The Envelope: “Green Book” won best picture at the Oscars last night, annoying Spike Lee and Jordan Peele, who made BlacKkKlansman.“I’m snakebit. Every time someone’s driving somebody, I lose,” Lee complained later.

  That’s a reference to the year his  Do the Right Thing  lost to Driving Miss Daisy, a movie about a black chauffeur who drove a white woman in the South.

  “Green Book,” starring Viggo Mortensen, is about a white man who drives a black musician. It has irritated some critics because it tells the black experience through the eyes of a white character. But it’s a brilliantly made movie.

  Lee won an Oscar for writing  BlacKkKlansman. 

   Olivia Colman won Best Actress playing Queen Anne in The Favourite, an upset for Glenn Close, who many expected to win her first Oscar in seven nominations.

  Rami Malekwon Best Actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” then fell of the stage with Oscar in hand at the end of the show.

  Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper killed it performing their winning song “Shallow” and some of the speeches with winners thanking lists of people were among the worst in Oscar history.

 The Fashion Report: Emma Stone looked like a lizard. Jennifer Lopez wore a dress with a thousand little mirrors on it, but the biggest bling was A-Rod on her arm. Linda Cardellini arrived in pink Big Bird. Amy Adams was classy and beautiful in white. Spike Lee wore a purple suit with purple glasses and gold sneakers. Awkwafina wore a glittery silver suit that needed to be let out at the button and we have no idea what she’s famous for.Actor Billy Porter hosting on the ABC pre-game show upstaged all the women in a black velvet tuxedo gown with a full skirt. 

Peace Train:North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is travelling 2800 miles to Vietnam for a summit with President Trump aboard an armored train. The last character to have armored train was Strelnikov in Dr. Zhivago.

  The two leaders will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore

  Trump, who believes he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his negotiations with Kim, is already bragging about his success. “So funny to watch people who have failed for years,” Trump tweeted. “They got NOTHING, telling me how to negotiate with North Korea.”

  So far Trump has gotten the same as his predecessors, nothing.

 Feeding Trump’s sense of mission, North Korea issued a statemen urging him to ignore critics. It says, “If the present U.S. administration reads others’ faces, lending an ear to others, it may face the shattered dream of the improvement of the relations with the DPRK and world peace and miss the rare historic opportunity,”

  Trump believes he can talk Kim out of his nuclear weapons and turn North Korea into an economic miracle. He tweeted, “Chairman Kim realizes, perhaps better than anyone else, that without nuclear weapons, his country could fast become one of the great economic powers anywhere in the World. Because of its location and people (and him), it has more potential for rapid growth than any other nation!”

  What he’s saying is that the dictator who has starved and isolated North Korea is the same man who will turn it into a wonderful country. Make North Korea Great Again! 

Musical Bars: R. Kelly, one of the best-selling musicians ever, spent yesterday in Chicago’s Cook County Jail in lieu of posting a $100,000 bond on charges of sexual abuse. Maybe if he hangs on for a while he’ll give a free concert to the inmates. Bluesman BB King once gave a great concert there, but he was invited, not arrested. 

The Obit Page:W.E.B Griffin, who cranked out at least 60 novels about soldiers, spies, and cops, has died in Florida at age 89.

 Griffin became popular with his nine-novel series, “The Brotherhood of War,” that followed soldiers in the United States Army from World War II through the Vietnam. He also wrote series called “Badge of Honor,” about the Philadelphia Police Department, and “Clandestine Operations,” about the Central Intelligence Agency.

  Griffin wrote airport and train station novels. He once told The Washington Post, “Basically I’m a storyteller. I like to think I’m a competent craftsman, as writers go, but I am wholly devoid of literary ambitions or illusions.”

New National Holiday:  President Trump caught Washington off guard yesterday announcing a big celebration to be held on the 4^thof July. He tweeted, “HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It will be called “A Salute To America” and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!”

  Maybe it will rival the size of his inaugural audience.

Normally the 4^thof July is called the 4^thof July instead of “A Salute to America,” but only Donald Trump would re-name it. At least he didn’t call it “July Trump.”

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