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Friday, October 8, 2021 at 10:33AM • Vanity Fair must read profile of Norwegian star Anders Danielsen Lie (Oslo August 31st, Bergman Island, Worst Person in the World) who has a day job that you won't believe
• The Guardian wonderful interview with Barbara Hershey who talks Beaches, Hannah and Her Sisters, Black Swan, and her new film The Manor
• /Film because everything is franchiseable, even within franchises, Kathryn Hahn may be getting her own Agatha Harkness show after the success of WandaVision.
More after the jump including Hellraiser remake, Sutton Foster's hobby, Adele's transatlantic comeback, Madonna's concert, and Kirsten Dunst at home...
• Notebook Critics argue about the trangressiveness (false or real) of Titane
• Theater Mania Sutton Foster's memoir/crafting book "Hooked" comes out next week
• Boy Culture reviews Madonna's Madame X on Paramount+
• The Telegraph looks back at the Daniel Craig / Anne Reid romance The Mother. Remember that?
• Theater Mania The Tony winning revival of Oklahoma! is launching a nationwide tour. Consider a must-see. It's a bold take on the material, all without changing a word of the book.
• Tom and Lorenzo in a first, Adele is on the cover of both American and British Vogue simultaneously with two different photoshoots and two different profiles
• Vanity Fair an excerpt from a new book on the making of The Godfather
• The Guardian "Why on earth is Angelina Jolie in Marvel's Eternals?" Fun piece
• Coming Soon Trans actress Jamie Clayton (Sense 8, The L Word) cast as Pinhead in the remake of 80s horror flick Hellraiser. Nice to see a queer actress headline a horror property from a queer writer Clive Barker.
Exit Video
Kirsten Dunst discusses her home with her interior designer! A fun peak into her life and aesthetic taste.
Reader Comments (7)
No link to Sarah Silverman's "Jewface" comments?
Amy -- i dont know anything about that.
She was commenting on the recent casting of Kathryn Hahn as Joan Rivers, and how so many famous Jewish women have been played by non-Jewish actresses. For example, Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Tracy Ullman as Betty Friedan, Margo Martindale as Bella Abzug, and she includes Rachel Brosnahan in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Her comments should be read in toto, because they are nuanced and she explains herself in more depth. When you Google "Sarah Silverman Jewface" you get a lot of hits. The best is probably the report in IndieWire. I don't agree with most of what she's saying, but she has a legitimate point.
Thanks for the Vanity Fair write up on Anders Danielsen Lie -- one of world cinema's actors I greatly admire. I am not too surprised that he has a day job as a medical practitioner but still amazed at how he was able to juggle medical school and acting and come out triumphantly in both. I have seen Reprise and Oslo, August 31st and eager to see the last of the Oslo Trilogy. I also like that he chooses his films well and not trying to spread himself too thinly. In Oslo, August 31st, there were moments of extreme beauty (like in that American film Ballast from 2008) and Lie totally conveyed what it feels like to experience that unspeakably crippling loneliness, and how finding meaning in life may no longer be a quest anymore.
I saw the revisionist Oklahoma! on Broadway in 2019 complete with complementary cornmeal during intermission. The best part for me was Patrick Vaill as Jud Fry -- so touching and memorable. I know he was a recent guest of TFE in the smackdown too. But that confrontation scene with Damon Daunno in the "Pore Jud is daid" scene is mesmerising and quietly powerful with just a move camera and a flashlight as the only illumination in the theater. I can't believe he was not Tony-nominated for that. He was best among equals.
double post - sorry!
I saw Mother at a film festival back in 2004. Holy shit! That was intense. The scene where the kids find their mother's drawings was WHOA!!!!! I would definitely treat Anne Reid to a nice dinner and a movie in the hope of getting laid.
Barbara Hershey is a treasure. I can say I was at the World Premiere of HANNAH AND HER SISTERS at Sundance and she was the single representative from the film to show up in what was then only considered an A-/B+ festival (but the late winter time slot was perfect for Woody Allen's mid spring releases in the mid 80s).
I'll always remember the glamorous black big-rimmed hat she wore.
On Woody Allen's cancellation: "People rushed to all kinds of judgments and that probably says more about them than what happened."
On BEACHES being a "chick flick": They called it a ‘chick flick’, which really offended me, because a movie with two men is called a film.”