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Casting has been announced for the musical Beau, which will make its world premiere at the Adirondack Theatre Festival from August 3-9. http://www.playbill.com/article/casting-set-for-lgbtq-musical-beau-at-adirondack-theatre-festival

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Ma-Yi Theater Company has announced their 2019-2020 season lineup, which will include Felix Starro, the first musical created by Filipino Americans to appear Off-Broadway. http://www.playbill.com/article/ma-yi-season-includes-first-filipino-american-musical-to-be-seen-off-broadway-and-return-of-suicide-forest

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JROCK1772 wrote:

Helen Mirren, Winchester. The film may have sucked, but she didn’t deserve to be dragged under, especially when this year also had Elle Fanning in Mary Shelley, Amandla Stenberg in the Darkest Minds, and Ronda Rousey in Mile 22.

As well as both Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon in The Spy Who Dumped Me. My God, they were so annoying in that film!!!

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Writer Judith Krantz, who had several of her novels adapted into TV movies and miniseries, passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/judith-krantz-dead-best-selling-author-journalist-dies-at-91-1220487

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Dave Bartholomew, one of rock and roll’s earliest songwriters, passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dave-bartholomew-dead-rock-n-roll-pioneer-dies-at-100-1220483

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Playbill did a profile on a couple of the Jimmy Award nominees. http://www.playbill.com/article/meet-some-of-the-2019-jimmy-awards-nominees-from-an-aspiring-elphaba-to-a-rubiks-cube-wiz

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While I still haven’t seen War Of The Worlds, I know a lot of people hate the fact that Tom Cruise got a Worst Actor nomination for it, and many of them think he got nominated only because of his then-recent history of bizarre behavior, like jumping on Oprah’s couch and then arguing about psychiatry with Matt Lauer on The Today Show.

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The absolute worst and most dumbfounding Razzie nomination all time, in my opinion, is easily Harvey Keitel for Worst Supporting Actor in The Last Temptation Of Christ. If anyone can defend that nomination, please tell me why his performance is Razzie-worthy, because I don’t get it. At all. He should have gotten an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Ditto for Willem Dafoe in Best Actor.

Also, Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky were both unfairly nominated for Mother! Yes, I get the movie is not most people’s cup of tea, given its F grade on CinemaScore, but come on! At least there was real filmmaking effort going on here. And I’d even argue Lawrence’s performance is actually better than her Oscar-winning performance in Silver Linings Playbook (cough cough Jessica Chastain was robbed that year for Zero Dark Thirty cough cough)

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Script supervisor Edle Bakke passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edle-bakke-dead-longtime-script-supervisor-disney-gunsmoke-was-91-1220205

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Script supervisor Edle Bakke passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edle-bakke-dead-longtime-script-supervisor-disney-gunsmoke-was-91-1220205

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The Academy has updated their memoriam page for deceased Oscar voters, and some of those added to the list whose deaths have been reported on here are Tim Conway, Salah M. Hassanein, George Litto, Jim McMullan, Barbara Perry, Alvin Sargent, John Singleton, William D. Wittliff and Franco Zeffirelli. Two more people included whose deaths were not widely reported were:

Jeremy S. Koch (sound)
John V. Leahy (associate)

https://www.oscars.org/about/memoriam

Despite being confirmed as Academy members in the past, neither Doris Day nor Sylvia Miles have their names listed on the page. It appears both of them must have quietly left the Academy sometime prior to their deaths.

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British critics were mixed on David Mamet’s Bitter Wheat, mostly liking John Malkovich’s performance as Barney Fein (aka Harvey Weinstein), but mixed about the play itself. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-John-Malkovich-Leads-David-Mamets-New-Weinstein-inspired-Play-BITTER-WHEAT-20190619

Meanwhile, American critics had a much more positive response to Toni Stone. https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Review-Roundup-TONI-STONE-Opens-Off-Broadway-See-What-The-Critics-Had-To-Say-20190620

• This reply was modified 2 days, 14 hours ago by  Alex Meyer.
• This reply was modified 2 days, 14 hours ago by  Alex Meyer.

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PBS’ Great Performances will be filming the Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing this weekend for broadcast at a later date. http://www.playbill.com/article/pbs-great-performances-will-film-shakespeare-in-the-parks-much-ado-about-nothing-starring-danielle-brooks-chuck-cooper

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Movies released on Friday, June 21:
Anna—B+
Child’s Play—C+
Toy Story 4—A

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Music manager Elliot Roberts, whose clients included Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Tracy Chapman, Tom Petty and Talking Heads, passed away. https://www.thewrap.com/elliot-roberts-dead-at-76-joni-mitchell-neil-young/

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