Another famous nephew: Jason Sudeikis. George Wendt is his uncle.

Your comment got me thinking about MCU stuff that hasn’t been dealt with at all in the post-Endgame era:

Yeah, there was a brief resurgence of hard partying around the millennium, marked by Buckcherry, Crazy Town, and Motley Crue’s the Dirt book (I remember people who NEVER read passing that book around, sharing stories, etc.). Then I feel like the Darkness and Andrew WK took an ironic stance on that image and basically…

I’m reminded of the band Cold, who got booed off the stage multiple shows on Weezer’s Green Album tour. It finally came out that they’d paid to get on the tour.

John Norris was so old (he’s 65 now), and he was always trying so hard to pretend like he wasn’t that old...

(raises hand) I’m mildly interested in gossip about Laraine Newman, mostly because Einbinder was born in ‘95, which by all accounts is a decade after Newman gave up cocaine and transitioned to mostly voice acting (which is supposed to give one more time with family).

I don’t really get Sam Asghari. At various times in various parts of the media, he’s been portrayed as a tool of Britney’s dad (but he seemed to help her get out of the conservatorship) or a gold-digger (but he apparently signed an ironclad prenup and got almost nothing when he left). 

But it’s the Farewell Tour! Your last chance!

Given that Inside Out clearly showed the exact same roster of emotions in adults as kids, how is Pixar planning to handle the outcry from mental health professionals and advocates when anxiety in Inside Out 2 is depicted as something that goes away after your teenage years?

Agreed. I’ll add that Turning Red was so boring that neither my daughter (in middle school and going through many of the same issues) or my wife (a huge boy-band fan back in the day, so primed to identify with that subplot) bothered to finish it.

Also see: the Killers, No Doubt, Matchbox 20...

The Verve tried to book an arena tour in the US off the success of “Bittersweet Symphony” in ‘98, then the follow-up singles didn’t do anything in America and the whole thing got downgraded to a few dates, mostly in theaters. I remember hearing one or two of the arenas hadn’t even sold 20% of the tickets.

If I’m remembering right, the Eagles were the first to really gouge fans on the Hell Freezes Over tour. Tickets for that were $120+, back in 1994.

Interesting that Simu Liu has joined Chris Hemsworth in the “making forgettable Netflix movies while they wait for Marvel to call” zone. Who’s the Canadian George Miller? Maybe he can rescue Simu.

I’m reading Wild and Crazy Guys, about the comedy stars of the ‘80s, right now. One thing that I’d forgotten is that both Steve Martin and Chevy Chase had long strings of flops, and then strings of hits where they played variations on “hapless dad trying to make good.” Eddie Murphy is smart, and copied what that…

If Beyonce had done it to her, would she have reacted the same way?

Is it a thing for random celebrities to just show up and walk the red carpet at Cannes? Because I could see an usher who’s into week 2 of the festival getting really tired of this nonsense really fast.

She reminds Lorne of Gilda, and I think he still feels some guilt about how poorly Gilda’s post-SNL career went, as well as sadness over her untimely death. She’s his favorite, and gets treated as such.

HBO + ‘author’s complicated relationship with his daughter’ makes me think this is going to be a version of the sad middle-aged guy that Carell has seemed to love playing since Dan in Real Life.

Lost in the conversation about “can cinema be saved” seems to be this big question: have any of the movies in the last couple of months been, y’know, good? I’ve seen Godzilla v. Kong 2 and Ghostbusters 4, and they were both... ok, which is about what I hear about Planet of the Apes, Fall Guy, and If. Also saw Civil…