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Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 10:31AM • NYT Which Cannes films and performances will factor into the Oscar race. Kyle Buchanan thinks Parasite and Pain & Glory are the biggest foreign threats but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the big one.
• Hugh Jackman singing Happy Birthday to Sir Ian McKellen with a whole staidum backing him. Awesome
• Variety Owen Gleiberman surveys his Cannes experience and how well the movies filled the big screen
• Variety Chris Hemsworth is the coverboy at the moment so here's the big profile
• The Sheila Variations on Joseph Cotten's active listening in Gaslight (1944)
• Variety so far Netflix is the only studio to speak out on Georgia's attack on abortion rights which could threaten the massive amount of filmmaking that goes on in that state.
• Out for a blu-ray release of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, John Leguizamo is talking about his character Chi Chi Rodriguez
• Town & Country we missed this news during Cannes but congrats to Jennifer Lawrence who is now engaged
• IndieWire surveys critics on the best movies that played at Cannes. Parasite comes out on top just as it did with the jury, but Portrait of a Lady on Fire (which only took Screenplay at Cannes) was the runner up.
• Variety more Cannes prizes. FIPRESCI chooses The Lighthouse (from the director of The VVitch)
• /Film a piece on Quentin Tarantino's female characters in light of a tense moment at Cannes when he was asked about Margot Robbie's lack of dialogue in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Tony Season
• NYT fun piece on "mysteries" of this Broadway season including how tall is the tall man in Hadestown, how does Santino Fontana sing like a woman in Tootsie, and how does one do partner dances while in a wheelchair? As for that 'tall man' in Hadestown. We first noticed him in Frozen and we ran into him on the subway over the weekend and he was as sweet and gorgeous as can be while towering over us.
• ... Timothy Hughes is his name and you can follow him on Instagram
• Stagecraft Rosemary Harris will get a lifetime achievement at this year's Tony Awards. But her previous Tony has a typo on it!
• Playbill Wesley Taylor (Smash) who recently won the Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Male Dancer is engaged to marry Isaac Powell (last seen in Spongebob Squarepants)
• Playbill Fresh out of high school, Renée Rapp, who won this year's Jimmy Award (that's the highest honor for High School students in musical theater) is stepping into the role of Regina George in Mean Girls for her Broadway debut this summer.
And look here's a video about Dianne Wiest's latest play Off Broadway. It's a monologue play from Samuel Beckett
Reader Comments (7)
Perfect timing! Just saw Hadestown last night and couldn’t keep my eyes off the “tall man.” Yum.
(As an aside, a good 10% of my audience let out an audible gasp during the dramatic climax of the show. They were clearly shocked at what happens to Orpheus. Do people really not know the classics anymore?!)
Owen Gleiberman sucks ass.
I am sorry that for living in a state of dumb-fucks.
While I like the raw honesty of the writing in that Tarantino's Females piece, I must also argue that Alabama in True Romance is one of the worst written, least believable characters in cinema history.
Even the glorious Patricia Arquette can't find a through-line to make her real or suspend disbelief...
I kinda love John Leguizamo for his take on a drag queen,
I would have nominated Leguizamo
John is genius in To Wong Foo the "More legs than a bucket of chicken" is my favourite line in the film.
Dianne Weist looks just like Renee Zellweger in that footage—they should play mother and daughter! Similar voices, too.