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Hattie McDaniel in her role as Mammy in “Gone with the Wind” in 1939.

She was the first African American to win an Oscar.

The Oscar 2023 for the Best International Film goes to:

All Quiet on the Western Front !

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. “

Mocking your own family is never, never a good idea.

“Istanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. 

Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world.”

Game over, Ms Truss !

And now there should be a General Election in the UK instead of another Tory Prime Minister lurching from crisis to crisis.

Things are not going well for the British Prime Minister Liz Truss, to say the least.

“The great revelation perhaps never did come. 

Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

Bette Davis (1950)

Lisbon by night 

“The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! 

That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. 

Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? 

Is it the clever folk, or the stupid?