| | | | | | | | Friday, September 8th, 2017 | | | | | | “You can't move mountains by whispering at them."
- Pink
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- Pink
To sign up for this newsletter click here. | | | | | | | | | The Now Over Box Office Draught | After the long, long month of August in which quality wide release movies were hard to come by, Hollywood finally gets back on its feet this weekend. The big story is, of course, It: the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s classic scary clown novel (watch the trailer here). The movie is already a critical hit, and analysts expect it to do bonkers business at the box office. It’s already shattered the ticket presale record for horror movies and, despite being rated R, has wide appeal. It should be noted that underneath the Pennywise clown makeup lies Alexander Skarsgård’s younger brother Bill. Meanwhile, Reese Witherspoon takes a break from her booming television career to star in her latest rom-com Home Again (trailer: here). It’s not exactly a critical darling (but that’s rarely been a rom-com’s duty anyway) but the most intriguing negative commentary we’ve come across is Vulture’s judgement that its previously unknown male star Pico Alexander is “too beautiful.” If anything, this may be the weekend that launches two new delicate movie heartthrobs. | | |  | | | James Franco, as '70s Twins | | The Family Guy Guy in Space | As exciting movies are back, so is television (August was also a rough TV month save for Game of Thrones and Twin Peaks fans). The highlight of the weekend may be The Deuce (Sunday 9pm on HBO), The Wire creator David Simon's take on the dirty, sexy, seediness that was 1970s-era Times Square (trailer, of course, here. Indiewire calls it "an utterly captivating experience." Who would have thought HBO's next big hit would involve James Franco playing twins? That same night Starz's cult time-traveling romance hit Outlander returns for a third season at 8 pm, while Jane Champion's Elisabeth Moss-starring miniseries Top Of the Lake gets a sequel in the form of China Girl, with Nicole Kidman and Gwendolyn Christie in critical roles (9 pm on Sundance). Both Netflix and Amazon return to their dark comedy hits in the form of the animated BoJack Horseman and Tig Notaro's One Mississippi respectively on Friday. The only real stinker of the weekend may be Fox's The Orville (8pm on Fox), Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane's homage to Star Trek that doesn't seem to exist for any other reason besides Seth McFarlane really loving Star Trek. | | | | | | Unsportsmanlike Discussion | For the first time in over 25 years, the U.S. Open has become an all-American affair. At least on the women’s side. All four players who have advanced to last night’s semifinals
were American (that hasn’t happened since 1981). Venus Williams defeated Sloane Stephens, while Madison Keys defeated CoCo Vandeweghe for the the other spot in the finals. All this while the sport's biggest female star (who also happens to be American) is on maternity leave. Not in the semi-finals? Maria Sharapova. Though she did still make headlines on Thursday when word got out that she calls Serena "intimidating" and "much stronger and bigger than you realize watching TV" in her memoir. Twitter was not pleased. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tom Ford is a big fan of TNT’s nail salon-set show Claws. He also loves Rihanna nails. So for his latest show he got the nail artist behind the nails of both, Mei Kawajiri. "It's very '90s, you know?” the artist told us of her work for the runway. | | | | | | | | | | Gatan Matarazzo, 15 (Lil’ Stranger)
Cameron Dallas, 23 (Instagram Guilty Follow)
Wiz Khalifa, 30 (Noted Skinny Pants Enthusiast)
Pink, 38 (Singing Acrobat)
Bernie Sanders, 76 (The Man Who Launched a Million Facebook Arguments)
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