Adam B. Vary
@adambvary
Writer, reporter, editor, researcher. Past: Variety, BuzzFeed News, Entertainment Weekly. Aspiring scrutineer. Opinions mine. He/him. Most recent work is here:
Jennifer Lawrence's whole thing is going to awards shows and sitting just off the shoulder of someone (in this case, Bill Hader) holding a mic and making everyone else (in this case, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, and Snoop Dogg) manically laugh. (Also, is that…Roseanne?)
Apparently, after Harrison Ford made everyone manically laugh in his Han Solo costume, he changed into a Stormtrooper costume, during which time Mark Hamill and Ryan Gosling switched seats, and Ana de Armas moved to the front row. Jennifer Lawrence, meanwhile, is still smiling. 1.5M views.
Here's one of Jamie Foxx, seated for a junket interview in an electric blue suit, holding a 12" doll of Barack Obama. To his left, Denzel Washington is manically laughing. To his right, BARACK OBAMA is manically laughing. The video has 3.7 million views.
This is one of Meryl Streep holding a mic at an awards show while Robert DeNiro, Diane Keaton, and Jack Nicholson (again!) laugh maniacally in her row. Behind them (deep breath, from left to right), Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Cher, and Goldie Hawn smile.
This video for "Spider Man Bloopers" (no hyphen) has Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield maniacally laughing on a blue-screen set while Tom Holland swings in with a rip in his Spider-Man suit, exposing his polka-dot underwear.
This one is of Kate Winslet (I think?), Ryan Gosling and Mark Hamill maniacally laughing while Harrison Ford, in his Han Solo costume, holds a mic. Jennifer Lawrence is smiling just off of Ford's shoulder. Nobody thinks these are real, right?
Starting a thread of creepy YouTube thumbnail images made with AI of celebrities maniacally laughing.
I'd bet money there are more actors in this shot from the #AvengersDoomsday trailer, and we'll learn who they are on Saturday during Marvel's Hall H panel at Comic-Con.
Something that will matter only to Los Angeles-based map nerds: LACMA's new David Geffen galleries are not only still missing from Google Maps, but LACMA's old William Pereira building — demolished six years ago — is still used to represent the museum. Apple Maps, meanwhile, are up-to-date.
Even in 1991, at the height of the AIDS crisis, this is a wild thing to say out loud.
I missed this a few days ago from @joereid.bsky.social, on the wildly shortsighted decision to exclude HEATED RIVALRY from the Primetime Emmys. This is like the Grammys excluding Bad Bunny's "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" because it was released by a Puerto Rican label. www.vulture.com/article/heat...
I don't know what it says about me, or the country, that this whole thing feels like an episode of "VEEP." "The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, came tearing across the hallway with two men in tow; his girlfriend was hiding in a room with another man who was holding her hand."
I cannot stop thinking about The Christophers. Spiky and smart and unsentimental and deeply felt and just brilliant.
Hmmm. I wonder if the top story has any relevance to the bottom story. HMMMMMMMMMM.
…on a talk show with a total makeover, including a face lift. So I asked O'Hara how she pulled it off, thinking it must've involved makeup or prosthetics. Instead, in an instant, she contorted her face to look like her skin had been pulled taut by a third rate L.A. surgeon. She was one of a kind.
Here's my Catherine O'Hara story. In 2006, I was covering the Toronto Film Festival for the first time. One of my assignments was the Christopher Guest movie "For Your Consideration…" in which O'Hara plays an actor who lets a whiff of Oscar buzz upend her life. At one point, she appears…
Relatedly, what is going on with the writing credits in the adapted category?