| | | | | | | | | | | | "Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world."
-Diana Vreeland
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-Diana Vreeland
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | Buzzy Directors Making TV Shows | | |  | | La La Land director Damien Chazelle and Moonlight director Barry Jenkins will ever be linked by that fateful Oscars night, but they also have something else in common: after breaking into the ranks of A-List film directors with those projects they’re now heading to the small screen. Jenkins’ televised adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel The Underground Railroad for Amazon has already been announced, but now Chazelle is joining him on the dial (if we can still call it that). He’s working on a series called The Eddy about a club in modern-day Paris. The main characters will of course be the house band (fitting in with Chazelle’s musically-inclined oeuvre) and the club’s owner. British playwright Jack Thorne, fresh off collaborating with J.K. Rowling on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will provide the scripts. Though, the series is still being shopped around, so no word on which channel (or streaming service) will eventually land it. Chazelle and Jenkins join a growing list of television directors venturing into TV. Series projects by David O. Russell, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Jean-Marc Vallée among several others. | | |  | | | TV This Weekend (Speaking Of) | | Movies You Don’t Need to Follow Up On | Of course, looking at the sleight of weekend entertainment options this weekend might explain why filmmakers are looking to make the jump to television. The flicks rolling out to audiences this weekend in cinemas aren’t proving too promising. The Circle, which stars Emma Watson as she takes on an evil tech company led by Tom Hanks, has received lukewarm reviews. We had hoped How To Be A Latin Lover, with its many celebrity cameos, might be dumb fun, but it wasn’t screened for critics (never a good sign). Television might be your better bet. Of course, you can catch up on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Netflix also has two well-reviewed debuts in innovative documentary Casting JonBenet (which explores our obsession with the decades old case by auditioning young girls to play JonBenet Ramsey in dramatic recreations) and the series adaptation of the film Dear White People. And, on Sunday, Starz offers up an ambitious adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel American Gods, which answers the question “What if gods from various ancient mythologies existed and lived in modern America?” The answer makes for a very gritty looking series. | | | | | | | | | Used to be that it was the Disney girls who got all the press for taking on edgier roles and identities. It’s a tradition that starts as least as far back as former Mouseketeer Christina Aguliera’s Striped-era and really hit its apex with Miley’s twerking and Selena and Vanessa in Spring Breakers. It’s kind of a worn-out trope. Now, apparently, it’s the boys’ turn. Former Disney Channel star Ross Lynch plays the titular serial killer in My Friend Dahmer (which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival) and has had to answer questions in just about every interview about what it’s like going from teen idol to playing a notorious murderer (though rarely with a particularly interesting answer). He follows last year’s example of his Teen Beach Movie co-star Garrett Clayton, who went full out by portraying a gay porn star in King Cobra. Then there’s the ongoing case of various Jonas brothers not being afraid to show some skin to promote some sexily-themed songs, and, of course, Zac Efron’s current career of playing parts that require him to strip down—but in a bro-friendly “funny” way (see: this summer’s Baywatch movie, in which apparently Efron in a speedo is a major plot point). All in all, it seems in this post-Spring Breakers world it’s the Mickey Mouse boys’ turn to either take on edgy roles with indie auteurs or appear onscreen in tiny spandex. Sometimes, occasionally, they do both. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modeling requires a lot of sitting around and waiting, and some girls find ways to put that down time to good use. Richie Hines opts to spend it sketching her fellow models while they wait at casting or behind the scenes at show, a hobby she recently talked to W about. | | | | | | | | | | Jessica Alba, 36 (Baby Wipe Mogul)
Penelope Cruz, 43 (Next Season’s Versace)
Bridget Moynahan, 46 (Model Turned Actress)
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