• Indiewire Waiting for Chris Nolan's Tenet - Hollywood hopes summer can be saved
• Rick's Real Reel remembering Doris Day and Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink
• Slate fun short piece on the absurd thrill (in a vacuum) of the Ben Affleck / Ana de Armas romance as witness by paparazzi
Today's roundup continues after the jump and is a mix of new and old (i.e. past couple of weeks) stuff since we haven't hit you with a link in a bit: Robert Pattinson profiled, a rift at the César awards, Dear Evan Hansen couplings, Drama League nominations, Peabody Awards, RIPs and more...
• GQ A Robert Pattinson in isolation. A profile on the (formerly) reluctant star
• AV Club remembers a forgotten Denzel picture, Mississippi Masala
• The Guardian Cannes was meant to kick off TODAY *sniffle*. Xan Brooks reveals why he misses it
• Towleroad Russell Tovey dances in new music video
• Cartoon Brew Animation giant Genndy Tartakovsky is still trying to get that Popeye feature made that ceased production in 2015
• Moviemaker so random but arguably cool: an interactive 3D map of Jaws shooting locations
• Peabody Awards they've announced their juried nominations for TV, radio, online storytelling and youth programming and news programs for the 2019 year. Both of last year's documentary winners (American Factory and Learning to Skateboard) are nominated
• New York Times what do famous people's bookshelves reveal about them?
• Movie City News David Poland does the math of recent Hollywood battles about VOD and theatrical - The former is actually the declining market but Hollywood keeps betting on it
• Cartoon Brew interesting rifts at the César Awards as French filmmakers disagree on how to most effectively honor the country's booming animation industry
• New Yorker reacts to the documentary Making Montgomery Clift and talks the 'ethics of biography'
Ryan Murphy's Hollywood is good for something after all! Inspiring interesting articles on actual history
• Slate on Peg Entwistle's only film appearance and the tawdry killer lesbian book that inspired it
• World of Wonder talks about the real story behind Rock Hudson and his "starmaker" agent Henry Willson that Hollywood botches
Broadway / Stage
• Alma Noah Galvin and Ben Platt are officially a couple. That makes the second gay couple who both starred in Dear Evan Hansen
• YouTube Broadway sensation Katrina Lenk (The Band's Visit / Company) does a modern spin on "Something Good" from The Sound of Music
• Theater Mania Disney+ will begin streaming the taped version of Broadway's biggest smash Hamilton on July 3rd
• Broadway World The Broadway COVID shutdown has extended until at least September 6th
• Vulture how that Sondheim 90th concert came together and how Raúl responded to the tech difficulties
• Broadway World the Drama League nominations for the 2019/2020 season. Moulin Rouge, The Inheritance, Six, A Strange Loop, and Jagged Little Pill among them. It was a good year for some of TFE's favourite (male) actors this time around as Danny Burstein, Raúl Esparza, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Jonathan Groff all picked up nominations
RIP
• NPR Famed soul singer Betty Wright has died at just 66. Here's a look back at her full career.
• THR Jerry Stiller, comic actor and father to Ben, dies at 92
• Boy Culture Roy Horn of Seigfried & Roy fame has died of COVID 19 complications
Exit Video
Got a spare... um... three hours? A bunch of pundits from various indie Oscar-watching sites (including myself) got together for an impromptu chaotic boozy night of trivia and future-of-Oscar discussion. Here's the recording...