Brangelina No More
Vox looks at the parallels between Liz & Dick and Brangelina
EW Madame Tussaud's already separated Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's wax counterparts. Nathaniel wept. (Seriously, I'm not doing okay with this. I don't care if anyone thinks its silly. Double star wattage couples of this magnitude happen only a few times a century.)
Slate ranks the remaining A list power couples
Brangelina, smack dab in the middle of their storied romance
Liz and Dick were only divorced for 16 months before they got back together so if I may put in an early request for 2018 Wishes. Lots more (and not just Brad & Angie) after the jump.
The New Yorker looks at celebrity breakups through the films they make together while doing so
Gothamist Adele dedicated her NYC concert to Brad and Angie, too.
Variety wonders what will become of their many multi-million dollar homes
Miscellania
Playbill first day ticket sales of Bette Midler in Hello Dolly already broke box office records. Whoa
Tracking Board we definitely don't need yet another actor playing Andy Warhol - there have been so freaking many - but Jared Leto wants to give it a go
Awards Daily Warren Beatty will receive the Santa Barbara Film Festival's Kirk Douglas Award this year
Playbill Josh Gad plans to write and star in an Amazon series called Toy Wars about the Hasbro / Mattel battles
The Playlist thinks we need to take Sully seriously as a Best Picture prospect
/Film wasn't expecting this - Clive Owen has made another short film as "The Driver" for BMW after 15 years without out. This one is directed by Neill Blomkamp
Post TIFF Blues
Cinemablographer I totally co-sign this post which rakes TIFF over the coals for their new anti-audience policy of surge-pricing (so antithetical to TIFF's general character) -- well, I co-sign it up to the point where Nocturnal Animals is named second best of the fest and then I vomited
TFE ...because I hate that movie (icmyi)
Girish lists his favorites too including the only film I walked out on: A Quiet Passion. To be fair I didn't walk out because I thought it was going to be bad (though Terence Davies is hit and miss with me) but because I knew I was way too tired to make it through. That said I found the first 5 minutes distractingly acted like the girls had just come out of their trailers in 2016 to film a scene set in, like, 1846. (I hate it when that happens.)
Did you know that it's BiSexual Awareness Week?
Comics Alliance has a piece on how comic books helped one man to come out as bi
Broadway.com Actor Andy Mientus (Smash) talks about being bisexual
Videos To Go
When people use their fame beautifully, for a good cause. And with good jokes! Register to vote. (Well done famous people, well done). Especially you Joss Whedon (who directed) and familiar Whedonites like Tom Lenk!
Oh... and... Lady Gaga is back. I think I love this (?) but Matthew Rettenmund is right when he points out that Lady Gaga's dancing is totally Cyndi Lauper-esque.