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• Towleroad Yes, it's true Golden Girls action figures are coming! • The Guardian Janeane Garofalo and Ethan Hawke share memories of Reality Bites (1994) • The Brag I like this piece on BPM, Queer as Folk and politics on dance floors • Playbill after four seasons Sutton Foster finally sings on Younger. On tonight's episode she's doing The Sound of Music's "Lonely Goatherd" • The Wrap Frances Conroy and Robert DeNiro are joining Joaquin Phoenix in that ill-advised Joker origin story movie • Filmmaker Magazine talks to Steven Soderbergh about his amazing debut sex lies and videotape (1989) • Awards Daily a tribute to Donald Sutherland, one of the greatest actors of Hollywood
Exit Video The Go-Gos appeared on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss their career for the launch of the Broadway musical "Head Over Heels". ♥️ this band so much.
Just two handfuls of links this morning. I'm still on my birthday tear for Tony weekend -- finally saw Hello, Dolly! on Broadway last night with Bernadette Peters and as usual she was an adorable diva. Laughed my ass off. A friend of mine revealed that he had already seen the show four times to see all three leading ladies (Bette, Donna Murphy x 2, Bernadette). Bette returns to the show (with the magical Donna Murphy on Bette's off days since Bette can't handle 8 shows a week) on July 17th. I don't have the funds for three trips but would definitely see again if the chance occurs.
• Vulture what would Sex and the City plotlines be like if the show were still on. Vulture asks members of the original writing team • THR With other companies pursuin g him Warner Bros reups with prolific TV producer Greg Berlanti (who also directs the occasional movie - hi, Love Simon) for $400 million. In cash no less! • The Daily Beast talks to Sutton Foster about Younger's evolution • Rewire great reflective piece by Kieran Scarlett on black fathers in TV (Black-ish and Cosby) • i09 John Lasseter is leaving Disney after his suspension for misconduct with female co-workers • Awards Daily a glitzy Emmy FYC event to celebrate the costumes of RuPaul's Drag Race • Words Seem Out of Place writes a letter to Angela (Michelle Pfeiffer) from Married to the Mob
It's Tony Weekend so a bit of theatah for you • Vulture hilarious article ranking all 41 Broadway theaters • Time Out New York first headshots of all the Tony nominees. These are priceless! Especially the ones of Mark Rylance, Lauren Ambrose, Grey Henson, Amy Schumer, and Ari'el Stachel • MNPP Corey Stoll is wearing leather pants as Iago in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello
Screen • Forbes a theory as to how network TV could survive the exodus of both Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy • Film InkLady Bird was forced to make cuts and dub dialogue to get an M rating in Australia (essentially our PG13). That Playgirl magazine scene really upset the board that much? Ugh. I guess puritanism isn't only for Americans. • /Film The Duplass Brothers have signed a four film deal with Netflix. This makes so much innate sense to me because their work always felt very televisual. •/FilmBond 25 is taking an awfully long time to come together. Danny Boyle and the screenplay still aren't even done deals • Pajiba Disney's upcoming streaming service and the possibility of more Muppets • Decider Joe Reid reveals his obsession with To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar
Black Panther Mania • The Atlantic "The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger" • Shadow and Act Ryan Coogler and Michael B Jordan's next project together, their fourth, is Wrong Answer a true story about an education system scandal. • MCN David Poland persuasively argues which ways Black Panther will change things in Hollywood and which ways it won't • Coming Soon Lupita Nyong'o will costar in Born a Crime, based on the memoir about the childhood of The Daily Show's Trevor Noah. She'll play his mother
Off Cinema • Playbill watch highlights from a reunion concert of Thoroughly Modern Millie starring Sutton Foster and Gavin Creel -when is someone going to give Sutton a movie musical. She's great on camera (see Bunheads and Younger) and a bonafide Broadway star. • The New Yorker a thought-provoking piece on the official Obama portraits in case you missed it • W Mag Greta Gerwig directs Florence Welsh in a photoshoot • W Mag Jordan Peele directs Janelle Monae in a Hitchcock inspired photoshoot • W Mag Luca Guadagnino directs two models in a desert photoshoot • Playbill Santino Fontana (Crazy Ex Girlfriend!) taking over for Gavin Creel in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway. Apparently Gavin Creel is having back surgery? Ouch.
Exit Video Keala Settle and Pasek & Paul are all still out there campaigning for The Greatest Showman's Original Song. Pasek & Paul were just interviewed by Variety and Settle just performed "This Is Me" this time on Ellen. I love this song even though you hate it. Sorry not sorry.
That said, I still haven't decided if it's going to win Pasek & Paul a consecutive Oscar (they won last year for "City of Stars") or if Oscar voters will be more partial to honoring Mary J Blige (given the Mudbound fanbase and her double nomination) or if Coco will mean more to voters than just the mandatory check mark for Best Animated Feature.
Thoughts? Sing your Original Song prediction in the comments.
Leonardo Nam photographed by Ricky Middlesworth for Los Angeles Confidential
Golden Globes interview Westworld's fab Leonardo Nam MTV Teo Bugbee on the texting in Personal Shopper Inverse interesting interview with composer Hans Zimmer who is swearing off superhero movies. Sounds like he had a bad time on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Playbill celebrates Sutton Foster with a gallery of all of her stage work Variety random selection of drunk scenes in honor of your St Patricks Day hangover /Film Alicia Vikander to headline Ben Wheatley's Freakshift. Is the director about to break out with Free Fire? The Guardian Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has 26 (!!!) films in development People Surprise! Film star Amanda Seyfried and stage and tv screen star Thomas Sadoski eloped! She'll be giving birth any day now, being 8+ months pregnant Boy Culture Paris Jackson is looking more like Madonna than Michael Jackson The Guardian The great Tony Kushner on T****'s proposed cuts to the Arts This is Not Porn Jim Carrey on the set of The Mask. Just because MNPP drools on Justin Theroux (it's only right) and shares the season 3 Leftovers trailer Tracking Board on how the design aspects of Beauty & the Beast (2017) lack a cohesive vision Variety Weinstein Co's Oscar prospects this year include the biblical drama Mary Magdalene (Nov 24th) and the historical Thomas Edison drama The Current War (Dec 22) starring Benedict Cumberbatch
Exit Video In honor of Sutton Foster's birthday, a great moment from Bunheads, a show we greatly miss (but at least we have Younger in its place for Sutton fixes)
...sort through childhood photos with Baz Luhrmann or Sutton Foster? ... stand naked for Standing Rock with Josh Brolin? ... determine your own story with unapologetic Amy Schumer? ... or take a nap on Kiki's lap like Elle Fanning?
Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 8:45AM 
