Richard Blanco

The inaugural committee has picked as its inaugural poet Richard Blanco, a gay Latino. That's two firsts. (This week the TV Left has become hysterical in unison because Obama has picked several straight white males to serve in his administration.) The Motion Picture Academy has nominated for best film a movie that (apparently) justifies torture of prisoners. I'm skipping the film. And it has nominated Robert DeNiro for his role in SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, which I did see. DeNiro was so over-the-top and awful that I would close my eyes and just wait for him to exit the scene. He came close to ruining a good movie. I blame the writer, but the performance was really really really bad.