Sir Anthony Hopkins pays tribute to Chadwick Boseman in his Oscar acceptance speech pic.twitter.com/UVTRA56hko
— Films to Films ?️? (@FilmstoFilms_) April 26, 2021
From Go Fug Yourself:
… Much will be said and written about the Oscars’ decision to fiddle with the order of the show, to (presumably) pre-write a big ending that then didn’t come to pass. It was a bad gamble, made weirder by the fact that ever since the BAFTAs the pundits seemed to see Anthony Hopkins’s win as more and more certain. At ANY point, they could have changed the order back and ended on Best Picture, celebrating the amalgam of all the creative categories that had already been honored. I guess… credit to them for not cheating and looking in the envelopes, but it was a real whimper of an ending on a lot of levels — not least that they for sure could have guessed that if the winner was NOT Chadwick, it would be Hopkins, whom everyone knew would not be there as he has not attended any of them. And indeed, the air was let out of the room and Joaquin Phoenix scurried off the stage (I don’t blame him) and the credits rolled and we were out. It made the whole thing more wrenching, and I don’t think a Chadwick win would have been any LESS emotional if it had come in the usual spot…
So they built the Oscars around Chadwick Boseman winning Best Actor posthumously and instead a white, 83-year old British actor, who didn't bother to set up his Zoom account, wins.
Really hard to think of a better way for an Oscars ceremony honoring the films of 2020 to end!
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) April 26, 2021
Leto
If all of this was building towards Chadwick winning, as Cohen states, then they weren’t going to risk having viewership fall off a few categories before the end of the night. Yet another shit move by the committee.
NotMax
Apparently most couldn’t have cared less. Audience reported to be around 40% of the number for the previous lowest rated Oscars ceremony.
ABC gonna have to launch a raft of make-good spots for advertisers, methinks.
Yutsano
And here we thought the Great Whiteness would be finally washed from the Oscars…
KrackenJack
Ah, I saw that they had changed the order of the top awards, but didn’t connect it to Boseman. Serves them right.
West of the Rockies
YMMV, but I think referring to Hopkins as just “a white 82 year old British actor” is dismissive. He acted beside Hepburn and O’Toole (and a thousand others) and is long regarded as excellent. Need he apologize for being old, too?
This is not to dismiss Boseman.
NotMax
Damn good dinner. Gonna be even better tomorrow. And the next day. And in all likelihood the day after that.
There’s really no standard or classic recipe for galinhada so can’t call it a variant, rather a version cobbled up to utilize the Instant Pot and a package of Coscto’s cooked, cut-up rotisserie chicken breast meat.
Far as I’m concerned, so long as it incorporates chicken, diluted broth, lemon juice, rice, peas and a relatively hefty dose of saffron, it’s a galinhada. Included a can of diced tomatoes for an added note of flavor.
fourmorewars
Amir Khalid
It’s been some years since I watched the Oscars. I’ve come to the realisation that I don’t like a film any better just because it won an award.
piratedan
@Amir Khalid: agree with that, if they got my money and I received entertainment in return, I’m pretty much happy at this point. Don’t need a popularity contest to reaffirm if I enjoyed a film/performance. Nice for those folks who use that to increase their visibility and paychecks.. but not anything I get “invested” in any more.
Amir Khalid
@West of the Rockies:
I agree. Maybe Michael Cohen (is he that Michael Cohen?) was snarking, but if so I don’t think he quite pulled it off.
mrmoshpotato
High. Roller.
NotMax
Working through the BBC mini-series Undercover on Prime. Have some problems with it (multiple convoluted plots can become exasperating), however Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester always worth a look and play off one another excellently. Trailer linked is a tad misleading; if the series were likened to our solar system, she would be the Sun and he Jupiter.
West of the Rockies
@Amir Khalid:
This Is not Trump’s former attorney. This Michael Cohen is a journalist.
Rusty
Since an open thread, the Supremes taking up a gun rights case will turn out to be a major event of 2021. There is a lot of evil that will come from a likely decision of a right of anyone to carry anywhere and everywhere. I’m too old, but my kids should just get the hell out and build their lives somewhere else where every trip to the grocery store doesn’t require an encounter with an a open carry gun nut.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: That all sounds very good, but I’d leave out the tomatoes.
Oddly, I just realized that I don’t think I know what saffron tastes like, not sure if I’ve ever had it.
OzarkHillbilly
@fourmorewars: Hear hear, could not have said it better. ;-)
@opiejeanne: In my experience saffron doesn’t taste like much of anything at all, but I’ve got the palate of a dingo.
opiejeanne
@West of the Rockies: A couple of years ago, the elder of my two nieces told me about the time Anthony Hopkins babysat her and her sister while her dad was working as an extra on a movie. I reacted with mock-horror, so I asked her if it was Silence of the Lambs*. It wasn’t, and I have no idea what movie it was and her Dad’s IMDB is very incomplete, but he shows up looking like the guy in the Arrow shirt ads from Saturday Evening Post, dressed like he’s ready for the regatta, complete with a boater.
Tony was in Million Dollar Baby, right. at the end, when you’re watching Clint Eastwood eating a piece of pie, except that’s Tony eating the pie.
She said they stayed in his trailer and he fed them lunch and played a board game with them, and that he was very nice. I think she said he made tunafish sandwiches for them.
opiejeanne
@OzarkHillbilly: Ha! My husband is like that.
I imagine it might taste of something both savory and exotic, something you’d expect in Indian or Middle Eastern cookery, and I’ve had a bit of experience with both, but just have no memory of knowing that “this” is what saffron tastes like.
Maybe I should sell some stocks and buy some, just to find out.
OzarkHillbilly
@opiejeanne: My experiences with saffron are limited to my wife’s and her mother’s paellas, which are such a melange of flavors it’s little wonder I can’t pick it out, assuming it has any flavor at all.
Robert Sneddon
You do that thing of collecting bits of roadkill too? I thought I was the only one. Wanna trade some duplicates?
“He had the heart of a little child. He kept it in a jar on his desk.” Robert Bloch, horror writer.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Amir Khalid: That’s only part of the show. I tune in to see Bob Hope’s jokes, Jayne Mansfield’s neckline, a song and dance by Gary Busey, an inspirational speech by Scott Baio, and streaking.
Now, that’s entertainment.
Chris T.
Saffron tastes yellow.
Seriously, it’s supposed to be reminiscent of honey and/or hay, a bit sweet, and slightly metallic. I can’t taste it at all myself.
NotMax
@opiejeanne
The taste is subtly herbaceous; it’s more of an aromatic (plus provides coloration to the rice). If the taste of saffron stands out in a dish, one has overdone it. It’s not so much that you distinctly taste it as it is you notice its absence if omitted.
OzarkHillbilly
@Robert Sneddon: “From your grill to ours!” –The Road Kill Cafe
LATE NIGHT DELIGHT
Served Fresh Each Night – After Dark
Rack of Racoon 3.95
Smear of Deer 4.95
Awesome Possum 1.95
Cheap Sheep 4.35
Road Pizza 5.75
Eating food is more fun
When you know it was hit on the run!
Center Line Bovine
Tastes real good straight from the hood 4.95
The Chicken
That didn’t cross the road 3.95
Flat Cat
Served as a single or in a stack 2.95
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(Still in the hide)
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Mashed Moose Meatballs 2.95
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Splat of Rat 3.55
Road Toad a la Mode 1.65
Shake ‘N’ Bake Snake 2.25
Whippoorwill on a Grill 3.30
Rigor Mortis Tortoise
Aged to Perfection 6.75
Narrow Sparrow .55
Thumper a la Bumper 3.75
sab
@Chris T.: My mom used to use saffron. It was incredibly expensive.When she died I brought home a bottle of saffron she had had in her refrigerator for about 25 years.
We cooked with it. It was very yellow but otherwise absolutely no taste. Probably because so extremely old. But no taste at all.
sab
@NotMax: So 25 years in the fridge isn’t helpful?
sab
@NotMax: My husband, former long time smoker, does not have a subtle palate. So saffron is wasted on him.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Try the ‘Dillo in Phyllo.
NotMax
@sab
Offhand I’d say about the same potency as anything else kept there for a quarter century.
;)
Is it expensive as all get out? You betcha. But a little goes a long way. When I said “a hefty dose” above, that was a total of maybe 8 or 9 threads, and that for a BIG pot of stew.
Mary G
@opiejeanne: Saffron adds a gorgeous yellow gold color to a dish with rice. My mother the food whisperer loved it and I used to search and search for it for Christmas and b-days. Half the time she’d sniff it and be unable to hide the fact that she thought it was fake. Can probably order it on Amazon or Penzey’s now.
NotMax
Simply as a change of pace, will sometimes make a little saffron tea (2 threads crumbled and left to soak in ¼ or ½ cup of water is plenty) to use as a portion of the liquid when making a challah loaf in the super duper bread machine. Besides a pleasing hue and aroma, results in the merest hint of tanginess.
WereBear
@opiejeanne: The man is a treasure and one of my favorites…
I think if they struggle to give an award to an African-American artist while they are ALIVE they aren’t going to put themselves out posthumously.
sab
@NotMax: My summer savory is much older. I don’t know what to do with it so have done nothing.
My grandmother was Irish/Scottish growing up in a German town in Wisconsin.
She got odd cooking ideas, and passed them on to us.
Herb (summery savory )a roasting lamb (we ate) like a pork (germans ate). Results were weird.
My mother was a good cook until she strayed from her roots. Her spaghetti was memoribly horrible. Bland.
sab
@opiejeanne: Some jackals love Lion in Winter movie as Christmas fare. I was obsessed at age 14. Anthony Hopkins as young Richard the Lionheart. Hopefully this revives that movie ( lions in winter chew on the scenery.)
NotMax
@sab
Definitely a movie that distinctly conveys how cold and drafty those castles were.
sab
@NotMax: Hence NotMax to Hawaii?
NotMax
@sab
Always wondered how many takes it required to get even a seasoned veteran such as Hepburn to voice “Henry’s bed is Henry’s province: he can people it with sheep for all I care, which, on occasion, he has done.” with a straight face.
OzarkHillbilly
@sab: Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn, what’s not to love? I had forgotten about Hopkins as Richard but for some reason always remember Nigel Terry as John. Great movie, perfectly cast.
sab
@OzarkHillbilly: Timothy Dalton as the young French king sparring with Henry II.
opiejeanne
@OzarkHillbilly: I saw it many years ago and thought it and they were wonderful.
sab
@NotMax: My junior year abroad in UK 1975-76 I wandered over to France to see Chinon, and there was nothing there but a ruin. Amazing movie people to make us think there was still a full castle.
Abnormal Hiker
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: You forgot Sacheen Littlefeather
Brachiator
@NotMax:
That’s why they call it “Mellow Yellow.”
sab
@OzarkHillbilly: Nigel Terry was memorable. I always liked Geoffrey. Reading David Hume History of England (which my dad through out in a house purge I am still angry about 60+ years later) Geoffrey died in a tournament. Henry II died of a surfeit of eels.
Thank God that is not a US problem. When was the last time you knew anyone to eat an eel outside a sushi bar?
NotMax
@sab
Most banefully memorable eel scene in a movie has got to be in The Tin Drum.
NotMax
@Brachiator
“Quite rightly.”
;)
OzarkHillbilly
@sab: In Venom, when the infected EMT grabs a live one out of a water barrel and begins gnoshing on it’s writhing body.
Cameron
I didn’t think it was possible that I’d want to move back to Pennsylvania. I was wrong. “But, please – tell us how you really feel…..”
https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-anti-riot/
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
(is he that Michael Cohen?)
I wondered the same, so I checked his Twitter bio. He makes it clear that he is not:
Mustang Bobby
Sir Anthony Hopkins is not British. He’s Welsh, and woe betide anyone who conflates the two in the presence of someone who is Welsh.
SiubhanDuinne
@sab:
Apologies for the pedantry, but that was his grandfather, Henry I.
schrodingers_cat
@opiejeanne: saffron is also used in desserts. It has a wonderful aroma and a subtle delicate flavor and gives the dish you put it in a beautiful yellowish orange color.
Nicole
@Mustang Bobby: You mean Sir Anthony Hopkins, CBE?
He is both British and Welsh. What he is not is English.
Booger
@Mustang Bobby: Obligatory joke:
Man walks into a bar, admires two women chatting, notes their accent. “Hey, are you two ladies from England?”
“WALES!!”
“Okay! Hey, are you two whales from England?”
Sorry.
germy
Note to the dumb ass, arrogant twitter guy who is quoted at the top of this thread, Michael Cohen:
Anthony Hopkins was denied the ability to give his acceptance speech on the night of the Oscars due to the Academy’s rules about no Zoom calls. In a move that shocked many, the Academy moved the Best Actor award to the final award of the night. Many figured this was because the Academy anticipated that the late Chadwick Boseman would win the award for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but in a surprise upset, Hopkins won for his performance in The Father.
Unlike other awards shows, which implemented Zoom calls for nominees to account for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Academy vetoed Zooms so the nominees had to attend in-person at one of the many hubs they had set up across the globe to broadcast. Hopkins was nowhere to be seen, and The Academy accepted the award on his behalf. With the final award of the night presented with no one there to accept it, the ceremony ended on a rather lackluster note with no big speeches or tributes.
https://screenrant.com/anthony-hopkins-oscars-acceptance-speech-why-details/
germy
Last!
Woodrow/asim
I find it frustrating that the Oscars dialogue here (and elsewhere) is about how Hopkins was/is talked about, and damn little — again, both here and elsewhere — is about the Academy being unable to properly pay tribute to a Black actor’s untimely death.
The NFT of Boseman that’s part of the Oscar gift bad was so poorly thought-out, they are redesigning it. This act of re-ordering has overshadowed some really powerful wins for Women and People of Color, this year. It’s sad that something that can mean so much to so many, is being corroded by people who can’t actually step outside their little bubble and figure out truly powerful ways to connect to the communities they claim to want to see/hear more from.
Kathleen
@sab: Surfeit of Eels would be a great name for emo indy band (no covers ever).
EM
@West of the Rockies: Yeah, why should Hopkins have won. I mean he’s old. And white . Just ridiculous. I’m really starting to see why some can’t stand the left of which I am a card carrying member.
Anyway
@NotMax:
galinhada is Portuguese for arroz con pollo? Enjoy chicken ‘n’ rice in all variations – currently partial to maqlooba – middle eastern variant.
chopper
@Mustang Bobby:
they love it when you call them “taffy”
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: Significant-Ex brought me home a Roadkill Cafe t-shirt from a trip to Colorado which I still have (though it no longer fits). Menu on the back; logo on the front reads You kill ’em, we grill ’em!
(That shirt was my only compensation for some completely innocent but wildly misinterpreted events back here while she was out there, which ended up costing me $500 in couples counseling she insisted on. OTOH it did show me how deeply insecure my female friendships made her [at that time most of my closer friends were women], how quick she was to interpret anything that happened when we were apart in the worst possible light, and what I could look forward to if we’d gotten hitched. In the end we did not, and I could quote The Who quite out of context: I call that a bargain/The best I ever had. [Given your own history of Female Troubles, I think you’ll understand.]) /TMI
Constance Reader
To be fair if I were Hopkins, I wouldn’t have attended virtually either. His win came at 4:30 am Wales time, fuck that noise.
J R in WV
Cannot think of anything I care less about than the Academy Awards, a self-created institution dedicated to marketing movies I wouldn’t like if I saw them.
Would rather spend an afternoon with David learning the real details of health care insurance pricing rules. Well, maybe not quite that… to be honest.