• EW six different cover stars for Entertainment Weekly's "50 Years of Gay Pride" issue: Wilson Cruz, Anderson Cooper, Melissa Etheridge, Janet Mock, Neil Patrick Harris, and Ruby Rose
• Coming Soon Sigourney Weaver confirms that the original cast will return for a Ghostbusters 3
• Travel + Leisure a movie theater in Switzerland has beds instead of seats now for movies. Want
More after the jump including Emmy campaigning, Madonna's "Dark Ballet" and Brad Pitt's honorable cease & desist...
• AV Club We've always loved Brad Pitt but here's another reason. He was pissed that the organizers of the upcoming "Straight Pride Parade" in Boston were using him as a visual mascot for their nonsense and sent a cease and desist
• Playbill rumors abound that perfect magical two-time Tony winning great, Sutton Foster, will have a musical number in season 6 of Younger. It's crazy that they've benched that particular talent of hers for this long on that show.
• Vanity Fair on Late Night's sudden switch from a wide opening to one week limited and whether or not that had anything to do with Booksmart
• Film School Rejects good piece on the original Godzilla (1954) and the context in which it was born
• Indie Wire on how Emmy campaigning hit the road this year, in an attempt to reach voters outside of NY and LA
• The Guardian "Actors playing nightmarish versions of themselves in cinema - ranked!" (inspired by Keanu Reeves in Always Be My Maybe). The #1 choice is inarguable.
• Deadline Awesome news -Spike Lee's classic Do the Right Thing is getting a 30th anniversary one week re-release at the end of this month in select cities
• Variety Inside the AFI Lifetime Achievement party for Denzel Washington
• The Wrap Marc Anthony has joined the cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights adaptation
• Deadline Kevin Hart eyeing a remake of Christmas sorta classic Scrooged (1988)
• Boy Culture on Madonna's new video "Dark Ballet" starring Mykki Blanco
• The Guardian what's going on with the new Bond film? Rewrites, an explosion on set, and more...
• IndieWire WarnerMedia will be throwing its hat into the ring in 2020 as yet another streaming service
This weekend's must read
"Madonna at Sixty" is the exceptional long read cover story for NY Times Magazine this week. Beautifully written by Vanessa Griggoriadis (who grew up a Madonna fan) and the photos by JR are smashing as well.
Love so many bits from this. Here's one:
It was depressing that the younger generation didn’t seem to have an understanding of the way Madonna had used her iron will to forge a particular type of highly autobiographical, uber-empowered, hypersexualized female pop star who became the dominant model of femininity across the nation. Without Madonna, we don’t have Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and maybe even Janelle Monae. The doubles she played with during each of her transformations — not only the religious Madonna but the virgin, boy-toy, material girl, dominatrix, dancing queen, mom, yoga mom, adopting mom and, now, sexagenarian claiming her space among artists two generations younger — were fun-house representations of conventional femininity. They refracted and reflected a future most of us didn’t know was coming before she showed it to us.
P.S. Unfortunately we soon learned that Madonna hates the article.