Dear Gossips,
Yesterday in this space I posted about The Farewell and how, in limited release, it opened with the highest per theatre average of the year Read Full Intro
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Katy Perry is getting into the health food thing. She and Orlando Bloom are apparently really into the apple cider vinegar thing. I *think* it helps Katy poo easier? I tried it once because I will try anything that helps me poo and it wasn’t the poo promised land. Full Story
Murray Bauman is a great comedy crank
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Last season, we met a new character on Stranger Things named Murray Bauman. He’s the irascible, conspiracy-minded acquaintance of Hopper, who helped Nancy and Jonathan in a pinch. Murray returns this season to help Hopper and Joyce, and he seals his role as the perfect comedy crank. He is constantly annoyed at everyone else, he has had it up to here with everyone’s bullsh-t, and he gets almost all of the good comedy bits. Full Story
2019 Emmy Award Nominations
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Hot take: Everything that is happening in entertainment culture is happening at the Emmys this year. Hotter take: these awards will be more important than the Oscars. Yeah, I said it. Here is my supporting evidence: First of all, the comedy between nomination presenters D’Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong actually worked, instead of being a stiff and awkward four minutes to endure before the actual nominations. Full Story
Celebrity Social Media, July 16, 2019
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Police in Tennessee are warning residents not to flush their meth down the toilet because it will enter the sewer and then retention points and then, possibly, streams, which could lead to animal ingestion. Full Story
Beyoncé: the takeover
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Did you feel it this morning? The expression is a “disturbance” in the Force, but nothing about what I felt is “disturbing”. I thought about calling it a “movement” in the Force but that’s how I sometimes refer to my sh-ts, and it would be blasphemy to connect my sh-t and the Queen in any way so… can we say “spark”? Whatever. Full Story
Kirsten Dunst is a businessman
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So this is what happened to Peggy Blumquist: she finally got out of Fargo only to crash land in Florida in the 90s. Kirsten Dunst returns to television, following her stellar performance in Fargo season two, with a new series on Showtime, On Becoming a God in Central Florida. That is quite a title—a little odd, a little esoteric, a little grandiose. Full Story
Chris, Matt, Elsa, Luciana: birthday on holiday
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Elsa Pataky’s birthday is on July 18. She’s been on holiday with Chris Hemsworth and their close friends Matt and Luciana Damon in Ibiza. There’s a whole crew of friends who have joined. Here they all are on the beach celebrating together. It’s not a small group. Full Story
Margot Robbie’s Barbie, by Greta Gerwig
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“Life in plastic” finally looks fantastic, now that Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach will team up to co-write the long-gestating Barbie movie. Margot Robbie is still set to star in the title role, which has bounced around from Amy Schumer Full Story
Austin Butler: this is Elvis
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A couple of weeks ago, it was revealed that Baz Luhrmann had narrowed it down to five actors to play Elvis Presley in his upcoming biopic: Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Harry Styles, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Austin Butler. As I wrote in my post about the casting process Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Finally. This summer, after all the post-Endgame blockbusters that have met expectations but may not have surpassed them, with the industry wondering about sequel fatigue at the box office Read Full Intro