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6 hours ago, death tribble said:

Here are the Oscar results. Oppenheimer wins big. Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68530809

 

More importantly, the Oppenheimer sequel won Best Visual Effects.

 

The effects crew accepted the award carrying Godzilla figures and wearing Godzilla themed heels:

 

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Michael Culver who played Captain Needa in The Empire Strikes Back has died aged 85.

He was also in the Cadfael series as the strict Prior. And in Secret Army's first two series he was the head of the Luftwaffe police.

 

I once saw him in Hyde Park when there was a Japanese festival. He was playing Go as it was being demonstrated

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Oh man....

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/europe/crocus-moscow-shooting/index.html

 

NYT indicated

 

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The U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert on March 7, warning that its personnel were “monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts.”

 

EDIT:  the embassy further explained that "extremists" did NOT refer to Ukraine...that it was something totally separate.  They note the owner of the facility is Aras Agaralov, an Azerbaijani billionaire sometimes described as one of Putin's oligarchs, so that could certainly be the motive.  We'll likely never know for sure.

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The only slightly positive point is, the ship mayday'd in time, so traffic was blocked from entering the bridge before the collision.  Unfortunately, there were still vehicles that'd started crossing before the blockade could be erected, and clearly, some didn't have enough time to cross.

 

OMG....this is...a mind-blowing pic. Has to be well after the fact because the collision was also very early in the morning...

 

The Dali cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26.

 

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More than ever, I regret that the boat-slamming-into-wharf bits from The Boatniks, featuring Ernest Borgnine's inarticulate series of grunts and subsequent impact, is not present on YouTube.

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