The Link Boat
Friday, January 7, 2022 at 8:36AM • The Guardian goes on a long stroll with Tilda Swinton and her dogs. She remains a fascinating conundrum
• AV Club Rooney Mara to play Audrey Hepburn in a biopic
• Vogue a profile of Squid Game's key actress Hoyeon Jung
• Cartoon Brew interesting stats piece about the very active European animation industry but the small audiences for the films. Did you know that Russia is second only France in the number of animated films produced (outside of the US/Japan obviously)
More after the jump including Oscar's crowdpleasing trouble, Jonathan Majors, the alliterations of The Lost Daughter, Gal Gadot's Cleopatra, and Zendaya in Valentina...
• MNPP Jonathan Majors for Arena Homme+
• Vox a wise review of The Lost Daughter kicking off with the alliteration of its names "Leda, Elena, Nina, Mina"
• Out lists the trans references in The Matrix Resurrections (ignore the title as most are not hidden "easter eggs" but right there on full display)
• Boy Culture Betty White gets a full cover send-off from People magazine
• Vogue Zendaya just did a 'vintage Linda Evangelista in Valentino' tribute at the Euphoria season 2 premiere
• NYT "Oscars want crowd-pleasers but where are the crowds?"
• /Film Every Downton Abbey season ranked
• NY Post Gal Gadot on her upcoming Cleopatra biopic
• The Film Stage Mitchelle Beaupre's top 10 list: Test Pattern, Worst Person, and more
off cinema for fun
• The Oatmeal a true comic about following strangers/celebrities online
• Daily Writing Tips here's a random piece on slang becoming accepted usage. Turns out there's a five stage process and "turnt" as a pest tense of "turn", a favourite amongst drag queens and the kids as they say, is only at stage one.
Finally
And how about this for the older readers out there, a supercut of all celebrity guests on The Love Boat (1977-1987) who got their own porthole treatment in the credits. We don't really have scripted shows anymore that trade heavily on constant celebrity guessts since practically everything is serialized now rather than stand alone episodic.
It begs the question of what "celebrities" today would get cast in shows like this -- if they existed at all, today. Probably lots of reality TV stars, one-hit wonder singers, and some Oscar nominees of the late 1980s-early 2000s (Brenda Fricker? Rachel Griffiths? Haley Joel Osment). What'cha think?
Reader Comments (10)
Being on The Love Boat was like being in the MCU. Eventually, every actor will be involved.
“Luca Guadagnino will direct the as-yet-untitled film…“
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Sidney Poitier RIP
How many projects is Luca Guadagnino attached to now?
Rooney Mara as Audrey Hepburn is a really interesting choice. Maybe the physical resemblance makes it obvious to others, but I was genuinely surprised to see the casting announcement. It'll be interesting, because she has a reputation of lacking the bubbliness that people associate with Audrey, but I'm so glad she got the role as opposed to someone like Lily Collins (nothing against her, she was great in Mank). I think her performance in Carol is proof enough that she is capable of displaying warmth.
Hi Nathaniel
The link to the NYT article on Oscars isn't working (takes you back to the Peter Dinklage TFE article). Thanks.
I hope Rooney Mara can pull off playing Audrey Hepburn. Much so than that awful TV movie about Hepburn starring Jennifer Love Hewitt who doesn't have the chops nor the look to be Hepburn. Emmy Rossum was also in that film as the young Hepburn and ended up being the only thing in that film worth watching.
I'm sorry, but those Jonathan Majors pictures are *ridiculous*. Who puts him in such silly outfits. Who wears that stuff?!
First and foremost, I don't even think these old Hollywood stars even have enough DRAMATIC material to make their own lives filmable. Like, wtf are we supposed to see in a biopic of Astaire, Kelly, or Hepburn?
Let them rest and make movies about more worthwhile people. Or better yet, make movies out of original screenplays, not adapted from other people's lives.
@Fadhil - Audrey Hepburn had an interesting life. She was part of the Dutch resistance fighting the Nazis in World War II, she almost starved to death during Nazi occupation and had to resort to eating tulip bulbs to survive, her half-brother was sent to German Labour camp while her uncle was executed for resisting the Nazis. She became an overnight star both on stage and film, winning the Oscar with her film debut. She was a prominent spokesperson and face of UNICEF in the later stages of her life, paying forward the foreign aid she received when she was a child.