• Tom and Lorenzo Jessica Chastain goes full disco queen at the premiere of The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• Out Very sad about this. HBOMax has cancelled the excellent queer series that you aren't watching Genera+ion. We can only hope its ferociously talented leading man Justice Smith gets another role as good soon. Martha Plimpton the shows other MVP is never lacking for work so we don't worry about her
• Forbes why Chris Nolan chose Universal as he leaves his longtime Warner Bros home
Betty Boop, Simu Liu, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Sondheim, The Bodyguard, and more after the jump...
• Australia Men's Health Simu Liu profile and photoshoot
• YouTube Stephen Sondheim on The Late Show -- he's actually writing new music!
• New York Times movie musical star Jane Powell (Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) has died
• THR TBrilliant Emmy nominee Michael K Williams (Lovecraft Country) dead at 54 (this happened while we were in Venice, hence no mention of it on the blog -- how terrible!)
• Cartoon Brew bizarre story about a false myth of the creation of the cartoon character Betty Boop, misinformation that most of the internet now believes. PBS has retracted the story six years later
• NYT Broadway's biggest hits reopened Tuesday and people are pretty emotional about it
• Advocate congratulations to Garret Clayton (King Cobra, The Fosters) who has married his longtime boyfriend. Alicia Silverstone officiated!
• Daily Mail excerpt from a new memoir by the hilarious British actress Miriam Margolyes
• Actors in Scandinavia Finland's 2020 Oscar submission Tove a biopic about a famous children's book author just won the big prizes at the "Jussi Awards"
• /Film The Bodyguard remake is back on at Warner Bros. This seems like a spectacularly bad idea to us. But we can't say it any better than Guy Lodge did. He tweeted...
There is nothing worth remaking in The Bodyguard, a nonsense film from a threadbare script that we remember only because it captured Whitney Houston at the absolute, incandescent supernova zenith of her stardom. You can’t remake Whitney Houston, so why bother? https://t.co/fwvKkRnHNF
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) September 15, 2021