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Books: Pictures at a Revolution ('08), Five Came Back ('14, Netflix '17), Mike Nichols ('20). Journalist: etc. Tweets: Cheerful, curious, mad, serious.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Aug 2017

    Twitter really isn't the best place to have this discussion. --evergreen tweet about literally anything

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  2. One of those people is CNN's Don Lemon. This segment is worth watching in its entirety. If your concern is that Kevin Hart isn't getting everything he wants when he wants it, please reprioritize.

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  3. I hope this isn't true. If it is, it would suggest a staggering level of tone-deafness and insensitivity on the part of the Academy, on a day when so many LGBT people spoke up thoughtfully and forcefully about the pain this has caused.

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  4. Here, from , is an important reminder that no one person, including Ellen, gets to speak for, or forgive for, a community. And here is another.

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  5. Guys, I found a magic button on this treadmill but I think it must be broken.

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    I feel like if you’re not homophobic anymore, you shouldn’t mind apologizing for your past homophobia again and again and again. I don’t want to hear a hostile retelling of how we didn’t hear your meager apology the first time.

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  7. The silence from AMPAS today suggests that they are trying to read the tea leaves re Kevin Hart. This interview Hart did with before the Ellen show makes it very clear how little has changed.

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  8. Also, "Impeach the motherfucker" is very much in line with the thinking of a substantial part of the Democratic base. The representative who said it is...representative. Everything else is just handwringing about norms of language and etiquette. That ship sailed in 2016.

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  9. One Democratic Rep saying "Impeach the motherfucker": Democrats in disarray! Steve King being an actual NazI: Well, you know, that's just Steve.

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  10. And when he's done, I want him to say, "So all things considered, it's best that I don't host the Oscars this year. I hope they'll ask me again." I'd call that a good outcome for everyone. Including him.

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  11. I want Hart to talk about what his repeated expressions of revulsion and fear at the prospect of having a gay child, and about his understanding of what gay people, and gay children, hear in that. No bland bromides about "I'm all about positivity and love." A true accounting. >

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  12. "What does Kevin Hart have to do to please you people?" It's not hard. He has to talk about LGBT people as something other than A) people who are trying to take something from him or B) a code he has to crack to get what he wants. Expressing empathy isn't hard--if you feel it. >

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  13. This is going to be my "How could Nixon win, I don't know anyone who voted for him" moment, isn't it?

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  14. It's still very hard for me to imagine that Bohemian Rhapsody gets the 350 or so first-place votes from Academy members that are required to get it a Best Picture nomination. Not sure there are 350 people in the world who think it's the year's best movie.

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  15. PGA Best Pic nominees I more or less expected: Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star is Born, Vice Slightly more surprising: Crazy Rich Asians, A Quiet Place WTF LOL NO: Bohemian Rhapsody Should've been there: First Man, If Beale Street Could Talk

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  16. The Kevin Hart story reminds me that being LGBT and insisting on decent treatment means constantly being told you're shrill, you're a hater, you're a mob, get a sense of humor, lighten up, get over it, move on, don't be so strident. It all means the same thing: Watch yourself.

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  17. I admire a lot about Ellen DeGeneres. She genuinely went where no TV star had gone before. But on some level, the lesson she drew from her experience was, "If you ask for too much, they will take everything away." That's wrong, and even dangerous, for 2019.

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  18. This, is particular, is narcissistic nonsense that should raise many eyebrows about Hart's apology. If you think those who criticized you are malicious, ill-motivated, and out to destroy you, then what they're saying can't be particularly valid, can it?

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  19. I'd be very interested in hearing who in "The Academy" said this. There is no one person empowered to characterize the Academy or the feelings of the Board of Governors this monolithically. Does DeGeneres mean the show's producers?

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  20. It's a shame that DeGeneres has decided to serve as the instrument of that kind of perpetually embattled Hollywood bubble thinking. So, as a member of the "mob," I guess, I still say what I said before: Find another host this year. (And for a strong take on this, see ).

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  21. This is a trial balloon--let's see if "the mob" has quieted down enough to put Hart right back in the gig he wants. It represents contempt for any kind of public outcry as dumb noise that you just have to ride out. It's meant to minimize real distress from non-famous LGBT folk. >

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