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Friday, June 10, 2016 at 5:40PM Guardian Carrie Fisher is doing an advice column? What happy potentially hilarious news
Salon They're prepping a Rumi biopic and the filmmakers want Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert Downey Jr for the leading roles of Rumi and his mentor Shams. Those were real people and Persian muslims. Here we go again with Hollywood's tone deaf casting imperatives... (sigh)
Coming Soon Jennifer Lawrence to star in a movie about Elizabeth Holmes, once estimated to be worth $4.5 billion and now nothing. Adam McKay to direct so we're guessing he got a taste for Oscar with The Big Short and wants more.
MTV Teo Bugbee looks at the career of James Wan from Saw (2004) to The Conjurer 2 (2016)
Village Voice Angelica Jade Bastién on the female gaze of American Psycho
Pajiba gets vicious with a list of 'female equivalents of Sam Worthington' (i.e. generically attractive & completely unmemorable but they keep getting big roles) including Zoey Deutch, Britt Robertson, and Lily Collins (who Warren Beatty will try to make happen again soon in his Howard Hughes movie). But I have to admit Lily James is growing on me so I wouldn't have included her
Pride Source actress Lea Delaria (Orange is the New Black) thinks "LGBT" needs to go and be replaced by Queer. Actually we're kinda for it as there are more and more letters attached "LGBTIQA"
/Film Helena Bonham Carter and Mindy Kaling are joining Bullock & Blanchett in that Oceans Ocho movie we were fantasy casting earlier
The Tracking Board ... and speaking of Oceans 11, that movie's director Steven Soderbergh is making a new heist movie himself called Logan Lucky. The cast will include Hilary Swank, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane, Daniel Craig, Katherine Heigl, Channing Tatum, and Riley Keough.
Tony Season
Playbill in counterprogramming for the Tony Awards, TCM will play Alexander Hamilton (1931), the biopic starring George Arliss. Haha.
Gothamist good god, I'm seeing Hamilton just in the nick of time. They're upping the price of premium seats to $849 each and orchestra seats to $179-199. That is insane. I sometimes wonder what would happen if everyone just refused to go to theater priced over $50 for an entire year. It might make the art more accessible / popular. I'm seeing the show next week
P.S.
And look, two of the greats met each other! President Obama and Madonna. As Madge points out they're both Leos so it's "a cosmic convergence"
Reader Comments (22)
Queer is so much more inclusive, but so many still associate it with a derogatory term. However I'm fully in the belief that so many individuals use a blanket term of gay, due to brevity, that is far less inclusive for anyone but men who sleep with men. Reclamation is always controversial, so it's still going to be a person-to-person preference.
Also, Kaling and Bonham-Carter are welcome additions. I want Kaling to be a badass and Helena to have some notes of Marla Singer.
I think the term "LGBT" should be kept, at least in the sense that it doesn't stop existing, because it is also used in greek and I assume in other languages, whereas "queer" cannot be translated.
I'm loving the Ocho cast but they're really going to need to put in Gina Rodriguez, Rosie Perez, and some other wonderfully talented and hilarious Hispanic women or face a (probably deserved) massive backlash.
That Soderbergh cast is bizarre: every other person elicits an "ooh!" and then an "ugh..." and then again and again.
I think what they're trying to do with that Rumi biopic is make a movie as good as Exodus: Gods and Kings. ***crickets***
They already tried the "queer" label and it did not catch on probably because the word still has too many negative connections
The casting for this new "Ocean's -Female version" is certainly hitting my sweet spot. The additions of HBC and Mindy Kaling are increasing my interest. So far so good.
On the other hand Logan Lucky - not so much, I can't see that combination working at all, but Soderberg usually knows what he's doing.
Carrie Fisher doing an advice column is perfect casting.
Guys guys..
BARBRA STREISAND RECORDED "AT THE BALLET" WITH ANNE HATHAWAY AND DAISY RIDLEY AND THE AUDIO IS ALREADY UP ON YOUTUBE!!!
I am already crying and that is like the gayest thing I'm about to say today.
Obama one of the greats? Lol You must be kidding
"Queer" was used interchangeably with "faggot" growing up, so forgive me if I'm not jumping up and down wanting to refer to myself as "queer".
I always found it a bit ridiculous how "a-sexual" has come to be included in the LGBT community. Like, seriously?
Anonny -- nope. not kidding. easily the best President of my lifetime.
I just watched that episode of The Tonight Show. Love Obama. And Madonna performed "Borderline" and was terrific.
Wow - it's official, you are 100% delusional. Just look at the facts man.
But don't take it personally. I'd say the same thing to anyone who called Trump great. Sometimes you just have to confront the crazy lest the sheep start following the loudest people in the room (or on the internet in this case).
Step away, Nathaniel, step away...
Queen Jessica Chastain should replace Cate Blanchett in Ocho.
So Happy for Swank that's 2 high profile gigs she just got inc 55 Steps for Bille August.
Wait, when did Soderbergh come out of his "retirement" from directing films? I actually thought that was serious? (I like him and his movies, I'm not complaining, but he was noisy about it...)
Suzanne -- i believe this is the one that's bringing him out of retirement. it's news to me too.
And he chose Hilary to headline.good for her.
That Jennifer Lawrence constantly gets offered all the good roles. She is the Meryl Streep of her time.
Do you think the counterpoint piece to the "Female Sam Worthington" would be a list of "Male Elizabeth Banks" that is male actors who consistently get plum roles and are always great, in comedy, in drama, in real life; but somehow still are not major superstars? But are there any?
"She (Jennifer Lawrence) is the Meryl Streep of her time."
If you mean "of her age group", maybe. (But only if you're talking about her castability.)
@ moe
Ewan McGregor
James Marsden
I'm not being patriotic here (I believe both Teresa Palmer and Isabel Lucas belong on that list), but anyone who describes Worthington as a "forgettable actor" needs to track down a small film called SOMERSAULT. He's fantastic in it. (It's also the major calling card for Abbie Cornish.)
Which makes it all the more frustrating that he doesn't get the good roles in Hollywood/US.