• Salon The Marvelous Mrs Maisel's Emmy campaign disrupts Los Angeles with 1959-era prices
• The Atlantic's "friendship files" talks to three thirtysomething women who all cosplay Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow
• Slate comparing the starpower of 2019's Little Women to the starpower (back in the day) of the 1994 cast - Saoirse vs Winona and more. Really fun article but the part on Sarandon and Dern is a major misread of the mid-90s. Sarandon was at the very peak of her fame in 1994, headlining a sleeper blockbuster (The Client) and building yet more momentum to win her inevitable Oscar win the following year. She should have bested Dern (who we loooove, don't get us wrong).
After the jump The Godfather, Faye Dunaway's trouble, Steven Soderbergh's secret movie, Mulan trouble, Kristin Chenoweth's breakout and more...
• BBC Sad news. The Australian actress Ningali Lawford-Wolf, who you might have seen in films like Rabbit-Proof Fence or Bran Nue Dae, and who recently was nominated for the AACTA Best Actress prize for Last Cab to Darwin (2015) has died in Scotland. She was only 51
• /Film Scant details on Steven Soderbergh's next film Let Them All Talk which stars Meryl Streep again in back to back movies for the auteur
• The New Yorker on the character of "Fredo" in The Godfather (1972) and the name's use as an insult
• Out Faye Dunaway in trouble for demeaning "a little homosexual boy"
• Cartoon Brew well, that didn't take long. The Chinese animated smash Nezha will get a US release in September from WellGo USA (who've done a great job distribution Asian flicks at US theaters these past few years)
• Playbill The Paley Center's annual honors this year will go to Carol Burnett, Normal Lear, and Lily Tomlin. The gala is November 21st in Los Angeles.
IndieWire There's a call to Boycott Mulan (2020) since its star Liu Yifei is siding with the Hong Kong police during recent anti-government protests.
Stage & Screen
• Towleroad "The Inheritance" an epic gay play is coming to Broadway. It was already a big hit at the Olivier Awards in London so are the Tonys next?
• Playbill Tony Yazbeck, one of our very favourite Broadway stars and one of the best dancers on the planet, will play silent movie superstar Rudolph Valentino in readings of a new musical Valentino. We don't understand how Yazbeck hasn't gotten a big screen opportunity yet as he's so easy on the eyes and gifted, too.
• Broadway World Jonathan Groff and Tammy Blanchard will star in an Off Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors that starts next month. Groff is the second uber hot actor in a row to play Seymour (Gyllenhaal did it a few years ago in one of his frequent but very brief stage stints between movie roles) What's with casting inarguable hotties as the most famous musical theater nerd role?
• Broadway World "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" is getting a national tour in early 2020. Have you ever seen Kristin Chenoweth's adorable/exasperating "My New Philosophy" from that 1999 show? If you've ever wondered how she got famous this was it (it led to a brief eponymous network sitcom in 2001 and then she really exploded with 2003's Broadway mega-blockbuster Wicked). Here it is...