Saturday Reads and Stuff

 Arizona Republicans are strangely silent following a judge's ruling allowing an antiabortion statute to stand.

I thought the population was "evenly divided" on the issue.  Come to find out it isn't and never was since the 1960s.  The antiabortion viewpoint has long been the minority viewpoint and will be even be less popular as time goes on.

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A firsthand account of what went on in Brighton, UK, last weekend:



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Obituary:  Oscar-winning actress Louise Fletcher 88, has died.  She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in the rather overrated 1975 film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  

Her performance was good, but the film not so much.

Snip:

Fletcher’s Oscar came for her second movie after a long break from acting to raise her children.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” starred Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution, where Mildred Ratched – played by Fletcher – reigns as an authoritarian, controlling nurse.

In her Oscar speech, Fletcher sweetly thanked her “Cuckoo’s Nest” colleagues and then, using sign language, acknowledged her deaf parents watching at home.

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1 comment:

Badger said...

Louise Fletcher won the Oscar for Best Actress, not Best Supporting Actress.

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is one of only 3 films to win all of the major Oscars: Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director. The other 2 are "It Happened One Night" and "The Silence of the Lambs."

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