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  • ‘Abbott Elementary’ Showrunners Tease “Tension” Ahead for Janine and Gregory’s Romance

    ‘Abbott Elementary’ Showrunners Tease “Tension” Ahead for Janine and Gregory’s Romance

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    Spoilers for the season 2 finale of *__Abbott Elementary __*ahead.

    Nearly all of the action in Abbott Elementary’s season 2 finale, “Franklin Institute,” takes place beyond the familiar hallways of Abbott Elementary. In fact, much of the Emmy-winning comedy’s 22-episode second season has been an excursion, offering viewers their first glance at their beloved teachers’ extracurricular activities. 

    “We definitely had an agenda in the first season—this is just going to be a workplace thing, about what’s said within the walls of Abbott,” co-showrunner and executive producer Patrick Schumacker tells Vanity Fair over Zoom. “Season two we wanted to start to get to know a bit about their personal lives. We’re going to meet siblings, we’re going to meet romantic partners.” Enter characters like Janine’s (Quinta Brunson) responsibility-averse sister (The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri); their emotionally coaxing, Versace-clad mother (Taraji P. Henson); and Jacob’s (Chris Perfetti) sneakerhead boyfriend Zach (Larry Owens). 

    But would the crew that’s ostensibly filming Abbott’s students and staff for a documentary about public school funding actually follow their subjects to, say, a hookah lounge, as they did in the show’s holiday episode? “It brings up one of my favorite Onion headlines of all time, which is, ‘The Office documentary crew feels like they have enough footage,’” jokes co-showrunner and EP Justin Halpern. 

    While expanding Abbott’s orbit presented logistical challenges—how to shoot a confrontation between Janine and her sister that she wants to shield from cameras, for instance—it also allows for tonal harmony. That aforementioned “Holiday Hookah” episode, where will they/won’t they co-workers Janine and Gregory (Tyler James Williams) edge ever closer to their eventual first kiss, has the characters seeing each other in a fresh, after-hours light just as the audience does. 

    Below, the showrunning duo talks about the closure Janine and Gregory find in the season 2 finale and the “tension” that awaits them in season 3, as well as the role awards season played in making everyone involved not want to “fuck this up.”

    Vanity Fair: The 22-episode network season is a bit of a lost art. Walk me through how you went about tackling it.

    Justin Halpern: The fun thing about 22 is that you have some episodes where you can drill down on one part of a character. You can take some swings you wouldn’t normally, like the episode where Barbara [Sheryl Lee Ralph] starts a fire. That episode is solely about how Barbara deals with mental health and stress, things that affect her at work that she wishes wouldn’t. If you’re doing 13, you probably can’t do that episode because you’ve got to keep things moving.

    Was there a period in the season that you felt the stretch and challenge of 22 the most?

    Patrick Schumacker: I believe we did seven episodes straight. Episode five happened to coincide with the Emmys. There was pressure for people to make all of these commitments to promote the show and get the word out during award season. And you could just tell that everybody was exhausted. We’re like, “We can’t do more than five moving forward, ideally four.” That was the pressure of award season, but then also of knowing that after episode five, we still had 17 more to do. So yeah, man, that was where it really, really hit us. 

    The “Educator of the Year” episode felt like acknowledgement of the incredible awards success *__Abbott __*achieved in its first season. How did that attention impact the second season?

    Halpern: I don’t think we ever felt the pressure of, “Oh, man, everybody loves it. How are we going to fuck this up?” We felt like, “Hey, let’s just keep making the same show we made in the first season because that’s the show that we all love.” You can get caught up in a lot of shit in this business. For Quinta, and for us it was like, “Are we making episodes that we would want to watch? All right, let’s keep doing that.” So, we try to keep the noise out of it.

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  • Quinta Brunson Schooled Us All on Saturday Night Live

    Quinta Brunson Schooled Us All on Saturday Night Live

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    Before we get to the pleasures of first-time Saturday Night Live host Quinta Brunson, let’s acknowledge a truly great April Fool’s Day joke. Weekend Update was rolling along, and Colin Jost couldn’t seem to crack the crowd. He questioned if even Donald Trump’s past supporters gave a fig about the former president’s impending indictment. “I went down to the courthouse today and I was the only protester there,” Jost said, as the screen flashed a photo of him in a red hat holding a sign that read “Let our boy go!” There were a couple titters in the audience, an indecipherable heckler. 

    Jost looked to Michael Che in disbelief. Che practically started giggling as he leaned in and confessed, “I told them not to laugh at you for April Fool’s.” Jost then burst out laughing, to the point it took him three days to get out a Ron DeSantis joke. He blushed. He broke a sweat. He said he couldn’t stop shaking. It was a rare chance to see the desperation that lives beneath any comedian, no matter their status. 

    Brunson, meanwhile, marched down to her monologue mark looking like a boss in her black bell-bottomed suit. She described her magnificent Abbott Elementary as akin to Friends, “but with Black people.” It was fun to see Brunson out of the classroom, where she could shed some of Janine Teagues’ do-gooder sunniness. “I’m not a filthy whore, but I like to have fun,” she said. (Coming soon to t-shirts and coffee mugs everywhere.) 

    Brunson said that simply because she plays a teacher on TV, people now look to her to address and solve the ills of our education system. “Last week when the bank collapsed, no one wanted to go up to the cast of Succession like ‘How do we fix this, Cousin Greg?’” The multiple Emmy winner admitted she now hangs in Oprah Winfrey’s garden and dines with the like of Barack Obama, who shared a video from her phone in which he thanked Brunson’s public school teacher mother for her lifetime of service. She ended her monologue on a serious note, speaking with the gravitas not of Janine but Ms. Barbara: “Acknowledge the work [teachers] do every day, and for the love of God, pay them what they deserve.” 

    The Club Velvet sketch was aces, in which Andrew Dismukes and Devon Walker plotted in a club bathroom on how to score some fentanyl-free coke. Brunson popped out a bathroom stall looking like a longer-haired Easy E, promising “My stuff is so white it’s like Gwyneth Paltrow skiing in Utah.” Marcello Hernandez’s dealer countered, “My cocaine’s so pure white it’s like the guy suing Gwyneth Paltrow because he can’t enjoy wine tastings anymore.” Soon the boys were surrounded by promises of whiteness—the best going to Kenan Thompson’s dealer, who boasted “This cocaine I got says stuff like ‘Oops, let me scoot right by you.’” Finally, first year cast member Michael Longfellow, painted up to match the bathroom wallpaper slunk into the scene, pushing black tar heroin that’s uh, so black, it’s “strong and equal and we should give it a chance.”

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  • Quinta Brunson Shuts Down Critic Of ‘Abbott Elementary’ Charter School Plotline

    Quinta Brunson Shuts Down Critic Of ‘Abbott Elementary’ Charter School Plotline

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    “Abbott Elementary” creator Quinta Brunson schooled a critic on her own academic background last week during a critique of her Emmy-winning television series.

    Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, called Brunson out on Twitter last Thursday, stating that the actor and writer had “attended charter schools her entire education.”

    “She reportedly loved it at the time, heaped praise on it,” Allen added. “Once upon a time.”

    Brunson responded by deeming Allen “wrong and bad at research,” along with a detailed clarification of her education history.

    “I only attended a charter for high school. My public elementary school was transitioned to charter over a decade after I left,” she wrote on Twitter. “I did love my high school. That school is now defunct ― which happens to charters often.”

    In a second tweet, she added: “Loving something doesn’t mean it can’t be critiqued. Thanks for watching the show.”

    Brunson, a Philadelphia native, attended the Charter High School of Architecture and Design, or CHAD, which closed in 2020.

    Her exchange with Allen came one day after the most recent episode of “Abbott Elementary” aired, sparking debate among some real-life teachers and parents over the charter school movement.

    Titled “Festival,” the episode depicts Draemond Winding (played by Leslie Odom Jr.), the New York-based founder of a network of charter schools, plotting a takeover of the underfunded Abbott Elementary.

    Abbott’s conversion from a public school to a charter school would require implementing a rigid application process for students while possibly leaving many educators’ jobs on the chopping block.

    Allen has previously called out Brunson and “Abbott Elementary” for their depiction of the charter school movement. The March 2 episode, titled “Mural Arts,” alluded to charter schools as being broadly funded by “wealthy donors with ulterior motives.”

    Many interpreted the line, delivered by Sheryl Lee Ralph’s character, Barbara Howard, as a reference to Republican mega-donor Jeff Yass, who has spent millions to support charter schools and political action committees that push for the election of conservative candidates.

    Speaking to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Allen called the line a “gratuitous slap against people with wealth” and a “hollow, evidence-lacking shot at charter schools.”

    Brunson has frequently used her show to highlight the virtues of public education. Still, her comments on the movement as a whole have been measured.

    “Are charter schools better? Maybe,” she told Time. “But can we support our public schools more so that we don’t feel like one is necessarily better than the other? Because public schools have so much to offer. And we wanted to focus on: How can we support our public schools?”

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  • 2023 SAG Awards winners: Brendan Fraser, Ke Huy Quan earn more hardware – National | Globalnews.ca

    2023 SAG Awards winners: Brendan Fraser, Ke Huy Quan earn more hardware – National | Globalnews.ca

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    The unlikely awards season juggernaut Everything Everywhere All at Once marched on at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, and even gathered steam with wins not just for best ensemble, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan but also for Jamie Lee Curtis.

    The SAG Awards, often an Oscar preview, threw some curve balls into the Oscars race in a ceremony streamed live on Netflix’s YouTube page from Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

    But the clearest result of the SAG Awards was the overwhelming success of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s madcap multiverse tale, which has now used its hotdog fingers to snag top honours from the acting, directing and producing guilds. Only one film (Apollo 13) had won all three and not gone on to win best picture at the Oscars.

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    After so much of the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once had already been on the stage to accept awards, the night’s final moment belonged to 94-year-old James Hong, a supporting player in the film and a trailblazer for Asian American representation in Hollywood. He brought up the ignoble yellowface history of the 1937 film The Good Earth.

    “The leading role was played with these guys with their eyes taped up like this and they talked like this because the producers said the Asians were not good enough and they were not box office,” said Hong. “But look at us now!”

    Hong added that the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once wasn’t all Chinese, though he granted Jamie Lee Curtis had a good Chinese name. Curtis’ win was one of the most surprising of the night, coming over the longtime favourite, Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), who had seemed to be on a clear path to becoming the first actor to win an Oscar for a performance in a Marvel movie.

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    A visibly moved Curtis said she was wearing the wedding ring her father, Tony Curtis, gave her mother, Janet Leigh.

    “I know you look at me and think ‘Nepo baby,’” said Curtis, who won in her first SAG nomination. “But the truth of the matter is that I’m 64 years old and this is just amazing.”

    The actors guild, though, lent some clarity to the lead categories. Though some have seen best actress as a toss-up between Yeoh and BAFTA winner Cate Blanchett (Tár), Yeoh again took home the award for best female lead performance.

    “This is not just for me,” said Yeoh, the first Asian actress to win the SAG Award for female lead. “It’s for every little girl that looks like me.”

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    Quan, the former child star, also won for best supporting male actor. The Everything Everywhere All at Once co-star had left acting for years after auditions dried up. He’s also the first Asian to win best male supporting actor at the SAG Awards.

    “When I stepped away from acting, it was because there were so few opportunities,” said Quan. “Now, tonight we are celebrating James Hong, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Hong Chau, Harry Shum Jr. The landscape looks so different now.”

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    Some online commentators suggested there was irony in Mark Wahlberg, who presented best ensemble, handing out the night’s final award to a film with a predominantly Asian and Asian American cast. In 1988, a 16-year-old Wahlberg attacked two Vietnamese men while trying to steal beer near his home in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Wahlberg, who said race wasn’t a factor in the assault, served 45 days of a two-year sentence. Wahlberg also announced the film Women Talking as “Women Are Talking.”

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    Best actor has been one of the hardest races to call. Austin Butler (Elvis), Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) have all been seen as possible winners. But it was Fraser who went home with the SAG Award for his comeback performance as an obese shut-in in The Whale.

    “Believe me, if you just stay in there and put one foot in front of the other, you’ll get where you need to go,” said Fraser, who anxiously eyed the actor-shaped trophy and left the stage saying he was going to go look for some pants for him.

    The SAG Awards are considered one of the most reliable Oscar bellwethers. Actors make up the biggest percentage of the film academy, so their choices have the largest sway. Last year, CODA triumphed at SAG before winning best picture at the Oscars, while Ariana DeBose, Will Smith, Jessica Chastain and Troy Kotsur all won at a SAG Award before taking home an Academy Award.

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    After the SAG Awards, presented by the film and television acting guild SAG-AFTRA, lost their broadcast home at TNT/TBS, Netflix signed on to stream Sunday’s ceremony. Next year’s show will be on Netflix, proper.

    Sunday’s livestream meant a slightly scaled-down vibe. Without a broadcast time limit, winners weren’t played off. A regal and unbothered Sam Elliott, winner for male actor in a TV movie or limited series for 1883, spoke well past his allotted time. The show sped through early winners, including awards for Jean Smart (Hacks), Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) and Jason Bateman (Ozark).


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    Another streaming effect: No bleeping.

    Quinta Brunson and Janelle James of Abbott Elementary kicked off the ceremony with a few opening jokes, including one that suggested Viola Davis, a recent Grammy winner, is beyond EGOT status and has transcended into “ShEGOTallofthem.”

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    Brunson later returned to the stage with the cast of Abbott Elementary to accept the SAG award for best ensemble in a comedy series. Brunson, the sitcom’s creator and one of its producers, said of her castmates, “These people bring me back down to Earth.”

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    The White Lotus also took a victory lap, winning best ensemble in a drama series and another win for Jennifer Coolidge, coming off her wins at the Emmys and the Golden Globes. A teary-eyed Coolidge traced her love of acting to a first-grade trip to see a Charlie Chaplin film. She then thanked her date, a longtime friend, the actor Tim Bagley.

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    “You’re a wonderful date tonight,” said Coolidge. “I can’t wait until we get home.”

    The ceremony’s first award went to a winner from last year: Jessica Chastain. A year after winning for her lead performance in the film The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Chastain won best female actor in a TV movie or limited series for Showtime’s country music power couple series George & Tammy. Chastain jetted in from previews on the upcoming Broadway revival of A Doll’s House.

    One award was announced ahead of the show from the red carpet: Top Gun: Maverick won for best stunt ensemble. Though some have cheered that blockbusters like Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water are best picture nominees at this year’s Oscars, the indie smash Everything Everywhere All at Once increasingly looks like the biggest blockbuster at this year’s Academy Awards.

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  • Sheryl Lee Ralph Is A Relatable Matchmaker Mom At NAACP Image Awards

    Sheryl Lee Ralph Is A Relatable Matchmaker Mom At NAACP Image Awards

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    The actor joined her “Abbott Elementary” co-star Janelle James onstage to present the award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama series at the live show on Saturday night.

    Ralph took the opportunity to put in a good word for her daughter, Ivy Coco Maurice, who she said was “still single.” The Emmy winner is also mother to son, Etienne Maurice.

    “My daughter is still single for those rich, young, Black men out there,” she said.

    Clearly Ralph and her daughter have each other’s backs.

    Ivy Coco Maurice, an entrepreneur, has been styling her mother’s red carpet looks.

    “She’s always come to me for style advice.” she told HuffPost earlier this month.

    “Abbott Elementary” won the award for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 54th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday.

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  • Sheryl Lee Ralph Will Continue To Get Her Flowers By Performing At The Super Bowl

    Sheryl Lee Ralph Will Continue To Get Her Flowers By Performing At The Super Bowl

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    The NFL confirmed Tuesday that Ralph will be included in the pregame lineup for the 2023 Super Bowl, which takes place Feb. 12. The “Abbott Elementary” star is set to perform the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before kickoff.

    Ralph expressed her excitement for the milestone gig on Instagram. “Come on now,” she wrote. “Don’t you ever give up on you baby!”

    She shared similar sentiments on Twitter, writing: “Someone wake me up from this dream!”

    A number of Ralph’s famous pals, including Oprah Winfrey and “Abbott Elementary” creator and co-star Quinta Brunson, congratulated the actor on the news.

    “Yes lift them!!! Sheryl Lee Ralph in the buildinggggg,” actor Tanika Ray wrote on Instagram. “May we have a dose of SLR everywhere!!!!!!”

    Singer LaTavia Roberson urged Ralph to “continue to INSPIRE LITTLE BLACK GIRLS LIKE MYSELF.”

    Ralph has been enjoying a career resurgence as of late thanks to her portrayal of kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard on ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” for which she received an Emmy Award last year.

    Sheryl Lee Ralph, left, with “Dreamgirls” co-stars Deborah Burrell and Loretta Devine in 1981.

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    Her appearance at the Super Bowl will be an opportunity for the world to recognize her less-heralded musical prowess. Prior to her television fame, the actor received acclaim ― and a Tony nomination ― for originating the role of Deena Jones in the Broadway musical “Dreamgirls” in 1981.

    The 2023 Super Bowl, which will take place in Glendale, Arizona, is shaping up to be a night of must-see TV for music fans as well as sports enthusiasts.

    In addition to Ralph’s performance, viewers can expect to hear Chris Stapleton and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds singing the national anthem and “America the Beautiful,” respectively. And megastar (and Oscar nominee) Rihanna is set to kick off her hotly anticipated musical comeback as the evening’s halftime show performer.

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  • Golden Globes 2023: What You Didn’t See on TV

    Golden Globes 2023: What You Didn’t See on TV

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    The Golden Globes returned on Tuesday night ready to prove that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had reformed. The live NBC broadcast—where you could catch host Jerrod Carmichael and all the winners—largely felt like a return to normal for the show, which was known for bringing the party ahead of the more serious Oscars in the spring. Vanity Fair got a first-hand look at the mood in the ballroom, backstage, and at the after parties.  

    David Canfield: Well, if there’s one thing I learned from being in the Beverly Hilton ballroom for the Golden Globes on Tuesday night, it’s that a bunch of movie stars love getting dressed up, drinking champagne, and cheering each other (and themselves) winning gold trophies—shocker! This really was the vibe inside the ceremony: a mostly ebullient return to old-school awards-season glamour, as our colleague Richard Lawson put it in his review. Natalie, what was it like in the press room, where you held down the fort for us?

    Natalie Jarvey: Your experience was decidedly more glamorous, David! Press covering the show who didn’t have tickets for the main ballroom, as well as attendees at the viewing party held upstairs at the Beverly Hilton, had to park off-site and shuttle to the venue. Thanks to the rain, we were treated to a muddy journey through back roads that I didn’t even know existed. The setup inside the press room was itself pretty nice. We had a buffet—including roasted veggies, lemon chicken, and vegan lasagna—and even a bar where a waiter was serving water and beer. Everyone was there to work, not to party, but things got more interesting once winners started making their way backstage. 

    What was the mood like in the ballroom as the show got underway?

    Canfield: Carmichael’s winding and rather scathing opening monologue landed fairly well. It felt like there was an understanding no comic could take this role on without not only addressing the elephant in the room, but also really confronting it. And then the producers wisely opened with best supporting actor, for which heavy front-runner Ke Huy Quan won and gave a rousingly earnest speech. This moment indicated, rather immediately, that these awards could carry some weight again and, in turn, that the show could proceed like the boozy and starry bash it’d had always been known for.

    So that was the show side of things. Then there was the actual dinner, or lack thereof. Save two chocolates, all food was taken off the tables half an hour before showtime, as in, before most of these nominees even arrived. I was seated on an upper tier—one day press will get prime seats, Natalie, one day—which meant I had pretty close access to the bar, where a charcuterie board and chicken club sandwiches were stuffed into the same corner where I saw Glen Powell juggling three cocktails while snapping selfies with almost every person in his path. But for actual nominees close to the stage, the bar was much more of a hike. And if you didn’t get in and out in time, you’d be stuck standing next to me for a whole segment rather than eating at your seat. (I hope I was good silent company, Billy Porter.) There were giant champagne bottles on the tables and comparably little water. So Mike White wasn’t exactly wrong to imply the drunkening effect here. I knew of several publicists hearing from clients about being hungry mid-show.

    Natalie, I’ve got to know if the gripe made it to the press room. What did you hear about famished stars? 

    Jarvey: We didn’t hear much about the food—or lack thereof—at the beginning of the show, but by the time the last group of winners made their way backstage, you could tell they were hangry. After Abbott Elementary won the Golden Globe for Best Musical/Comedy Series, the cast filtered into the press room. The thing on their mind was where they could get a bite to eat. “Have they been feeding you?” Lisa Ann Walter asked the journalists who were still gathered in the room after the Globes broadcast had ended. “We got nothing. Anyone got a finger sandwich in their bag?” When one of the journalists mentioned the hot vegan lasagna waiting in the other room, Walter replied, “I don’t eat other people’s lasagna.” 

    Not all the winners chose to come back to the press room. The night started strong, with Ke Huy Quan and Angela Bassett both making appearances. Bassett told us she hasn’t gone back to watch the acceptance speech she gave when she won her first Golden Globe, all the way back in 1994. But she did say of her younger self, “I think she was on a good path.” Quan, meanwhile, was enthusiastic about his win, though he insisted he’s not being inundated with scripts following his star turn in Everything Everywhere All at Once. “I’m not Tom Cruise, I’m not Brad Pitt, I’m not Leonardo DiCaprio,” he said. “I hope there’s a lot more filmmakers and casting directors thinking of me. I’m really excited and optimistic moving forward.” 

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  • Golden Globes 2023 Recap: Invite Jennifer Coolidge To Every Awards Show

    Golden Globes 2023 Recap: Invite Jennifer Coolidge To Every Awards Show

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    In case you missed it, the less important version of the Oscars was last night! The Golden Globes were three and a half arduous hours of acceptance speeches and praise for what felt like the same three movies and shows. If you didn’t get to see the entire awards ceremony, don’t worry. I sure did. Let me catch you up.

    For starters: Austin Butler. No surprise here, Butler won best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture for Elvis. I mean, with a voice permanently stuck in Elvis’ cadence, you’d hope he gets his recognition.

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    There were several awards given to the cast of Abbott Elementary, but the real award of the night goes to Tyler James Williams’ power pantsuit. Quinta Brunson’s mid-speech shoutout to a front-row Brad Pitt will forever live in my memory.

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    We’ve all learned that what makes these shows bearable is inviting Jennifer Coolidge and handing her the mic. After warning the crowd that pronunciation wasn’t her strongsuit, the White Lotus favorite stole the show with quite the tearjerker.

    With equally iconic speeches from herself and creator, Mike White, Coolidge credits White for getting her neighbors to speak to her again and giving her life even though he killed her off in the show. Similarly, Mike White called out the audience for “passing on” White Lotus originally.

    What a year it was for streaming TV shows. Hopeful nominees like Jenna Ortega (Wednesday), Evan Peters (Dahmer), Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building), and Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) were notable names in the crowd. Both Jeremy Allen White and Evan Peters received their first ever Golden Globe.

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    Movies like The Fabelman’s, The Banshees of Inisherin, and Everything, Everywhere, All At Once took home multiple awards. My personal favorite speeches came from Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, who spoke about second chances in the industry. Yeoh even threatened physical violence when the music turned on to usher her off stage.

    And with the season opener of Awards Season behind us, it’s time to buckle up. We’re just getting started.

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  • AFI Awards To Honour ‘Avatar’, ‘Elvis’, ‘Abbott Elementary’ And More

    AFI Awards To Honour ‘Avatar’, ‘Elvis’, ‘Abbott Elementary’ And More

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    Next month’s AFI Awards will honour films including the “Avatar” sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick”, “Elvis” and popular television series like “Abbott Elementary”, “Better Call Saul” and “The White Lotus”.

    The American Film Institute announced its slate of honorees Friday ahead of its gala luncheon on Jan. 13 in Beverly Hills, California.


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    The institute selects 10 movies and shows for its ceremony, which honours projects deemed among the best of the year culturally and artistically.

    Additional film honorees are: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”, “The Fabelmans”, “Nope”,“She Said”,“Tár”,“The Woman King” and “Women Talking”.


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    Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in a scene from, “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
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    The other television series being honoured are: “The Bear”, “Hacks”, “Mo”, “Pachinko”, “Reservation Dogs”, “Severance” and “Somebody Somewhere”.

    A special award will be given to “The Banshees of Inisherin”, which stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two men whose friendship falls apart.

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