In case you missed it, Social Security benefits could surge this year. Link at Yahoo!Finance.
Senior citizens and disabled workers could be looking at the biggest boost to their Social Security benefits in decades next year — thanks to hot inflation now.
Beneficiaries could see their benefits increase by 5.8% in January 2022, according to a Bank of America analyst note, which would be the biggest boost since 1983. That’s also quite a bit more than January 2021’s increase of 1.3% to the cost-of-living adjustment or COLA that hasn’t been enough to keep up with this year’s inflation.
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TCM
Wow, what a treat. I happened to catch the Coen Bros Blood Simple last night. I had seen the movie years ago but had forgotten much of the movie, but some scenes will never be forgotten. It's not a movie my wife could / would watch.
But about a third of the way into the movie, it became obvious that David Lynch was greatly influenced by this movie, and at about two-thirds of the way into the movie, I about fell off my chair. A scene was so reminiscent of Mulholland Drive, I googled to check if anyone else had noted the similarity between Blood Simple (1984) and Mulholland Drive (2001). Except for one other person, the search was unproductive.
I now forget which scene startled me the most with regard to connecting the two movies, but I think it was the scene in which Frances McDormand looks into the mirror. There is a remarkably similar scene in Mulholland Drive.
It will be interesting to watch this movie (Blood Simple) again and really see how much of Mulholland Drive I see in the Coen Bros movie.
Best part of all of this? The introduction by the presenters. Without question, the introductions are getting better and better on TCM.
Blood Simple was the Coen Bros first film; not only has it held up very well, but one can argue it's still one of their best. I think it was Frances McDormand's first film; she got the part when her roommate who was penciled in for the part was not able to take the role.
Frances McDormand has won three Academy Awards for Best Actress, 1996, 2017, and 2020/2021.
I may be reading the wiki entry incorrectly, but only one woman has won four Best Actress awards: Katharine Hepburn.
Only one woman has won three Best Actress Awards: Frances McDormand.
Twelve women have one two Best Actress Awards (this list of twelve is in addition to the two previously mentioned).
If I'm reading that accurately, I wonder how many folks realize that Ms McDormand has more wins in this category than Meryl Streep?