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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday morning, Mac Miller was found dead of an apparent overdose, after years of openly struggling with addiction. One of Miller's most endearing qualities as an artist was his willingness to share his vulnerabilities and fears around his own struggles with sobriety. \"\u003cem>I'm hoping not to join \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ranker.com/list/members-of-the-27-club/famous-celebrity-deaths-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>the 27 club\u003c/em>\u003c/a>,\" he rapped on \"Brand Name.\" In the end, tragically, Mac Miller only made it to 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuCyrtGQhAk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller's fame—and the amount of public scrutiny he was put under—grew when he got into a relationship with Ariana Grande in September 2016. When the longtime friends and collaborators officially split last May, and Grande went public about her whirlwind romance with Pete Davidson just a couple of weeks later, Miller fans weren't happy. Some were quick to blame Grande for Miller's addiction issues, to the degree that she felt the need to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/999314187384901633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hit back on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13840493']For his part, Miller publicly stated that he was fine with the break-up and his ex-girlfriend's new relationship. At the end of July, in \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/ariana-grandes-mac-miller-breaks-silence-engagement-pete/story?id=56780176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interview with Zane Lowe\u003c/a>, he said \"I was in love with somebody. We were together for two years. We worked through good times, bad times, stress and everything else. And then it came to an end and we both moved on. And it's that simple, you know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://www.etonline.com/everything-mac-miller-and-ariana-grande-have-said-about-their-relationship-109253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grande stated:\u003c/a> \"This is one of my best friends in the whole world and favorite people on the planet. I respect and adore him endlessly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, on Friday, as the tragic news about Miller broke, Grande was not left to grieve in peace. Instead, her Instagram page became a battleground between Miller fans pointing the finger and Grande fans rushing to her defense. There were multiple fans who pleaded with her to \"turn off the comments\" hours before she finally did. By that time, the damage was already done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 355px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-105664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1.png 355w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1-240x158.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comments posted to Ariana Grande's Instagram account on Friday, September 7, 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time of publication, Grande has yet to speak publicly about the death of Miller, though she did post a touching photo of him to her Instagram account over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Bneu_dCHVdn/?hl=en&taken-by=arianagrande\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public attack on Grande is horrible but in no way surprising. It's not even the first time in the last few \u003cem>weeks\u003c/em> that a woman has been blamed for a famous man's own longterm, personal struggles. Ben Affleck's current girlfriend, model Shauna Sexton, was accused of landing the 46-year-old actor back in rehab late last month after she posted a photo of herself enjoying a glass of wine. Admittedly, her timing wasn't great; the pic went up just three days after Affleck's ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, staged an intervention. But when accusations started flying in the comments, Sexton quickly and directly pointed out that her boyfriend's ability to stay sober had little to do with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexton \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2018/09/shauna-sexton-you-think-i-sent-ben-affleck-to-rehab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I love to drink and party! Absolutely dude. Most 22 year olds do… [Does it] mean i would disrespect someone’s hard earned sobriety by drinking with them or in front of them? Hell no… Ben is a grown ass man, baby. He makes his own decisions. Blaming a 22 year old for someone’s 3rd time in rehab is just ridiculous...He is human. I am human. You are human. We all are going to f**k up it’s just a matter of learning from it. Don’t be so quick to throw shade on people. Take a step back, accept that we are all on our own journey, and be a little less critical.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So where does the compulsion come from, to hold responsible anyone other than the dead celebrity in question? The root of it is in the public's great sense of personal attachment to famous people, especially musicians. Pointing the finger at someone else means propelling our own sadness out and away from us. \u003ca href=\"https://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/why-we-take-celebs-deaths-so-hard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Therapist Patrick Wanis told \u003cem>Shape\u003c/em> \u003c/a>magazine: “We grieve them … because we feel they can no longer continue to contribute to our lives—we have lost out on their next musical creation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other factor is an unwillingness to blame the deceased person themselves, for being gone too soon. No one wishes to speak ill of the dead, so we absolve them of responsibility and shift blame to the next nearest living person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_107245']What the blame game ignores, of course, is just how complex addiction is. The causes of drug and alcohol dependency differ wildly depending on the individual. As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.centeronaddiction.org/what-addiction/addiction-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center on Addiction\u003c/a> points out: \"Addiction disrupts regions of the brain that are responsible for reward, motivation, learning, judgment and memory.\" Relapses can be caused by anything and nothing. And for partners living with an addict, there is no perfect way of dealing with it. If they exercise tough love and leave, they are accused of abandonment. If they stay, they are accused of enabling. It's a no-win position to be in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing to keep in mind is that the only person that can keep an addict sober is the addict themselves. Assistance can come from sponsors, organizations and, yes, partners. But if it feels too uncomfortable to pass judgment on the addict, it should feel just as unjust to direct it at their loved ones. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The public attack on Grande is horrible but in no way surprising. It's not even the first time in the last few \u003cem>weeks\u003c/em> that a woman has been blamed for a famous man's own longterm, personal struggles. Ben Affleck's current girlfriend, model Shauna Sexton, was accused of landing the 46-year-old actor back in rehab late last month after she posted a photo of herself enjoying a glass of wine. Admittedly, her timing wasn't great; the pic went up just three days after Affleck's ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, staged an intervention. But when accusations started flying in the comments, Sexton quickly and directly pointed out that her boyfriend's ability to stay sober had little to do with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexton \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2018/09/shauna-sexton-you-think-i-sent-ben-affleck-to-rehab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I love to drink and party! Absolutely dude. Most 22 year olds do… [Does it] mean i would disrespect someone’s hard earned sobriety by drinking with them or in front of them? Hell no… Ben is a grown ass man, baby. He makes his own decisions. Blaming a 22 year old for someone’s 3rd time in rehab is just ridiculous...He is human. I am human. You are human. We all are going to f**k up it’s just a matter of learning from it. Don’t be so quick to throw shade on people. Take a step back, accept that we are all on our own journey, and be a little less critical.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So where does the compulsion come from, to hold responsible anyone other than the dead celebrity in question? The root of it is in the public's great sense of personal attachment to famous people, especially musicians. Pointing the finger at someone else means propelling our own sadness out and away from us. \u003ca href=\"https://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/why-we-take-celebs-deaths-so-hard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Therapist Patrick Wanis told \u003cem>Shape\u003c/em> \u003c/a>magazine: “We grieve them … because we feel they can no longer continue to contribute to our lives—we have lost out on their next musical creation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other factor is an unwillingness to blame the deceased person themselves, for being gone too soon. No one wishes to speak ill of the dead, so we absolve them of responsibility and shift blame to the next nearest living person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Matt Damon is confusing. He might have built his personal reputation around being a down-to-earth everyman who uses his celebrity status to help out people less fortunate than himself, but in recent years, he's more closely resembled an over-privileged smug dude with an empathy problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon's confounding behavior has been present since the start of his career. Remember how heart-warming it was when he and Ben Affleck won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RIS5GJqAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academy Award for Best Screenplay\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, while their mothers watched from the audience? The BFFs were adorable that night, and the world wished them well. About five minutes later though, Damon appeared on the \u003cem>Oprah Winfrey Show\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/matt-damon-broke-minnie-driver-oprah-171709131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promptly dumped his co-star\u003c/a> and girlfriend of over a year, Minnie Driver, on the air. Driver, in an extraordinarily restrained move, called the incident \"fantastically inappropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cruel incident was the first indication the world got that Matt Damon might be a giant douchelord, but everyone kind of forgot about it, thanks to his outspoken liberalism, charity work (\u003ca href=\"https://water.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Water.org\u003c/a> is a cause particularly close to his heart), and undeniable penchant for comedy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfoF6MhgLA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years though, it's the insensitive nonsense that pops out of his mouth that's overshadowing the good stuff. 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The hypocrisy was jaw-dropping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WL7IC5unXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearing on \u003cem>Ellen \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and attempting to clarify his \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> statements, Damon managed to make things worse. He told DeGeneres that, post-\u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, people had asked if he and Ben Affleck were gay. He stated: \"I'm not going to throw my friends under the bus who are gay, and act like it's some kind of disease.\" In what way is confirming your sexuality the same as treating homosexuality as an illness? And why does Damon only care about his gay friends, rather than the wider LGBTQ community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with Damon is that, one minute he is outspoken in ways that are totally right on (when Ben Carson said that the Presidential office was no place for a Muslim, Damon publicly \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called the statement\u003c/a> \"horrible,\" \"offensive,\" and \"wrong\"), the next he is seemingly incapable of recognizing his own privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very same month as that disastrous \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> interview, during an episode of \u003cem>Project Greenlight, \u003c/em>Damon talked over and interrupted successful producer, Effie Brown, to tell her that diversity isn't needed behind the camera, as long as people of color show up on screen. He did so in the middle of Brown suggesting that racial and gender-based insensitivity onscreen can occur when there are only white men in charge of production. Because: OBVIOUSLY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prepare to cringe:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehL7GVQ89mk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After social media blew up in response, Damon \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/matt-damon-project-greenlight-diversity-apology-1201595189/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apologized\u003c/a> (\"I believe deeply that there need to be more diverse filmmakers making movies\"), but proved to have missed the point almost entirely when, a year later, he starred in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034800/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Great Wall\u003c/a>—\u003c/em>a movie set in China that still, somehow, managed to have white people dominating the story. Constance Wu, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3551096/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, said on Twitter: “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world.” David Sims accurately noted in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> that the movie put \"a white American actor at the center of another culture’s story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/matt-damon-great-wall-whitewashing-response.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended his role\u003c/a> with yet another tone-deaf apology, by saying: \"I didn’t take a role away from a Chinese actor… it wasn’t altered because of me in any way... Although it was developed for commercial purposes, I felt there was room for me to play and put many elements of Chinese culture into it.” Hard not to roll your eyes at that last part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2015, Damon displayed some insidious misogyny when he blamed Jennifer Lopez for Ben Affleck's image problem during their much-publicized 2002-2004 relationship. \"It was like he was being cast in a role, that he was a talentless kind of meathead, with his whole relationship with Jennifer Lopez,\" Damon told \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"He just got cast as this person that he wasn’t... It was painful to be his friend, because it wasn’t fair, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's extremely difficult to side with Damon's version of events, given the fact that Affleck's on-camera behavior during that period including \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41589352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually assaulting an MTV host\u003c/a> while TV cameras rolled, and repeatedly talking about the breasts of a Canadian TV host, also while on the air. During that last interview, Affleck also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/348091/ben-affleck-get-them-titties-out-2004/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impersonated someone with Cerebral Palsy\u003c/a> and used the r-word. Affleck's behavior was clearly odious, without any input from J-Lo whatsoever. It seems like it's easier for Damon to blame a woman than it is to question his best friend's conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent Damon-related screw up concerns ex-\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> journalist, Sharon Waxman, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/damon-crowe-reportedly-helped-kill-nyt-weinstein-article.html?utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/matt-damon-russell-crowe-harvey-weinstein-sexual-allegations-fired-killed-story-a7991981.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made claims\u003c/a> that a 2004 article she worked on to expose Harvey Weinstein's alleged penchant for sexual harassment and assault was buried after Russell Crowe and Matt Damon called the newspaper to defend their producer pal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon strongly denied Waxman's claims, telling \u003ca href=\"http://deadline.com/2017/10/matt-damon-harvey-weinstein-russell-crowe-sexual-abuse-scandal-interview-1202185574/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Deadline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>: \"My recollection was that it was about a one minute phone call. Harvey had called me and said, 'They’re writing a story about Fabrizio [Lombardo, of Miramax]... and it’s really negative. Can you just call and tell her what your experience with Fabrizio was? So I did, and that’s what I said to her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon also offered his thoughts on the allegations against Weinstein, saying: \"Everybody’s saying we all knew. That’s not true. This type of predation happens behind closed doors, and out of public view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then: \"Even before I was famous, I didn’t abide this kind of behavior. But now, as the father of four daughters, this is the kind of sexual predation that keeps me up at night.\" Because, apparently, it is impossible to understand the horrors of sexual assault until you've co-created some female children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more questionable elements of Matt Damon's worldview just keep emerging. Even when he's trying to apologize, the actor frequently just digs himself deeper into a hole. As it stands in 2017, no matter how much we once loved him, it feels an awful lot like he is the epitome of the liberal nice guy who still has a hard time understanding the viewpoints of anyone who isn't white, male, and heterosexual—and it's getting too hard to ignore anymore.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Matt Damon is confusing. He might have built his personal reputation around being a down-to-earth everyman who uses his celebrity status to help out people less fortunate than himself, but in recent years, he's more closely resembled an over-privileged smug dude with an empathy problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon's confounding behavior has been present since the start of his career. Remember how heart-warming it was when he and Ben Affleck won the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RIS5GJqAg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academy Award for Best Screenplay\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, while their mothers watched from the audience? The BFFs were adorable that night, and the world wished them well. About five minutes later though, Damon appeared on the \u003cem>Oprah Winfrey Show\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/matt-damon-broke-minnie-driver-oprah-171709131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promptly dumped his co-star\u003c/a> and girlfriend of over a year, Minnie Driver, on the air. Driver, in an extraordinarily restrained move, called the incident \"fantastically inappropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cruel incident was the first indication the world got that Matt Damon might be a giant douchelord, but everyone kind of forgot about it, thanks to his outspoken liberalism, charity work (\u003ca href=\"https://water.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Water.org\u003c/a> is a cause particularly close to his heart), and undeniable penchant for comedy:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eSfoF6MhgLA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eSfoF6MhgLA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In recent years though, it's the insensitive nonsense that pops out of his mouth that's overshadowing the good stuff. There was the September 2015 interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/27/matt-damon-i-think-you-are-a-better-actor-the-less-people-know-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which Damon suggested that gay actors should keep their sexuality quiet, lest they lose roles. \"I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you, period,\" he said. \"And sexuality is a huge part of that. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anything about your sexuality because that’s one of the mysteries that you should be able to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quote was positioned almost directly beneath a photo of Damon and his wife on the red carpet, captioned \"Family man: with his wife, Luciana, whom he met while filming in Miami in 2003.\" The message was clear: Matt Damon feels just fine about taking his heterosexual relationship to red carpets all over the world (no mystery required!), but gay people shouldn't do the same thing in case they lose roles. Damon made this statement two years after playing a gay man himself in \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291580/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Behind the Candelabra\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, despite his many years committed to being an open heterosexual. The hypocrisy was jaw-dropping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WL7IC5unXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearing on \u003cem>Ellen \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and attempting to clarify his \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> statements, Damon managed to make things worse. He told DeGeneres that, post-\u003cem>Good Will Hunting\u003c/em>, people had asked if he and Ben Affleck were gay. He stated: \"I'm not going to throw my friends under the bus who are gay, and act like it's some kind of disease.\" In what way is confirming your sexuality the same as treating homosexuality as an illness? And why does Damon only care about his gay friends, rather than the wider LGBTQ community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with Damon is that, one minute he is outspoken in ways that are totally right on (when Ben Carson said that the Presidential office was no place for a Muslim, Damon publicly \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called the statement\u003c/a> \"horrible,\" \"offensive,\" and \"wrong\"), the next he is seemingly incapable of recognizing his own privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The very same month as that disastrous \u003cem>Guardian\u003c/em> interview, during an episode of \u003cem>Project Greenlight, \u003c/em>Damon talked over and interrupted successful producer, Effie Brown, to tell her that diversity isn't needed behind the camera, as long as people of color show up on screen. He did so in the middle of Brown suggesting that racial and gender-based insensitivity onscreen can occur when there are only white men in charge of production. Because: OBVIOUSLY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prepare to cringe:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ehL7GVQ89mk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ehL7GVQ89mk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>After social media blew up in response, Damon \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2015/film/news/matt-damon-project-greenlight-diversity-apology-1201595189/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apologized\u003c/a> (\"I believe deeply that there need to be more diverse filmmakers making movies\"), but proved to have missed the point almost entirely when, a year later, he starred in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2034800/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Great Wall\u003c/a>—\u003c/em>a movie set in China that still, somehow, managed to have white people dominating the story. Constance Wu, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3551096/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Fresh Off the Boat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, said on Twitter: “We have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world.” David Sims accurately noted in \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em> that the movie put \"a white American actor at the center of another culture’s story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damon \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/matt-damon-great-wall-whitewashing-response.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended his role\u003c/a> with yet another tone-deaf apology, by saying: \"I didn’t take a role away from a Chinese actor… it wasn’t altered because of me in any way... Although it was developed for commercial purposes, I felt there was room for me to play and put many elements of Chinese culture into it.” Hard not to roll your eyes at that last part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2015, Damon displayed some insidious misogyny when he blamed Jennifer Lopez for Ben Affleck's image problem during their much-publicized 2002-2004 relationship. \"It was like he was being cast in a role, that he was a talentless kind of meathead, with his whole relationship with Jennifer Lopez,\" Damon told \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/martians-matt-damon-talks-bourne-828093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Hollywood Reporter\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. \"He just got cast as this person that he wasn’t... It was painful to be his friend, because it wasn’t fair, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's extremely difficult to side with Damon's version of events, given the fact that Affleck's on-camera behavior during that period including \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41589352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually assaulting an MTV host\u003c/a> while TV cameras rolled, and repeatedly talking about the breasts of a Canadian TV host, also while on the air. During that last interview, Affleck also \u003ca href=\"https://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/348091/ben-affleck-get-them-titties-out-2004/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">impersonated someone with Cerebral Palsy\u003c/a> and used the r-word. Affleck's behavior was clearly odious, without any input from J-Lo whatsoever. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-title-real/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1608\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1608\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real.jpeg\" alt=\"argo title real\" width=\"642\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real.jpeg 642w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-title-real-400x247.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\">\u003c/a>Well fellow cinephiles, this could be 2006 all over again. Has it been seven years since (that \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQs7WbVse8\">train wreck\u003c/a> of a movie) \u003cem>Crash\u003c/em> beat out the elegant favorite \u003cem>Brokeback Mountain\u003c/em>? Each week up until about mid-January the Oscar race for Best Picture flip-flopped from movie to movie. Before \u003cem>Les Miserables\u003c/em> even hit the screen, it was hailed as the movie to beat and then everyone went to see it on Christmas and walked out of the theatre confused and pretty sure they could \u003ca href=\"http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Your-Consideration-Les-Miserables-Lost-Best-Picture-Moment-Russell-Crowe-Opened-His-Mouth-35824.html\">sing better\u003c/a> than Russell Crowe. Now \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, the Ben Affleck-director-political-suspense-thriller-based-on-a-true story is the front-runner that’s here to stay. In a race where the other eight nominated films have the honest qualities of a true winner, it could all end up in the hands of \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>. Here are a few potential reasons why \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> might end up taking home that little golden dude:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-1-edit/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1597\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1597\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 1 edit\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-1-edit-400x244.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Because it’s a bro’s bro.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“So, have you seen \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> yet?” the frat dude says as he leans into her at the bar, his breath smelling of Red Bull and disdain. As if! \u003cem>Zero Dark Thirty\u003c/em> has quite the package: suspense, action, foreign intrigue, even torture, but what it’s lacking is, of course, a strong male lead like Ben Affleck. It’s a shame the strength and competence of \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxvwq8cKaT1qz9xvjo1_r4_500.gif\">Jessica Chastain\u003c/a>’s character Maya cannot compete with Affleck’s Tony Mendez, otherwise \u003cem>ZDT\u003c/em> would be a shoe-in for the boys of \u003ca href=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SZCgRYVhgvI/AAAAAAAACfQ/LaijRaIYR54/s320/revenge-of-the-nerds.jpg\">Alpha Beta\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1598\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 2\" width=\"702\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2.jpeg 702w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-2-400x247.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Because it’s like \u003cem>The DaVinci Code\u003c/em> the book version.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDisclaimer: I have never read \u003cem>The DaVinci Code\u003c/em> nor have I seen the movie. However, I have paged through the book and what I do know is that it is compiled of very short, easy-to-read chapters that leave the reader wanting more. It is unlikely a film like \u003cem>Amour\u003c/em> can hold a candle. In \u003cem>Amour,\u003c/em> we glide through Georges and Anne’s home listlessly unearthing layers of wood and light: lives lived and love had. \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is the pleasure principle in its finest form, like a great pop song or the Kardashians (I still think \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv2zigvVNX1qzb62zo1_500.gif\">Kourtney\u003c/a> and Khloe have yet to really \u003cem>take\u003c/em> Miami); you want bubblegum and it delivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-3-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1600\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1600\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-31-400x232.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Because it’s Hollywood talking about Hollywood.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The Artist \u003c/em>took the award last year and deservedly so. The Academy might be on a streak. In \u003cem>Argo, \u003c/em>Affleck has made a movie within a movie. It’s all very meta but done in a very conventional manner. Instead of showing us what Hollywood can do, we are given \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, a movie showing us what Hollywood already does. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> would be the perfect example of what it’s like to take cinema to an ultra-cinematic level. The shots are breathtaking: aerial views that \u003ca href=\"http://cdn1.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Life-of-Pi-Ending-Explained.jpg\">isolate the ship \u003c/a>from our main character and a horizon where it is impossible to distinguish where the sky ends and the water begins. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> is a truly lavish cinematic experience. The closest we get in \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is when scenes from the movie are set side-by-side with actual archival footage as though Affleck is saying: Look at how perfectly I recreated this, not a hair out of place!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/django-real/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1609\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg\" alt=\"django real\" width=\"650\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real-400x268.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Because it’s already nabbed the Golden Globe and the BAFTA.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe past four years the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf8uDTUVx3Y\">BAFTA\u003c/a> has predicted the winner but the past four years there have been arguably clear winners. The Golden Globes are notorious for surprises and lucky for last year’s \u003cem>The Descendants\u003c/em>, the Globes split their best films into comedy and drama categories. But let’s jump back to another one of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKK2mskvtg\">biggest snubs\u003c/a> of Oscar history, \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em> winning over \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em>. Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck are basically \u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfan3psl611qb6180o1_500.jpg\">the same person\u003c/a>, handsome and likeable. Quentin did not win with \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em> and will not win for \u003cem>Django Unchained\u003c/em>: too much witty dialogue, too much violence, too much outstanding acting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-5/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1602\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1602\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 5\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5.jpeg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-5-400x267.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Because Ben Affleck somehow turned into The Little Engine That Could.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWe all remember when he and Matt Damon jumped on the stage way back in 1997 and thanked Southie or whatever. It was cute and we were happy and they were Hollywood nobodies that became \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8RIS5GJqAg\">Hollywood somebodies\u003c/a> at that very moment. But that was like thirteen years ago and now Affleck has been denied a Best Director nomination and the world is in mourning. (I will not mention Kathryn Bigelow here.) Turn to \u003cem>Beasts of the Southern Wild\u003c/em>, note the modest budget, the non-actor actors, the no-name filmmakers, the huge courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1603\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 6\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6-400x258.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Because it tackles a declassified government secret and that’s exciting.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhat a caper! One of the most exciting things about \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is that while you’re watching it, you feel like you’re privy to this huge secret that the rest of world (in the movie) doesn’t know about. It was a secret and now it’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/12/argo_true_story_the_facts_and_fiction_behind_the_ben_affleck_movie.html\">talked about\u003c/a> but only after government permission. That’s not going to bode well for \u003cem>Silver Linings Playbook\u003c/em> where they deal with the still very taboo topic of mental illness in a charming and funny way. And not since \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY\">\u003cem>Annie Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has a true and nervous comedy won Best Picture and it has since become epic, in a subtle and graceful way. Perhaps they are hoping the same for \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, but like epic in more of a humdrum sort of way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-7/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1604\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1604\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 7\" width=\"743\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7.jpeg 743w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-7-400x208.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Because it makes you proud to be an American.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“This is the best bad idea we have, sir,” Tony Mendez tells his superior in \u003cem>Argo. \u003c/em>To disguise the hostages as filmmakers scouting locations for an upcoming sci-fi flick might just be crazy enough to work. It’s an out-of-the-box scheme that leaves you feeling happy you live in a country whose government allows for such creativity. The past two years have been somewhat Euro-centric with \u003cem>The King’s Speech\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Artist \u003c/em>taking home the top prize, it’s about time the Academy picks a good-ole-fashioned stars-and-stripes-waving \u003ca href=\"http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Entertainment/0/371/Armageddon.JPG\">piece of our history\u003c/a>. But what about \u003cem>Lincoln\u003c/em> you ask? Perhaps it is too well known a story or perhaps the plan is to dole out awards to Daniel Day Lewis, Stephen Spielberg, and Tony Kushner, leaving room for \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, cozy American \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-8/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1605\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1605\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 8\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8.jpeg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-8-400x276.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. Because its flame is still burning hot.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere’s no denying \u003cem>Argo’s\u003c/em> momentum. \u003cem>Les Miserables \u003c/em>was just as hot to trot (they’re singing live! \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y4yxsRRnvkE\">Anne Hathaway\u003c/a> is brilliant!) in December but fizzled out by January. It’s a classic case of backlash and then backlash to the backlash and so on and so forth. Meanwhile \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> quietly held its ground. No one has had very many issues with the actual content of the film, where movies like \u003cem>ZDT\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Django\u003c/em> made the news on a daily basis. Perhaps controversy will get you attention but won’t win you awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is the huge favorite and I’ve accepted that. I’m not saying I will denounce the Oscars or award shows if \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> wins. I mean, I’ll probably throw my hands in the air and give a big eye roll while shoving hummus into my mouth. But I suppose what’s oddly great about the Oscars is that no one was expecting \u003cem>Crash \u003c/em>to win in 2006, and it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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Instead of showing us what Hollywood can do, we are given \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em>, a movie showing us what Hollywood already does. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> would be the perfect example of what it’s like to take cinema to an ultra-cinematic level. The shots are breathtaking: aerial views that \u003ca href=\"http://cdn1.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Life-of-Pi-Ending-Explained.jpg\">isolate the ship \u003c/a>from our main character and a horizon where it is impossible to distinguish where the sky ends and the water begins. \u003cem>Life of Pi\u003c/em> is a truly lavish cinematic experience. The closest we get in \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is when scenes from the movie are set side-by-side with actual archival footage as though Affleck is saying: Look at how perfectly I recreated this, not a hair out of place!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/django-real/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1609\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg\" alt=\"django real\" width=\"650\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real.jpeg 650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/django-real-400x268.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. 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Turn to \u003cem>Beasts of the Southern Wild\u003c/em>, note the modest budget, the non-actor actors, the no-name filmmakers, the huge courage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2013/02/20/why-argo-might-win-an-academy-award-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/argo-6/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1603\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1603\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg\" alt=\"argo 6\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6.jpeg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2013/02/argo-6-400x258.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Because it tackles a declassified government secret and that’s exciting.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhat a caper! One of the most exciting things about \u003cem>Argo\u003c/em> is that while you’re watching it, you feel like you’re privy to this huge secret that the rest of world (in the movie) doesn’t know about. It was a secret and now it’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/12/argo_true_story_the_facts_and_fiction_behind_the_ben_affleck_movie.html\">talked about\u003c/a> but only after government permission. That’s not going to bode well for \u003cem>Silver Linings Playbook\u003c/em> where they deal with the still very taboo topic of mental illness in a charming and funny way. And not since \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIYz8tfGjY\">\u003cem>Annie Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a> has a true and nervous comedy won Best Picture and it has since become epic, in a subtle and graceful way. 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It’s an out-of-the-box scheme that leaves you feeling happy you live in a country whose government allows for such creativity. The past two years have been somewhat Euro-centric with \u003cem>The King’s Speech\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Artist \u003c/em>taking home the top prize, it’s about time the Academy picks a good-ole-fashioned stars-and-stripes-waving \u003ca href=\"http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Entertainment/0/371/Armageddon.JPG\">piece of our history\u003c/a>. But what about \u003cem>Lincoln\u003c/em> you ask? 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