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As we previously shared GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics recently launched a theater wing comprised of 34 members (including myself) which will be honoring the best in Broadway and Off Broadway theater each season. Our wing co-chair Sam Eckmann (Gold Derby) says:
"I’m thrilled to commence Pride Month with the first ever crop of Dorian Theater Award winners. From the gentleness of Kimberly Akimbo and Into the Woods, to boundary-pushing works such as Fat Ham and Prima Facie to the shot of serotonin that is Titaníque, our cohort of passionate journalists has uplifted the spectacular artistry that thrives in the New York theater scene."
For the inaugural our group chose one winner and two or three finalists (if there was a tie in voting) in 13 categories. They were...
Christian Borle and J Harrison Ghee are 2 of "Some Like It Hot"'s 13 nominations
Lea Michele, still treading the boards in Funny Girl, and Myles Frost who won Best Actor in a Musical last season for the Michael Jackson musical "MJ" announced the Tony Award nominations this morning honoring the current season on Broadway. The nomination leader, far out front, was the musical adaptation of movie classic Some Like It Hot (review coming soon!) with 13 nominations. Jessica Chastain scored her first Tony nominations (with her second Broadway show) though other screen stars weren't as lucky this year. Though the Tony Awards are gendered for acting, two non-binary performers became the first to score nods for acting with their work in popular musicals: Alex Newell (Shucked) and J Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot).
• Vulture Jackson McHenry surveys the current scam artists on TV dramas • The Grio Ruth E Carter to be honored with an NAACP "Vanguard" Award • BuzzFeed Reliving the Lizzo vs Melissa MCCarthy Little Mermaid casting drama, now with fresh quotes • Vox Emily VanDerWerff on the rise of art about evangelicals from Midnight Mass to The Righteous Gemstones to current novels, too
More after the jump including Jessica Chastain, The Northman, Sean Penn, Peter Sarsgaard, and the shirtless dancers from Euphoria...
MNPP picks five favorite shots from his favorite movie Rosemary's Baby Village Voice wonderful insightful review of Lily Tomlin as Grandma Comics Alliance did you know we almost got a Jurassic Park animated series before Spielberg changed his mind? Coming Soon Christian Bale to star in a biopic about Enzo Ferrari directed by Michael Mann THR might we have another documentary theme nominated in the Original Song category? Lady Gaga & Diane Warren's "Till It Happens To You" from the campus rape documentary The Hunting Ground is a buzzy one
Coming Soon speaking of Lady Gaga, here's our first look at her in American Horror Story: Hotel Out Cheyenne Jackson talks about her, too. She's all up in my internet today! Pajiba on the expanding cast for that Netflix Brad Pitt movie War Machine PlaybillCarrie The Musical being revived again... in Los Angeles this time in October. It never truly dies The Film Stage James Gray has begun production on Lost City of Z starring Charlie Hunman, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, and Tom Holland. (They don't mention it in the article but this is the first time he's made a movie WITHOUT Joaquin Phoenix since his 1994 debut Little Odessa.) The Film Stage also shares Bong Joon-Ho's 10 favorite films: Recent entries like Zodiac appear alongside stone cold classics like Psycho and South Korean classics like The Housemaid (1960) which you might remember was recently remade. Variety Hugh Jackman may make an Odyssey movie. Final Girl top 20 horror movies of the 21st century. I read stuff about horror by smart horror fans way way more often than I am willing to watch horror. Why is that? Don't know! But it's true. Variety wonders why The Americans still can't catch a break with Emmy voters Variety is the Emmy race for Drama down to Game of Thrones versus Mad Men? i09 ewww Buffalo Bill's creepy house from Silence of the Lambs is for sale (basement not included which makes the news far less creepy)
Off Cinema For Fun Bad Lip Reading takes on the First Republican Debate -heh Zimbio "it turns out posing Nicki Minaj's wax figure on all fours was a bad idea" - ya think!?
Showtune to go... Congratulations to Tony winner Victoria Clark on her recent wedding! Beautiful wedding photos and if you've ever seen her perform you won't soon forget. Her acting and her gorgeous voice are ideally fused together and she gives splendid rich and nuanced musical performances. Lately she's been relegated to featured roles as mothers and grandmothers but she is one fine leading lady. Here she is doing Sondheim's classic "Losing My Mind" from the recent revival of Follies (Bernadette Peters played the role in NYC but Victoria took over for Los Angeles)
All Oscars All The Time Big Group they've taken that 'Oscar Dresses infographic' that was so successful a year ago and updated and expanded it with interactivity AV Club wants the Oscars to add these 11 categories. I say Nay! to most of these. The Academy nixed two of these very recently (Best Casting and Title Design) when they were proposed again David Poland thinks "preferential balloting" makes virtually anything possible in this tight Best Picture race and seems to expect a true spread the wealth night (as do I) Gurus of Gold the full charts in all categories The Atlantic Joe Reid on the lack of connection between Best Picture & Best Actress Vox tries to explain all the confusing Oscar categories - not who will win but the category definitions themselves THR Mo'Nique believes she was blackballed after her Oscar win for Precious for not playing the game and being "difficult". Hollywood is so frustrating. Who cares if she's difficult. That's one of the best performances of all time. Doesn't anyone wanna try bottling lightning again? The Wrap, truly jumping the gun, proposed 20 actors of color and 5 directors for all 25 of the major Oscar nominations for next year's race from films like Creed, Silence, Nina, Lila & Eve, and Crimson Peak
More Movies Keith Gow reviews The Last Five Years and he's much more satisfied with it than I am. One of my friends who is much more critical of modern movie musicals than I also loved it. I am definitely ready for a second look. GMA Jeremy Jordan and Jason Robert Brown perform a Last Five Years number on morning TV Empire 8 secrets from the set of Nightcrawler Dissolve on Neil Blomkamp's plans to direct another Aliens sequel. Sigourney Weaver is planning to return as Ripley. So exciting if we really do get a sixtysomething action heroine but I'm not holding my breath since Ridley Scott is working on a Prometheus sequel, too Interview amazing new photoshoot of Kristen Stewart who really turned it out as an actress this past year. More please First Showing yes it's true Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has started production (Noooooooo) with Javier Bardem wasting more of his time and YA stars Kaya Scoledario and Brenton Thwaites joining the cast The Film Stage Xavier Dolan in the new trailer for Elephant Song - he's just acting this time Details Calum Marsh looks at The Breakfast Club 30 years on In Contention looks at some of the tougher to call races THR Brutally Honest Ballot of an Oscar voter from the PR branch - these things are always a mix of cringeworthy and/or interesting revealing quotes THR Brutally Honest Ballot #2 - this one loves Theory of Everything and admires Boyhood
New Mad Men Trailer! "The Final Episodes"
Because of this people are speculating that the final episodes take place in 1976. People are silly. It's not like that show to jump 7 years. And Matthew Weiner said he always wanted to make a show about the decade of the 1960s and he's always been willing to be anachronistic about music. The movies on the other hand, they're usually right on schedule so I wish I knew what year the final episodes took place in so as to study that year's movies. I want to see Don Draper in a movie theater one last time. Pretty please!
Monty waiting for more cakeOff Cinema Wisdom Nation screw motivation, seek discipline Billboard Madonna speaks, makes journo drink shots BuzzFeed Trans model recreates Adam Levine's famous never-nude shot Towleroad Lady Gaga is engaged to her actor boyfriend Taylor Kinney (The Other Women / Chicago Fire) Playbill the great Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza) is doing a diary of her out of town tryouts of Gigi, a reworking of the Oscar winning musical AutoStraddle "50 Shades of Grey Cats". Monty made me include that one. He's breathing very loudly right behind my chair as I type this, surely plotting my murder for the recent vet visit. FTR he is also upset that Jennifer Aniston didn't get nominated for Cake because he was hoping for more edible swag.
Friday, June 2, 2023 at 5:46PM 
