My first order of business this morning was to read Lainey’s piece on the other Bennifer 2.0. Screaming, crying, throwing up as the kids say. Lainey gets to all of the pain points here, this is like pushing on a bruise. Hurts but kind of feels good, doesn’t it? And my god THIS MAN. Ben Affleck should be put in a lab and studied because what kind of charm does he have? It is unclear. 

 

As I said in my group chat yesterday, Ben Affleck loves the climb. The steeper the mountain, the better. When he gets to the top and he’s safe and satisfied, that’s when the trouble starts. 

 

Watching Stanley Tucci make a fish stew is the only way to use Instagram in a sane way. Seeing this made me think of his CNN show, which I didn’t realize CNN had dropped (this must be a financial issue, because it was very well received) and so he moved to Nat Geo (and by default, Disney). That show will be a 10-part series but so far, no air date.

 

Isabella Rossellini was married to Martin Scorsese for a few years, and here she is after the Oscars having a laugh with her daughter Elettra and Martin’s daughter Francesa. This is the table I’d most want to eavesdrop on. 

Kate Hudson’s new show Running Point is doing well on Netflix and I’ve watched it; it has a lot less pep than Mindy’s other shows and is more formulaic, with a traditional sitcom rhythm. 

 

Here’s Kate saying being a nepo baby doesn’t matter in the arts because all it does is kind of help you get a foot in the door (and that’s famously easy in show business!) and the audience still has to decide if they want to watch you, so ultimately it’s up to us. She goes on to say nepotism is a much bigger advantage in business. I don’t get that though – in business, you would still have to perform or the business would go under. So the performance aspect is the same, which no one denies nepo babies. Some are successful and some aren’t because you have to have the goods. What Kate downplays is the opportunity. She was cast in a film before she turned 18 and her parents said no, wait a few years because they knew this wasn’t a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her. So she waited and then got Almost Famous. 

 

A reporter asked Joe Alwyn about Bond and he said of course he’d be interested, who wouldn’t throw their hat in the ring. With Amazon taking over the franchise, I guess anything is possible and Bezos is crowd-sourcing casting ideas. But for a company that lives and dies by an algorithm, there would be an issue with Joe’s social media. He can’t turn his comments on. We know why, I don’t even need to say it. 

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