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--- Damned If Ya Dandy - As we said earlier today whilst celebrating Evan Peters' birthday, the finale of American Horror Story Freak Show airs tomorrow night (let's hope we get just a little more more Dandy Bum for
god's sake!) and so thoughts necessarily turn to the setting for the
fifth season; don't they usually give some hints where things are going
next year towards the end of each season? In this interview with FX's head honcho
it sounds like it will be set in modern day, and I believe we already
know they're filming it in Santa Fe, so what does that equal? No idea. But they need to pay Finn Wittrock whatever he asks for.
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Capital Punishment - I'm not even close to being on Team Theater Owners, they have allowed
the experience of movie-going to get royally fucked, but it always
seemed silly to me to pretend that it was Sony's plan all along to
bungle the release of The Interview, for the PR or whatever -
that they were clearly going to lose a ton of money releasing it on VOD,
no matter how well it did. And I thought the movie was funny when I saw it early, so the thinking that it was going to flop didn't sit with me either. Anyway Theater Owners are doubling-down on the VOD route having been a disaster for Sony and while I'm loathe to agree with them I do think they clearly, obviously lost money.
--- Good Jobs - So Danny Boyle started shooting his Steve Jobs movie over the weekend in Jobs' actual hometown outside of San Francisco, and Slash shares a sorta humorous local news-crew's story on the shoot - you can't see anybody of import, no Michael Fassbender, no Kate Winslet, but the news-anchor says she has no idea who Michael Fassbender is! Somebody spam her work-email with this picture, stat.
--- International Undead - It sounds like screenwriter Steven Knight might be stepping back to Max Brooks' terrific multi-POV book World War Z for the film's sequel; the original movie with Brad Pitt was decent, especially considering the mess it was thought to be before release with all the re-shoots, but it didn't really end up having anything to do with Brooks' book in the end.
--- Big Wig - I'm seeing John Cameron Mitchell do Hedwig in two days and I wouldn't be more excited if Jake Gyllenhaal were in my pants right now. (Okay okay I over-state things.) The New York Times interviewed JCM about the show (thanks Mac) and sure enough even a couple of paragraphs in you can already tell how
much more resonant an experience it is for him than I ever got off of
Neil Patrick Harris, who clearly saw it (correctly, too!) as his route
to Tony gold.
--- Forever Moore - As long as all goes according to plan at this year's Oscar ceremony one of the most over-due of all actors, Julianne Moore, will finally have a little golden man to call her own. She should have like four or five of those things by now, which is made evident by this Top Ten list of her greatest performances at The Film Experience - ask me five minutes apart and I'd totally rearrange my own list, so stuffed with greatness is her work. How do you even begin to choose between Amber Waves and Cathy Whitaker and Carol White?
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Julianne Moore can do no wrong. I've been following her career ever since she played Frannie and her lookalike cousin Sabrina on "As The World Turns." But out of her too-many-to-count awesome performances in the nearly 30 years since her start in soaps, my fave remains Carol in "Safe," so I was happily astonished to see this top the list, since it's one of those films that flies under the radar of so many, it seems -- a sublime, post-modern "body horror" film as psychologically rich and deep as anything else I can think of that's ever been committed to film.
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