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Marsha Brown,
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APRIL 2016
whine. The Oscar for Best Actor was
about to be presented and Babs is a big
fan of Tom Hanks and has been since
she saw You’ve Got Mail. But alas, Leo
won.
Then, almost as if he decided to act
like he cared about something besides
the fact that he finally actually won an
Oscar, DiCaprio, 41, used most of his
acceptance speech as a platform to talk
about climate change.
“I just want to say this — making The Revenant was about man’s
relationship to the natural world, a world
that we collectively felt in 2015 as the
hottest year in recorded history,” he said,
adding that the production crew had to
move to the southern tip of the planet
to find snow. DUH! The crew ran out
of deep snow in May and from then
through August of 2015 they had to
film in Argentina. Canada didn’t have
enough deep snow in May.
“Climate change is real, and it’s
happening right now,” DiCaprio said.
“It is the most urgent threat facing our
entire species, and we need to work
collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders
around the world who do not speak for
the big polluters or the big corporations,
but who speak for all of humanity, for
the indigenous people of the world …
and for those people out there whose
voices have been drowned out by the
politics of greed.”
By the end of his speech even the
girl dogs were snoring.
Gee, Leo, why not just suspend
movie filming until it was winter in
Canada again and save all those carbon
footprints? Oh, wait, could it be that the
“politics of greed” reared its ugly head
in the movie industry? I love Leo as
much as the next person but I suspect
that my father was correct. Acting like
you’re someone you’re not, someone
who was mangled by a bear but still
had the courage and stamina to keep
going, and making millions and millions of dollars to do it — it’s got to be
a weird feeling, doesn’t it? I’d probably
want to talk about something else too.
I hope you enjoy our April 2016
issue.
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