More "Really?"

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has reverted to its antiquated policy of continuing the usual yawner awards categories the public couldn’t care less about such as cinematography, makeup, hair styling, film editing and live action short. The powers that be had previously announced that those awards would be presented during commercial breaks. A hue and cry then erupted from staid members demanding those categories be returned to the telecast. Certain presentations which have little viewer interest have previously been recorded and shown briefly. The reinstated snoozers should be displayed in a similar manner but the Academy’s failure to grasp reality and continue in its stodgy state will leave many of us to again seek other viewing alternatives on February 24th. I do have a few pages remaining in my book. Just need to get new crayons.
Seems as though “Empire” star Jussie Smollett doesn’t just limit his acting to the tv show. According to the latest, he paid a couple of friends to stage the attack he had claimed. The pair are brothers and also work on “Empire”. They showed cops the receipt for the rope they purchased that Smollett displayed around his neck when returning to his apartment from the so called attack. No reason thus far for the supposedly bogus assault. Perhaps a pale effort to pump up ratings?
Can’t get through another of these ‘masterpieces’ without a Trump mention or two. Let’s face it, items about him continually flood the internet and printed media. This past weekend he was in Florida, being seen hanging out at an omelet bar and golfing during the so called “national emergency”. Meantime Veep Pence appeared to overestimate his audience’s opinion of the White House resident recently when speaking at the Munich Security Conference by opening his remarks with “I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump”. The audience reaction was one of a lengthy and embarrassing silence. Pence, not finding a “what to do if” on the prompter attempted to move on.
One more note concerning the “national crisis”: Sen. Lindsay Graham, in his infinite wisdom, supports the removal of funds with which a middle school was to have been built in Kentucky and the diverting of them to the construction of the confounded wall. The word is $3.6 billion could come from military construction efforts which includes that Kentucky school, housing for military families and military base improvements. Graham stated “it’s better for the middle school kids in Kentucky to have a secure border.” Promising them that they would one day get their school, he claimed, “but right now we’ve got a national emergency”. Okkaaayy!.
Jacoby Ellsbury played centerfield for the Red Sox from 2007-2013. He was fan popular but when he shunned Boston for a lucrative New York contract he became a Yankee and the enemy. As disappointed as we were then, it can be said that the results turned out favorably...to the Sox, as Ellsbury’s been plagued by injuries throughout his tenure in pinstripes. He missed all of last season because of hip surgery and it seems he’ll begin this one on the disabled list because of plantar fasciitis, a condition which causes pain in the arch of the foot. Late March has been determined to be the earliest he could play. By the way, he’s now entering the sixth of a seven year contract that totals $153 million or about $22 million a year, Talk about blown bucks!!