Top o the monday morning to you.
• NPR there's a new Marlene Dietrich exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in DC so check it out if you're passing through or live there. They say it's "dazzling"
• /Film John G Avildsen (RIP). The director of cultural phenomenons Rocky and the Karate Kid has passed away at 81. He'll always be remembered for those two pictures but we have to also thank him for trash cult fav A Night in Heaven as well as launching the career of Susan Sarandon in Joe (1970)
• THR Comedy Actress roundtable with Emmy Rossum, America Ferrera, Minnie Driver, Kathryn Hahn, Issa Rae, and Pamela Adlon
More after the jump including controversy in Oscar's animation branch, Patti Lupone, Captain Underpants, Lambda Awards, etcetera...
• Cartoon Brew some controversy in the Board of Governors elections for the animated branch at the Oscars
• Interview shares a really old interview with Kevin Kline before he won his second Tony (he just took home his third)
• New Yorker Emily Nussbaum on feminist cringe comedy and "train wreck" I Love Dick
• Awards Daily It's not just Oscar that has confusing rules for eligibility of docs. Emmy has deemed some high profile titles ineligible
• THR the push to make animated films cheaper to produce and the case of Captain Underpants
• Cartoon Brew the visual FX process to make Javier Bardem look like he was underwater while in open air in Pirates of the Caribbean 5 (they're hoping for yet another Oscar nod in that category. They only missed with 2011's On Stranger Tides)
off cinema
• My Giant Nerd Boyfriend "Heat" I relate 2 this comic so much
• Towleroad Lambda Literary Awards Winners have been announced - so take this list as reading suggestions. I'm going to read the sci-fi/fantasy horror winner The Devourers
• Popular Science "Eating potatoes won't actually kill you" - on that recent french fries study that's making the web rounds
• Boy Culture Caitlyn Jenner doing more damage than good at this point. My only qualm with this article is the suggestion that she's just now a net negative. I hate to think ill of people but she's clearly not a good person -- despite many efforts to educate her she remains stubborn and ultra naive about her privilege, still supports anti-trans politicians and is now sinking to a new low by making light of gun violence. Gross.
• Towleroad Patti LuPone says she won't perform is Donald T**** comes to see her show. I'm LOLing for multiple reasons including the inability to picture T**** doing anything cultural like seeing a show.