Since we haven't done a link roundup in too long, here are way too many of them for your clicking pleasure and general infotainment.
Screens
• Cartoon Brew Freshly Oscared Guillermo del Toro is taking active role in Dreamworks Animation going forward
• Vulture "I ate like Olivia Pope for a week, and didn't die" - a hilarious journal/tribute to Scandal in its last season
• NYT a profile of Rachel Weisz. It opens with beauty tips, pregnancy, and lesbian sex and I shuddered thinking we were going to get a deluge of thinkpieces about editors assigning sexist men to write about actresses but we are saved from the thinkpieces because it turns out it's a Maureen O'Dowd article
• Playbill Amazon is launching a new short form series After Forever about a 50something gay couple tomorrow. Lots of theater folks are in it
More after the jump including Michelle Pfeiffer's Janet van Dyne, Isle of Dogs charity mission, Drag Race revelations, auctions of the unwanted (Ghost in the Shell and Weinstein Co), and lots of Avengers and Westworld...
• AV News apparently Michelle Pfeiffer is going to make an appearance in one of the Avengers movies after Ant-Man and the Wasp (!!!). We also learned this week that the plot of the latter is actually about the search for LaPfeiffer so we suspect we'll relate.
• Variety Marvel and the Russo Bros are trying their best to convince fans and critics not to spoil Infinity War for everyone before opening weekend. (I'm seeing it tonight and I don't do spoilers so you're safe with me)
• i09 Marvel's TV universe no longer tries to stay connected to its movies... or to the other shows
• Guardian a tetchy interview with French genius filmmaker Claire Denis
• Deadline 60 potential bidders for the library of the Weinstein Co as the bankrupt company goes to auction. Let's hope someone buys because there's no reason to lose all those films due to rights issues!
• Props A bunch of props from the ill fated Ghost in the Shell movie are also going to auction
• Film School Rejects recommends 15 underseen Canadian films. Remarkably I have seen none of them but it feels very anti-Canadian to not include any David Cronenberg in this list!
Drag
• NewNowNext Tom Holland doesn't know what Drag Race is (so you can all stop dreaming about he and his Instagram bestie being actual secret boyfriends)
• Drag Star Diva interviews artist Chad Sell about his Drag Race illustrations and his new all ages book "The Cardboard Kingdom"
• Decider the case for never bringing Miss Vanjie back to RuPaul's Drag Race
Bonus Video
This sponsored video for HBO's Westworld is amusing/delightful.
More Westworld
• DeviantArt a beautiful painting of Evan Rachel Wood's "Dolores" from Westworld
• AV Club why they made changes to Westworld's hypnotic opening credits
Miscellania
• Crowdrise Isle of Dogs is attempting to save dogs from kill shelters. You can donate for a good cause AND get an entry to win a set of Isle of Dog figures (only 100 sets were made and will not be sold) if you enter by April 30th
• New Yorker fascinating investigation into Japan's "rental family" market
• Pulitzer the 2018 recipients were revealed last week. Kendrick Lamar has gotten the bulk of press attention as the first non classical /non jazz musician to ever win but there's a lot of interesting less discussed stuff here as well
• AV News this is so random but apparently the ancient comic strip "Nancy" has a new writer and internet commenters are up in arms. I read a few weeks of strips after this article. It's such a weird fusion of old timey character and modern jokes.