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Happy Days for ‘Arrested Development’
Last night’s Academy Awards were in many ways predictable, rife with the pomp, circumstance, film montages that are supposed to recall the majesty of movies, awards for mostly unsurprising recipients, and almost-funny jokes that we’ve all come to expect. On a side note, one of the evening’s sole surprises was that Hugh Jackman proved to be a very competent master of ceremonies, perhaps, precisely because he is not a comedian with neutered material suitable for prime-time broadcasting. His lack of professional hilarity made it okay to laugh at any semblance of humor, and helped to numb—though not completely alleviate—the pain of Jon Stewart not being asked to host again.
But amidst all of the evening’s self-importance and manufactured magic, something quite wonderful did happen.
You Don’t Speed Date to Get to Know Somebody, You Speed Date to Make Sure You’re Not Talking to a Dude.
“I know that her detractors will say that she actually supported the bridge until it became a political albatross, and ended up keeping a lot of the money for it anyway, or that she claimed to have visited Iraq when she really didn’t, or that she really didn’t sell that plane on eBay, or that she left the town she was mayor of nearly $20 million in debt, and that she made sure that women that were raped in her town were charged for their rape kits…the point is this: shut up!”