Links: Martin, Cheno, Lynch, Diggs, Max, and More
Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 12:26PM 
To Purchase Click on Poster
<---LOOK at this amazing Blue Velvet poster making the web rounds. [Hat tip MNPP]. I so love painted movie posters and it's only 7 bucks. Click on photo to go to the artist's site.
Links
El Desio Pedro Almodóvar blogging from the set of Silencio (!!) with two photos
Dissolve Today in Ballsiest News: Nate Parker (Beyond the Lights) who we just celebrated as a Born in '79 Hottie is directing and starring in a feature biopic of Nat Turner, a slave who led a bloody massacre against white captors in 1831. But here's the ballsy part: they're naming it Birth of a Nation (!)
Vanity Fair Don Hertzfeldt (World of Tomorrow) says being an artist should be your full time job. Hear hear! Start donating to creatives you believe in or purchasing their work. Life is not free.
MUBI "Psychopolitical Realism in Mad Max: Fury Road" - provocative piece
Far Flung Correspondents looks at Fury Road's use of Giussepe Verdi's "Dies Irae" from his Requiem mass
Decider pays tribute to Under the Skin, now streaming on Amazon, which we are confident people will continue to discover and be floored by
Comics Alliance Chris Pine may be the new Steve Trevor for the new Wonder Woman film
AV Club celebrates Steve Martin's ear worm "King Tut" - have I ever inadequately expressed to you how much I love Steve Martin? If not, know that it's muchly.
Vulture passes out fun awards to the movies that screened at Cannes including "Most Likely to Make You Hug Your Cab Driver" (The Palme winner Dheepan) and "Hottest Movie With No Sex" (Maryland ....starring Matthias Schoenaerts naturally. He can't help himself)
MNPP Jude Law accessorizes with chest hair at the Spy premiere
Boy Culture Little Darling Tatum O'Neal is now dating women
Forbes the current gender quake in the film world - female directors want to work but it's not a meritocracy
Broadway's Season
Towleroad Taye Diggs is set to play Hedwig on Broadway (such an amazing/unexpected choice!) and TMZ reporters continue to be awful but sometimes they're hounding obnoxiousness gets wonderful things like Taye Diggs deadpan monologue about being a drag queen and prostitute in high school come out. He's kidding but what else are you going to do in a situation like this?
Time Out NY Why Kristin Chenoweth deserves the Tony
Theater Mania "Taystee" from OITNB (Danielle Brooks) is joining the revival of The Color Purple on Broadway. She'll play Oprah's old role "Sofia"
Showtune to Go...
A little Cheno. If you ever have the chance to see her live (on stage or in concert) do not hesitate. Spend the money. Simply put: She's one of the best live performers of all time. She ALWAYS delivers (I've seen her several times) and in a really big way, too - spontaneous, disciplined, great sounding, and just hilarious.
Reader Comments (17)
And Steve Martin is the best Oscar host ever. That's it.
I must say she sings better than she sounds in movies,her voice grated on me in The Boy Next Door,she perked up the camp angle and I was sorry she was killed off and she wore killer outfits and looked better than j.lo,hang on maybe i like her after all.
I honestly did not know this song before Vera Fermiga performed it on "Bates Motel" (yes, really!), and it has become one of my favorite Broadway songs. Maybe this time I'll win!
I'm sighing at that report on the Wonder Woman movie. Three reasons: 1. Warring factions. If that's true? Yikes, talk about your powder kegs. 2. Chris Pine. Rob Marshall doesn't get QUITE enough credit for how good he is at marshalling actors, because I doubt Patty Jenkins can really do anything with either of these actors. (On her "masterpiece" film, she was working with Charlize Theron an at least borderline genius actress. Now, 14 years since she's done a feature film of any stripe, she's working with Gal Gadot and Chris Pine.) 3. Wonder Woman. I get it. She got adapted in a TV series during the mid-late 70s and it's the big reason she's really remembered. But her backstory is a gag. The kind of thing you tell yourself can't possibly be true. It' should be IMPOSSIBLE that THE non-distaff superheroine can really be a pagan wearing the stars and stripes. The way I see it, Wonder Woman is really two characters that should have been split up TWENTY-NINE YEARS AGO after Crisis on Infinite Earths. One is Princess Diana, the classic character, an Amazonian princess of a tribe of warrior women who comes to our world, without any romantic inspiration, in Greek colours, a stuffy and modest personality and the lasso and jet as her main tools and backed up by strength on the level of Bane so that being outclassed by a humanoid Cheetah can actually start feeling more legitimate instead of outright LOL bait. The other is Wonder Woman, re-imagined as the walking and talking version of one of the archaic symbols of the United States, Columbia, who wears the classic costume, has powers very close to Superman and can use whatever swords or shields or violently aggressive superhero stuff without saying that Marston's original ideas shouldn't exist. And yes, this latter character springs to life in 1776. There: Suddenly, from a mess of a character who should have been two for a LONG time, comes two characters who can satisfy both camps of Wonder Woman fans (those who want Perez's ambassador AND those who want her as an easily justifiable straight superheroine in stars and stripes) in a way they haven't been for far too long.
I saw Kristin Chenoweth at the Hollywood Bowl. What a performer!
So bought that poster!
Cheno! I'm seeing Kristin in August in Park City. It's her first stop on her tour and I am dying to see her live. Get that Tony, girl!
The whole "People want Kelli O'Hara to win only because she's due" is so dismissive of the great work she's doing on stage right now at 'The King and I.' So frustrating.
Ah yes. I remember her singing that on "Glee" with Lea Michele and it worked surprisingly well. Of course, that's when "Glee" actually chose songs that fit the story and characters as opposed to just cramming in any pop song they felt like. Even Ryan Murphy couldn't mess up her talent!
Stop recommending Under The Skin already. Do not see this movie unless you like artsy fartsy movies like Dogtooth.
Under the Skin is incredible. Haters gonna hate.
I saw Cheno, who's looking painfully thin these days, at City Center in NYC in 2012. She was, predictably, AH-MAZING! And all of her main co-stars from Good Christian Bitches, which had just been cancelled, showed up and *stood up* in the audience to support her. Ugh. (Oh, and I even literally bumped into Bill O'Reilly in the men's restroom, which was...surreal.)
Steve Martin is a national (should've-been-at-least-two-time-Oscar-nominated) treasure. That Jude Law is so handsome, although I wish he would just shave his head already, full Statham. (The chest hair can stay.)
Good for Tatum O'Neal. I can't say I'm too surprised to hear she went Anne Heche considering her history of men (family and otherwise). You don't get much more of a nightmare for women than her dad and ex-husband...or so I've heard.
I'm gonna out-gay all other comments on TFE today...God, I would love to hear Beyonce sing Maybe This Time...kudos to Cheno though!
He gave up his life.... for tourism!!!!!
I love that song.
Stop recommending Under The Skin already. Do not see this movie unless you like artsy fartsy movies like Dogtooth.
Under the Skin is a vapid waste of time. Dogtooth is an absurdist black comedy for the ages.
Must brag that I saw Cheno do Candide with the NY Philharmonic, while taking a break from Wicked! I assumed it would be with book or something, but no, she must have memorized both parts at the same time.
forever1267 -- this can only mean that you haven't seen CABARET. How can we help you rectify this. It's only one of the 10 greatest movies ever made (or thereabouts)
Cheno is worrying me in that video. She looks so gaunt! I hope she's ok. :-(