love” from Call Me by Your Name by Sufjan Stevens “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Best Production Design Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis, Dunkirk Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin, The Shape of Water Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Darkest Hour Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer, Beauty and the Beast Bladerunner 2049

Best Short Film (Animated) Dear Basketball Garden Party Negative Space Lou Revolting Rhymes

Best Short Film (Live Action) DeKalb Elementary My Nephew Emmett The Silent Child Watu Wote/All of Us The Eleven o’clock

Best Sound Editing Richard King, Alex Gibson, Dunkirk Mark A. Mangini, Theo Green, Blade Runner 2049 Nathan Robitaille, The Shape of Water Julian Slater, Baby Driver Matthew Wood, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Sound Mixing Ron Bartlett, Dough Hemphill, Mac Ruth, Blade Runner 2049 Tim Cavagin, Julian Slater, Baby Driver Christian T. Cooke, Filip Hosek, Brad Zoern, The Shape of Water Gregg Landaker, Gary Rizzo, Mark Weingarten, Dunkirk David Parker, Michael Semanchick, Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green, Logan Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist Dee Rees, Virgil Williams, Mudbound

Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Guillermo Del Toro & Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick Jordan Peele, Get Out Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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