Shades of Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,” a great memoir about life as a child at Christmas time—and making fruitcakes!—in precisely that same part of the country where Jimmie lives (and, apparently, where he grew up). The difference: Capote made fruitcakes sound very special, and never acknowledged that fruitcakes are generally not liked. >
Peter O’Toole got an “honorary” Oscar recognizing his life’s work, but not for any particular film. But there are many who won undeserved Oscars out of recognition that they’d been snubbed in previous years for better roles/performances in better movies: Paul Newman (for Color of Money), Judi Dench (for Shakespeare in Love: great movie, but she had only 8 minutes of screen time in it), Liz Taylor (Butterfield 8), Leo DiCaprio (the Revenant), Will Smith (King Richard). Probably a lot more.
@SammySnyder, @UncleJoe is right. The debt is bumping up against the ceiling now because of past actions, including not only past spending decisions, but a catastrophic and irresponsible tax cut the Republicans gleefully passed during the Trump administration.
Capote memory here: www (dot) sailthouforth (dot) com/2009/12/