Households have been flocking from Ukraine following assaults from Russia.
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Ukraine wants our empathy
My longtime Ukrainian buddy tells me of her household within the outdated nation:
“I discuss to them every single day. They dwell on the east aspect of Ukraine. Thus far phone service has not been minimize off. What they are saying is, the complete world has deserted them. Individuals commiserate, journalists discuss, however no one actually cares about them. They don’t see the complete world responding.
“They ask, ‘Why doesn’t NATO ship a jet and blow up these troopers who're killing us? Why didn’t the USA cease this three weeks in the past? Washington knew this was coming. If our White Home actually cared, you assume that nothing man in there ought to’ve picked proper now — the very day tanks and troopers marched in to shoot us — to current a brand new Supreme Court docket Justice? Simply to appease individuals who don’t favor him? How about his timing? Has he no respect?’
“There’s blood in all places. My mother’s household is there. My father’s household is there. They’re going to attempt to get to western Ukraine. They'll’t imagine they’re residing via this.
“My mother and father labored in a Nazi warfare camp. They are saying, ‘We're not giving up. It’s Germany over again.’ They’re hunkering down. Mobilizing. However there isn't a help. Individuals have been shot down. Many Ukrainians have already been killed. However the phrase is ‘we aren't giving up.’
“There at the moment are transportable mortuaries. Troopers kill off 100 folks and what’s carried out is the lifeless our bodies get shortly disbursed with. Obliterated. Thrown into these transportable mortuaries so no one can see or report it.”
I'm additionally instructed Kyiv moms have been instructed to stitch small items of material on their kids’s garments itemizing the youngsters’ names, date of delivery and blood sort.
I'm additionally instructed Putin clearly sees the weak point and incompetence of America’s administration.
And we have now lengthy been instructed Russia exists as our existential enemy. Even Lincoln despised that bigoted regime. And Reagan known as it the “Evil Empire.
Stars’ 2020 visions on movie
GRIFFIN Dunne, Gina Gershon, Emily Mortimer, Rosie Perez did Sunday’s screening of “With/In.” Quick home-made shoots from sorts like Bart Freundlich, Talia Balsam and Chris Cooper. Producers, Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler.
Utilizing an iPhone or no matter’s round, it was quarantine quickies of life 2020. Outcomes have been a grieving widow, a person locked in a john after a one-nighter with a temp girlfriend, a tense thriller a couple of author held hostage, some darkish comedy about sourdough baking, one other of apparatus disappearing whereas in transit, an interracial marriage, a therapist coping with her personal OCD, and so on.
Beats something on Netflix.
Ins and outs
BACKSTAGE at MSG, inside his silver bedazzled jacket, Elton John stated, “I got here to America 1970. Rising up, all the nice music I ever heard was from America. I really like New York.” . . . ANYBODY know Andrew Cuomo’s lawyer Rita Glavin additionally reps Trump’s CFO Allen Weisselberg? . . . ABC March 20 “Step Into . . . the Motion pictures With Derek & Julianne Hough” airs every week earlier than we ignore the Oscars. They’re re-creating “Singin’ within the Rain,” “Soiled Dancing,” “Saturday Evening Fever,” “La La Land” movie dances.
Cheers to CNN
BELATED commendation to CNN. Many nixed it when it bent so left that Bernie blubbery Sanders appeared average. Now within the Ukraine its reporters on the bottom and their experiences have been masterful. Even my tv set is grateful.
IT’S coming as much as awards time. Quickly we will ignore the Oscars. And, hear, don’t fear in case you tune in late — higher you must miss it from the start.
Solely in New York and in all places, youngsters — solely in New York and anyplace.
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