The Week's Must Read
Anjelica Huston interview in Vulture -Many great quotes. So much IDGAF mixing with caring about her career in interesting ways. And her tongue is so sharp and she's so candid I am forced to order her autobiography "Watch Me"
More links after the jump involving Mean Girls, casting news, Avengers Endgame, new series in development, and the Billboard Music Awards...
• The Take Regina George from Mean Girls and the psychology of dictators
• The Film Stage Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is premiering at Cannes after all. All 2 hours and 45 minutes of it.
• Variety Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman to star in the film adaptation of the stage play "The Father". You'll recall that the Broadway show won Frank Langella a Tony Award for Best Actor. Why not give him the film version?
• Coming Soon David Dastmalchian to paly Polka Dot Man in the Suicide Squad sequel
• GoldHouse 100 most influential Asian-Americans in showbiz/culture
• i09 the dumb "gay representation" in Avengers Endgame
• AV Club Willow (1988) might become a streaming series for Disney+
• Coming Soon Warm Bodies (2013) is also going to become a TV series
• Variety Regina King signs a first-look deal with Netflix
• Pajiba James Marsden deserves a better career
• Vulture Game of Thrones cinematography getting testy about the criticism of how dark that last episode was
Oh, and Emma Thompson (!!!) will be hosting Saturday Night Live on May 11th.
Fixed it for you SNL pic.twitter.com/xPoxtvnWEy
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) April 18, 2019
offscreen
• Time Mayor Pete Buttigeig gets the Time magazine treatment
• EW Joe Jonas and Game of Thrones Sophie Turner got married in Vegas yesterday
• NY Mag 50 Things Amy Sedaris can't live without
• Broadway World Magic Mike the Musical postpones its workshop and the creative team is changing. (Somehow they still think they're making their pre-Broadway world premiere in November.)
• Broadway News Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal reprise their Off Broadway performances in Sea Wall / A Life on Broadway this summer.
• Playbill official portraits of the 2019 Tony nominees
Billboard Music Awards
Drake and Ariana Grande were the big winners at the Billboard Music Awards and Madonna and Maluma were a hit performing their duet "Medellin"... with Madonna holograms for added Madonna mania.
P.S. If you have a moment go to Google.com and search for "Thanos". When the results come up click on the Infinity Gauntlet illustration to the right for some visual fun.