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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Absentees

 In addition to noteworthy

absence by BEST SUPPORTING

ACTOR award winner

Sean Penn

other celebrities - members of

the cast of various movies were absent

Sunday March 15, 2026:

Hailee Steinfeld

Tom Holland

and

Brad Pitt [ main actor in F1 ]

Sean Penn & Volodymyr Zelenskyy -- day after the Academy Awards 2026

 THE Hill platform includes the 

X - posted shot of friends

Sean Penn, Oscar-winner

&

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

thehillcom/blogs/in-the-know/

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meeting/?tbref=hp

C-SPAN founders' DAY

 Anniversary of the Founding of

C-Span : March 19, 2026

Allied nations balk at invitation to PATROL and KEEP OPEN the strait of Hormuz : chapter 2 "Trump reverses to say Don't NEED HELP ? ? ? !"

BBC.com/news/world

Trump lashes out at N.A.T.O.

"US no longer needs help" . . .

3/17/2026 


Trump in social media

mentioned

7 nations he wanted to assist

the security to keep open the

STRAIT OF HORMUZ :

replying thus far are

Germany - - No

Italy -- officials / diplomats

Japan

Australia

officials also decline . . .

Details @ ABC News.go.com/ world

also Sir Keir Starmer, P.M. of

U.K.

Aden Holloway

 Starting guard

Alabama (NCAA Men's BB Team)

has been arrested on a 

felony drug charge

17 March 2026

Len Deighton has died (Spy fiction - Counter-intelligence novelist)

 Washington POST noted that obituary

Len Deighton

b. Feb. 18, 1929

d. this week

age 97

birthplace: Marylebone, LONDON, U.K.

His famous novel,

The Ipcress File

was re-booted as a 2022 limited series

6-episode (cable) after originally getting

a movie treatment in 1965

Replacement needed : Tulsi Gabbard (Trump's Director of National Intelligence) must now appoint another deputy

 Joe Kent has resigned

dni.gov

/index.php/

nctc-who-we-are/

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