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The fact that this country has not come to a standstill after finding a mass grave of children means we need to come to standstill to try to absorb what that says about us.
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Expectations were low for today. Here I am at a routine doctor’s appointment. I really didn’t plan this day right.
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1/ This is the worst movie I have ever seen.
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Always dignified under pressure... Dear God. I had one job. Look classy. I did this instead.
(Let me take this opportunity to tell you that you need to see the incredible "I Like Movies" by Chandler Levack. And the transformative "Brother" by Clement Virgo.)
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Love hearing that everyone you know who got COVID only had mild symptoms. Good for you. For myself - I know someone young and healthy who died and have a cousin recovering from a heart transplant after COVID. Forgive me if I take all of this pretty seriously.
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I'm very happy today and so grateful to the incredible collective of cast and crew who made Women Talking.
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I appreciate that but to give context to the snub - I did eat an astonishing (and greedy) number of scones and sandwiches at the BAFTA tea party. My plate was piled so high. I got some warning looks. I didn't heed them. But it was worth every delicious morsel. No regrets.
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Nothing can ever top this. I’m retiring now.
WINNER, Best Ensemble: A TIE
WOMEN TALKING
JACKASS FOREVER
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1/Lessons learned from Olympia Dukakis: First day I worked with her when I was 24 - "Where are we going for margaritas tonight?" I said I wanted to get an early night. She said " We gotta have some laughs. Otherwise we'll blow our fucking brains out." We went for the margaritas.
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I am thinking today of all the women who had to fight so hard for things to be better when they were young, only to find themselves having to fight for the same things now that they are old, and how tired they must be, and how grateful I am to them for their energy then and now.
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Whether you loved Promising Young Woman or not, it is telling that it is sweeping awards season, while I May Destroy You has been completely ignored. It's a clear statement about which stories we are ready to hear and which ones we continue to ignore.
#imaydestroyyou
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Thread: 1/About 15 years ago, on a plane from LA to Toronto, I was struggling to get my bag into a crowded overhead bin. An old man offered to move his suitcase into a different position so I could fit mine in.
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I don't really care that Doug Ford dropped out of highschool or used to deal pot or that he can't use a laptop. I care very deeply that his policies have resulted in so much horrific, unnecessary loss of life.
#DougFord
#onpoli
#COVID19Ontario
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Imagine if people were as vocal defending teachers and nurses as they are defending the richest man in the world.
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Why do workers in film get tested three times a week in their workplace while educators do not? Let's look at the priorities in our society and collectively hurl.
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Just making sure you saw this endorsement - cause if you liked Star Wars you will LOVE Women Talking.
#WomenTalking
is a profoundly powerful, stirring and moving film. Remarkable, bold performances and impeccable direction by
#realSarahPolley
.
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My tweet about Marie Kondo was a joke. I love her and of course I don't demand an "official apology." I forgot that humour does not always translate on Twitter.
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You know what would be really revolutionary? If all the female filmmakers over 50, whose careers were destroyed by the misogyny of Hollywood, were now given money to direct the movies they never got to make.
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I miss the times in Toronto when everything new that opened up wasn’t a cannabis store.
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When we compare this convoy to other protests I think it's important to keep in mind that this one is making people who are already unsafe in our society even more unsafe. That's one of the (many) differences.
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This week I've run into two people out and about with Covid. Not anti-maskers. Not anti-vaxxers. Just people who thought it was okay to go out for a bit. Messaging has become so muddy- now lots of people are not even staying home when they are positive. Everything is upside down.
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This announcement is the straw that broke every smart person's back.
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Best endorsement ever. He was my safe harbour in the chaos as an 8 year old. As I came up the walk he said “it’s been 35 years. What took you so long?” And gave me a big hug. What a good guy.
In 1988 I last saw a little girl on the set of Baron Munchausen, last week she came to tea and last night I saw the fantastic movie she wrote & directed "Women Talking." It's fabulous. Of course, the incredible
@SarahPolley
. I'm so proud of her and thrilled for her. Go see why.
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2020. The year of hearing people say, through gritted teeth: "I'm lucky. I can't complain." And then they just explode.
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Some people think the Adapted Screenplay race is boring. Not with this vicious, competitive group it isn't. This is the most exciting, intense race there is. Stay tuned.
#Oscars2023
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If you’ve ever thought of being the premier of Ontario but weren’t sure you were qualified I hope Doug Ford’s press conferences are at least giving you a wee boost.
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Remembering the times I’ve been discharged from hospitals after various surgeries. It is scary to walk out in the world when your body feels so vulnerable. My heart goes out to all the patients having to deal with the added stress of this convoy right outside the hospitals.
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Dear diary, Twitter verified me yesterday. Now I guess I can get really shouty on there.
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At the
#AFIAWARDS
today, I politely requested that Steven Spielberg return my cast from Take This Waltz.
#awardsseason
#hijinx
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10/ It was such a good joke, I thought, and he had delivered it so drily.
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Shout out to all my people who secretly love Love Actually.
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If you are forming a homeschool pod because school seems unsafe for your child - please consider putting time into continuing to fight for the kids whose parents don’t have that option. An exodus of parent advocates would be terrible right now.
#UnsafeSeptember
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The beautiful and brilliant author of the novel Women Talking
@BranchMiriam
(Miriam Toews) and I, last night. I’m very lucky to know this woman and to have had the privilege of walking around inside her wild imagination.
#WomenTalking
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Any set where an AD just grabs a gun off a cart is not functioning properly…. The props person shows the gun to the actor, shows that the chamber is empty. This production sounds like a shitshow.
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When they have a case or two in NZ or Western Australia they lock down fast, hard and then go back to regular life (restaurants, malls etc.) With thousands of cases a day and a variant on steroids we are reopening in Ontario. For the economy. Got it. Makes perfect sense.
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Ontarians: Retweet if you are not a teacher but you support teachers and their unions as they fight to make schools safe for kids and staff. They need us loud! They are fighting for all of us right now. Thank you!
#ETFO
#SafeSeptember
#onted
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If you feel tempted to post a photo of young people gathering outside as an example of stupidity, post a photo of an overcrowded classroom instead. The stupidity of our Ontario government and what they've allowed inside classrooms is far more dangerous than outdoor gatherings.
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Thank you so so much Daniel Kwan! (And I'm so glad we cut out our hot dog fingers sequence because that would have been so awkward...)
Women Talking was phenomenal. A heartbreaking, but ultimately healing exploration of power dynamics and community. Every performance lands. Felt a knot in my stomach for most of the film, but it also, surprisingly, has a sense of humor (shout out to Ruth and Cheryl 🐎🐎)
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1/2I have seen some discussion about whether or not people can still like this movie after hearing about my horrible experiences working on it as a child. You may not be asking for it or care - but you have my unconditional permission to still love this movie.
The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions in THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1988)—entering the collection this January!
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I think I speak for a lot of parents when I say that I wish my kids only remembered the non-pandemic me as their parent.
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Whenever I hear someone complain that they “can’t say anything anymore without getting into trouble” I’m always struck by what a limited repertoire of things they must have had to say.
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Today, in an underground parking lot, I met one of my heroes
@DFisman
,who I recognized behind his mask. I had (weirdly) lost my car. He offered to stay with me until I found it.
#goodpeople
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5/ Oh one more thing about Olympia. When I was 25 she said to me "You're twenty-five. You better be having great sex. If you're not you better do something about it." I love passing this onto people in their twenties now and seeing their faces go pale.
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Jesus this reads like a Beaverton headline.
BREAKING: Parents will not be notified of Covid outbreak at their child's school until there is 30% absenteeism rate among staff and students. Focus is to keep schools open by replacing sick teachers w retired and student teachers
#onpoli
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Talking to friends in Western Australia about COVID policies makes you realize Ontario’s response is even more embarrassing than you thought.
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8/“What a lovely thing to say.” he said. “Why?” I asked. He put out his hand to shake mine. “Because I’m Bill Davis.”
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If you grew up in a house of hockey fans...getting to do this narration for the opening of Hockey Night in Canada is more meaningful than going to the Oscars. (And my nephew Owen now thinks I am cool. Result!)
#LeafsForever
#leafsnation
#hnic
#hockey
“So sit back, because the story is getting to the interesting part.” 🎞️
Canadian Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sarah Polley (
@realsarahpolley
) opens
#HockeyNight
in Canada. 🍿🔥
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We weren’t paying attention at all and then we both won! (Took me twenty minutes to realize Hildur won for Tar.)
#CriticsChoiceAwards
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The way
@fordnation
wags his finger at us all for misbehaving and not taking COVID seriously... it's like your Dad screaming at you for smoking a joint but he's actually selling pot. Oh, wait.
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It's so hard to focus on anything, not knowing who the new Governor General will be.
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11/The way they are marketing this movie is even more laughable, though perhaps the closest thing to the truth. “At it's heart, this movie is a love story.”
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I can die now. I narrated the opening of Hockey Night in Canada. TONIGHT. I'm kind of a nepo baby when it comes to hockey but I wear it well I think...
#wendelclarkforever
#leafs
#hockey
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Would be awesome if he had 5 women in his family lobbying him for safe schools in September instead of manicures. Just imagine...
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We came to a standstill after 16 white kids died a few years ago. Why not now? Where are the memorials on everyone's porches?
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I like hearing alternate viewpoints, but it’s incredibly hard not to want to block people who think lockdowns are an overreaction when I knew a perfectly healthy 49 year old who died of it, and another young, healthy family member is, right now, fighting for his life.
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Looks like one dose is not hugely effective against B1617 and that it is quickly becoming the dominant strain in Ontario. So given that many have just one dose now it’s a great time to reopen schools for three weeks. What could possibly go wrong?
#Ontarioschools
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If your biggest concern today is that people don't like Canada Day anymore you must be very uncomfortable with all that sand your head is buried in.
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A few years ago my Dad, who was a lifelong militant atheist, and who, while suffering from dementia believed himself to be Jesus Christ, died on Good Friday. I spent that Easter Sunday laughing on his behalf in between biblical floods of tears.
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So many non-Conservatives said they were weirdly impressed with
@fordnation
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#SafeSeptemberON
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4/I didn't have a day with her when I didn't end up in laughter so out of control that I was weeping. Or didn't have my thinking challenged so profoundly that I grew. There won't be another like her.
#RIPOlympiaDukakis
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6/ This movie even tries to cram in a political agenda – an on-the-nose critique of what capitalism looks like at its worst. States competing for ventilators, the rich sheltering in lovely places while the poor are trapped or still at work in unsafe environments.
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I will not vote for anyone in the next provincial election who doesn’t display appropriate fiery rage at the many unnecessary deaths this government is and will be responsible for.
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3/So much heavy handed foreshadowing. The apocalyptic footage from Wuhan, the super villain American president, the whistleblower dying, the Russia/China border closed while people still claimed it was just a flu, the warnings unheeded. Insulting to the audience's intelligence
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America - I love that you don’t have a dictator in office anymore. But if I were you, the fact that one was able to be president for four years would give me pause before starting to shriek again that the US is the best country in the world...
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If this pandemic has taught us anything, it's that money can suddenly be made available if it seems urgent enough. There can no longer be ANY excuse to not fund permanent, supportive housing for all those experiencing homelessness.
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@reuben_copley
@zoegreenberg
@PenguinRandomCA
@TorontoStar
I pulled my endorsement and spoke with the publisher about this months ago as soon as it came to my attention. Thank you.
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5/The over the top details of world leaders and their wives falling ill, the far fetched idea that industrialized countries wouldn’t have proper protective gear for front line workers and ventilators. Pleeeeaaase. This movie needed a script doctor.
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Sorry I don't mean for this to become a Danielle Deadwyler fan account but so what if it is. Please watch. And go see this incredible movie.
Okay but how are you gonna watch Danielle Deadwyler do THIS and then say… “nah”
#OscarNoms
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When people crap on teachers, I imagine they had an awful teacher as a child who still haunts them. How else to explain the vitriol for those who educate our children? Or the outsized rage over summers off and decent pensions as CEOs make billions? It feels ancient and personal.
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4/And then – that most annoying of horror/disaster movie tropes – the hapless idiots walking into disaster after disaster, all of which the audience can see coming from a mile away.
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7/And the dystopian angle of this movie? The elderly have become so disposable that young people still get together and party? No matter how bad the world is, no one could believe we could ever get to that point.
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I very much enjoyed talking to this nice man in his garage.
Today is
@realsarahpolley
day on ! Memory, narratives, the stories we tell, Away from Her, Women Talking. Great talk! Do it up!
Episode -
On
@ApplePodcasts
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There should be a massive party for all the parents in Canada whose kids aged out of daycare just as it became affordable. With a lot of drinks.
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2/2 Yes, it was traumatic for me. Yes, it should have been handled very differently. Yes, it is still a great movie. The joy that comes from it is the joy I am able to carry with me as well as the terrible memories. So go nuts. Enjoy it. You have my blessing.
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I wish that people with money, time, and connections didn't so often send their kids to private school. We need you people now, advocating hard, as though it were YOUR childrens and teachers safety at stake. If you aren't in the public system, please act now, as though you are.
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9/I don’t often say this, or believe it, but this movie really needed to choose its genre. Horror movie? Political? Disaster? Screwball comedy? It’s just trying to do too many things at the same time.
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3/ "Feelings aren't facts" was something I heard her say often.
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2/When I directed her in my first film I spent a lot of time in rehearsal guiding actors to how I had imagined the lines. After about an hour she gestured to the space between her and the other actor and said "What you're not commenting on is what's happening right here."
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If you are shocked by the numbers in Ontario today I recommend you start following
@imgrund
@DFisman
@IrfanDhalla
@SharkawyMD
so you can have a better sense of what is coming and won't be shocked by what has been totally predictable based on
@fordnation
policies.
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10/ I also think it was a strange choice for this movie to not focus on the only potentially interesting main protagonist. That bat in China. Every other character is totally passive.
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On
@TheCurrentCBC
right now hearing the names of residential schools that will not release the records. Yes. Let’s keep saying their names until they do. Release the records now.
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In six months we will be looking back on the decision to not reduce class sizes. To open bars before schools. We will be looking at you
@fordnation
. And it will be too late to make it better.
#BackToSchool
#onted
#UnsafeSeptemberON
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9/ I then remembered that early in our conversation I had asked what he did for a living. I assumed he was an artist or an arts administrator. He had said "I'm on some boards. And for 14 years I was premier of Ontario."
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My seven-year-old child just said: “When my heart is heavy, that just means it’s full of love.” Passing it along.
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He seems happiest when making cheesecake and dealing with pumpkins and I fully support him following his passion FULLY and giving up his current job to do so.
One of my favourite traditions growing up was carving pumpkins.
From my family to yours, wishing everyone in Ontario a happy and safe
#Halloween
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I hope I’m remembered for the fact that my mom and grandmother were two of the Helens.
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Taking a good long Twitter break. I've loved so many of the connections I've made here over the years. I've learned a ton. And now it's time to take a break.
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Imagine having enough money to end world hunger and this is what you choose to do with your time.
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Many parents I spoke to today believe schools will close by end of Oct. Some live in small apartments with no outdoor space and are juggling kids and work. Still dumbstruck
@fordnation
opened bars before schools, ensuring this catastrophe.
#ontariosafe
#onted
#UnsafeSeptemberON
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There should be a word for the full body joy that comes from hearing that someone you care about is vaccinated.
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Congratulations on making it to 2022, everyone. No small feat.
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I just did a Fire of Love/Triangle of Sadness double bill. Hallelujah. Haven't had a movie watching day as eventful as this since watching Secrets and Lies and Breaking the Waves on the same day, decades ago.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but most parents don’t have a “choice” to keep their kids home from school.
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I think I should just rename this the
@DFisman
Retweet Account. I’ve lost the will to do much else on here.
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8/I don’t know who approved this script. I don’t know who thought it was in shape to be released. People are just desperate for content I guess.
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Read this quote from Doug Ford carefully: "Imagine having kids in your house all day long. You're trying to work from home or even come home from work — it's a real challenge." I'm stumped.
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I predict that in ten years there will be many female actors who are not painfully skinny who will have major roles in major films and they won't have to be funny to justify their place in them. And we will look back on this time and be so revolted. I hope.
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Hi, I’m child actor.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you
Hi, I'm swimming pool.
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