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I so agree. Both him and Woody Allen. I’d guess Sony is having buyer’s remorse for taking Tarantino on.

Uma Thurman breaks her silence, and interestingly the major villain of the story is... Quentin Tarantino. And she brought receipts. I wonder if this kills his career.

I saw that on the news. That was very funny indeed. It seems like every news outlet is doing a variation on the “Clutch the pearls, Justin Timberlake is WHITE, y’all” story, and I’m finding it all very lazy and not particularly interesting or nuanced. See Vox for an egregious example: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/2/2/16947136/justin-timberlake-man-of-the-woods-white-masculinity?utm_campaign=vox.social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

I started listening to the album last night and was a little bored. I’ll give it a few more spins because sometimes it does take time for an album to sink in.

Alex Winter, known from the Bill & Ted films with Keanu Reeves, reveals he was sexually abused as a child star in the ‘70s: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-ted-star-alex-winter-says-he-was-sexually-abused-as-a-child-star-1081204

The Pitchfork review really hammers the album. A 3.8. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/justin-timberlake-man-of-the-woods/ EDIT: Just finished the review. It is savage.

Counting down the hours...

My first CD, Green Day’s Dookie, was released 24 years ago today. Man.

I don’t think they’d find many takers for 7,000 to 12,000 episodes of series that would still need to be reviewed for rights, digitized, edited, and tagged. (Even a long series like Gunsmoke had fewer than 650 episodes in its entire 20-year run, which wouldn’t have covered three years of a daytime drama.) The big streamers like Netflix and Hulu don’t have a ton of interest in classic content of any kind (old films, TV shows - this article explains why, and it rings true to my experience), much less something as culturally frowned-upon as daytime soaps, so they’d need to figure out some kind of niche service à la Britbox for British classics or Filmstruck for arthouse/Criterion films. It just sounds like a lot of work with not very much return on the investment. Reboots sound more plausible, but I think they’d go for something that skewed younger/hipper than the P&G soaps (like AMC) or has a longtime cult audience like Dark Shadows.

Charlie Walk, president of Republic Records, has been fired from his judging role alongside Meghan Trainor, DJ Khaled, and Diddy on the Fox talent-competition series “The Four” in light of sexual misconduct allegations: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/charlie-walk-fired-from-the-four-on-leave-at-republic-w516196

Reviews are coming in, and they are... begrudgingly positive to mixed.

I saw that. Lady doesn’t age.

ALIVE AND KICKIIIIIING...

Just a bit of Eric Steinberg (Ji Min, Y&R) and others:

The Hollywood Reporter is pointing out all the male hip hop and R&B artists who didn’t wear white roses at the Grammys in solidarity with the #metoo movement. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rick-ross-big-sean-dont-wear-white-roses-at-grammys-1079330?facebook_2018128

Yikes, Alec Baldwin mounts an even stronger defense of Woody Allen, maligns Dylan Farrow: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alec-bladwin-compares-dylan-farrow-character-who-lied-her-rape-kill-a-mockingbird-1079172

I missed this article from last year, and its conclusions aren’t exactly surprising, but the median age of all viewers of men’s tennis is now above 60, only surpassed by PGA golf among the major sports. WTA tennis skews slightly younger at 55 median age. (NHL viewers are aging the quickliest while the NBA has maintained its youthful demo over the past 18 years.) http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2017/06/05/Research-and-Ratings/Viewership-trends.aspx?

The writers at SNL watch a LOT of Real Housewives, clearly:

Watched the XTC documentary on Showtime and now obsessed.