Roseanne's Return. And Other Stories
Friday, March 30, 2018 at 12:26AM Time for a link roundup so recent news doesn't entirely escape us...
movies
• AV Club Phantom Thread deleted scene -- an actual food fight between Cyril and Reynolds! Daniel and Lesley are clearly enjoying themselves
• IndieWire March Madness movie brackets. This A24 one is a nightmare. How to vote against so many great movies?
• THR Hugh Jackman's next two projects are The Front Runner and Bad Education (despite the familiar famously queer titles I'm disappointed to say that neither of those are adaptations of famous gay love stories or drag Almodovar movies.)
More after the jump including Cameron Diaz, Roseanne, Broadway movie adaptations, Ben Affleck, and more...
• EW Cameron Diaz Selma Blair and Christina Applegate reunite to talk Sweetest Thing (2002). Unfortunately the rumors were true: Diaz is officially retired from acting.
• Variety a big screen adaptation of Stephen King's The TommyKnockers is coming. It's hard to believe there are still King books yet to adapt but he is prolific and given the success of It don't be surprised if literally everything else remaining gets fast tracked, too.
• Film School Rejects things learned on the Lady Bird commentary by Greta Gerwig
tv
• Awards Daily A look at the upcoming Emmy race for Comedy Series. With Master of None and Veep sitting this year out things are finally wide open
• BuzzFeed Donald Glover writes a mock Deadpool script to shade FX after they cancelled his animated series which already had a straight-to-series order
• Deadline Roseanne's return was a huge ratings win for Broadcast TV, highest rated sitcom in three years
• Variety an interesting piece on Roseanne's politics ... and how they're somewhat separate from Roseanne's.
• Salon also takes Roseanne's massive success as an opportunity to dig into some stats about how confusing people's political beliefs really are (i.e. a lot of people don't fit simply into "liberal" or "conservative" columns)
• The Playlist is wondering if it can break its own Emmy curse --despite the sitcom's massive popular in the 1980s (the #1 show of the late 80s/early 90s) it was never nominated for Best Comedy Series.
• Fast Company a profile of a Netflix tagger -- watching movies and tv as a career
stage
• Playbill Beetlejuice is headed to the musical stage
• Theater Mania First footage from the stage musical version of Pretty Woman starring Steve Kazee (who won his Tony for another film-to-stage adaptation, Once) and Samantha Barks (Eponine in the screen version of Les Miz)
miscellania
• NYT Time magazine is for sale. Here's what else you could buy for the money
• Village Voice excellent essay on gender and the Stormy Daniels / Trump story
• The New Yorker "The Sadness of Ben Affleck" is a must read... but you've probably read it already. We'll give Ben Affleck the last word since he has responded to the article, tweeting:
@NewYorker I’m doing just fine. Thick skin bolstered by garish tattoos.
— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) March 29, 2018
Reader Comments (14)
you missed it! The Americans has returned
Also, the magicians season 3 is finally fulfilling all the promise the show had in season 1 (season 2 huge let down, glad I stayed around for this season).
I actually really didn't like that New Yorker piece on Ben Affleck. It was basically all a recap. Didn't get into much of anything about its apparent theme of the sad male.
I doubt Cameron's retired,she just needs a juicy project to tempt her back,she was so gr8 from 1997 - 2001
I have to admit, I thought ROSEANNE this week was pretty fabulous, Gilbert especially.
An A24 bracket without 20th Century Women? Bench that one.
@Hh! Yes, "The Americans" is back!
Filling me with feelings of dread, anxiety, flickers of hope, and lingering aftershocks.
Cameron needs another Vanilla Sky, Being John Malkovich or The Counselor calibre role again.
Saw the "Pretty Woman" musical last night, and I can confirm that the opening number includes a moment where a dead prostitute is found in a dumpster, and then within 30 seconds the whole cast transitions into a modified Electric Slide routine.
Dave S -- !!!!
I mean, only the dumpster is seen on stage. I give them some credit for admitting that there is some darkness to the premise, less credit for the specific execution of moments like that.
I think Cameron Diaz's retirement is really just a hiatus. She'll be back.
That food fight is awesome. It's a shame Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring because I really think he could excel in comedies. Plus, it looked like he broke away from the method acting and just have some fun.
On the other hand, Nine.
Will "The Front Runner" ever be adapted to film?
Cameron Díaz's decission is wise. She's a great actress that received too much backlash undeservingly but created bad buzz about her that narrowed her options when picking up roles - her salary demands also helped to limit her career to certain kind of films... After "Annie", specifically, she was in a non-end situation and an hiatus or retirement were her only true options... audiences and reviewers were already in disposition to criticize her, beforehand (never a best example than "The Counselor", just read the divisive notes about her performance, calling it "fearless" or insinuating she completely lost direction of her career, to further proof her career was over or needed a certain stop... she was already transitioning from "it girl" to mature woman in her career, in which is more complicated to earn roles that seem limited to a few stars (Bullock, Jolie...) and either she patiently waits for some Tarantino, Haynes or similar to write a role with her in mind to bring her back from retirement - Almodovar, are you reading? - or she can venture into some other directions - writing, directing? just check out Sarah Polley's career - where she can feel comfortable again, without so much media pressure as she's got post-1998. Certainly she's been Oscar worthy many times (Very Bad Things, There's Something About Mary, Vanilla Sky, Being John Malkovich) so talent is out of question. It's a matter of bad choices and bad luck.