Remembering Chadwick

We’ll never stop missing Chadwick Boseman. It’s been five years, and his death still feels like a fresh loss. Lainey and I were texting about this last night, how it doesn’t feel like it’s been five years already, how we still miss him. How Sinners feels like it was meant to be Chadwick and Michael B. Jordan. (I know it was Jonathan Majors and MBJ at one point, but really, it feels like that film was meant for Chadwick and MBJ. Chadwick would play Smoke, MBJ: Stack.) 

Yesterday, Chadwick was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Like I said regarding Robert Englund, sure, the whole thing is a marketing event, but sometimes you just don’t begrudge the person being honored, and this is one of those cases. Chadwick’s family showed up, his widow Simone Ledward-Boseman was there to accept the honor in his stead, and his great friends and collaborators, Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan, were there, too. It must have been a rollercoaster day for those two, going from Chadwick’s ceremony to the American Cinematheque Awards, where MBJ received his own award.

Coogler was certainly emotional when speaking at the star ceremony, but his message is a good reminder, especially in the time of giving thanks, to not take each other for granted. Be kind, be good, be supportive, show up for the ones you love. You never know how long you have.

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'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler couldn't help but get emotional as he honored his late friend Chadwick Boseman, who received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. #blackpanther #chadwickboseman #ryancoogler

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What else happened today…

Love Island star Amaya “Papaya” Espinal is Popsugar’s “Feel-Good Person of the Year”. I don’t watch reality TV, but the reality stars break containment all the time now, and Amaya has always seemed fun and charming. See? Have fun, be fun, it’s actually infectious! (Popsugar)

It’s coat season! Look at some coats! (Go Fug Yourself)

Of all the things to get mad at Prince William for, a 30-hour work isn’t one of them. I fully support a 30-hour work week! I think a lot of jobs/industries will probably be on a 30/35-hour work week standard by the end of the decade. My job is usually a 35-hour work week, we’ve been discussing a further reduction to a 33-hour work week. (Discussions presently stalled, though, as technical/system issues are currently pushing us in the other direction. I swear none of the Web 3.0 stuff works!) Let’s talk repatriating art and artifacts, turning palaces and castles over to public use, ending taxpayer support of the monarchy, literally anything else before picking on the 30-hour work week. WE deserve a 30-hour work week! Give it to us! (Celebitchy)

Elphaba’s “sex cardigan” in Wicked: For Good is driving everyone insane. I clocked Elphaba’s raggedy robe when I saw the movie, but honestly, EVERYTHING about Wicked is so weird that Elphaba donning a scrungy bathmat to have sex with Fiyero just rolled over me like one more drop in a deeply strange ocean. I do like what it implies about Fiyero, though. He doesn’t need you to put on sexy lingerie, he never wants you more than when you’re dead tired in no bra and your oldest, rattiest comfort clothes. No, don’t comb your hair, babe, I like the rat’s nest. Fiyero is for the comfy freaks! (Vulture)