• The Guardian goes on a long stroll with Tilda Swinton and her dogs. She remains a fascinating conundrum
• AV Club Rooney Mara to play Audrey Hepburn in a biopic
• Vogue a profile of Squid Game's key actress Hoyeon Jung
• Cartoon Brew interesting stats piece about the very active European animation industry but the small audiences for the films. Did you know that Russia is second only France in the number of animated films produced (outside of the US/Japan obviously)
More after the jump including Oscar's crowdpleasing trouble, Jonathan Majors, the alliterations of The Lost Daughter, Gal Gadot's Cleopatra, and Zendaya in Valentina...
• MNPP Jonathan Majors for Arena Homme+
• Vox a wise review of The Lost Daughter kicking off with the alliteration of its names "Leda, Elena, Nina, Mina"
• Out lists the trans references in The Matrix Resurrections (ignore the title as most are not hidden "easter eggs" but right there on full display)
• Boy Culture Betty White gets a full cover send-off from People magazine
• Vogue Zendaya just did a 'vintage Linda Evangelista in Valentino' tribute at the Euphoria season 2 premiere
• NYT "Oscars want crowd-pleasers but where are the crowds?"
• /Film Every Downton Abbey season ranked
• NY Post Gal Gadot on her upcoming Cleopatra biopic
• The Film Stage Mitchelle Beaupre's top 10 list: Test Pattern, Worst Person, and more
off cinema for fun
• The Oatmeal a true comic about following strangers/celebrities online
• Daily Writing Tips here's a random piece on slang becoming accepted usage. Turns out there's a five stage process and "turnt" as a pest tense of "turn", a favourite amongst drag queens and the kids as they say, is only at stage one.
Finally
And how about this for the older readers out there, a supercut of all celebrity guests on The Love Boat (1977-1987) who got their own porthole treatment in the credits. We don't really have scripted shows anymore that trade heavily on constant celebrity guessts since practically everything is serialized now rather than stand alone episodic.
It begs the question of what "celebrities" today would get cast in shows like this -- if they existed at all, today. Probably lots of reality TV stars, one-hit wonder singers, and some Oscar nominees of the late 1980s-early 2000s (Brenda Fricker? Rachel Griffiths? Haley Joel Osment). What'cha think?