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Friday, June 11, 2021 at 6:27PM 
You're mine now.
Already was, Nicole.
...and you want to be mine.
Also true.
YES - Actually that'd be a "yes! yes! yaaaaaaaaaaasssss !!!"
NO - n/a
MAYBE SO - n/a
Friday, June 11, 2021 at 12:27PM Our team is breaking down the top contenders in all the major Emmy races and highlighting some of our favorites over the next few weeks. Today, we’re looking at Best Actress in a Comedy Series.
All hail the summer of Jean Smart!
By: Christopher James
The Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series race is going to get a shakeup. There are no previous winners who are eligible this year. Additionally, only one nominee from last year could return, as all other previous nominees are on hiatus or had their series end. Luckily, there are many buzzy new shows led by talented women who could fill this vacuum and make this once again a very competitive category. There’s also the potential for plenty of surprises from new streaming players and old network stalwarts.
So which new players can break in this year? Can shows that have been on for multiple seasons finally have a shot in this shortlist?
Black-ish, Emmys, Hacks, Jean Smart, Mom, Pen15, Punditry, The Flight Attendant Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 9:00PM Would you rather...
• Enjoy an ice cream cone with Debi Mazar?
• Return to the Met with Helen Hunt?
• Quarantine with Cheyenne Jackson?
• Learn to drive a truck with Juliette Binoche?
• Make an Italian dinner with Sir Anthony Hopkins?
• Go horseback riding with Colman Domingo?
• Do an Escape Room with Gina Gershon and Jamie Lee Curtis?
• Scuba dive with Brie Larson?
• "Audition" for Cruella 2 with Alec Utgoff?
• Welcome in the summer with January Jones?
Pictures are after the jump to help you decide!
Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 7:09PM by Nathaniel R
Next year is Judy Garland's Centennial and if The Film Experience is still running next summer *crosses fingers -- hey why not subscribe to the sidebar on your right ✒︎ * you can bet that we'll do it up big like we did for Bergman and Clift and Winters on their centennials.
In the meantime have you seen any of Judy's pictures outside the holy trinity -- The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, and A Star is Born?
Judy Garland Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 2:00PM 
The 19th Academy Awards were, in some regard, a celebration of the war's end, a reckoning with its immediate consequences. We can see it in the embrace of European cinema, an industry rising from the ashes, with nods for films like the Italian Neorealist Rome, Open City, and the French poetry of Children of Paradise. American cinema, America itself, was also still reeling from its hard-won victory. The scars were fresh and bloody when William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives won the Best Picture Oscar. The production portrays the lives of three military men returning home after the war's end, traumatized and still recovering, adapting back to civilian life. It was the perfect champion for these postwar Oscars.
Nevertheless, not even the picture's awards success could spell away some of its performers' chronic bad luck when it came to movie awards. After decades as one of Hollywood's greatest stars, Myrna Loy still couldn't get herself an Oscar nomination…
