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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein Will Make Us All Be Nice About Hairspray Live! by Jackson McHenry

It's going to be awfully hard to snark about the nicest kids in town, though Twitter will surely find a way to try. Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein will headline Hairspray Live!, NBC's …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:11AM
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Lean in Close and Meryl Streep Will Tell You About the Role She Didn’t Get Quite Right by Jackson McHenry

Do you hear the sound whispering the wind, a fundamental imbalance creeping into the universe? Meryl Streep has a performance she's not totally proud of. Yes, really truly, it is possible th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:31PM
Friday, April 15, 2016

Sam Mendes Set to Direct Gay Talese’s The Voyeur’s Motel by Jackson McHenry

Gay Talese has a (stone) cold (deal). Dreamworks has bought the rights to Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel, which is set be directed by American Beauty and Skyfall's Sam Mendes and produced b…

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:49PM
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Watching Anna Camp and Jane Krakowski Argue in This Kimmy Schmidt Teaser Is as Fun as Sipping Riesling in a Park on a Tuesday by Jackson McHenry

In a spiritual sequel to the Manhattan housewives' fight club on 30 Rock, Tina Fey has added Anna Camp as a sparring partner for Jane Krakowski in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's second sea…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:21PM

Jennifer Lopez Gave Dance Lessons to Kerry Washington, Who Clearly Needs to Do a Scandal Musical Episode Now by Jackson McHenry

So it turns out that "Jennifer," Kerry Washington's substitute dance teacher from the Bronx, went off to Hollywood to appear on In Living Color and eventually become casual texting f…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:21PM
Monday, April 4, 2016

Judi Dench Has More Olivier Awards Than You Do, Unless You Are Judi Dench, in Which Case, Congrats! by Jackson McHenry

Judi Dench now has enough Olivier awards to hold a respectable tea party of metal Laurence Oliviers, if that's what she decides she wants to with her trophies. Dench won a record eighth Oliv…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:08AM

Oscar Isaac to Star in Off Broadway Hamlet as the Prince of Dayum!-mark by Jackson McHenry

Faced with that eternal question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to play the Stars and Wars to outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of theater critics and perform Ham…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:08AM
Friday, April 1, 2016

Cirque Du Soleil Is Suing Justin Timberlake, Singer, Actor, Enemy of the Sun by Jackson McHenry

Word to the wise: When you're bringing sexy back, make sure that you reimburse its previous owners properly. Cirque du Soleil, which, yes, released an album called Quidam in 1997, is suing J…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:35AM
Sunday, March 20, 2016

All the Way Trailer: Bryan Cranston’s LBJ Is Your Latest, Jowliest TV President by Jackson McHenry

After winning a Tony for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way on Broadway, Bryan Cranston is back in all that jowly makeup to bring LBJ to HBO. Anthony Mackie co-stars as M…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:13PM
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Elmo Joins George Washington to Sing Hamilton, as Educational Shows for Young and Old Collide by Jackson McHenry

Surface of the sun-level hot take: Hamilton is Sesame Street for those who have taken AP US History. Okay, maybe that's too far, because Sesame Street is also for pe…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:16PM

Jimmy Fallon Covers Hamilton’s ‘You’ll Be Back’ With a Variety of Impressions; Yes, of Course He Does Springsteen by Jackson McHenry

Today's Digital Ham4Ham pop quiz: Does Jimmy Fallon actually know all the words to "You'll Be Back" or is he covering with funny voices? Show your work. ... More »

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:16PM

Derek Hough Will Be Your New Gene Kelly in Broadway’s Singin’ in the Rain by Jackson McHenry

Soon enough, the Hough siblings will be in all the stuff. Dancing With the Stars vet Derek Hough, whose sister recently starred in Fox's Grease: Live, is going to be Broadway's new Gene Kell…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:07PM

Rob Gronkowski Is Getting a Kids Show, Which Won't Be Called The Rob Gronkowski Super Awesome Musical Explosion Show, But Should Be by Jackson McHenry

Patriots tight end, guttural noise, and subject of erotica Rob "Gronk" Gronkowski is getting a kids show on Nickelodeon. The network announced today that Gronk will host Crashletes, …

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:05PM

Did You Want a Musical Version of The Revenant That’s Also a Love Story? Boy Oh Boy, Is James Corden Here for You by Jackson McHenry

Will the help of Martin Short and Will Arnett, James Corden is here to turn some of your favorite brutal and masculine movies into musicals — and also into love stories. It's a bit like a …

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:05PM
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Keira Knightley is in Talks to Be Barbra Streisand’s Catherine the Great by Jackson McHenry

"That's the thing about corsets," Keira Knightley mumbles to her agent. "Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in." Knightley, who recently appeared as 19th …

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:20AM
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Sutton Foster Joins the Gilmore Girls Revival, Because Netflix Has Apparently Decided to Bring Back Bunheads Too by Jackson McHenry

Sutton Foster, who basically played a mirror universe Lorelai Gilmore on Amy Sherman-Palladino's late, lamented Bunheads, has joined the cast of Netflix's Gilmore Girls revival. Foster'…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:34AM
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Christina Milian to Dip It Low, Play It Slow As Magenta in Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show by Jackson McHenry

How low can you dip it, and how slow can you play it, in a French maid uniform? Singer, actress, and Dancing With the Stars contestant Christina Milian will answer that very specific qu…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:14AM
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Grease: Live Recruits the Film's Original Frenchy and Doody for Cameo Appearances by Jackson McHenry

Sunday's performance of Grease: Live will have everything: A live studio audience, Boyz II Men, High School Musical's Vanessa Hudgens, pop sensation Carly Rae Jepsen, and now,…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:05PM
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Neil Patrick Harris Is in Talks to Play Count Olaf in Netflix’s Series of Unfortunate — Wait for It — Events by Jackson McHenry

Neil Patrick Harris — actor, magician, probably not evil — might just play Count Olaf, the actor, con artist, and villain in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Lemony Sniket’s…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:10PM
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Megan Mullally Will Hopefully Go All Tammy 2 on James Franco and Bryan Cranston in Why Him by Jackson McHenry

In what might seem like run of the mill entertainment news, a talented comedic actress has taken the role of the wife in a comedy centered on a competition between two men. The film in quest…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:39AM
Sunday, January 3, 2016

Pitch Perfect's Anna Camp and Skyler Astin Are Engaged, News They Sadly Did Not Announce Through Song by Jackson McHenry

[Blows into pitch pipe] Okay, we're about here. You, go up a third. You, over there, hold the fifth. You, reach for that seventh...  And a one, two, three: Mazel tov! Pitch Perfect…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:17PM
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Stephen Colbert Used Some of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Precious Time to Do a Song About a Different Founding Father by Jackson McHenry

Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is busier than George R.R. Martin, but somehow more productive, stopped by The Late Show last night to gab it up with Stephen Colbert and to try out a sample of …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:35AM
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Stabbing at Art Basel Miami Beach Mistaken for Performance Art by Jackson McHenry

A fight between two women patrons at Art Basel Miami Beach last night escalated when one of them pulled an X-Acto knife and stabbed the other in the arms and neck, The Miami Herald Reports. …

SOURCE: Vulture at 02:36PM
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Daniel Radcliffe: Excited for That Harry Potter Play, Jealous of Eddie Redmayne, Careful About Where He Masturbates — Just Like Us! by Jackson McHenry

After retiring from playing Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe is really excited to watch the next schmuck who signs up to take on the iconic role in J.K. Rowling's planned sort-of-not-really se…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:21PM
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

If Status in The Wiz Live! Is Determined by the Amount of Glitter on Your Person, Then Uzo Aduba Is Winning by Jackson McHenry

After releasing a trailer for the three-hour spectacular that is The Wiz Live!, NBC has released a few promo shots of its stars. Let us pore over them in preparation for the event.Uzo A…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:22AM
Friday, November 13, 2015

Charlie Kaufman’s Big Musical Could Still Happen if You Like Surreal Comedy and Have a Ton of Money by Jackson McHenry

Charlie Kaufman's stop-motion film Anomalisa has earned glowing reviews on the festival circuit this year, but its release also marks the first time the writer-director's name has been in th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 06:40AM
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Larry David Played Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live Again, Because He Listens to the Will of the People by Jackson McHenry

The American people might have thought that Bernie Sanders’ campaign was a one-debate-and-done deal, but whaddaya know, after his strong showing in SNL's last democratic debate the polls c…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:27PM
Saturday, November 7, 2015

In a Modern-Day Take on the Duel, Lin-Manuel Miranda Freestyle Battled on Fallon by Jackson McHenry

On Fallon last night, Lin-Manuel Miranda, reigning king democratically-elected representative of Broadway geeks everywhere, dueled took on The Roots’ Tariq Trotter in a contest for the ver…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:37PM

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