Lin-Manuel Miranda Gossip

Last week Sarah emailed me, Lainey, and Emily, our site manager. Subject? Duana’s new favourite show. Body?  “This show was made with only the freshest ingredients, pureed in the most expensive blender, and poured into a tall, frosty glass just for Duana's consumption. Full Story

“The sound you are hearing is not a technical problem. It is not a musical cue. It is not a joke. It is the sound of one man's mounting anxiety. I... am that man.” Okay, you’d have to be under a rock not to know Lin-Manuel Miranda’s voice and cadence even if you’ve never seen a minute of him onstage – so read the above line in his voice. Full Story

You don’t need me to tell you about how today feels, and you don’t need me to tell you that Twitter is frequently a terrible, dumpster of a place to be. But what you might not know, and what might help a little today, is the revelation that Lin-Manuel Miranda, in addition to being a massive nonstop creative force, has become a kind of ad hoc Twitter hype person and digital hug. Full Story

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Michael Bae Jordan were both on Good Morning America this morning. Typing out full names is a lot less fun than acronyms. They did interviews separately but when I saw the photo set of them each arriving at the studio, I started to think about how these two men are on the exact opposite spectrums of my celebrity crush radar. Full Story

Last week I almost caused a traffic accident. We were on a four-hour drive and had been listening to Hamilton for about an hour and a half, but then in the middle of Act 2, the thing that happens happened. Which I have never made it through without crying, even though I know it’s coming. I started sobbing so hard I couldn’t see and had to blindly stab at the volume button to have a prayer of driving properly. Full Story

When the entirety of Post-Oscar Monday passed without my having written about Lin-Manuel Miranda, I have to admit I felt a bit bad about it. But there wasn’t really a story to tell about him at the Oscars, because even though he’s charming, his red carpet appearances were fairly straightforward. Full Story

A few years ago, during some now-forgotten revelation of crime or some other embarrassment during the reign of Toronto’s bumblingly catastrophic mayor Rob Ford, Kathleen said (and later tweeted) something so hilarious I fell in love. ‘I always wanted to live in Gotham but NOT WITHOUT BATMAN. Full Story

It’s week one of our Show Your Work hiatus, and already Lainey and I have sent a dozen articles back and forth that could have been included or that might be fodder for Season 2.  If we were doing an episode today, Lin-Manuel Miranda Full Story

Last night I was talking with some women who had loved Leonardo DiCaprio. They appreciate him now, but when they were young, they loved him. Loved-loved. That undying teenage passion. They were fans.  Now, of course, they’re more like *fans, because they’re older and wiser. But it’s always a little bittersweet when something you love gets that asterisk beside it. Full Story