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Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny have been cast as the Menendez parents opposite Nicholas Chavez (GH) in his Ryan Murphy miniseries. Some very A-list heft to work with the newbies: https://deadline.com/2024/01/monster-season-2-javier-bardem-chloe-sevigny-1235727311/ First teaser announcing the cast (no footage):

Emma Stone is already doing the “I don’t want this—Lily deserves it” routine that Cate Blanchett did last year when she collected a few of the precursors before Michelle Yeoh ultimately won: I do wonder, though: EEAAO was a juggernaut that got two other acting Oscars and I doubt KOTFM will have the same force.

She had been the last surviving member of the original series’s cast:

I remember reading Tom Shales’s reviews and columns many years ago. A dwindling generation:

Totally agree and I admit I came in with a lot of skepticism. The way the episode came together was beautifully executed, and the “journalist interview” actually managed to be a smart device. It was like a little self-contained movie. I even teared up when Carly and Felicia found the woman who’d been trafficked. (Talk about making a lot out of a minor character!) Makes you wonder what these people can do with more time, thought, budget, and care, as they managed an episode so powerful even within the limitations of the show. I do think GH does tributes to its departed performers well. This was better the Sean/John Reilly tribute, which had a similar feel with the self-contained WSB story with Reilly’s real-life daughter. GH employs these personal touches in these tributes that really resonate deeply. Brighton Hertford looks so much like JZ. She’s beautiful. And a fine actress. Ryan Carnes really nailed it. He’s the real deal as an actor. I wish they’d find a way to keep him, but then you realize that day-to-day GH is absolutely trash. Love him, but his talents would be wasted.

Sir Armas

Robin slapping the ever-loving sh!t out of LW/Carly will always be profoundly satisfying. That looked like it made real contact, haha.

Ross Lynch in his band The Driver Era:

The best of this genre are leaving us so quickly.

I was just coming here to see what people were saying because I saw someone post it on IG. What a sad loss to start 2024.

Reading that breaks my heart and makes me absolutely furious.

R.I.P. David Soul:

All I can focus on is Kelly Monaco’s expression in that SOD photo.

Like Barry Keoghan, he’s kinda jolie laide (pretty/ugly), as the French say. The body is on point, though.

The Bear star Jeremy Allen White for Calvin Klein