Would you rather...?

It's been ages since we played our favorite time wasting game of imaginary hang outs with celebrities. So let's do it. 

So would you rather

...have a kickbox with Vincent Rodriguez?
...play hood ornaments w/ Billy Magnussen?
...fly the friendly skies with Luca, Armie, and Timothée?
...do an accessories check with Nicole Kidman?
...make it a trio at Sundance with Maggie Gyllenhaal & Martha Wainwright?
...visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland with Lewis Tan?
...enjoy millinery with Juliette Lewis?
...study up on "self care for the real world" with director Sam Taylor-Johnson?
...interior decorate with Sarah Michelle Gellar?
...fight insomnia with Tom Holland?
...or do a little risky DIY cat grooming with Kat Dennings?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide...

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Q&A: The Force is With Reader Questions

by Nathaniel R

I got a little verbosely carried away whilst answering reader questions so you get two Q & A columns from your last batch of questions. Thanks for playing. This week I asked for a few Star Wars Questions but that's just three of the six questions answered here. Ready, let's go! 

TROY: Within the past year Cynthia Erivo has won a Tony, Grammy, and Daytime Emmy for her work in the recent Broadway revival of The Color Purple, making her only one step away from completing the EGOT. Which type of project do you think would giver her her best chance at winning an Oscar?

NATHANIEL: I hate to get nitpicky but technically should Daytime Emmys even count with the EGOT? If you count any old Emmy as towards the EGOT than about 100,000 people you've never heard of who have local Emmies (seriously they give those statues out like candy) are 1/4th of the way to that showbiz goal. It's only Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Lopez, and their fans that would argue that Daytime Emmys count. No shade!

Anyway my dream for Erivo is that they give her either the film version of The Color Purple musical, though I fear they'd just hand it to a bigger less worthy star (like, oh, Jennifer Hudson, who she and Danielle Brooks, the other Tony nominee from that show, both ran circles around onstage) or a film version of Caroline or Change (if they won't rehire the incredible Tonya Pinkins) as those two roles are powerhouse vehicles for a black woman with giant pipes. But any musical role would be dreamy. That voice!

 PEDRO: What is your favorite Star Wars character? And your favorite Star Wars actor?

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Happy 50th to director Sam Taylor-Johnson

This is how her husband, Golden Globe winning actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals) celebrated on Instagram. "Awwwww," and also "oh!"

Happy Birthday 🎈 @samtaylorjohnson ..forever in my ❤️

A post shared by Aaron Taylor-Johnson (@aarontaylorjohnson) on Mar 4, 2017 at 3:14pm PST

If you're wondering what Sam has been up to, besides inspiring Aaron, she's working on the forthcoming Netflix series Gypsy which will star Naomi Watts as a therapist who gets too involved with her client's lives. 

Tweets o' the Week Like Buttah

I've been struggling for inspiration today which is a good reason to clear my head via the dispensing of a whole lot of randomness. And by randomness I mean, compilation lists.

We have so many Oscar races to discuss and a few more interviews and I don't know what's keeping me but until the next post, please to enjoy these marvelous tweets from the week that was, divided into helpful subcategories for your skimming pleasure. These are the only posts you are allowed to skim. Otherwise you should read. Reading is fundamental.

RANDOMNESS

Jupiter Ascending: I found 90% of it incomprehensible but the other 10% seemed to be a sci-fi remake of Maid In Manhattan.

— James King (@jameskingmovies) February 3, 2015

Still think someone should make a narrative film from @MarkHarrisNYC's Pictures at a Revolution. Whoever plays Rex Harrison wins the Oscar.

— Kristopher Tapley (@kristapley) February 10, 2015

 Streisand! Kidman! Beyoncé! Grammys! 
and more after the jump 

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Yes No Maybe So, Eros: "Miss Julie" & "50 Shades of Grey"

It's a steamy class-conscious double-feature edition of Yes No Maybe So today with the recent debuts of two adult-oriented "nasty thoughts" dramas. They're both directed by women which is an unexpected plus from the complete rarity of it and oh my god I never want to type that sentence again because it's so infinitely gross that it's being typed in 2014. First we have iconic actress turned director Liv Ullman's adaptation of Strindbergh's classic Miss Julie about a cross-class dalliance between a lady (Jessica Chastain) and a servant (Colin Farrell) and then we have rising director Sam Taylor-Wood turned Sam Taylor-Johnson*'s adaptation of the not-classic best-seller 50 Shades of Grey which is also a cross-class dalliance between a fledgling reporter (Dakota Johnson, spawn of Melanie & Don) and a billionaire  (Jamie Dornan, who has already spawned thank god because those genes must not go to waste!). 

Which of these movies do you most want to have sex with right now?

Don't be shy.

Let's get to the YNMS breakdown starting with Miss Julie. There is so much more after the jump... I'm longwinded today.

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