The ramifications of last Sunday's Oscar telecast are still being felt from the corner of Hollywood

and Vine to the other corner of Hollywood and Vine just across the street. After all, when actors

are given little statuettes for pretending to be other people, all of America stops. Eager to hear

what they have to say, or possibly we've just dozed off. But who among us is not interested in

the opinions of a beautiful millionaire actress, traipsing down a red carpet in a handmade gown,

embroidered with the names of I'm not sure what exactly since I was staring at her cleavage

like everyone else. And which of us does not want our evening uplifted by hearing the wisdom of

an actor whose kick drugs long enough to give us the lecture he used to give to his third wife

before she wised up and took the kids back to Philadelphia. We got to hear from Brad Pitt,

who was bold enough to speak out against Donald Trump risking his career by agreeing with every

single powerful person he knows or has ever met. Then there was an Oscar for a documentary about

the working man, produced by Barack Obama, who made a deal with Netflix, likely valued it over

$100 million, just after making a memoir deal with Random House valued at $65 million. The director

of the documentary accepted her award by quoting the line from the Communist Manifesto, workers of the

world unite, after which she and a motley crew of Russian peasants stormed the Obama's mansion

and occupied it in your dreams. And finally, there was Joaquin Phoenix's speech after winning the

Oscar for Joker. Joaquin, who's still recovering from having been named Joaquin, denounced all mankind

for stealing milk from poor little cows and brutally putting it in our coffee or flavoring it with

chocolate, which is really tasty, by the way, especially with just a small scoop of ice cream.

And I forgot what Joaquin was talking about, but then so is everyone else. Trigger warning,

I'm Andrew Clayvin, and this is the Andrew Clayvin Show.

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