It was a red-letter day when I got to join those two great THOTS Bil Antoniou and Daniel Krolik to discuss 'The House of the Spirits'.

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Not to be a spoilsport, but everything we've seen of 'Wicked' thus far reminds me of those AI-generated backdrops at the Glasgow Wonka Experience. How did the MGM mavericks with only old pantyhose and spit make it look SO much better in 1939? Or, at least, visually cohesive...

I think about this often Mark O'Donovan

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Our Number One Lady, the GC. Or as she's known to the Academy, 'Kate Middleton'.

To paraphrase President Biden: you can't love the #Oscars only when you win. Our heroines haven't a snowball's chance in Hell, this year!

Here's Dame Joan Collins in 1990, offering a perceptive and thoughtful analysis on the significance of a victory:

Oh, to live in a mirror universe called '2008' where the best performance had at least a chance of winning -- not the one that will let the Academy pat themselves on the back to feel liberal and broad-minded.

A wonderful manifesto from Good Queen Jess, soon to be seen as an Oscar presenter for the first time in nearly 30 years. The interviewer was one lucky bugger -- imagine getting to meet the woman who played Blanche DuBois, Blanche DuBois, Blanche DuBois and Blanche DuBois.

1. Miss Sandra Hüller
2. Miss Annette Bening
3. Miss Lily Gladstone
4. Miss Carey Mulligan
5. Miss Emma Stone

(Honorable mention: Miss Andrew Scott -- 'Grief Encounter')

Literally the only precursor that matters. 🏆

'Hello, is this Emma Stone? I'm you from the future.'

This is why I loathe the post-2020 BAFTA choices. All that teeth-pulling to show how liberal and broad-minded they are at the nomination stage, only for them to parrot the presumed Oscar frontrunners on the night. Sandra Hüller would've been an inspired winner.

You got a fast bed
I got a plan to get us outta here

Princess Diana waiting for Charles in the afterlife: