| | | | | | | | | | | | "The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it."
-Doris Day
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-Doris Day
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | Alec Baldwin, Surprising Draw in Trump Country | | |  | | Everyone expected Beauty and the Beast to hold on to the No. 1 spot at the box office for a third week, but surprisingly The Boss Baby edged out the Disney flick by about $1.5 million for the top spot. Yes, the movie where Alec Baldwin basically does his version of the baby from Family Guy for 98 minutes is the highest-grossing flick in the land. How’d that happen? Well, the film did gangbusters in the heartland. That is Trump Country. Odd, considering that Baldwin is not only one of Hollywood’s most prominent anti-Trump voices, and the president himself regularly rails against his SNL impression on Twitter. Apparently though, Trump voters saw no reason to actively boycott and couldn’t pass up the movie despite the fact that, more than most animated movies, his persona is a big part of the appeal. This is sort of good news for anyone who feared that celebrity activism in these times could hurt box office draw. It’s also a nice birthday present for Baldwin, who turns 59 today. | | |  | | Everyone just assumes many women in Hollywood lie about their age, perhaps unfairly. It was an even more prominent practice back in the golden days of Hollywood. Everyone from “the first movie star” Florence Lawrence to Joan Collins fudged their birthdays. Turns out that Doris Day was technically fibbing about her age, too. She just didn’t know it. The screen legend turns 95 today...except up until recently she was planning to turn 93. The actress literally thought she was two years younger until she uncovered a copy of her birth certificate that listed her b-day as April 3rd, 1922. "I've always said that age is just a number," said the actress in a statement. "I have never paid much attention to birthdays, but it's great to finally know how old I really am." The Week points out that Day is good friends with Betty White and used to like to tease her for being a few years older, but as it turns out they’re really just a few months apart. | | A Second Season For Big Little Lies? | | | | | After an all too brief seven weeks being our favorite thing on television, Big Little Lies wrapped up Sunday night, and, yes, here’s where we’ll drop a spoiler warning. After finding out that things were somehow so much worse that we even could have expected, the show wrapped up with the five main women witnessing the death of the one character who deserved it. Bonnie, a character you can be excused for previously not liking too much, emerged as our surprise heroine. In any event, the show was certainly a treat for anyone who appreciates five strong actresses banding together on a single project, and all with meaty roles. Alas, it was a limited series, and there’s no sequel to the book it was based on, so we won’t get another go. Or won’t we? In a recent interview with Vanity Fair (given while she was on vacation with Reese Witherspoon), Laura Dern was asked if she plans to work with Witherspoon again anytime soon. “People are asking us a lot if there is room for a Season 2 of this, and I know there is a lot of discussion, so. . . whatever it is, we will come up with something really fun for sure,” she said. We certainly hope she’s not teasing us. Unfortunately we’re not sure how’d they’d do a second season...perhaps they can go the anthology route and reunite the same basic cast as new characters? Hey, if Ryan Murphy can figure it out, we’re sure that the show’s writer and producer David E. Kelley can too (maybe he can even convince his wife Michelle Pfeiffer to join in next time). Something else to keep in mind: Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman have already optioned novelist Liane Moriarty’s unconnected followup Truly Madly Guilty. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you haven’t seen Dern and Witherspoon drinking bottles of white wine of their joint vacation yet, well, now you have. You’re welcome. | | | | | | | | | | Paris Jackson, 19 (Princess of Pop) Adam Scott, 44 (Ed. Sweet, Sweet, Well-Meaning Ed) Eddie Murphy, 55 (Spice Girl Baby Daddy)
Alec Baldwin, 59 (Currently Renowned for Playing Overgrown Babies) Doris Day, 93 95 (RomCom Icon) | | | | | | | |
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