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<div class="divDayTitle"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05.html">Monday, March 5, 2018</a></div>
<div class="divSingularItem" data-type="outline" data-image="http://scripting.com/images/2018/03/05/mrWhite.png"><a name="a132936"></a><img src="http://scripting.com/images/2018/03/05/mrWhite.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Good morning sports fans!<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05.html#a132936" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
<div class="divSingularItem" data-type="outline"><a name="a143300"></a><a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/65">Braintrust query</a>: Face recognition as a service.<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05.html#a143300" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
<div class="divSingularItem" data-type="outline" data-urlvideo="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aopdD9Cu-So"><a name="a174842"></a>For a troll, normalization is the worst thing possible. Like pouring water on the wicked witch in Oz.<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05.html#a174842" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
<div class="divSingularItem" data-type="outline"><a name="a143937"></a>Little-known fact. The initials for Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, are the same as the initials for The Big Lebowski, a classic Coen Bros movie. Can't say you never learned anything on Scripting News. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05.html#a143937" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
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	<div class="divTitle"><a name="a165007"></a><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/165007.html"><span class="spTitleLink">Plot for a fantasy movie</a></a><span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/165007.html" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
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	<li data-flNumberedSubs="true" data-subs="[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]"><a name="a165014"></a>Here's a plot for a fantasy movie.<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/165007.html#a165014" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
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	<li><a name="a165018"></a>The fictitious Patriot Party surprisingly wins control of Congress and the White House. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/165007.html#a165018" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li><a name="a165033"></a>They want to control the government forever.<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/165007.html#a165033" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li><a name="a165019"></a>Instead of raping the country they pass laws that voters love that make them happier, healthier.<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/165007.html#a165019" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li><a name="a165039"></a>Everyone lives happily ever after.<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/165007.html#a165039" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
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	<div class="divTitle"><a name="a145114"></a><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145114.html"><span class="spTitleLink">Do you care about the Knicks??</a></a><span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145114.html" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
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	<li data-type="outline"><a name="a132951"></a>It's not necessary to actually watch Knicks games because they all seem to end the same. Last night they played the Sacramento Kings, another lottery team, and you might think here's a game the Knicks might actually be able to win. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/knicks-fall-kings-skai-labissiere-game-winner-article-1.3855565">Nahh</a>. At least they're consistent!  <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145114.html#a132951" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li data-type="outline"><a name="a133051"></a>A friend who happens to be a Yankees fan is also a Knicks fan, and we talk about the team regularly. He wonders why he's a Knicks fan if they always lose. I said I know the answer. The Knicks are his <a href="http://thesaurus.land/?word=atonement">atonement</a> for being a Yankees fan. Now what does this say about me, a lifetime Mets fan? Well, one thing -- winning isn't the most important thing. And that said, unlike the Knicks, the Mets do win once in long while. Even that amount of winning requires <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=define+atonement&t=hf&ia=definition">atonement</a>, I guess. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145114.html#a133051" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
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	<div class="divTitle"><a name="a145047"></a><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145047.html"><span class="spTitleLink">Morning movie notes</a></a><span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145047.html" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
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	<li data-type="outline"><a name="a133520"></a>Speaking of winners, by the middle of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th_Academy_Awards">Oscars show</a> last night I concluded that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Out">Get Out</a> would win everything. Unfortunately not so. I think in a few years we will have forgotten <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Water_(film)">The Shape of Water</a>, and Get Out will have been the beginning of something new. The combination of politics, comedy, romance, tragedy and horror is hard to beat. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145047.html#a133520" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li data-type="outline"><a name="a133745"></a>I was delighted that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Janney">Allison Janney</a> won best supporting actress. I, Tonya was a wonderful movie. It could have gotten a Best Picture nomination. And Janney was brilliant as Harding's bitter, cigarette-smoking hardass waitress mother. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145047.html#a133745" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li data-type="outline"><a name="a133929"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/RyanJL/status/970518467228119041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F5185334%2Fjennifer-lawrence-jodie-foster-oscars%2F">Jennifer Lawrence and Jody Foster</a> made the best on-stage couple comedy act. I was staring at Foster on her crutches before my attention turned to Lawrence, who is by far my favorite actress of her generation, for her irreverence, intelligence, and last night sheer <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gobsmacked">gobsmacking</a> beauty. She's beautiful the way Hedy Lamarr was. And what an actress. She's still only 26 and one can only imagine what delights await us. I'm more than a fan, I am in awe. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145047.html#a133929" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li data-type="outline"><a name="a141734"></a>Sometimes the Academy passes on a movie that goes on to have great significance. For me, the most interesting example is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/awards">The Big Lebowski</a>. It didn't win a single <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_Academy_Awards#Awards">Oscar</a>. I wonder what the judges must have thought of it. A silly insignificant comedy? It's weird because TBL came after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69th_Academy_Awards#Awards">Fargo</a>, which was much-celebrated by the Oscars. The year Lebowski would have been up for an award, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Love">Shakespeare in Love</a> won best picture, and imho the other winners were also Big Mehs. Imho there's no doubt The Big Lebowski was the Best Picture in 1999. But you don't necessarily know it in the moment. History has a role to play too. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/145047.html#a141734" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
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	<div class="divTitle"><a name="a140648"></a><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/140648.html"><span class="spTitleLink">Phantom Thread review</a></a><span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/140648.html" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></div>
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	<li><a name="a140150"></a>I finally saw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Thread">Phantom Thread</a> over the weekend. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/140648.html#a140150" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li><a name="a140707"></a>I really liked it. But I was pretty sure I would. I'll tell you why. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/140648.html#a140707" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li><a name="a140714"></a>When I first saw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood">There Will Be Blood</a>, the previous collaboration between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Thomas_Anderson">Paul Thomas Anderson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis">Daniel Day-Lewis</a>, the first time I watched it, I didn't like it. Too dark, too slow, not enough story, odd sad ending. Meh. But then for some reason I watched it again, and had the opposite reaction. A masterpiece. The pace was just right, and there totally was a story. It was just so slow, your mind has to get in the right gear to appreciate it. It's not an easy movie to like. But who said movies have to be easy?<span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/140648.html#a140714" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li><a name="a140809"></a>Same with Phantom Thread. The. Pace. Is. So. Deliberate. The characters say so little. We're watching the most mundane acts. But it builds and a story emerges, and the music and the acting are superb, the story is fascinating. It's the kind of movie to watch again, alone, like you read a book, to savor every moment. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/140648.html#a140809" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
	<li><a name="a140901"></a>I wouldn't have given it Best Picture, not in the same year as Get Out, but Phantom Thread, like There Will Be Blood, will age well. <span class="spPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2018/03/05/140648.html#a140901" title="Direct link to this item.">#</a></span></li>
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