ABOVE: Happy 93rd to gay-adjacent Mitzi Gaynor! This number never fails to make me laugh. I love it.
BELOW: Keep reading for twerking, marriage, movies bombing and more ...
Goodbye, cruel tworld! (GIF via GIPHY)
OUT: Thiago Pantaleão said goodbye to Twitter — it's banned in Brazil thanks to Elon Musk's authoritarian-friendly ways — with a flurry of twerking. Lil Nas X noticed.
VOGUE: Ben Platt & Noah Galvin are married.
CNN: Georgia, a potential swing state, is the site of a new school shooting.
THE GUARDIAN: Kamala Harris leads Trump in most swing states, or is tied. But the race is a coin toss, and that is exactly how we need to view it for the next 60 days.
I've read some colums trying to say "Reagan" defied expectations, but it clearly tanked and has an "SNL"-parody-level trailer. pic.twitter.com/lU0wVN5VVK
— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) September 4, 2024
NEWSWEEK: Reagan earned under $10M its opening weekend and is likely to sink without a trace (Labor Day uptick aside). It looks abysmally acted by Quaid, whose ... performance? ... is laughable in the trailer. BTW, pretending critics are negative about it because they're lefist doesn't really explain The Iron Lady or Bombshell doing well with critics.
EXTRATV: Anna Delvey — famous only as a heartless, poverty-shaming fraud — has been invited to join Dancing with the Stars. This is disgusting. Come on, guys. This is how people like Trump are taken seriously.
NYP: Joaquin Phoenix will not confirm or deny why he left an NC-17 gay romantic drama by director Todd Haynes.
JOKER REVIEWS: Reviews of Joker: Folie à Deux are in, and they're not encouraging: IndieWire LOATHES it. BBC agrees. THR dubs it “uneven” and “frustrating.” Variety thinks the director failed. IGN calls it dull.
Deux-deux reviews — but most seem to say Gaga is somewhat of a highlight. (Image via Warner Bros.)
Reddit thread here. That's too bad, because while it was sort of polarizing (going on to be Oscar-worthy), I liked the first one a lot. Nihlism done right.
POLITICO: Charlamagne tha God is one idiotic piece of work. As a tireless critic of Democrats, of which he is ostensibly one, he has long been a thorn in the side of Biden/Harris, in spite of having a past positive relationship with Harris. Now, after being down on Biden/Harris as recently as this year, he's changing his tune and back in Kamala's camp ... for now.
PEOPLE: Tech fraud Mike Lynch can't escape justice even after dying in a rare yacht shipwreck — HP is still pursuing $4B in damages.
INSTAGRAM: Bowen Yang's Wicked character's look revealed.
INSTAGRAM: Another of today's birthdays is that of Leonard Frey, who would be 86 were it not for AIDS striking him down. Here, he creates one of the cinema's most memorable entrances!
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