• Boy Culture took on a massive and fascinating project: A "brief" (haha) history of LGBTQ moments on television starting from TV's beginnings! (I Love Lucy might contain the first actual gay joke on TV... but things really pick up in the 1970s). It's a must-read if you care about these things
• The Grio Get Out takes four prizes at the AAFCAS while Girls Trip and Detroit both take home two
• Deadline reports on the Sci-Tech award where there was a an impassioned speech and a transgender winner
• IndieWire MoviePass is driving its subscriber base to Oscar-nominated movies
Lots more after the jump including Oscar news, Sarah Jessica Parker making headlines, Quentin Tarantino's response to Uma Thurman's story, and three memorable actors passing away...
• Broadway World This is very upsetting. The great comic actress Jan Maxwell (recently seen on TV's short-lived sci-fi political comedy Brain Dead) has died at 61 due to cancer. If you've ever seen her perform on stage you'll never forget it. She was the best part of the most recent revival of Follies and the best part of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and surely other shows. RIP
• Blindspot on the new episode of this podcast about things the host or guest are seeing for the first time, Chris Feil introduces Jorge Molina to Death Becomes Her
• Tom & Lorenzo applaud Sarah Jessica Parker for looking freaking amazing again
• Washington Post ...she was also in the news because Kim Cattrall publicly rejected her condolescences on the death of Cattrall's brother this week.
• AV Club Actor John Gavin, so memorably hunky in Psycho and Spartacus, has died at 86
• Pitchfork Jonny Greenwood interviews about his Oscar nomination - the quote as to whether or not he'll attend is fun - and working with Paul Thomas Anderson
• The New Yorker Richard Brody looks at a forgotten Natalie Wood picture called Driftwood (from her child star years) and says it's an eccentric masterwork
• IndieWire Quentin Tarantino responds to the Uma Thurman story in the times
• Vanity Fair producing the Oscars during the continually charged climate of the past few years with #OscarsSoWhite #MeToo and #TimesUp movements
• Slate the Game of Thrones guys are now in charge of Star Wars (to some extent) and that's depressing news
• Cinematic Corner Sati's best and worst of 2017
• Out amusing piece on the unrealistic gay sex tropes in fan fiction (usually written by teenage girls)
• Deviant Art a papercut portrait of Wonder Woman
• /Film Character actor Reg E Cathy (The Wire, House of Cards) has passed away due to cancer
Finally...
• IndieWire Call Me By Your Name 's James Ivory (and Andre Aciman) win the US Scripters Award. I know that Ivory is the obvious frontrunner for the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay so why am I so convinced there will be a surprise winner? It it just PTSD from all the times I've watched one of my all time favorite filmmakers lose? I cant bear to see him lose a fifth time! Please let the obvious frontrunner win in this case.