Apple TV+It’s absurd to hope for certainty in matters of the heart, which famously wants what it wants, though that won’t stop us from trying. Such absurd hope is ripe for satire. It’s the subject, for instance, of Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2015 art-house hit The Lobster, set in a speculative future in which people must partner up on the basis of a compatible trait—chronic nosebleeds, say, or nearsightedness. And now Christos Nikou, Lanthimos’s assistant director on breakthrough Dogtooth, has made Finge
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When Rosamund Pike accepted her Golden Globe for her performance in
I Care a Lot, she quipped in her speech, Maybe I just have to thank America s broken legal system for making it possible to make stories like this.
And by stories like this she means the new Netflix thriller directed by J Blakeson, which follows Marla Grayson, a legal-appointed guardian for the elderly who scams away their assets for her own profit.
I Care a Lot is packaged in dark humor (Pike s Best Actress win was in the Musical or Comedy category) but the reality behind it uncovers a bleak, ugly truth.
when he looks at senator menendez who certainly looks like hung jury in a bribery trial. there you have it. i mean, and he went through the whole process and he s still sitting there, that makes him say, huh, i could have made through it. but to phillip s point, it s politics, so it s a different story. so, joe crowley, you have the new yorker story, pat leahy, heidi heitkamp, angus king, jeff merkley, tom udal, tim nelson, current and former senators there all of whom joined that call in late 2017 for franken to leave the senate. he s saying in this article he basically had no choice. they re all saying now, they re quoted here on the record saying they regret it. should they regret it? well, i think you have to look back as philip and susan have said. there were over half a dozen credible accusations i believe made. and no one forced senator franken to resign. he chose to do that himself. but i wonder, steve, if you
as a story and became their defenders that s because they re worried about being branded in that extreme left progressive manner, but i think at the end of the day there s going to be a presidential candidate on the democratic side, and that s who the republicans are going to run against. it doesn t matter what happens between now and january, february. joe, this came out today, npr maris new poll president trump s approval rating, this poll was taken last week as this story played out. i think it was after his initial tweet did not get the reaction to that chant at that rally. this is an incomplete readout on how the public is perceiving trump right now. nonetheless, it does show his approval rating sitting at 44%. it had been 41% in their lost poll. these are not great numbers historically, but by trump standards these are on the higher end of where he s been, 44% in this poll. is it possible to you, do you think, that this is this is