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For all the people who have screwed up in public, botched beyond belief, lived through that “Wanna Get Away?” moment, Sunday night's Academy Awards was for you. Steve Harvey, Bill Buckner, John Travolta, Mariah Carey and all the other public bunglers are waking up this morning feeling a little better because their gaffes didn't happen in front of 35 million Americans and another gazillion people around the world.
Actress Heather Matarazzo, who starred in the cult classic Welcome to the Dollhouse back in the '90s, called trans athletic superstar Caitlyn Jenner a "cunt" on Twitter for supporting Donald Trump. Yesterday , Jenner sent a public message to Donald Trump chiding him for failing to protect trans people.
It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. That's unusual for Presidents' Day in Chicago, where the weather is typically a mournful dirge for Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, with blowing snow and biting wind.
As President Donald Trump descended the stairs from Air Force One on Saturday evening, with a patriotic country song playing and thousands cheering, the 2020 election season officially began. Although the past several presidents have waited more than two years before jumping back onto the campaign trail, Trump's first four weeks in office have shown that he just can't stand too much time in Washington.
President Donald Trump on Thursday made a messy case that he "inherited a mess" from his predecessor. Economic stats and territorial losses of Islamic State insurgents don't support his assertions about the problems handed to him on those fronts.
Today is of course the anniversary of the birth of America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history.
On the night Judge Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill Justice Antonin Scalia's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, he was thinking about history. "The towering judges that have served in this particular seat on the Supreme Court, including Antonin Scalia and Robert Jackson, are much in my mind at this moment," Gorsuch said in the East Room of the White House following his nomination by President Donald Trump .
The occasion calls for it. And if our current, real-life president finds himself with a spare hour and a half, he might get an inspirational kick out of this little-known 1933 political fantasy about a leader who blows straight through his political enemies to implement a highly aggressive agenda and save the world.
The Twilight actress has been open about dating women, and is believed to be currently seeing Victoria's Secret model Stella Maxwell . The 26-year-old was the host on SNL and used her opening monologue to rip into President Donald Trump.
Bellerose Composite High School is mounting the musical "Catch Me If You Can" from Feb. 7 to 9 p.m. at the Arden Theatre. Catch Me If You Can Bellerose High Musical Theatre Arts and Production Feb. 7 to 9 at 7 p.m. Arden Theatre 5 St. Anne Street Tickets: Tuesday $10; Wednesday, Thursday $20.
Versatile British actor John Hurt passed on January 27 at the age of 77. Critics hailed his performances in films such as A Man for All Seasons , Alien and The Elephant Man . John Hurt was willing to take risks, just like the character he played in Night Crossing , the adaptation of a true story.
Seeing as " An Inconvenient Sequel " kicked off the Sundance Film Festival last week, it is the perfect time to revisit Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore 's 2006 documentary about climate change. When two Black Hawk helicopters are shot down during a mission into the heart of Mogadishu a group of soldiers must fight to stay alive until they can be rescued.
An ice covered statue of Andrew Jackson is seen in Washington's Lafayette Square, on March 2, 2015. Andrew Jackson is such a pillar of the Democratic Party that its biggest fundraising day is called "Jefferson-Jackson Day," with Jefferson-Jackson Dinners being held all across the country.
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States today, succeeding Barack Obama and telling a bitterly divided country he will pursue "America First" policies at home and abroad. As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in Washington, Trump raised his right hand and put his left on a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln and repeated a 35-word oath of office from the US Constitution, with US Chief Justice John Roberts presiding.
XXx: Return of Xander Cage sees the return of original star Vin Diesel, left, with appearances by action star Donnie Yen and Deepika Padukone. XXx: Return of Xander Cage sees the return of original star Vin Diesel, left, with appearances by action star Donnie Yen and Deepika Padukone.
After eight years, few lines from Barack Obama's Presidential speeches stay in mind. For all his literary and oratorical gifts, he didn't coin the kinds of phrases that stick with repetition, as if his distaste for politics generally-the schmoozing, the fakery-extended to the fashioning of slogans.
Hollywood heavyweight Robert De Niro has come to the defense of Meryl Streep, saying her speech at the Golden Globes was "great." The multiple Oscar-winner wrote a letter of support to his "The Deer Hunter" co-star following fallout after her attack on President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday.
Donald Trump is taking office amidst a barrage of disparagement and hostility. So-called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" actually underestimates the nature of this hostility by putting a somewhat tongue-in-cheek psychiatric label on the rage and irrational break with reality that said "syndrome" actually is.
Russia has claimed the former MI6 officer reportedly responsible for an explosive dossier on Donald Trump may still be working for British intelligence. Christopher Steele has apparently gone into hiding after being identified as the author of the report claiming Moscow held incriminating material on the US president-elect which it could use to blackmail him.
At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Meryl Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award and gave a politically-charged acceptance speech about the importance of diversity and freedom. Though she did not reference President-elect Donald Trump by name, she mentioned a moment when "the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back."