Seventeen (Links) Again
Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 3:06PM • Variety TCA Awards announced with top honors going to The People vs OJ Simpson, Black-ish, The Americans, Mr Robot all of which enjoyed big Emmy nominations and Crazy Ex Girlfriend which did not. GRRRR
• TheaterMania Nina Arianda talks Florence Foster Jenkins (I just saw the movie and she's bliss to watch in it, so lively)
• The Observer Thelma Adams on John Waters restored Multiple Maniacs
• Broadway.com Glenn Close might be reviving Sunset Boulevard on Broadway
• The Film Stage Martin Scorsese says Silence will be ready for release this year as planned. (But that means Paramount has 4 major titles to juggle this Oscar season.)
• Interview talks to Little Men breakout Michael Barbieri who's already lined up two major projects afterwards
• i09 Deadpool 2 will take aim at superhero sequels in its jokey fourth wall breaking
Controversies
• Nerds of Color Why is the Kubo and the Two Strings cast, set entirely in Japan, so white? Good question. And why on Earth is Rooney Mara doing this again after being raked over the coals for taking Tiger Lily in Pan? I asked it about the also totally Asian Guardian Brothers which as an all white star voice cast (Kidman/Streep/etcetera) despite being about Chinese legends and people got mad at me, as if animated films should have different rules and it's okay because everyone does it. It's not okay. Stars with huge bank accounts need to stop accepting these roles, they have innumerable other ways to make a quick buck. It just looks bad for everyone. Animated studios need to stop doing this. The voice talent is not the stars of animation, it's the animation itself. ACCEPT YOUR STRENGTHS. Big ups to Disney who cast racially appropriate actors for Big Hero 6 and Moana, trusting the material was there and you don't need big movie star names on posters when their faces never appear in the film.
• After Ellen this is some bullshit - Delta Airlines edited the kisses between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara out of Todd Haynes' Carol
• Slate good piece on understanding angry conspiracy theory behavior via angry Suicide Squad defenders
• Slate another interesting piece on what's wrong with numbers based movie review systems
• Comics Alliance Cara Delevigne proves she has complete ignorance about modern film criticism when she announces that they just don't like superhero movies. Oh, Cara. no. They just don't like yours. If anything critics are too easy on superhero movies which usually win pretty favorable review percentages.
ALSO from Tonga. And one of 11 out male athletes at the gamesOlympic Fever
• Broadway.com 5 random Broadway talents that should be Olympic sports
• The New Yorker "Olympic Events I would win if they existed"
• Towleroad on that Tongan flagbearer
• Outsports a record number of out LGBT athletes are at the Olympics this year. Most are women, two of which are even married to each other.
• Outsports None of the male out athletes are from the US begging the question - why don't American male athletes come out? The out men are from the UK, Tonga, New Zealand, Brazil, Finland and The Netherlands.
Reader Comments (11)
Nathaniel- Thoughts on Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins?
Nat: Kind of true on Moana, but they did still get The freaking ROCK for Moana. Racially correct bet-hedging, but still bet-hedging.
LOL @ Delta Airlines. For real?
So ridiculous...
Hollywood concentrates its energies into white talent almost exclusively. Despite telling nonwhite stories live action or animated the financial dependency is there for white inclusion to sell the product to the masses. No one is outraged by lesser known animated studios relying on white stars to voice nonwhite characters. Disney however is not given this privilege because they are the one brand in the animation business people who do not watch animated features knows of.
jamie --she's wonderful in it. more soon.
I finished the book of SILENCE last week. It was a very tough read in terms of subject matter (lots of torture and religious persecution) and I suspect the film will be a hard sit because of the brutality. I'm sure Scorsese will find ways to add beauty (Endo's prose, even in translation, is beautiful in its simplicity) but definitely the most depressing book I've read in ages.
And there may be more controversy over the casting of Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield as Portuguese missionaries. SILENCE will get attention because it's Scorsese but I'm downbeat about its box office and awards prospects now.
Cara whatever is annoying? Is she a paid starlet? Sad. Must deal drugs because it's not talent.
Jealous you saw FFJ but mere mortals can see Friday. Looks golden and That little interview with Nina Arianda is too. Babe.
I was wondering if you read Renee ZEllweger s op ed on The Hufifington Post.i was hoping you d link the story.
Miss Zellweger can have all the plastic surgery she wants- but she simply does not look like herself anymore and we have reels of film to prove it.
Glenn Close needs to work her ass off to get an OSCAR, not doing a broadway revival for which she won't win a Tony, cause she already played the part in the original broadway production. At least she could do a full-fledged west end revival of it, so she could win an Olivier.
Oh idk she can do whatever she wants and I'll be there for her lol
Delta released a statement. Basically, the STUDIO gives them two options:
1) the version with the kiss but also with the explicit sex scenes which are obviously an airplane no-no
2) a version without the explicit scenes but ALSO without the kiss
So really it wasn't Delta choosing not to show the kiss specifically. I wonder what would happen if the studio sent them a version with the kiss but without the explicit scenes. Would they still show it?