I Celebrate Myself: The quirky and offbeat South Korean movie “Parasite” became the first foreign language film to win a Best Picture Oscar in the 92 years of the awards. The movie also won three other awards, the most of any picture for the night.

  “Parasite” is about a Korean family that lives in the slums and manages to insert themselves into the lives of a rich family that lives in a gated house. It’s funny, shocking, surprising, and not many people have seen it. “Parasite” has earned about $35 million while “Joker” has collected $350 million.

  Renée Zellweger came back from a six year absence to win Best Actress for playing the broken down singer Judy Garland in “Judy.” Zellweger was once an Academy Awards regular, receiving two nominations and winning for “Cold Mountain” in 2004. 

  Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for playing a deranged clown in “Joker.” It’s a dark performance done well.

   At the podium, Phoenix riffed about “distressing issues that we are facing collectively.” He went on about “gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against injustice.” 

  By the way, did you know that he lives with Rooney Mara?

  Brad Pitt won Best Supporting Actor for playing a stuntman in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” Laura Dern took Best Supporting Actress for playing a divorce lawyer in “Marriage Story.”

  Wearing a pink dress with black tassels, Dern was also one of the worst dressed women and Billy Porter was the best dressed man in a woman’s outfit.

Outbreak: Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited a hospital and a local government office in Beijing. and joined a videoconference with health workers in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. You know there’s trouble in an authoritarian country when the news is about the supreme leader visiting the scene of the disaster.

   Sixty-five new cases the coronavirus have been confirmed on a cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama, Japan, raising the number to 135. So far, 910 people have died and 40,573 taken ill with the coronavirus.

Pink Floyd: The Trump administration is expected to announce this week that it will lift billions of dollars more from the Pentagon budget for the southern border wall rather try to get it in the regular budget.

  The plan is to pose the move as interdiction of drug trafficking, building roughly 270 miles of fence in areas considered drug corridors, both rural and urban. Late last month a section of new wall fell down in a high wind.

No More Nice Guy: True to form for Democrats, the crowd running for the presidential nomination has turned into a circular firing squad.

  Coming off his Iowa debacle, Vice President Joe Biden has revealed that he’s afraid of former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Biden didn’t say he’s afraid; the way a politician says he’s afraid is by attacking a rival who’s winning.

  Biden, who was a long-term senator before he spent eight years as vice president, told reporters in New Hampshire that, “I do not believe we’re a party at risk if they nominate me, and I do believe we’re a party at risk if we nominate someone who’s never held a higher office than mayor of South Bend, Indiana.”

  Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union,  Buttigieg  said, “This isn’t 2008; it’s 2020. We are in a new moment, calling for a different kind of leadership.”

 Senator Amy Klobuchar, who also finished far behind Mayor Pete in Iowa, piled on. “We have a newcomer in the White House and look where it got us,” she said in a debate Friday night. “I think having some experience is a good thing.”

  And then there’s Bernie Sanders, who knocked Buttigieg for taking money from the rich. At a rally in Dover, New Hampshire Oscar the Grouch said, “Billionaires by the dozen are contributing to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign.” 

The Obit Page: Actor and comedian Orson Bean, once a familiar face both on Broadway and prime time game shows, died Friday night after he was hit by two cars in Hollywood. He was 91.

  Police say the first car knocked down Bean and the second ran over him.

  On Broadway, Bean was in the original cast of “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” in the 1950s, and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1961 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for “Subways Are for Sleeping.” Bean was a frequent player on quiz shows like “To Tell the Truth,” “Super Password” and “Match Game.” He made guest appearances on shows from “The Twilight Zone” to “Grace and Frankie.” He had regular roles on “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. — Robert Conrad, the rugged, impossibly handsome actor who starred in the popular 1960s television series “Hawaiian Eye” and “The Wild, Wild West,” has died at 84. The 5-8 actor not only played tough guys, he was one. He was sued at least a half-dozen times after getting into fist fights.

Make Way for the King: Former Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh over the weekend endedhis bid to deny President Trump his party’s presidential nomination. That leaves former Massachusetts Gov. William weld and, of course, Donald Trump.

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