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This Week's Must Read: Everyone has been talking about the cast changes at Funny Girl on Broadway and it's been very messy. Daily Beast has the gorey details in an inside scoop on how things have played out as Beanie Feldstein announced an early departure and Lea Michele prepares for the iconic titular role.

More after the jump including new projects for Jonathan Bailey, Chris Hemsworth, a second season for The Bear, an Amy Winehouse biopic, and appreciations of Nicole Kidman, the Three Colors trilogy, and the year's best action films...

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Would you rather?

Okay so we had the roughest night of insomnia ever (which is saying a lot) followed by crashing which is why we're so slow today. While we prep more Cannes posting, a daydream about celebrities. Would you rather...?

• rock climb with Dominic Cooper?
• try a new mirror affirmation with Shailene Woodley?
• protest the Supreme Court's support of Forced Birth legislation with Cyndi Lauper and Laura Dern?
• join a pole dancing workout class with Brie Larson?
• go see Pamela Anderson in Chicago with Miley Cyrus?
• read Selma's Blair "Mean Baby" with Michelle Pfeiffer?
• learn how to shuck oysters with Lupita Nyong'o?
• try a pole dancing workout class with Brie Larson?
• smell the flowers with Anne Hathaway?
• do the splits with Chris Meloni (or just admire them)?
• drink wine with Glen Powell at Cannes?
• take a day off with Ana de Armas?
• eat hot dogs with "everything" with Florence Pugh?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide...

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Casting: Austin Butler as Feyd Rautha in 'Dune Part Two'

by Nathaniel R

Twink Wars 2023

In what surely must be a sign that Warner Bros is very happy with Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming Elvis, Austin Butler is now reportedly in talks to play the cunning Feyd Rautha, in their pricey franchise installment Dune Part Two. (Earlier online rumors had suggested Barry Keoghan was in the mix). Dune Part Two is due in theaters in October 2023 so filming starts later this year. Florence Pugh is also joining the sequel...

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Who's That Girl ...who will be playing Madonna?

by Nathaniel R

Garner, Ferreira, Sweeney, Leon, and Pugh

As we've known for some time Madonna is writing and directing her own biopic. It's inching closer to production with casting and audition rumors. Word has it that Euphoria's Sydney Sweeney and Sky Ferreira have auditioned for the leading role as well. Earlier rumors suggested the role was going to either Oscar nominee Florence Pugh or Emmy winner Julia Garner. Some online gossip suggested Lourdes Léon, Madonna's eldest, might even be in the mix though we think that's just the internet internetting...

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Year in Review Beauty Break: Thirst Traps of 2021

by Team Experience

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... as is thirst. When we polled Team Experience for the hottest actors of 2021, the voting was all over the place and thus fairly close. So we ended up with a dozen people (after the jump) that had at least two ardent fans among our team members in the preferential ballots.  Because the voting was so close they're presented in random rather than ranked order.

Other hotties that earned our lust, admiration, and aesthetic wonder included: Penelope Cruz in Parallel Mothers, Ruth Negga in Passing, Lady Gaga in House of Gucci, Idris Elba in Concrete Cowboy, Benedict Cumberbatch in Power of the Dog, and Rebecca Ferguson in Dune. And because thirst is not always singular, great pairings like Taylour Paige and Riley Keough (Zola), Melissa Barrera and Anthony Ramos (In the Heights), and Daniel Craig and Ana De Armas (No Time To Die) also showed up in the ballots. Speaking of the latter, why wasn't she the main Bond girl of the movie?!? WOW!

Okay, on to the gallery...

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