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17 Days To Oscar: I Am So Sad & Angry.
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17 Days To Oscar: I Am So Sad & Angry.

David Poland
Apr 08, 2021
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17 Days To Oscar: I Am So Sad & Angry.
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Writer's block happens. But it isn't happening to me right now. What is happening is that for over a week, I have been writing columns about different subjects and never quite getting to the end because everything feels like a bottomless pit.

It's not COVID anymore. I am feeling pretty good about that, even as we have months to go before any real normalcy returns, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

It's this industry. Film and television. And how media covers it. And how many deals are being made. And how people are seeing the future, which always concerns me more than it should because 50 years later, we are surrounded by the real life manifestations of Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In improv, it's called playing to the height of your intelligence... which human beings tend not to do. Even the smartest people.

Right now, we are in a time of massive transition. Some of it is moral. Some of it is financial. Some of it is social. Some of it is personal. Some of it is determinin…

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