I follow Rian Johnson on Twitter (he's a fun follow if you ignore the occasional d-bags that still yell at him in his mentions for ruining Star Wars > 2 years later) and he just posted a photo of the gift he received from Danica McKellar (!) for mentioning her in Knives Out: [link]
That made me smile really wide. I *have* watched some of McKellar's TV movies -- haven't seen any thrillers, but she makes for a plucky and likable rom-com heroine. Also, happy as a clam that both Johnson and Daniel Craig are planning for a second Benoit Blanc movie!
On an unrelated note, NYT has an interview/oral history with the cast and crew on the making of Linklater's Before trilogy, which are some of my favourite films ever made: [link]
Talk about romantic poetry for Gen-Xers everywhere. Trying to imagine Michael Vartan (who was apparently the second choice) as Jesse breaks my brain a little. Who knows if he'd have had the same magical chemistry Hawke had with Delpy? We might not have had the 2nd and 3rd films.
I saw a news item - it may have been originally from The Onion - but seemingly an older, devout Catholic lady had a saint's statue set up in a shrine in her home and she's pray to it. Turns out the saint was Elrond ....
That is beautiful. I didn't see anything in the article about how effective prayers to St. Elrond were. Would he be the saint of fathers whose daughters make unexpected choices?
Isn't that all fathers with daughters?
He could be the patron saint of committees.
I was just browsing a site setting life-size cardboard cutouts of celebrities and came across one of January Jones: [link]
How would you be able to tell they sent you the reproduction rather than the original?
If you're in the mood for ladies punching guys, you could do worse than Birds of Prey.
Finally got everything I need for my Oscar night menu:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood taqueria buffet
Parasite (peach) frozen margaritas
1917 (cherry) margaritas
Irishman ice cream sundaes
I wanted to make sure I hit all the top contenders with my menu and was very happy to see they still made viciously green ice cream (in the form of mint moose tracks and pistachio almond) for the sundaes.
