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:

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Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

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?)

"Bill Haders [sic] Impressions are absolutely hilarious!"

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

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.

"Harrison Ford Loves Mark Hamill's Impression of Him"

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

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.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

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.

"Nobody Knows How to Act Around Meryl Streep"

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

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.

"Spider Man Bloopers So Funny They Had to STOP FILMING"

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

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?

The video title: "When Celebrities Couldn't Handle Harrison Ford's BRUTAL Honesty"

It has 1.5 million views.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

I'm seeing these everywhere now. I never click on them.

"Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman's Chemistry Is Unmatched!" with a thumbnail of Jackman, in a tux, interviewing Reynolds, in his Deadpool costume, while seated at an awards show, while Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans laugh maniacally in the row behind them.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 9d

Starting a thread of creepy YouTube thumbnail images made with AI of celebrities maniacally laughing.

"Tom Holland Being Unintentionally Funny for 11 Minutes Straight!" with a thumbnail of Zendaya and Jake Gyllenhaal manically laughing on a talk show couch as Tom Holland perches between them in his Spider-Man costume.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 17d

Update: At least Homer never had bandwidth problems.

Lydia Polgreen's Bluesky post asking "did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash" the London Review of Books' website, and the London Review of Books quickly replying: "Short answer: yes. Our tech team are working on it and we hope to be back to normal soon."

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 22d

It's been fixed.

Anna Konkle, Taegen Burns, Tory Kittles, Brianna Reed, J.J. Nolan and Paul Scheer have been cast in Netflix‘s new comedy series “I Suck at Girls.”

Konkle and Burns will both be series regulars, while Kittles, Reed, Nolan and Scheer will have recurring roles. They join previously announced cast members Kayo Martin, Jeremy Ray Taylor and Laila Pruitt.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 23d

Today in micro-scandals I didn't know were a thing until right now…

Variety headline: 'La La Land' Poster Fixes Ryan Gosling's Flat Hand After 10 Years of the Actor Being Haunted by It

Vulture headline: Put Ryan Gosling's Gay Little Wrist Back

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· 24d

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.

A screenshot from the “Avengers: Doomsday” trailer, featuring, left to right: Bob (Lewis Pullman), hiding in the shadows; US Agent (Wyatt Russell); Red Guardian (David Harbour); Yelena (Florence Pugh); Bucky Barnes’ butt (Sebastian Stan’s butt); Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen); Mr. Fantastic (Pedro Pascal); the Invisible Woman (Vanessa Kirby); the Human Torch (Joseph Quinn); Thing (Ebon Moss-Bachrach’s digital replacement); Ant-Man (Paul Rudd); Captain America (Anthony Mackie); Thor (Chris Hemsworth)

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jun 28

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.

A screen grab from Google Maps of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which still presents as the museum looked prior to the 2020 demolition of the main building designed by William Pereira.

A screen grab from Apple Maps of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which includes the new David Geffen Galleries that replaced the William Pereira building.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jun 14

This site has the juice!

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Adam B. Vary@adambvary· May 7

Even in 1991, at the height of the AIDS crisis, this is a wild thing to say out loud.

Entertainment Weekly story about Alec Baldwin:

Three hours later, the scene wrapped, Baldwin strides through the alley toward his trailer, back again on Disney: ”Jeffrey Katzenberg is a short, bald, uppity, greedy megalomaniac,” he says with a certain relish. And what would he do if he came face-to-face with the man some call the most powerful in Hollywood? ”I will never see him again,” he sniffs. ”I believe God would protect me from that — just like I wouldn’t get AIDS.”

Katzenberg is a bit more restrained: He simply calls Baldwin and Basinger ”a couple of irresponsible actors” and declines to comment on the details of Baldwin’s charges. As for the actor’s vow never to work with Disney again, Katzenberg tells Entertainment Weekly, ”I’ve learned in this business never to say never.”

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· May 4

Meanwhile, Nicholas Hoult…

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· May 2

Something like this happened in Kraven, too. Is this the new ADR?

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Apr 28

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...

“There was never any discussion about a rules change,” says TV Academy president Maury McIntyre, who told me this week that despite a good bit of online speculation, the Emmys never considered making a change to allow Heated Rivalry to compete, nor did anyone approach the TV Academy to request it. According to McIntyre, this is a matter solely for the governing body Heated Rivalry belongs to. “We have three different entities that award the Emmys,” he says. “You’ve got the Television Academy, which does what is formally called the Primetime Emmys. You’ve got our sister, NATAS, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which does Daytime, Sports, News, and Documentary. And then you’ve got the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences that oversees international productions. If you are a strictly international production, there is a competition for you, but it has to be the International competition. And because Heated Rivalry was wholly produced in Canada, it is an international production from our perspective. HBO just kind of picked it up and aired it.”

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Apr 26

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."

From Shawn McCreesh, New York Times White House reporter:

I’m one of the small number of journalists traveling with the White House press pool tonight. We were in a hall just outside the ballroom when the commotion first rang out.

Several things happened in quick succession. Tuxedoed agents pulled out guns and began running toward the ballroom. White-jacketed caterers screamed and bolted for stairwells. Pandemonium reigned as top cabinet officials were evacuated.

Robert Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Cheryl Hines, came out and were ushered into an elevator. Then Jeanine Pirro emerged. 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. Reporters are about to be taken back into the ballroom. The show will go on, apparently.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Apr 16

I cannot stop thinking about The Christophers. Spiky and smart and unsentimental and deeply felt and just brilliant.

Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen in "The Christophers."

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Mar 8

I keep thinking about this moment from The West Wing.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Mar 1

This website has the juice.

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social: Negin is right. These people are monsters, but they are not invulnerable, and neither are their enablers. We must remember this.

@jacky.wtf: Hell of a person to quote but true

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@jacky.wtf: Haha I thought of the guy from The Walking Dead 😭 I am legit embarrassed lol

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Feb 3

Hmmm. I wonder if the top story has any relevance to the bottom story. HMMMMMMMMMM.

The top two stories on the New York Times homepage:

Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance
The Trump administration has lowered the bar for a deal with the university, backtracking on its insistence on a $200 million payment, The Times has learned.

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to 'Nationalize' Elections The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jan 30

…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.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jan 30

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…

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jan 29

This never, ever gets old.

Photograph of the print version of my New York Times story on “Wonder Man,” with the headline “Auditions Are Hard, Even With Powers”

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jan 22

Relatedly, what is going on with the writing credits in the adapted category?

The adapted screenplay category for the Oscars this year includes three different types of writing credit:

Screenplay by
Written for the screen by
Written by

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jan 16

A FILM BY
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

AND MADE FOR
JOE REID
AND PROBABLY SOME OTHER PEOPLE TOO, BUT MAINLY FOR JOE

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jan 7

The Department of Metaphors and Symbolism is working overtime.

Clipping of a story in the Seattle Times with the headline "Bystanders break up brutal fight between bald eagles"

The first three paragraphs, written by Kai Uyehara, read as follows:

Joven Yount had no regrets stepping in to break up a likely territorial fight between two bald eagles, as they lay contorted over each other on the ground in West Seattle's Lincoln Park, one gripping the other's head with its talons.

The talons were piercing the other eagle near its eye and the back of its head, drawing blood, Yount said. He worried that the bleeding eagle might die.

"This was a fight to the death," Yount said.

Adam B. Vary@adambvary· Jan 1

I’ll take it!