Jeff and Sasha chatted up the latest last night around dinner hour.

Three topics mostly. One, the complete toastification of Emilia Perez‘s Karla Sofía Gascón over the last few days. Two, how and why Demi Moore‘s Best Actress candidacy will probably benefit the most from Gascon’s calamity, even though the narrative she presented at last month’s Golden Globes ceremony is essentially false**. And three, the Saturday report that the third member of the deceased Blackhawk crew (and likely pilot) was 28 year-old Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, 28, of Durham, North Carolina.

We mainly focused on Gascon’s all-but-collapsed Best Actress campaign. Which was triggered by a one-two punch. On 1.28 she contended that I’m Still Here‘s Fernanda Torres, a competing Best Actress nominee, was allied with people who had attacked Gascon online. Soon after some old, highly unfortunate Gascon tweets surfaced, persuading many that she holds bigoted views about Muslims and African Americans.

Why didn’t Netflix staffers scrub Gascon’s Twitter/X account for possibly offensive terms early on? Dereliction of duty, man.

THR‘s Scott Feinberg has described Gascon as “completely toxic…At this point, Mel Gibson is probably more popular in town.”

Worse, IndieWire‘s Ryan Lattanzio has said that he thinks Gascon “may be dragging down Emilia Perez with her.”

** Jeff and Sasha strongly contend that Anora‘s Mikey Madison should win the Best Actress Oscar, and not Demi Moore.

Posted on 1.9.25: “Over the last 40 years Moore wasn’t pushed and bullied into a mainstream megaplex career. I’ve never read or heard that she tried to prove her arthouse mettle by appearing in edgy Sundance films, and as far as I know she wasn’t kept down and put in a confining box by big, bad studio execs — she went for big, attention-getting, high-paying roles in mainstream films, and she became rich and famous and lived a very flush life. She chose this path while the choosing was good.

“She did Brat Pack roles, sexy hottie parts, romantic relationship roles, femme fatale roles…Blame It on Rio, St. Elmo’s Fire, About Last Night…, Ghost, A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal, Disclosure, Striptease, The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, G.I. Jane. True, she played a small part in the arthousey Margin Call but that was 14 years ago, after her career flame had cooled. And last year she did Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.

“In short, Moore never even tried to be in a critically-approved, Cannes-worthy, outside-the-box feminist statement film, and certainly not in a body-horror film. She only took the lead in The Substance when she calculated that she’d aged out (duhhh) and a role like this was her only likely shot at prominence, just like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford signed up for hag horror in the ’60s.”