In his campaign for the Republican Party presidential nomination, Mr. Bush has joined a plot by state party leaders to bounce his leading competitor, Senator John McCain, from the March 7 presidential primary ballot.
A seasoned and tough operative, Stone had threatened to "disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in this deal," that is, the alleged plot to steal the nomination from Trump.
The factors include when a film is released; whether it's being distributed by a major studio; whether the actors, writers, and directors of the film have previous Oscar nominations; and whether, according to movie site IMDb, it features genres and plot keywords most associated with Oscar nominations.
Hundreds of anti-Trump Republicans have formed an organization called Free the Delegates and begun plotting a strategy to block his nomination by adding a "conscience clause" to the rules, unbinding the delegates.
This may be one of the more gripping sub-plots of the contest for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
On Twitter, Doubleday suggested the Twitterverse choose its own Pulitzer winner (using the hashtag #TwitterPulitzer), immediately prompting nominations like "The Leftovers" by Tom Perrotta and "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Mr. Golisano is also leading a fight to keep Mr. Pataki from getting the advantage of the Conservative nomination, the details of which are more confusing than the plot line of "Attack of the Clones".
Compared with most of the films that did manage to secure Best Picture nominations — "La La Land," "Manchester by the Sea," "Hacksaw Ridge," "Hidden Figures" — its plot is subdued, and at times meandering.
The production of Monroe's British romantic comedy became the inspiration for the plot of My Week with Marilyn, the drab drama that brought Michelle Williams an Oscar nomination.
You describe Mr. Sidikman's opponent for the nomination, Charles Lavine, as someone who defended Fadil Abdelghani, one of the nine men convicted in 1995 of plotting with Sheik Omar Abdel Raman to bomb New York City landmarks, bridges and tunnels.
