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Bobby Bones hosting the show would be a terrible idea, but when has that ever stopped TPTB? He's probably telling the truth about the concept being on the table.
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It's confusing because many of the classic MGM titles were sold decades ago and the rights are with Warner Bros. To bring up The Wizard of Oz or Singin' in the Rain in the context of the Amazon deal wouldn't be an accurate representation of it. Shark Tank episodes would be very valuable to a streaming service at the moment (hours upon hours of unserialized content), but seeing it held up as a flagship property of MGM is strange.
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On 5/24/2021 at 8:00 PM, debraran said:
I think it's tacky to have your wife get a starring role on the show, I'm sure there were other people who could have been more desirable with Kevin but it is his wife. I assume a blind spot. OR he never intended her to be with him but it's still strange.
On 5/25/2021 at 5:36 PM, Jeddah said:It’s not always terrible. Fargo wouldn’t be half as good without Frances McDormand, and Helena Bonham Carter was always good in Tim Burton movies. But then there’s crap like Sofia Coppola in The Godfather III. I feel like Madison is somewhere in the middle of that. Not amazing, but not terrible.
I think it depends. The story goes that a different person was going to be the wife/mom in A Quiet Place until Emily Blunt read the script and asked John Krasinski to cast her. The difference is that she was critically acclaimed before they ever got involved and was well established by 2018. So, Emily Blunt having a starring role in a movie seemed perfectly reasonable to the general public, even if she was married to the director in this case.
A couple of the "Space Race" movies that I like each feature the director's wife in a small role: Kevin Costner's secretary in Hidden Figures is played by Kimberly Quinn, and Olivia Hamilton plays one of the astronaut wives in First Man. They weren't major characters at all, but were more than cameos, yet they were competent enough not to generate much outcry about nepotism.
I think that's mostly where This Is Us fans were with Madison at first, though even when she was merely Kate's overly perky friend in a handful of episodes, you did see some complaints here (and elsewhere) about her real-life ties to the showrunner. IMO the writing for Madison wasn't designed to make her likeable at first, and she didn't get tons of airtime to redeem herself with fans before being revealed as Kevin's hookup/mother of his children/fiancée.
I think a lot of those issues would have been there even if it weren't Caitlin Thompson in the role. You had fans who didn’t like the character's introduction and wondered why she would want to maintain a friendship, when Kate was so mean to her. To the ardent Kevin/Sophie fans, Madison got in the way of their ship.
OTOH, the character always made sense as someone Kevin would get involved with eventually. She was always "there" for some reason, and on a show with a limited number of characters, of course Kevin ends up with another one of his sister's friends (in real life, a famous guy with his looks would have seemingly endless dating options). Maybe Dan Fogelman was only ever resistant to the idea because he didn't want his wife doing love scenes right under his nose with a hot actor. He might have written Madison a bit differently all along, and in a way that was more palatable to fans, if that hangup wasn't in the back of his mind, or someone else played Madison.
Kevin and Madison don't seem madly in love and that's what comes across onscreen. Is that because the actors are doing their jobs, or are the writers working around a lack of onscreen chemistry? I think it is the former, but the showrunner's relatively obscure actress wife being given a prominent role here muddles the issue somewhat.
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Tessa Thompson is having a great time Down Under:
QuoteThe “Creed” star, 37, was spotted kissing model Zac Stenmark on Sunday — the same day that she was caught in a similarly cozy situation with singer Rita Ora and director Taika Waititi.
Thompson looked absolutely enamored as she and Australia native Stenmark, 29, went for a flirty stroll in Sydney, where they could hardly keep their hands off each other.
The pair were seen smooching passionately as if no one was around in addition to chatting and laughing with each other.
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Netflix announced the news on Monday in a tweet, sharing a photo of the 34-year-old actress and revealing she would star in an upcoming romantic comedy for the streamer.
"Lindsay Lohan will star in a new romantic comedy about a newly engaged and spoiled hotel heiress who finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting total amnesia in a skiing accident," Netflix's tweet read.
The movie, which does not have a title yet, will be a holiday rom-com.
Overboard with a Christmas twist? I guess there have been worse holiday movie premises...
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The trio were photographed cuddling outdoors at Waititi's home in Sydney on Sunday, engaging in PDA as they sat in front of a small table of drinks.
In several shots, first shared by The Daily Mail, Waititi — who is directing Thompson, 37, in Thor: Love and Thunder — was seen laughing with Thompson and singer Ora, 30, the latter of whom he is rumored to be dating as of late last month.
Thompson and Ora were seated on either side of Waititi, shown locking lips with one another as they leaned over the filmmaker, 45. Other shots showed them getting close with Waititi as he had an arm around each of them.
The trio appeared to be part of a larger gathering at Waititi's home, surrounded by several others as they all lounged on outdoor furniture.
There are more photos and some video online. I wonder what the rest of the cast is thinking, or if they'd already picked up on a vibe...
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Lil Nas X tweeting during the show:
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While he doesn’t see himself making a triumphant return as a performer, the Arkansas native would consider taking on another role: host. According to the Bobby Bones Show emcee, “there [were] some talks for a while” that he was up for the gig before Tyra Banks was tapped to replace Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews in July 2020.
“If they came and said, ‘Hey, why don’t you come back and host with Tyra?’ That would be something I would consider,” Bones told Us.
Producers approached Bones to see how he felt about the possibility of hosting, but “some other conflicts” got in the way of his ballroom return.
"I don’t know who else they were talking to at that time,” he continued. “And I had Breaking Bobby Bones going and American Idol going. I love [DWTS] and that family over there. … And if they ever came back and said, ‘Hey, let’s talk about it again,’ I would love to be able to look and see if we can make it work.”
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Another trailer:
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15 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:
Ben's dad, Marc Platt, is a producer. Some of his credits include Wicked, La La Land, Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins Returns, Grease Live, Rent Live, and the movie adaptations of Nine and Aladdin. He's also producing the upcoming movie adaptations of The Little Mermaid, Once on This Island, Wicked, and Little Shop of Horrors.
FYI, if anyone recalls the infamous Best Picture mix-up, Marc Platt gave the second acceptance speech: in between the one who eventually announced Moonlight as the actual winner, and the "We lost, by the way" guy.
It isn't like Ben doesn't have the talent, but it would've been pretty tough for Dad to tell his son that he was over the hill (so to speak) and the movie was going in a different direction, even if he sucked.
If the plot goes the way the trailer and (overly detailed) Wikipedia entry, an actor who still came across like a 17 year old would make the character's actions slightly easier to tolerate as a viewer. Still wrong, but teenagers display poor judgment all the time.
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Hollywood’s geriatric onscreen teenagers have been the butt of jokes for decades. For the most part it's nothing personal, though I understand how the role means a lot to Ben.
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1 hour ago, Enero said:
He loves his soap actresses. His first wife was the beautiful Lindsay Korman. She played Theresa on Passions.
Anyone placing bets yet on how long this marriage will last?
It's so specific! He hasn't been in daytime TV for years. It's like Rod Stewart and blonde models, except Justin only has eyes for brunette soap actresses.
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1 hour ago, ParadoxLost said:Maybe Bill Gates cut a check to John Mulaney and Olivia Munn to provide a distraction. Its weird that sparked so much discussion.
Even before the articles alleging that Melinda Gates was alarmed by Bill's ties to Epstein and that there were affairs/unwanted advances with other women, that annual vacation with his ex-girlfriend would have been a big red flag for many:
Quote...Gates and Winblad continued to spend a long weekend on the beach together once a year even after he married Melinda in 1994 — and it seems to have been an agreed-upon dynamic with Melinda.
Time‘s Walter Isaacson wrote a profile on Bill Gates’ personality and close relationship in 1997 in which Winblad, and his arrangement with Melinda, are clearly outlined
Another of Gates’ vacation companions is Ann Winblad, the software entrepreneur and venture capitalist he dated during the 1980s,” Isaacson writes. “They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on ‘virtual dates’ by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones. For a few years she even persuaded him to stop eating meat, an experiment he has since resolutely abandoned.”
“They broke up in 1987, partly because Winblad, five years older, was more ready for marriage,” the article continues. “But they remain close friends. ‘When I was off on my own thinking about marrying Melinda,’ Gates says, ‘I called Ann and asked for her approval.’ She gave it. ‘I said she’d be a good match for him because she had intellectual stamina.’ Even now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach."
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Wedding News:
QuoteAriana Grande and Dalton Gomez have tied the knot!
"They got married," Grande's rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. "It was tiny and intimate — less than 20 people. The room was so happy and full of love. The couple and both families couldn't be happier."
They got engaged last December and started dating in January 2020.
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QuoteJustin Hartley and Sofia Pernas are married!
A source confirms to PEOPLE that the This Is Us actor, 44, and his former The Young and the Restless costar, 31, "recently" tied the knot.
On Sunday night, the newlyweds made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards, where they both could be seen wearing rings on their wedding fingers as they posed on the carpet together.
News of the couple possibly having tied the knot began in early May, when the pair were spotted on the beach in Malibu each wearing bands on their left hand, as seen in photos obtained by Page Six.
They were on The Young and the Restless together (Chrishell Stause, too, I think). It's Justin's third marriage.
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Hey, if the old man who was paying all your bills and funding your lifestyle for the years you were living overseas doesn't want to include you when he wishes happy birthday to his grandson, there is probably a reason. The old guy is not really that subtle.
Does this even count as a blind item? It's not "insider knowledge" so much as "speculation based on a social media post":
For the record, the Clarence House birthday tweets for William's kids haven't always included photos/mentions of Kate, either.
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Didn't really watch the Oscars and totally missed this new celebrity couple:
QuotePorizkova also explained that she and Sorkin, 59, met when journalist Ashleigh Banfield asked her if she wanted to be introduced to a single man. Porizkova consented, with one exception — "no rock stars."
Banfield then introduced Porizkova to the West Wing creator via text message and a month later, she was flying out to Los Angeles for a date with Sorkin.
When reached by the Times for a comment, Sorkin told the outlet that he doesn't comment on anyone he's not working with "but if Paulina's ever a cinematographer on something I write I'll give you a thousand words."
I guess there's no reason why these people wouldn't all run in the same circles, but it also kind of feels like a Celebrity News Generator spat out three random names?
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John Mulaney is reportedly dating Olivia Munn:
Quote"This is very new, they're taking it slowly," a source close to Mulaney adds. "They met at church in Los Angeles."
Reps for the two could not be reached for immediate comment.
Mulaney, 38, and Munn, 40, first connected socially several years ago and remained friendly. In December, the actress sent the comedian well wishes after Mulaney entered rehab following a relapse in his decades-long journey with addiction.
"Sending SO MUCH love and support to John Mulaney. You got this," she tweeted at the time.
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25 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:
My wife really likes Pink, although I don't. But man, is there any non-reality show celebrity who uses their kids as like a game accessory more than she does? They sing on her album, show up at awards shows and my wife just shows me a trailer for a new documentary about her family on your with her. I just find it super annoying.
Blue Ivy is a Grammy winner. Jennifer Lopez had her daughter sing in her halftime show. It's interesting to see the range of feelings that celebrities have about their children being in the spotlight.
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People Magazine has Pink on its latest cover and she discusses being pitted against other pop stars early in her career:
Quote"It was so unfair to all the girls," Pink, 41, says in the new issue of PEOPLE of being pitted against Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera as they rose to fame in the early aughts. "None of us wanted that."
Pink was even marketed as an "anti-Britney" figure in music, which she never wanted.
"I love Britney — she used to carry around my album," says the star, whose new Amazon Prime Video documentary P!nk: All I Know So Far (streaming May 21) offers a rare glimpse of her life backstage on tour with her family in tow. "I was like, 'Dude, I'm a street punk, I just skateboard. That doesn't have to be the anti-Britney. I don't want to fight anybody.'"
This being the Pink who sang "Stupid Girls" and starred its video, which takes direct shots at Jessica Simpson and Fergie, among other celebrities (and also casually depicts an eating disorder):
But that was the sentiment in the aughts and into the 2010s: certain young women in the public eye were vacuous airheads and/or overly sexual, they were setting bad examples for impressionable girls, so dish out all the scorn and contempt on those "bimbos" that you want. They're probably too stupid or oblivious to notice the criticisms, anyway! Considering what they might have gone through in life that led them to that point, the people who could be exploiting them, and the systems validating the status quo? Nah.
There was also a cachet to being an internet/social media edgelord and you got validation for dunking on someone. A lot of comments praised as snark at the time crossed the line into bullying. Obviously, death threats were never okay, though some would try to write off such comments to a public figure as a "joke". People can dwell in their snarky disdain of a celebrity, it can turn to loathing and hatred, and you stop seeing the target of your wrath as an actual human being. Now, there is much more of a sense that the "online you" is still you, and that there's a responsibility for the things you say. Not that people aren't still vile on the internet, but there are more calls for accountability about it.
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1 hour ago, scarynikki12 said:
So my point here is that I think Ben and Matt are still actual friends rather than whatever PR thing he and JLo are doing.
I don't think Bennifer 2.0 is totally PR, though. Sure, her camp is likely feeding quotes to People or US Weekly (and maybe his, too), but Ben and Jennifer have had a mutual admiration society going on for years and they've been very open about staying in touch, post-breakup. They're both free now, and they've always had a lot of love for each other. But yes, by letting the paps in on the reunion, she cuts off all the "JLo: Sad & Alone After A-Rod CHEATS With Women Half Her Age" stories. A-Rod gets to see that she's not at home crying over him. With Bennifer the sequel, Ben turns the page from being a sad, middle-aged man dumped by a "sexy" younger actress whose career is on the upswing. Last week's stories about his celebrity dating app fail? Already old news.
Celebrities are different, but exposing yourself and your kids to increased paparazzi attention like this for a relationship where you aren't even getting any? I really don't buy that Ben or JLo need publicity that badly right now. Who knows, maybe they've wanted to hook up again for years, but the Bennifer stigma scared them off until now...
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4 hours ago, aradia22 said:
For some reason I thought they were writing a new movie. My brain is not good at remembering Deadline articles about announced projects these days.
In trying to google for it, I did find this article about social media reactions from semi-famous people...
They are: The Last Duel, which comes out later this year. They star in it along with Adam Driver and Jodie Comer and talked about working on it last year:
QuoteThe new film, which the pair co-wrote alongside Nicole Holofcener (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) is a departure for the writer-actors given that it is also a medieval period piece in which Affleck stars as the King of France and Damon is one of his knights. And it’s in line with both actors’ renewed desires to adjust their careers again toward personal interests—and perhaps move further away from superheroes and superspies.
“Finishing up this movie with you,” Affleck told Damon, “it’s so much more enriching to be working together, to be working with someone I know and love, and the fact I want to see and spend time with and hang out with [you]. Realizing that time goes by and how you spend your day defines what your life is going to be, and the quality of that time, is really important. And it contributes, I think, to the quality of your work.”
It's the first movie they've written and starred in together since Good Will Hunting. Starting up the PR early, I suppose... /s
IMO, they probably get along fine, but are middle aged men with their own careers and growing/teenage kids. Plus, Ben is living the bachelor life, so he and Matt aren't photographed hanging out all the time like they used to. Not great blind item fodder, I know...
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Matt Damon got asked about the Bennifer reunion and ultimately said nice things, at least...
My memory of Bennifer 1.0 was of Matt not being a fan, but I wasn't really sure if that was the reality or the gossip world's spin on things--you know, Boston Ben going out with a New York Diva, so his hometown friends couldn’t possibly like her. Though it wouldn't surprise me if Matt actually viewed Bennifer as a bad time in his friend's life...
Post-breakup, Ben and J-Lo have consistently had glowing things to say about each other and talked about keeping in touch, so a reunion isn't a total shock. Also, online dating didn't go so well for Ben.
At least Bennifer is "age-appropriate"‽
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10 hours ago, JustHereForFood said:
I don't see them going gender neutral in the near future either. On one end, you would have people being (rightfully, in my opinion) concerned that more men would win that way due to a bias from voters, on the other end you would have some conservatives foaming at the mouth how gender is being erased in "woke Hollywood".
But I do wonder how they are going to handle when someone non-binary gives good performance that deserves at least a nomination. It's bound to happen eventually.
Asia Kate Dillon from the TV show Billions is non-binary and they've submitted in Actor categories before, as the term can be used in a gender-neutral way. They've implored the SAG Awards to drop their gender-specific categories (SAG has used "Female Actor" from the start to avoid saying "actress", and also their trophy is called an "Actor"). I guess the Oscar bylaws probably say that Best Actor/Supporting Actor are specifically are for men, but it would be a bad look for the Academy to disqualify someone from a nomination based on gender. The Oscars have changed up their categories throughout the years and would probably come up with additional acting awards (Best Voice/Motion Capture Performance, Best Film Debut, etc), if they ever drop the gender designations.
1 hour ago, NUguy514 said:No, studios can campaign actors in lead or supporting categories as they desire, but members of the actors' branch of the Academy (which is the only branch responsible for acting nominations) may vote for nominees in whichever category they individually feel is correct. The example that comes to my mind most obviously is Keisha Castle-Hughes. She was the undisputed lead in Whale Rider; however, since she was only thirteen, the studio assumed she wouldn't have a chance of being nominated in lead and campaigned her in supporting to maximize her chances of being nominated at all. Come nomination morning, though, she was nominated in lead because enough members of the actors' branch quite correctly saw she was the lead in her film and put her on their ballots for Lead Actress. Most of the time, it's the case that actors are nominated in whatever category for which they're being campaigned (hence the ridiculousness of Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Supporting Actor), but it's ultimately at the discretion of the individual members of the actors' branch when they fill out their ballots.
LaKeith Stanfield was campaigned as a lead by Warner Bros, but Academy members voted for him in supporting anyway. It's suspected that Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith got votes in both categories but were stronger in the Best Supporting Actor category. At least there's a rule against the same performance getting nominated in multiple categories (though only after it happened with Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way).
The SAG Awards make potential nominees submit in a specific category and voters can't deviate from that. The Golden Globes can reject a categorization from an actor/movie and place them where they want: they nixed Rooney Mara and Alicia Vikander in Best Supporting Actress for Carol and The Danish Girl, respectively, but did go along with Kate Winslet in Supporting Actress for The Reader.
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On 5/6/2021 at 8:55 AM, ursula said:
Dean’s Wizard dad walked out on his Muggle mother. His happy home life was with 2 Muggle parents. And this is backstory that never made it into the books! Lol. How the story presents Muggle/Wizard relationships is too consistent to not be by design. There’s nothing to make one believe Seamus’s family were an exception.
Did Dean's biological father walk out, or was he killed in the First Wizarding War‽ His mom was a Muggle; she wouldn't have known what was going on or that he was in danger. I agree that the books don't really present Muggle/Wizard romances going well.
The books initially describe McGonagall as having black hair but then JKR said she was 70 in a chat or something. She's still much younger than Dumbledore, but wizards have longer life spans. Most of the adult characters were aged up from the books. If the Marauders are 30-35 years older than the kids, then characters who were their teachers (like McGonagall) have to be a generation older than the Marauders.
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7 hours ago, sugarbaker design said:
I hope they don't go gender-neutral, if they do a man will win every year.
Other groups have moved in that direction and it hasn't worked out like that. Of course, when you have a couple dozen critics all meeting up and talking it out, they can arrange it so that the winners are balanced with respect to race/gender/sexuality/etc. Left up to thousands of individual Oscar voters... There might be a bias towards male roles among the voters, but if you had one woman vs four men in a Best Lead Performance category, it might end up favoring her in the end. I don't see the Oscars going this way any time soon, as a situation where significantly more men got nominated in the acting categories would be a PR nightmare for the Academy. They have enough of those as it is!
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1 hour ago, sugarbaker design said:
I know you meant to type Best Actress (for the record Olivia Colman!).
Oops! Though two Best Actor awards that year would have made a lot of people happier. Whenever the acting awards at the Oscars go gender-neutral, they can just split the categories between biopic and non-biopic performances and still have the four awards that way...
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I watched one of those Hallmark movies Meghan made: her ex was marrying her best friend in a July 4th themed wedding and her parents had a fireworks company struggling in sales. Two white actors played her parents. Maybe there were lines about her definitely being their biological child that I missed, but it really wasn't that kind of movie. So anyone could think she was supposed to be white, or not, and that she was adopted or there was a step-parent situation that a mid-2010s Hallmark movie wasn't going to get into. Now, if they were making that movie in 2021, hopefully, the casting is more diverse.