Links: Batgirl's Unexpected Demise, Bong's Mickey Clones, and Melanie's Just Rewards

• The Guardian An excerpt from Sarah Polley's new memoir concerning her child actor days on Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 
• IndieWire Marcel the Shell is submitting as an Animated Feature. Will the Oscars accept it?
• Coming Soon The First Lady, which was meant to be an ongoing anthology series with new leads each year, has been cancelled. At least we got another tremendous Pfeiffer performance out of it!

The current Warner Bros / HBOMax Batgirl nightmare, our beloved Melanie Lynskey on Yellowjackets, Bong Joon-ho's next film, and Dev Patel as a real life hero after the jump...

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Links: Paul Sorvino's passing, BAFTA rule tweaks, and Nope's famous film strip

• NYT Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas, The Rocketeer, Nixon), beloved character actor and father of Oscar winner Mira Sorvino, has died at 83
• Guardian Sad news: Shonka Dukureh, who sang "Hound Dog" in her feature debut in Elvis as Big Mama Thornton has died at just 44

Much Happier links after the jump involving "Horse in Motion" from Nope, 'All the Way' Mae from A League of Their Own, Jessica Chastain's new film, and more...

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Links: Death Scenes, Star Salaries, and Filmmaker Arrests

Today's Must Read
• Slate examines the "50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time". For a piece on death it's surprisingly fun and life-affirming. But the best reason to read it is that, unlike 95% of "all time" lists unline, it's genuinely far reaching stretching across all storytelling mediums and time periods. At this point it's a miracle to see an "all time" list that acknowledges that the world existed before the 1990s! Obviously spoilers abound though...

Movie and tv salaries at the moment, Jafar Panahi's prison sentence, Amanda Seyfried's Wicked audition, Bollywood anxiety and more after the jump ...

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Links: JAffleck, The Buccaneers, and Bloodless Horror

• IndieWire on Ms Marvel's exploration of family trauma and India's Partition
• Broadway World The Wicked movie behind shooting this November...
• ...TFE as you may have heard it will be a (sigh) two-parter which is about as big of a red flag as you can get for this project
• AV Club Steven Spielberg has directed his first music video
• Cartoon Brew Reviews are in for Paws of Fury and they're... not good

More after the jump including Juno, Barbie, The Gray Man, Lady Gaga's "Chromatica Ball", and the Hunger Games prequel...

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Links: Sadie Sink, Kurt Russell, Jean Smart, and "Giant"

• Advocate If you're in LA this weekend note that the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills is showing a restoration of Giant (1956) -- excellent epic with three ridiculously iconic stars (Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, and James Dean) and meant to be seen on the big screen
• Antidote Director Bruce LaBruce interviews Betty Blue herself Béatrice Dalle. Great photoshoot
• PrimeTimer all of Jean Smart's Emmy nods, ranked: Hacks, Fargo, Frasier, Watchmen, etc

More after the jump including Kurt Russell's Elvis movie, Sadie Sink on Broadway, and, sadly, more actor deaths to report...

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