But since then the controversial film has won a Royal Television Society nomination, a UK Foreign Press Association award and a series of prestigious US prizes.
Now Mr. Bierko is performing night after night on Broadway and has won a Tony nomination (losing to Brian Stokes Mitchell of "Kiss Me, Kate").
Yet for all the awards Lori Henriques has won (a Grammy Nomination, 3 Parents' Choice Gold Awards, The Joe Raposo Children's Music Award, rave reviews and hours of airplay on SiriusXM's Kids Place Live) she stays grounded, balancing her busy career, and being the best possible Mom to her 2 children.
He also said that "nobody remotely like Trump has won a major-party nomination in the modern era".
Except in 1964 -- when Lyndon Johnson trounced Barry Goldwater -- every Republican who has won an open nomination in anything like a modern primary process has had a preexisting state network of contacts in place.
Two artists who are part of that transition are Marc Ribot, an esteemed jazz guitarist, and Rosanne Cash, whose work has won a Grammy and received twelve nominations.
The two captains of his effort, the disheveled David Axelrod, his close friend and political strategist, and the meticulous David Plouffe, the campaign manager, had never been on a team that had won a presidential nomination, much less a general election.
Having won a Mercury nomination for Stainless Style, he has been driving to Neon Neon's gigs in one of the few DeLorean sports cars that made it to the road.
In fact, Williams had won a supporting actress nomination playing the wife in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.
The Republican candidate, the television performer and businessman Donald J. Trump, is not only the strangest duck to have won a major-party nomination but is so uniquely unfit to hold office that the strongest unwritten plank in the platform of his Democratic opponent, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is that she offers a sane alternative.
