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But whether such attack ads will convince voters that Trump has the right stuff remains questionable as the coronavirus focuses attention closer to home. Bob Shrum, a Democratic strategist and director of the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California, said: “The country would like steady, experienced leadership that listens to science and doesn’t grandstand and actually cares when 100,000 people are killed. Tesla in the sky doesn’t make up for 100,000 dead people.” … [Read more...] about Trump wants America looking at the stars as he drags it through the gutter

Jimmy Kimmel It’s been an altogether brutal week of news, but “while racial injustice is tearing this country apart”, said Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night, in reference to protests over the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by Minneapolis police, Donald Trump “is going to war with Twitter”. … [Read more...] about Jimmy Kimmel: ‘If Trump is so mad at Twitter, why doesn’t he stop using it?’

The funniest film I’ve ever seen … Monty Python and the Holy Grail made me laugh over and over again as a teenager. Then again, so did Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle so that’s not necessarily much of a measure. With my self-respecting-adult-with-carefully-cultivated-tastes hat on, I’d have to say Dr Strangelove, an unparalleled achievement in the silly treatment of serious subject matter. … [Read more...] about Liam Williams: ‘I like saying poem to rhyme with home’

Yes, Boots Riley has a valid point that the true story of Ron Stallworth was very different to the one that Lee presents. But the counter argument is that a film which is presented as being “based upon some fo’ real, fo’ real shit” should be taken with a healthy pinch of salt. And, anyway, the film’s best moments all mix reality and fiction to glorious effect. There’s Lee’s presentation of civil rights activist Kwame Ture, who Stallworth really did meet and who is played by a career-best Corey Hawkins. There’s the masterstroke of using Harry Belafonte to appear as Jerome Turner, a made-up character who tells the Colorado students about the very real lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, is one of Lee’s very best and is an important piece of storytelling that lingers long after the credits roll. Then there’s the film’s coup de theatre: the interspersing of real-life footage of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally, a … [Read more...] about Why BlacKkKlansman should win the best picture Oscar

Now that cannabis is legal in California, marijuana-infused beauty products (including bath oil, right, and bath bombs, left), cannabis edibles and membership of a cannabis users' club are among the £80,000 of freebies in goodie bags for nominees. … [Read more...] about Will it be Olivia’s Colman’s night? It’s too Close to call!: All the talk of Tinseltown ahead of tonight’s Oscars