The Monday Edition - Jan 28, 2019
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News, 2020 Presidential election

Absolutely No One Wants Starbucks’ Howard Schultz to Run for President

Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks during Starbucks annual shareholders meeting
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is reportedly preparing to enter the 2020 presidential race as an Independent candidate, and pretty much everyone agrees that's an absolutely terrible idea.
TV, Rent, Rent Live

Rent Live Wasn’t Live and “Your Eyes” Is Still Terrible

There is a reason that Broadway has understudies, and Rent Live is the perfect example as to why. During the dress rehearsal, Brennin Hunt (who was the production's Roger Davis) broke his foot. And because there was no understudy in place, the big "live" show wasn't exactly live.
TV, Chris Pine, i am the night, Patty Jenkins

Review: Chris Pine Steals the Show In Uneven I Am the Night

Chris Pine stars as Jay Singletary in TNT's I Am The Night.
Nothing quite unsettles a critic like not knowing how to write up a film or series.
Movies, representation, The Craft

The Craft’s Rachel True Gets Real About Racist Convention Bullshit

Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, and Rachel True in The Craft (1996)
One the weekend actress, Rachel True brought up in a Tweet, that turned into a quite informative thread, that conventions were booking her fellow The Craft co-stars, Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, and Neve Campbell, but leaving her out.
Big on the Internet, Broadway, musicals

Hadestown: A Myth Perfectly Updated for the Modern World

Hadestown musical title art of a hand holding a flower.
Details may vary, but all variants of the story end the same way: Orpheus is allowed to lead Eurydice back to the living world only if he does not look behind him—a rule he breaks. What hopeful story can be found in such a downer tale like that? Anais Mitchell, Vermont-based songwriter and singer, found the answer to that in the soon-to-be-Broadway musical Hadestown.
Big on the Internet, female directors, Tessa Thompson, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Tessa Thompson, J.J. Abrams and More Sign on for the 4% Challenge

Tessa Thompson attends the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California.
Change is in the air at the Sundance Film Festival, where a bold new pledge is quickly picking up steam.
Big on the Internet, infinity stones, Thanos, Twitter meme

Twitter Users Reveal Their Inner Thanos With the #IdUseTheInfinityStonesTo Hashtag

Marvel confirms Soul Stone power
What would you do with your very own Infinity Gauntlet?
TV, Chronicles of Narnia, James McAvoy, snl

SNL and James McAvoy Know All About Our Mr. Tumnus Thirst

james mcavoy narnia
“Let me guess. It was my non-threatening masculinity. I’m sort-of jacked but still in a little bit of a British way.”
Big on the Internet, Chris Evans, dogs, things we saw today

Things We Saw Today: Chris Evans Narrates an IMAX Film About Superhero Dogs

chris evans
The world may be on fire, but there's still plenty of good things left to cheer us up. Namely, Chris Evans and very good puppers.
Movies, Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, Sundance Film Festival

Mindy Kaling Sells Her Female-Fronted Comedy Late Night at Sundance for a Record $13 Million

late night sundance
A workplace comedy that deals with diversity anchored by two talented female leads with a female director? It's like someone broke into our dream journal and made a movie based on everything we want to see.
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