#Michelle Wasson

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Oscar de la Renta Fall 2005 Ready-to-Wear

[the-empress-7]

Some tea that I’ve found out from family working in the charity gala network in California… apparently Meghan is angling to attend this year’s Baby2Baby gala and Chrissy is vouching for her now.

Baby2Baby Board of Directors: Jessica Alba, Julie Bowen, Maha Dakhil, Michaeline DeJoria, Bianca Levin Goldfein, Emma Grede, Liz Jenkins, Jennifer Meyer, Sabina Nathanson, Kelly Sawyer Patricof, Nicole Richie, Kelly Rowland, Anna Schafer, Dana Settle, Norah Weinstein, Jackie Winnick & Rachel Zoe

Baby2Baby Angels: Amy Adams, Shiri Appleby, Drew Barrymore, Natasha Beck, Kristen Bell, Jordana Brewster, Vanessa Bryant, Joy Cho, Ayesha Curry, Zooey Deschanel, Jenna Dewan, Hilary Duff, Katie Fine Ehrman, Camille Fishel, Sara Foster, Dany Garcia, October Gonzalez, Sarah Hendler, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Misha Hess, Kate Hudson, Mindy Kaling, Kim Kardashian, Ali Kay, Miranda Kerr, Nicole King, Monique Lhuillier, Andrea Lieberman, Chriselle Lim, Lisa Ling, Blake Lively, Lindsey Lucibella, Brooke Mahan, Camila Alves McConaughey, Shay Mitchell, Michelle Monaghan, Keleigh Thomas Morgan, Olivia Munn, Jada Paul, Katy Perry, Busy Philipps, Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Power, Kimberly Reed, Tracy Robbins, Brigette Romanek, Shannon Rotenberg, Zoe Saldaña, Lauren Sánchez, Clea Shearer, Molly Sims, Melanie Staggs, Estee Stanley, Allison Statter, Ali Taekman, Chrissy Teigen, Alba Tull, Chelsea Washington, Kerry Washington, Meredith O’Sullivan Wasson, Kate Phillips Wiczyk, Olivia Wilde, Rayni Williams, Ciara Wilson & Ali Wong

Chrissy vouching for her won’t do much since Chrissy never really recovered from her own cancellation.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (US 2012)

Director: Timur Bekmambetov.

Screenplay: Seth Grahame-Smith, from the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.

Producers: Timur Bekmambetov, Jim Lemley, Tim Burton.

Executive Producers: John J. Kelly, Simon Kinberg, Michelle Wolkoff.

Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel.

Editor: William Hoy.

Original music: Henry Jackman.

Cast: Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln), Dominic Cooper (Henry Sturges_, Anthony Mackie (Will Johnson), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Mary Todd Lincoln), Rufus Sewell (Adam), Marton Csokas (Jack Barts), Jimmi Simpson (Joshua Speed), Joseph Mawle (Thomas Lincoln), Robin McLeavy (Nancy Lincoln), Erin Wasson (Vadoma).

Running time: 105 minutes. Color.

Released through: 20th Century Fox

Movie co-produced by Tim Burton based on the book of the same title written by SETH GRAHAME-SMITH. Grahame-Smith had a hit novel in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (2009), so it is little surprise that the producing team of Jim Lemley, Tim Burton, and TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV optioned “Abaraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” (2010) before it was even finished. Both books tap into a pop cultural desire to think of the familiar in different terms. What if honest Abe had also fought against a worldwide vampire conspiracy? What if Jane Austen’s iconic novel was set in a world replete with the living dead? Over the next few years, both Burton and Bekmambetov directed an adaptation of Grahame-Smith’s screenplay (with Burton remaining as producer). According to Gina McIntyre, Burton’s goal as a producer “has largely been to help preserve the project’s unique character to the greatest extent possible.” During the making of “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, Grahame-Smith worked with Burton on the screenplay to “Dark Shadows”. Both were released in summer 2012.

The principle conceit of “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, established early in the film and explored throughout, is that there are vampires throughout the world. These vampires have been responsible for some of the more unsavory practices in history. In the United States, they are the principal benefactors of the slave trade (it is unclear whether the South is totally under their thrall, but a scene between head vampire Adam [Rufus Sewell] and Jefferson David [John Rothman] shows that they are colluding). In this version of the nineteenth century, the causes of the Civil War are not open to debate: this is a war over slavery- and, by extension, vampirism- that is not over until both are removed from the nation. In fact, rather than grow into the role of abolitionist gradually, our Abraham Lincoln is ideologically righteous from the start. He witnesses the assault on his friend Will, a young slave boy. He vows revenge on Jack Barts (Marton Csokas), a man who he comes to learn is a slaver and a vampire. For Lincoln, Barts is doubly guilty. This vampire bites (and possible r***s) Lincoln’s mother while he watches. When he grows up (the adult version of Abe is played by Benjamin Walker), his desire for vengeance leads him to Henry Sturges (Dominic Cooper), an eccentric and seemingly ageless man who advises Lincoln in a long war against the vampires. Lincoln acts as Sturges’ enforcer, attacking vampires as ordered. Only later does he realize that Sturges is himself a vampire, and is carrying on against Adam and his cabal for personal reasons not unlike Lincoln’s own. In this world, vampires cannot harm other vampires. Abaraham Lincoln must act on Sturges’s behalf.

The film roughly splits into three narrative sections: Lincoln’s childhood and initial trauma; his life as a young man in Springfield, Illinois; and his time as president, including his personal stake in the Civil War. The middle section is the best executed, despite playing like an extended rethinking of John Ford’s “Young Mr. Lincoln” (1939). Here, Abe meets store owner and later political confidant Joshua Speed (Jimmi Simpson), is reunited with Will, courts Mary Todd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), debates Stephen Douglas (Alan Tudyk), and learns about the vampires’ larger set of plans. The sections of Lincoln’s time in office feel especially condensed, since they cover all of the Civil War. One of the film’s major historical liberties is that it sets up the personal and political climax at the battle of Gettysburg, where Union soldiers are fighting against Confederates and their vampire leaders. Lincoln has it out with Adam on a train carrying a supply of silver that is en route to the fashioned into weaponry that can actually harm these supernatural foes.

Although at times overly generic (its focus on some of the more well-known battles and people of the nineteenth century feels lazy, or like a pat on the back to a basic recognition of American history), “Abaraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” reflects Grahame-Smith’s and Bekmambetov’s personal interests. Grahame-Smith’s vampire mythology takes some well-known ideas (the transfer of blood through a bite, the aristocratic associations of vampires) and adds a few different ones (these vampires are able to function during daylight and are mainly impervious to silver, since Judas’ betrayal of Jesus had to do with thirty pieces of silver). The central thematic leap of the film (that the mast-slave relationship, which is founded in the uneven exploitation of one person by another, is analogous to vampirism) is rather clever, and helps explain how these vampires could find a ready supply of blood. However, this alignment between slavers and vampires does undercut the film’s relation to history. As Kim Newman notes, “Slavery was quite bad enough- indeed, worse than it’s depicted here- when it was an economic rather than supernatural phenomenon, and giving slavers fangs and dark glasses tends to excuse rather than underline a real historical human evil.”

This film has a slightly more subdued visual style than “Wanted” (2008), but still plays with a number of Bekmambetov’s favorite tricks. In particular, Bekmambetov takes advantage of digital cinema’s ability to augment time. During fight sequences, Lincoln’s skill as a warrior is rendered intelligible thanks to selected changes in speed, which variously showcase his precision with the ax and convince us of his superior strength and ability. Bekmambetov’s camera frequently moves and keeps the action coherent- it seems to avoid the kind of action-sequence immediacy suggested by shaky, handheld cameras that populate recent action films by Paul Greengrass (”The Bourne Ultimatum” [2007]) and Christopher Nolan (”The Dark Knight” [2008]).

The film opened in late June 2012 in the United States to roughly $16 million and largely negative reviews. Writing for “Wired” magazine’s “Underwire”, Hugh Hart opined that “the alt-history lessons and neck-chomping money shots deserve points for originality, but Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter could have truly triumphed as grand entertainment if only its anemic human characters had received the transfusion of humor and wit that such an outrageous concept demands.” Peter Travers noted that the film somehow lost the magic of the book, which “was a fun escapist read.” The film’s overblown action-theatrics left him saying that “the movie deserves a stake through the heart.” The film was defended by some critics as an occasionally worthwhile and technically competent action movie. For example, Ken Hanke says that “taken on its own terms as a po-faced presentation of goofy material, it’s rather fun.”- Kevin M. Flanagan

References

Ken Hanke, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” Asheville Mountain Express, June 26, 2012, www.mountainx.com/movies/review/abraham_lincoln_vampire_hunter#.Uea0B42siSo; Hugh Hart, “Review: Bloody Serious Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Isn’t as Fun as It Sounds,” Underwire, June 12, 2012, www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/review-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter/; Gina McIntyre, “Seth Grahame-Smith Wants to Resurrect ‘Beetlejuice,’ ‘It’,” LA Times Hero Complex, August 9, 2012, herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/seth-grahame-smith-wants-to-resurrect-beetlejuice-it/#/0; Gina McIntyre, “Tim Burton on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter: I Just Wanted To See That Movie”, LA Times Hero Complex, June 10, 2011, herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/tim-burton-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter/; Kim Newman, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, “ Sight and Sound 22, no. 8 (August 2012): 52; Peter Travers, “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” Rolling Stone, June 21, 2012, www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-20120621. 

Taken from “The Tim Burton Encyclopedia” by Samuel J. Umland.

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Caroline Winberg, Diana Dondoe, Marija Vujovic, Valentina Zelyaeva, Kerstin Mannik, Filippa Hamilton, Morgane Dubled, Jacquetta Wheeler, Liya Kebede, Natasha Poly, Isabeli Fontana, Noot Seear, Laura, Yfke Sturm, Julia Stegner, Michelle Alves, Nataliya Gotsii and Erin Wasson walking in Ralph Lauren's Spring 2005 Ready To Wear Fashion Show in New York City.

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Michelle Wasson - The Huntress, 2021

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CAMPAIGN:  VALENTINO FW 2002 MODELS:JACQUETTA WHEELER, BRIDGET HALL, ERIN WASSON ANOUCK LEPERE, CAROLINE RIBEIRO, KAREN ELSON MICHELLE ALVES, & RAQUEL ZIMMERMANN PHOTOGRAPHER:  STEVEN MEISEL

[fredfilmsblog]

FredFilms promises...

Creators first.

I've always believed that we owe you, our fans and now at FredFilms we all take it as gospel. We owe you our best work, of course. But beyond we examine everything about ourselves constantly, to assure ourselves and you that we’re trying to stay on the right track. To that end, whatever work I’ve done –whether it be in the music business, the network television business, and certainly, cartoons– has been done with making public promises that try and assure you that we’ll deliver.

To that end, I thought it would be good to print out a new set of our limited edition postcards to make the FredFilms promises completely clear. This one’s the first.

As throughout my entire cartoon career, and now at FredFilms, it’s been my  mission to let exceptional creators do their thing. We’re not in the business of micro-managing our creative talent. Instead, we seek out and nurture creators who have a story they need to tell and give them as much room as possible to tell it.. We go to festivals, art schools, comedy clubs, and explore the dustiest corners of the internet to find folks we know we have to work with.

We believe there are new stories to be told. 

We promise.

.....

It might seem extreme, but I thought it might be interesting to list all of the creators that have worked on my productions, starting in 1995 with What A Cartoon! at Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network in 1995. If you look at any of the 140 individual links (!) you’ll see that almost all of them have had estimable careers in cartoons or animation adjacent (comics, video games, VFX and the like). Some have created hit series with me, some without (sigh!) and some have become quite famous. One way or the other, they’ve all been amazing.

Raul Aguirre

Natasha Allegri

Robert Alvarez

Amy Anderson

Tex Avery

Ralph Bakshi

Joe  Barbera

Damien Barchowsky

Charlie Bean

Jerry Beck

D.R. Beitzel

Mike Bell

Tim Biskup

Bob Boyle

Chris “Spike” Brandt

Eric Bryan

Michelle Bryan

David Burd

Bill Burnett

Breehn Burns

Jaime Diaz

Angelo diNallo

Kyle A. Carrozza

Elyse Castro

Tony Cervone

Alison Cowles

David Cowles

Rick Delcarmen

Jeff DeGrandis

Andrew Dickman

John R. Dilworth

Davis Doi

Greg Eagles

Jerry Eisenberg

Warren Ellis

Greg Emison

John Eng

Jun Falkenstein

David Feiss

Eddie Fitzgerald

John Fountain  

Manny Galán

Dana Galin

James Giordano

Alan Goodman

Tom Gran

Mike Gray

Antoine Guilbaud

Bill Hanna

Meinert Hansen

Russ Harris

Butch Hartman

Andy Helm

Adam Henry

Bill Ho

Larry Huber  

Gabe Janisz  

George Johnson  

Don Jurwich

Kang yo-kong

Ken Kessel

Jiwook Kim

Alex Kirwan

Kevin Kolde

Grant Kolton

Erik Knutson

Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy

Diane Kredensor

Harvey Kurtzman  

Juris Lisovs

Seth MacFarlane

Steve Marmel

Miss Kelly Martin

Eugene Mattos

Craig McCracken

Jon McClenahan

John McIntyre

Harry McLaughlin

Dan Meth

Mike Milo

Zac Moncrief

Russell Mooney

Jesse Moynihan

Justin Moynihan

Adam Muto

Andre Nieves

Jeret Ochi

Joe Orrantia

Victor Ortado

Rory Panagotopulos

Paul Parducci

Van Partible

Lincoln Peirce

Jonni Phillips

Jason Plapp

Polygon Pictures

Bill Plympton

Carlos Ramos

Michael Rann

Russ Reiley

Christopher Reineman

Rob Renzetti

G. Brian Reynolds

John Reynolds

John Rice

Bill Riling

Mel Roach

Eric Robles

Mike Rosenthal

Jason Butler Rote

Jim Ryan

Fred Seibert

Seo jun-kyo

Don Shank

David Shute

Brent Sievers

Achiu So

Hamish Steele

Elizabeth Stonecypher

Jennifer Cho Suhr

Genndy Tartakovsky

Doug TenNapel

Aliki Theofilopoulos

Miles Thompson

Karl Toerge

Kate Tsang

Guy Vasilovich

Byron Vaughns

Joel Veitch

Pat Ventura

Anne Walker

Vincent Waller

Pendleton Ward

Dave Wasson

Mike Wellins

Melissa Wolfe

Martin Woolley

Jim Wyatt

Niki Yang

Carey Yost

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FredFilms Postcard Series 2.1

From the postcard back:

Congratulations! You are one of 75 people to receive this limited edition FredFilms postcard!

www.fredfilms.com

A FredFilms promise: Creators first.

FredFilms’ mission is to ‘put the right people in the room.’ By helping extraordinary creators we can produce innovative shows with enduring characters.

We know there a new stories to be told.

Executive producer: Fred Seibert

Series 2.1 [mailed out April 6, 2021]

[mariacallous]

Just finished the Mirror and the Light 😔, what other books do you suggest for this summer of our discontent?

Oh god, I still need to read that.

Depending on if you want something to occasionally distract you from what’s going on (when you need to pause before getting back and dealing with the world) or if you want to lean into the things, and depending on if you want more fiction or nonfiction:

We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Pearlstein

Well Met by Jen DeLuca

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt

Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sharp: The Women Who Made An Art of Having An Opinion by Michelle Dean

To End A War by Richard Holbrooke

Fosse by Sam Wasson

The Plantagenet Trilogy (When Christ And His Saints Slept, Time and Chance, and Devil’s Brood) by Sharon Kay Penman

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic and Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar by Tom Holland

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, and After Henry by Joan Didion

Any Shakespeare play but Richard III, Henry VI Parts 1-3, King Lear, and Much Ado About Nothing in particular

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

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Recently, yesterday (08/20/2020 AD), I found this fantastically animated PC game, John & Ted Mathot’s Creature Crunch (1996), which features amazing artists like...

Dave Wasson (Star vs. the Forces of Evil, The Thing Which Lurked in the Tub, Beany & Cecil)

Carey Yost (The Powerpuff Girls, Uncle Grandpa)

Charlie Bean (The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, The Amazing World of Gumball)

Caesar Martinez (Sym-Bionic Titan)

Chris Savino (Samurai Jack, Grim & Evil, Johnny Test, Dexter’s Laboratory)

@henshincyborg (The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Powerpuff Girls)

Sherm Cohen (Suburban daredevil, Spongebob)

Marc Perry (Johnny Test, Ren & Stimpy)

Tuck Tucker (2 Stupid Dogs, Spongebob)

Shane Glines (Spümcø Comic Book, Batman: The Animated Series)

...you get the picture!

Timing Directors feature Don Judge, Tom Yasumi and Michel Lyman. The digital animation has some limits, but it’s much better than the animation that Cartoon Network Studios projects use these days (you know... tightly-animated beanmouth cartoons).

I found this from a tweet by Justin M. Morgan (shared by the “Spumshot”). I can’t believe that I never knew about this game! I played Lamb Chops Loves Music, Jump Start Preschool/Kindergarten and The Worlds of Billy as a little kid, but this one never came into my sight until August 20th, 2020. The IMDb page for the game was in need of crediting the artists, so I updated that page--I was born to do it, and I did exactly that: I brought these great artists from my Cartoon Network childhood to the attention of people who love great animation/design and games, including obscure ones such as this.

Here’re the closing credits featuring a super talented, Western American/Canadian animation team for a T-rated, 1996, point-and-click PC game.

Tweet version here (Carey Yost liked it!).

Watch the game here (unless you don’t want to spoil it)

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Ralph Lauren Spring 2005 Ready-to-Wear

[keepingupwithlinmanuel]

Lin-Manuel Miranda on ‘Inheriting This Incredible Legacy’ With ‘Mary Poppins Returns’

As with anyone who gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s journey is the result of hard work and inspiration, along with influences and confluences that shaped and continue to shape his life and career.

The writer, composer, lyricist and star of the mega-smash “Hamilton: An American Musical” will be honored Nov. 30 with his own star and has several upcoming projects with roots or connections to his past, beginning in December with Disney’s release of “Mary Poppins Returns.” In the film he plays Jack, a lamplighter and former apprentice of Bert (Dick Van Dyke) from the 1964 “Mary Poppins.”

As far back as he can remember, the original was a staple his parents’ the video collection. “I don’t recall the first time I saw it,” he says. “Because it just lived in our house like furniture, with the other Disney movies.”

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Because each project he commits to will impact those closest to him, he checks in with his wife, Vanessa. “That’s the first and the last answer,” he says. “Because our life is a partnership and when they called about ‘Mary Poppins’ it was coming towards the end of my run in ‘Hamilton.’ It was, ‘Can we do this together, can we bring our child to London for the better part of a year?’ And every decision is like that. Every decision is filtered through how it affects my wife and my two children.”

One of Miranda’s next acting jobs fits nicely with that sentiment. He and his family just spent two months in Wales filming the BBC miniseries “His Dark Materials,” adapted from the series of fantasy adventure novels by Philip Pullman.

The novels are “books that my wife and I read together when we started dating and we both loved,” Miranda says. “That’ll appear on HBO, the end of next year.”

Just as “His Dark Materials” has the connection between the miniseries and the books he and his wife shared a love for, another upcoming project features a connection to an influential theater artist from his formative years, Jonathan Larson. Miranda will direct the film adaptation of a pre-“Rent” Larson play “Tick, Tick … Boom!” for Imagine Entertainment.

“I was a senior in college when ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ opened in New York,” Miranda says. “And it felt like a personal message from Jonathan. It is so specifically about his struggle and his desire for his work to be seen and remembered that it becomes universal, everyone who sees it kind of feels like it’s about them. So when they approached me, I said, ‘Your search is over, I’m the only person who can direct this!’ One of my lifelong dreams has been to direct films, so I’m really looking forward to that.”

Yet another project and yet another discipline finds Miranda as a producer on a eight-part miniseries called “Fosse/Verdon,” starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams as Broadway legends Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Miranda introduced his college friend Sam Wasson, author of the 2013 biography “Fosse,” to “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail, who, along with writer Steve Levinson, created the miniseries.

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Super Short Reviews:  Spring tv part 3:

Fosse / Verdon (FX) – Don’t expect to see a ton of musical theatre here ... while the show is about 2 MT superstars, the focus is on the drama of their relationship, and THANKFULLY all the work that Gwen Verdon did that she never really got proper credit for. I predict an Emmy for Michelle Williams. There was a slight fuss from people over the source material – Sam Wasson’s book – but as the show was overseen by Nicole Fosse I choose to believe its facts are true even if obviously the scenes are heightened for tv drama.

Shadow (Netflix) – South Africa. Well, he’s not a superhero, but due to a lightning strike he can’t feel any pain, so he still walks around with his chest puffed out like a proper vigilante. Episode of the week of save the damsel in distress (at least the first 2 episodes were) is a bit outdated for a premise.  But great to see so many talented SA actors.

White Dragon (Amazon) – UK/ Hong Kong. Hmmmmmmm... It wants to be really good UK dark mystery tv ... but it takes place in Hong Kong where they have very different acting and directing styles. Doctor Who fans will recognise John Simm ... or maybe you saw him in Netflix’s Collateral. If not, watch that instead.

If I Hadn’t Met You (Netflix) – Spain. Get out yer knitting, cuz this is no hurry to get anywhere. Pablo Derqui is wonderful as a man in the grip of the worst kind of grief, who suddenly takes a hard left into the world of alternate universes. Sort of like a really slow not funny Groundhog Day with physics.

The Code (CBS) – Like NCIS but its the Marine Corps. I couldn’t watch more than 20 minutes I was so bored.

Turn Up Charlie (Netflix) – UK. More fun than funny but probably the closest we will ever get to see of Idris Elba’s real life, as he plays a DJ and (sort of) Dad. Nice to see London depicted so colourful and fun!!

Weird City (YouTube) – If Black Mirror was a comedy. No surprise Jordan Peele is involved. Each episode is its own short story / slice of lives in this very weird city. Good laughs, lots of recognizable comedy actors.

Delhi Crime (Netflix) – India. Based on a true Delhi crime case, this is pretty intense. Long drawn out, closed mystery (as long as you don’t look up the real case.) Clearly made for binge watching.

Bless This Mess (ABC) – Who doesn’t love Dax Shepard? Who doesnt hate Lake Bell? But oh ho – imagine my surprise (and delight) to find the role reversal here. Even more delightful? The supporting cast including Ed Begley Jr, Pam Grier, David Koechner, Lennon Parham, and Susie Essman. Thats a heck of an over 40, brilliant, funny supporting cast. BOO YA.

Most Beautiful Thing (Netflix) – Brazil. Desperate housewives rejoice!! Here’s your chance to escape into the world of Rio in the 1950s and follow the impossibly beautiful Maria Cassdevall as she navigates life without a cheating husband or daddy’s money, and follows her dream of opening a music club and drinking all day long. (And perhaps meets a gorgeous musician or two.)

The Widow (Amazon) – UK. Oooooooo a mystery. Kate Beckinsale puts her scowl to good use as a woman who may or may not be a widow, depending on what her husband and several other mysterious characters are up to in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Don’t worry if you don’t like Beckinsale that much, there’s plenty of super talented African actors being showcased, as well as British fan favourites like Alex Kingston.

Osmosis (Netflix) – France. Weird people, cool sci-fi tech, and shady ethical choices. Check it out.

The Red Line (CBS) – I can’t think of a single reason why this show got made. If there was literally nothing else on TV, I would watch nothing.

Special (Netflix) – At 15 minutes an episode you, could watch the entire first season in 2 hours. COULD. Whether you want to will depend on if you find writer / producer / lead actor Ryan O’Connell really sweet & funny or just really sweet. It’s hard to get tone right with disablility... you cant laugh AT the condition, but you need to laugh WITH the character. As a disabled person myself, if this does get a second season I hope he moves more into comedy centered outside of his disability. Cuz he’s funny!!  (and sweet.)

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Margaret Qualley Joins FX's ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Limited Series, As Series Regular Role of Ann Reinking

TheWrap:

FX has rounded out the cast for its upcoming ‘Fosse/Verdon’ limited series, adding Norbert Leo Butz and Margaret Qualley as series regulars. The two join Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams, who will play the title characters Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Qualley will play actress, dancer and choreographer Ann Reinking, while Butz portrays playwright Paddy Chayefsky.

[...] The series is based on Sam Wasson’s ‘Fosse’ biography and tells the story of the singular romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse (Rockwell) and Gwen Verdon (Williams). He was a visionary filmmaker and one of theater’s most influential choreographers and directors, she was the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Together they changed the face of American entertainment – at a perilous cost. FX announced the show will feature Fosse's choreography and explore the hidden corners of show business, the price of pursuing greatness, and the suffering inflicted in the name of art.

[...] Production on the series, which is also officially titled ‘Fosse/Verdon’, is currently underway in New York City ahead of its premiere next spring.

EW:

[...] Margaret Qualley will play Fosse collaborator (and occasional romantic partner) Ann Reinking.

The eight-episode series, which will premiere in spring 2019 and is being showrun by Dear Evan Hansen's Steven Levenson, will feature many other real life icons, including Aya Cash (You’re the Worst) as Joan Simon, Nate Corddry (Mindhunter) as Neil Simon, Bianca Marroquin (In the Heights) as Chita Rivera, Kelli Barrett (Rock of Ages) as Liza Minnelli, Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) as Joel Grey, and Laura Osnes (Cinderella) as Shirley MacLaine.

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New Mexico sees 101% surge in hospitalizations

A sign at the University of New Mexico encourages students to wear a mask. Sam Wasson/Getty Images

The US state of New Mexico is experiencing a 101% increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations so far this month, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a tweet Saturday. 

A total of 173 people are currently hospitalized with the virus in the state, according to the governor. 

On Saturday 577 new…

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A sign at the University of New Mexico encourages students to wear a mask. Sam Wasson/Getty Images

The US state of New Mexico is experiencing a 101% increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations so far this month, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a tweet Saturday. 

A total of 173 people are currently hospitalized with the virus in the state, according to the governor. 

On Saturday 577 new…