tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015554672243525722024-02-20T13:13:11.643-08:00Entertainment Weekly News A-ZTV Recaps, Movie and Music NewsPeter Crophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00211246198859130721noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601555467224352572.post-50558309256021036092020-02-11T22:52:00.001-08:002020-02-11T22:52:15.698-08:00This Is Us producer breaks down Kate's toxic boyfriend and Rebecca's rescue mission<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Warning: This episode contains plots details from Tuesday’s episode of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This Is Us</em>, titled “A Hell of a Week: Part Three.”</strong></div>
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Tuesday’s episode of <b><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ew-az.blogspot.com/p/this-is-us-ew-z.html" target="_blank">This Is Us</a></em> </b>wrapped up the Big Three trilogy by wrapping up Kate in a blanket of drama and trauma.</div>
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In the present day, the woman who overcame adversity and a miscarriage has been busy figuring out how to best raise her blind son, Jack, but she felt like she was doing it as a single mom. Husband Toby (Chris Sullivan) was emotionally unavailable and checked out; as he explained, Jack’s blindness made Dad sad. So, in the Justin Hartley-directed “A Hell of a Week: Part Three,” when Kate (Chrissy Metz) signed up the gang for a retreat for other families with blind children, Toby instead fixated on a pipe dream that a medical miracle might reverse Jack’s condition and then weaseled out of attending the retreat. Stepping up in his place was Rebecca (Mandy Moore), and mother and daughter engaged in bonding moments at the weekend getaway: Rebecca prodded Kate to take the plunge into a pool, they= duo duetted on “Ironic,” Rebecca opened up about her cognitive struggle, and she reminded her stressed-out daughter of her innate strength beneath that sensitive exterior. Later, back at home, Kate gathered the confidence to tell Toby to man up in his parental duties, to which he could only muster an unconvincing “I want to.” He then told Kate that he needed to spend time with his son as she headed out to the family cabin with her brothers, whom she had told that her marriage was “two seconds from imploding.”</div>
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Late-90s Kate, meanwhile, was in even more peril. Kate (Hannah Zeile) had finally found first love, but none of the Pearsons was feeling thrilled with her choice: unsettling (ex-)record store employee Marc (Austin Abrams). And they didn’t even know exactly how toxic Marc was, as he spent the episode manipulating Kate, food-shaming her, body-shaming her, yelling at her, and acting erratically and immaturely. When the new couple headed up to the family cabin against Rebecca’s wishes and she declined to quit her record store job in solidarity, he became unhinged, driving recklessly, insulting her, throwing her out of the car, and leaving her to fend for herself on a dark, lonely road. As Kate placed a distressed pay phone call to her mother, Marc reappeared with a blanket and an apologetic face, which proved enough for her to hang up with her mother and return to his car. But that call set off alarm bells in Rebecca, so the Pearson matriarch rallied the rest of the Big Three and drove up to the cabin for a rescue mission — but who knows what awaits them at the end of this dark and winding road.</div>
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Let’s step out of the magical forest, crank up some Neil Diamond (not Urge Overkill), and call <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This Is Us</em> executive producer Isaac Aptaker from a side-of-the-road pay phone to analyze the events of “A Hell of a Week: Part Three.”</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How can my first question be anything but: What the heck is Marc’s deal? He’s awful to Kate, body-shaming her one minute, controlling her the next, lashing out the next, and then comforting her and apologizing the next. Is he simply an emotional abuser, or is there more here and he has mental health issues? Alcohol seems to be in play here as well.</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">ISAAC APTAKER:</strong> I think he definitely has some undiagnosed mental health issues. When we started talking about this character in the [writers’] room, so many of our writers spoke up and had these stories of emotionally abusive, emotionally manipulative relationships, especially early on when people were just starting to date and sort of figuring out who is a good person to be in a romantic relationship with and who is not. So Marc is kind of a compilation of a lot of our writers’ room’s worst hits, if you will, [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">laughs</em>] when it comes to early teen love.</div>
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Austin is doing such a good job. People can recognize and separate the actor from the character because he’s really bringing this guy to life, and I think he’s keeping it from crossing over into too much of a cartoon of villainous boyfriend. I think he’s doing a really, really amazing performance. But yes, Marc is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">rough</em> in this episode.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">We know that Kate’s family is concerned, but where is her head after everything that just happened? First love, which can be blinding, but are the scales even beginning to fall from her eyes?</strong>I think so. Kate’s a really, really intelligent woman and she knows — at least a part of her knows — that Marc is not good for her. She’s really scared in that car. She really scared when she gets left on the side of the road. And she comes so close to telling Rebecca, “I need help, I need to get out of here.” And then he turns and goes back to sweet Marc and he approaches her with a blanket. And there is a big part of her that believes that she’s in love with him. So it’s not so simple. And I think as an audience, on that phone call scene talking, you’re just hoping for her to get the words out and let Rebecca hear what she needs to hear to come rescue her daughter — and it doesn’t quite get there.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let’s talk about this intervention that’s about to happen. It seems like Rebecca & Co. are riding in on a white horse to rescue their princess — to evoke a baby Kate analogy — but we’re guessing it won’t be that easy. How might Marc respond when he sees all these Pearsons who already don’t like him, as he knows?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It’s much more complicated than just going to rescue a princess, because this is a girl who doesn’t necessarily know she needs rescuing. Like I said, a piece of her is aware that this is toxic. But another, perhaps larger, part of her thinks, “This is the love of my life. This is the first person who’s ever told me that he loves me, who’s ever wanted to be in a relationship with me, and I don’t want to let that go.” So it’s much more complicated than just going to save someone who knows they need to be saved.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">We’ve seen the impact that Rebecca had on Kate’s eating and weight issues, but what kind of scars does the outright verbal abuse that Marc is dishing out leave behind?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It’s definitely a contributing factor. There’s so many things going on inside of Kate. But a first love is so formative and so shapes the way that you see yourself. And I think that the way that Marc speaks to her and treats her has a big impact on her self-esteem and self-worth for a while going forward.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Toby is hardly the model family man right now, and he’s only activated by the idea that his son might able to see through a medical miracle. How much of this is self-absorption, and how much might his depression be a factor here, working against him?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />We’ve seen Toby’s lifelong struggle with his own mental health and with depression. They were dealt such a curveball and their son was born with seriously limited vision and Kate’s been able to roll with the punches — for whatever reason she’s been able to adapt and see the silver lining and just decide to be all-in giving her son the life that he deserves. And Toby has had a much harder time with that. And I think certainly in his history and struggle with depression could be a big factor there.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">While the Sad Three are at the cabin next week, will viewers also spend time with Toby and Jack? And with Gregory (Timothy Omundson) clearly serving as an emotional outlet for Kate right now, will he have some sort of interaction with Toby during this time?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yes, we will be with Toby next week. Sully does such great work because he’s sort of left alone with a 10-month-old actor, so he’s really having to carry the dramatic load himself there — although our baby is wonderful. Gregory doesn’t make an appearance, but we tell a story that I’m really proud of how it came out. It’s a really beautiful father-son story with Toby and the baby.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Will viewers get a better sense of whether this marriage can be repaired in the next few weeks, or will that resolve more toward the season finale?</strong>Over the course of our next episodes, we’ll have a much better sense of whether Kate and Toby are going to be able to get over this immediate hurdle of “Can Toby be the father that Jack needs?”</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">While Toby and Kate bottom out, Rebecca and Kate have never been stronger. She picked an interesting time to confide in Kate about her cognitive issue, with all that Kate has going on. Why then? Had they just reached a new level of intimacy?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rebecca was feeling closer to her daughter than ever. I also think that she’s been wanting to tell Kate. This is a woman who has had a long history with keeping secrets, and I don’t think she’s eager to repeat that. She doesn’t want to dump this news everyone all at once, especially Kevin, who the feeling is, he’s a bit more fragile with his new sobriety. But I don’t think that this is the woman who’s looking to keep this from her children for an extended period of time. This weekend is a road trip with her daughter. That’s where they have this really special connection in that beautiful swimming pool scene and then have a chance to have some one-on-one time and build some really special memories. It felt like the right moment for her to share it.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Next week’s episode is set at the cabin in both the present and the past. Will we start to see the beginning of the fracture between Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and Kevin (Hartley) that has been teased?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That’s something that’s more going to be growing and building over the course of our remaining five episodes. But we’ll definitely see some of the beginnings of that next week.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">What words would you use to tease this intervention that’s going to be happening at the cabin in the past?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It’s explosive. Our family is feeling the way probably a lot of our audience is feeling about Kate and Marc, and they’re going to get a chance to express that.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">And how would you describe the emotions that we will see in the present-day cabin story? Is it explosive in a different way?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Also a bit explosive, as we tend to do on our episodes where everyone gathers — things come to a head, some secrets are revealed. But there’s also this really beautiful story that is about this time capsule that the Pearsons bury at the cabin in the early teenage years and how that comes to play in the present.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kevin is now the only Big Three member who doesn’t know about Rebecca’s issue. We’re led to believe that the fracture between Kevin and Randall at least partially involves this issue. Might Kevin also have to resolve anger with Kate, or is there just much more to this story that we don’t know yet?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There is much more of the story that we don’t know. But there’s certainly a brewing tension that we’ll see over the next handful of episodes surrounding Rebecca and her mental health.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">What were the conversations like in the writers’ room about Rebecca being invigorated by her diagnosis? It seems like a real breakthrough moment for her, and viewers got the old Rebecca back, albeit with the knowledge that tragedy looms over them in the future. This might be the most optimistic we’ve seen her since before Jack’s death.</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yeah. Mandy’s found this whole new color to the older Rebecca character. Up until now, she’s always played her with sort of a bit of a stillness and a sadness and a quietness, and even holds her body a little bit more sort of hunched and restrained. And although there’s much to be sad about with this diagnosis, it is a slow-progressing disease and she does have time. And it has kind of sparked this new lust for life in her and this desire to appreciate her family and the world around her while she could still take it in.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">“You’re fat, I’m ancient, we’re gorgeous, let’s go swimming!” How did that come about, and what were Mandy and Chrissy’s reactions to that bold line?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That’s all of our favorite line of the episode. We’ve told so many mother-daughter stories where Rebecca is tiptoeing around Kate’s weight and her feelings about it and perhaps her role in causing some of that weight gain. And it felt like this was this moment where she has this new lease on life and she’s just going to call it like she sees it. “This is who we are, Kate. That pool is beautiful and we’re going to out there and we’re going to enjoy it, damn it!” It’s so surprising, but I think it’s exactly what Kate needed in that moment.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let’s talk about how that karaoke scene and song selection came to life. Fans have been asking for a duet for a while. Was that something that Chrissy and Mandy had been talking about on set too?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yes. They’ve been asked, each in interviews a thousand times, “Are you guys ever going to do a duet?” So they know it’s something people have really wanted. Then in terms of song choice, we knew that we wanted it to be a ’90s song, perhaps something that they would have listened to when Kate was living with Rebecca in that teenage timeline. So Elizabeth [Berger, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This Is Us</em> executive producer] got on a group text with Mandy and Chrissy, and we just kind of pitched songs back and forth for a day until we landed on that one that we were all really excited about.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">We see Rebecca stepping up in this episode in different timelines, and she’s always been the secret MVP: Most Valuable Pearson. It’s nice to see Jack directly recognize that at the end of this episode. Was that important to you to put a finer point on a message that the series has shown — just how critical she was to the survival of this family, and that she wasn’t always positioned to get the glory like Jack?</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Absolutely. And we’ve hinted that in less direct ways before. There’s the episode after Jack’s funeral where she’s driving the family in the car over the bridge, even though that’s her big fear. And this is another one that’s a bit more direct where Jack speaks to it and says, “This is the real glue of this family.” In a lot of ways, he gets all the glory of the perfect dad and the guy who keeps it all together. But there were many, many years after he was gone where it was really Rebecca. And this week sets up our next episode where she really is a hero.</div>
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Gal Gadot is waiting for the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">boosh</em>. Eyes narrowed, bouncing lightly on her toes — float like a butterfly, sting like an Amazonian queen — she moves soundlessly through the chilled air of cavernous studio outside London, her shoulder blades blooming into a set of molten-gold wings.</div>
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When the explosion comes, it’s muffled, but the soldiers who emerge from the blast in full combat gear don’t look like they’re here to make friends. As she dispatches them one by one, it’s impossible not to imagine how many of them are experiencing the highlight of their working lives in this very moment: men who will spend the next 40 years telling every first date and airplane seatmate about that one time they were annihilated by the warrior princess of Themyscira.</div>
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“Ahhh, so uncomfortable!” Gadot says with a good-naturedly grimace after the scene finally wraps, shrugging off her shiny albatross and slipping into the plush gray robe and Ugg boots that wait for her just off stage. It’s the closest the 34-year-old onetime Miss Israel will come to uttering an uncheerful word, even after long hours spent in a wingspan that defies the natural laws of both orthopedics and most actual birds.</div>
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Endurance, though, is built into the brand: A months-long shoot has already hopscotched from the sunbaked Spanish cliffs of Tenerife to suburban Virginia and now back to the bone-chilling damp of England in early winter. On the set of 2017’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wonder Woman</em>, Gadot remembers, she and costar Chris Pine would sing Foreigner’s “Cold as Ice” to each other between takes to stay warm; in the follow-up, due June 5, the action moves from the grim grayscale battlefields of World War I to the neon era that birthed many a hair band — and the movie’s titular star, too.</div>
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“I was born in ’85, but it’s funny, I really do remember,” Gadot says in her lightly accented English, settling into a canvas-back chair steps from where she just brought a battalion to its knees. “Probably more so because of my parents, but it was a such a standout decade as much as it goes with fashion, music, politics. And the look of everything! The colors.”</div>
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If you had to pick just one from the palette, you might want to start with green: the color of money, of course, but envy, too. “In 1984, America was at the peak of its power and its pride,” says associate producer Anna Obropta. “Apple computers and parachute pants, wealth, commercialism, glamour, even violence — everything was larger than life. It was a decade of greed and desire, a time of ‘Me, me, more more more.’”</div>
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Returning director Patty Jenkins, whose sure hand helped guide the first film to near-universal acclaim and more than $800 million at the box office, elaborates: “It was a time where no cost had shown up yet. There was the fear of the Cold War,” she concedes. “But it really was like, ‘This is gonna go on forever!’ The feeling that the world was this cornucopia that would never stop giving was so enormous.”</div>
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Not so much, maybe, for Gadot’s Diana, a woman forged in the last movie’s era of scarcity and sacrifice. Now working at the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C., she lives quietly, still mourning the loves she’s left behind. “She has not only had the loss of [Chris Pine’s] Steve Trevor,” explains producer Charles Roven (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">American Hustle</em>, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dark Knight</em> trilogy). “She’s lost nearly all the people that are important to her because they’re not immortal, and her life is actually quite lonely and spartan. In fact, the only joy that she gets out of it is when she’s actually doing something for people, if she can help those in need.”</div>
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In this go-go decade, though, the line between want and need is easily blurred. Enter Maxwell Lord, a self-made mogul-slash-guru played as a sort of insidious mix of ’80s icons both fictional (Gordon Gekko) and real (Tony Robbins) by Pedro Pascal. “Max is a dream-seller,” says the 44-year-old actor, best known for his turns on<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Narcos</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Mandalorian</em>, and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Game of Thrones</em>. “It’s this character who encompasses a component of the era which is, you know, ‘Get whatever want, however you can. You’re entitled to it!’ And at any cost, ultimately, which represents a huge part of our culture and this kind of unabashed — it’s greed,” he breaks off, laughing. “It’s f—ing greed, of course. But it’s also about ‘How do you be your best self? How do you win?’ So he’s definitely the face of that version of success.”</div>
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If Diana is immune to Lord’s charms, her new co-worker Barbara Minerva — a shy, socially awkward gemologist played with stumbling-foal charm and a frizzled perm by Kristen Wiig — is not. The comic-book faithful will know what’s coming: a transformation that turns a rare friend into one of Wonder Woman’s most formidable nemeses. It was less familiar, though, to the actress portraying her: “I did not really know so much about Cheetah,” the longtime <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">SNL</em> star, 46, admits. “Before I even talked to Patty [Jenkins], there was an idea that maybe it might be about being a villain for the movie, so I went online and looked at all the villains of Wonder Woman to try to figure out which one, because I was so excited,” she laughs. “And I was really, really happy to find out it was her.”</div>
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That meant doing serious stunt and wirework for the first time in her career (“I mean, I was sore for about eight months. A lot of ice baths”) and also taking on what is essentially two separate roles: “I’ve never really played someone who walks into the room and owns it — especially when she starts out so insecure and self-deprecating,” she confesses. “We didn’t want to see Barbara in Cheetah, and I didn’t want to see Kristen in Cheetah, either.”</div>
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Jenkins never had any doubt that Wiig was right for the part. “In the lore, Cheetah is often someone who’s friends with Diana but jealous of her,” she says. “And I feel like Kristen’s playing a character who’s both ends of the spectrum — she’s your warm, funny friend who’s kind and interesting and then can transform into something completely different. Yes, she happens to be a woman, but she’s straight out of the Gene Hackman <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Superman</em> school of great, funny, tremendous actors. I don’t think of her being a female villain, although she is. I feel that way about Wonder Woman, too. The female component of it is huge, but she’s also just a hero, a universal hero.”</div>
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And if Diana has to face not one formidable villain but two, doesn’t a demigoddess deserve a little backup? Pine’s Steve Trevor will be returning, though there is not a Lasso of Truth on this planet that will get anyone in the cast or crew to reveal exactly how. Just know that her fighter-pilot paramour has somehow made the journey through space and time to find himself by her side once again — and if he has to strap on a fanny pack to do it, well, that’s just what a real man does. “In the first movie, I played the world-weary soldier who has seen all the depravity that humankind is capable of displaying,” says the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outlaw King</em> star, 39. “And in this one I get to be much more wide-eyed and joyful. My role is really just as a friend, lover, boyfriend-cum-bodyguard who’s trying his best to help Diana on her mission. I’m like the Watson to her Holmes.”</div>
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Though there’s much more than tweedy repartee in the playful romantic chemistry between Pine and Gadot that marked the first film, and set it apart from so many of its action-focused peers. That connection — and the easy, equal give-and-take of their onscreen banter — is owed at least in part to plain luck: “There was no chemistry test!” says Gadot. “Honestly, we just had it…. And where other men could be intimidated by the fact that they’re not, you know, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">hero</em> hero that men usually are, with Chris he enjoys it, and it challenges him in a way that is so much fun and so funny.”</div>
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That, says Jenkins, is exactly why she chose him: “He’s not beta at all. He’s a super alpha who can absolutely wear his discomfort on his sleeve. So, from day one, I was always saying that it should almost be like Wonder Woman meets Indiana Jones, where Indiana would never be emasculated. Chris just very naturally has that quality. You can tell by meeting him that he’s warm and he’s chill and he truly appreciates women.”</div>
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Pine appreciates, too, that the movie’s take on romance isn’t exactly typical of the genre. “I think sometimes superhero films may feel they have to fit in a love story just to tick that box,” he says. “Whereas in this, it’s part and parcel of the spine of the lead character. And that is Wonder Woman — she leads with love and compassion and protectiveness, and these qualities that I think are nurtured by a good strong relationship.”</div>
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But even love, of course, can’t conquer all — at least not without a little heavy metal. Cue the Golden Warrior Armor made iconic in the comic books, which makes its first big-screen appearance here: Jenkins found a reference of soldiers in ancient Rome to help solidify the look of the shield; Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming (a veteran of many Bonds and Batmans) spent long hours working with designers and artisans to nail down multiple iterations of the famous wings.</div>
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Some are made from a spine-straining carbon fiber weighing upwards of 44 pounds; one set, destined to be CG’ed later, looks almost tablet-like, a sort of platinum-dipped Ten Commandments; another like an extremely blingy set of Venetian blinds. But most important, Hemming says, was to make sure that “in the light it’s always liquid, moving. There’s a feeling of non-flatness…. Because in the comics, she does fight her mightiest battles in the golden suit.”</div>
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Even when the stakes are high, though, certain occasions still call for the classic red and blue. One of the movie’s earliest scenes finds Diana coming to the rescue in the fairest ’80s destination of them all, the mall. Award-winning production designer Aline Bonetto, who oversaw the sets on the last film (she’s also responsible for the signature look of 2001’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Amélie</em>) took over a recently closed shopping center in Alexandria, Va., and built out 65 storefronts, including a number of dearly departed brands (rest in peace, WaldenBooks). “Seeing the old round letters on the Gap logo!” Wiig sighs happily. “It was like I had stepped back into my childhood. I was such a mall girl.”</div>
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There’s a major set piece too, in the only place in America that may be more exalted than a good galleria: the White House. At the time of EW’s visit, a partial replica of America’s First Home had just withstood a major showdown between Wonder Woman and Lord. Paintings hang askew, marble columns are toppled, and drywall litters the marble floors; it looks like either a frat party or a roving pack of gremlins came for the Lincoln Bedroom. “It’s funny,” Gadot says of shooting scenes like these with her costars, “when we do the fight stuff, we go full-blown and we’re like, super badass. But then when they cut we go, ‘Oh my God, are you okay, Booby? Oh no! Did I scratch you, sister?’”</div>
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Things are much calmer on the museum set, a sleek modern structure that contains Barbara and Diana’s offices, and in the latter’s apartment, a sparsely decorated space that bears the tidy but faintly depressing traces of a lonely life: clean lines, bare kitchen, neat wardrobe; its only real personal touch, tellingly, are the handful of black-and-white photos perched on a side table; it’s clear that in this space, she’s thousands of literal and figurative miles from home. Though fans will get a chance to see their warrior princess back on the turquoise shores of Themyscira, at least in the form of a flashback — reunited with her mother (Connie Nielsen), and aunt (Robin Wright) for what might best be described as a sort of Amazon Olympics.</div>
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The competition is equally fierce if a lot less friendly later in the film, during an explosive high-speed chase through a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mad Max</em>-style desert. (If it’s not exactly Fury Road, it definitely doesn’t look like a breezy one.) But for Gadot, who gave birth to her second daughter just weeks before <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wonder Woman</em>’s release — her five-months-pregnant belly, famously, had to be greenscreened out in reshoots — the long months of training and bruisingly elaborate fight sequences are worth the personal costs.</div>
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“I think that when I just started, I didn’t understand the magnitude and how much this character means to people,” she says. “I was feeling like the little girl who’s supposed to climb the Kilimanjaro mountain, scratching my head and thinking, ‘How the hell am I going to do this?’ But now I feel like I know where I’m going and I know what we’re doing. If in the first movie Diana didn’t understand the complexities of mankind, now she completely understands it…. She loves people, and I think that’s the key to this character, you know? She has the powers of a goddess, but she has the heart of a human.” And the wings, too, to make it fly.</div>
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Nathalie Emmanuel is heading from the fantasy kingdom of Westeros to another mystical land with an intriguing name: Quibi.</div>
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">The </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Game of Thrones</em><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">and, more relevantly,</span>Fast & Furious</em> star is joining Kevin Hart’s action-comedy series <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Die Hart</em> for the short-form streaming service. The show follows the comedian, playing himself, on a quest to become a leading-man action star. Before he can get his shot at such a part, Hart must train at the world’s greatest action star school, run by a deranged coach (played by John Travolta). Emmanuel will play a “tough-minded rival student” who pushes Hart to his limits as he endures a series of hilariously over-the-top action sequences.<br />
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Following Quibi’s April debut, Emmanuel will next be seen in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fast </em>saga’s upcoming ninth installment, hitting theaters May 22. Perhaps Hart can finish his training in time for the tenth entry.</div>
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Neopets, the game that many 2000s kids lost hours to playing, will soon be coming to television.</div>
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“Neopets TV show? It’s happening,” the company’s official Twitter account shared on Monday, along with news that it would be collaborating with Beach House Pictures on the project.</div>
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The series, from Beach House and Neopet’s owner JumpStart Games, is the first Neopets animated series based on the online game. Targeted toward children ages eight to 12, the series will develop new stories and characters. The pair is currently seeking co-production and broadcast partners for the project, which is in the early stages of development, as its format and style aren’t finalized.</div>
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Launched in 1999, Neopets is an interactive world that allows users to care for their own virtual pets, play games for Neopoints, complete quests for avatars, and engage with other players. Around its peak in the early 2000s, it was estimated that Neopets was netting 2.2 billion page views per month and 25 million members worldwide.</div>
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Viacom Network purchased the game in 2005 and expanded the franchise, but gradually the site’s momentum slowed down. In 2014, JumpStart bought the company, and the new series is part of the company’s larger goal to revitalize the brand this year with a reimagined Neopets website, a new mobile game, and licensed merchandise.</div>
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“The property is popular across age targets and since the ’90s its fans have identified it as a fun and safe space, and we want to bring that to a new generation of kids,” Beach House’s creative director Donovan Chan told Kidscreen. “It’s rare to come across a property with global reach, which has a great historical DNA, but is also a blank slate for creatives because it doesn’t already have a series.”</div>
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The new Neopets series also marks one of Beach House’s only animated series, as the production company is best known for making live-action puppet shows, including <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hiccup & Sneeze</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teddies</em>.</div>
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We’re all for a Neopets renaissance — after all, scrunchies and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">All That </em>have both made comebacks. But first things first: we gotta go feed our Korbat. It’s been 16 years.</div>
Peter Crophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00211246198859130721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-601555467224352572.post-47092383785759408812020-02-10T00:59:00.001-08:002020-02-10T00:59:06.312-08:00Oscars 2020: See the full winners list<img alt="Kết quả hình ảnh cho Oscars 2020: See the full winners list" height="360" src="https://www.etonline.com/sites/default/files/styles/max_970x546/public/images/2020-02/oscars_hero.png?itok=-EKpe4a0&h=c673cd1c" width="640" /><br />
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Hollywood’s biggest night proved to be a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">huge</em> one for Parasite.</div>
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Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy, class-warfare thriller soared from the basement to the penthouse while tearing down all sorts of boundaries at the host-free Oscars on Sunday night. The awards-circuit darling became the first South Korean film to win Best Original Screenplay and (the newly renamed) Best International Feature before Bong went even bigger, triumphing in the Best Director category. And then <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parasite</em> went next level by scooping up its fourth Oscar, this time for Best Picture, edging out such competition as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em>, and becoming the first foreign language film to win this category.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker</em>, which entered the night leading all contenders with 11 nominations, managed to convert only two, though one was in a key category: a Best Lead Actor victory for Joaquin Phoenix. (With Renée Zellweger following Phoenix’s win with a Best Lead Actress trophy for <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Judy</em>, the key prizes at Screen Actors Guild Awards — which Phoenix and Zellweger also claimed — proved once again to be a reliable Oscar bellwether. Twenty-two of the last 26 lead actors have now gone from the SAG podium to the Oscars’, while 19 of the 26 actresses followed that same path.)</div>
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Three films entered the 92nd Academy Awards — which ABC broadcast live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre — with 10 nominations, tied for second place. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman</em> was whacked all together, becoming the only Best Picture nominee to come up winless. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em> claimed two trophies, including a night-starting win for Brad Pitt in the Best Supporting Actor category. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917</em> scooped up three awards, for sound mixing, cinematography, and visual effects.</div>
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In other trophy news, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ford v Ferrari</em> emerged victorious in two editing categories: sound and film. And while Scarlett Johansson couldn’t convert her rare acting double nominations (for <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marriage Story</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jojo Rabbit</em>), her <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marriage</em> costar Laura Dern did wind up on stage in victory, as did <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jojo Rabbit </em>writer-director Taika Waititi. Scroll down to see who else went home clutching a trophy (or trophies) on Oscar night.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Actor in a Supporting Role</strong>Tom Hanks, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood</em><br />
Anthony Hopkins, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Two Popes</em><br />
Al Pacino, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman</em><br />
Joe Pesci, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER Brad Pitt, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em></strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Animated Feature Film</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Dean DeBlois</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Lost My Body</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </em>Jeremy Clapin<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Klaus, </em>Sergio Pablos<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Missing Link, </em>Chris Butler<br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER:<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Toy Story 4, </em>Josh Cooley</strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hair Love</em>, Matthew A. Cherry<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em></strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kitbull, </em>Rosanna Sullivan</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Original Screenplay</strong>Rian Johnson, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Knives Out</em><br />
Noah Baumbach, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marriage Story</em><br />
Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917</em><br />
Quentin Tarantino, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won; Story by Bong Joon Ho,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Parasite</em></strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Adapted Screenplay</strong>Steven Zaillian, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: Taika Waititi, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jojo Rabbit</em></strong><br />
Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker</em><br />
Greta Gerwig, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Little Women</em><br />
Anthony McCarten, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Two Popes</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Live-Action Short Film</strong>“Brotherhood”<br />
“Nefta Football Club”<br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: “The Neighbors’ Window”</strong><br />
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Production Design</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman, </em>Bob Shaw and Regina Graves<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jojo Rabbit, </em>Ra Vincent and Nora Sopkova<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917, </em>Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales<br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em>, Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh,</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parasite, </em>Lee Ha-Jun and Cho Won Woo, Han Ga Ram, and Cho Hee</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Costume Design</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman,</em> Sandy Powell and Christopher Peterson<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>Jojo Rabbit, </em>Mayes C. Rubeo<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker, </em>Mark Bridges<br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Little Women, </em>Jacqueline Durran</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, </em>Arianne Phillips</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Documentary Feature<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WINNER:<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> American Factory</em></strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Cave</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Edge of Democracy</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Sama</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Honeyland</em><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Documentary Short Subject</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the Absence</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)</em></strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Life Overtakes Me</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">St. Louis Superman</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Walk, Run, Cha-Cha</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Actress in a Supporting Role</strong>Kathy Bates, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Richard Jewell</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: Laura Dern, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marriage Story</em></strong><br />
Scarlett Johansson, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jojo Rabbit</em><br />
Florence Pugh, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Little Women</em><br />
Margot Robbie, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bombshell</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Sound Editing<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ford</em></strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> v Ferrari, </strong></em><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Don Sylvester</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker, </em>Alan Robert Murray<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917, </em>Oliver Tarney and Rachel Tate<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, </em>Wylie Stateman<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, </em>Matthew Woods and David Acord</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Sound Mixing</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ad Astra</em>, Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson and Mark Ulano<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ford v Ferrari</em>, Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker</em>, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic and Tod Maitland<br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917</em>, Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, </em>Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler and Mark Ulano</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Cinematography</strong>Rodrigo Prieto, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong></em>Lawrence Sher,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Joker</em><br />
Jarin Blaschke, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lighthouse</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: Roger Deakins, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917</em></strong><br />
Robert Richardson, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Film Editing<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ford v Ferrari, </em>Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman, </em>Thelma Schoonmaker<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jojo Rabbit, </em>Tom Eagles<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker, </em>Jeff Groth<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parasite, </em>Jinmo Yang</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Visual Effects</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Avengers: Endgame<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>The Irishman</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lion King</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: 1917</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Makeup and Hairstyling<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bombshell, </em>Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker,</em> Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Judy,</em> Jeremy Woodhead<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, </em>Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten and David White<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917, </em>Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis and Rebecca Cole</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best International Feature Film</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Corpus Christi </em>(Poland)<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong>Honeyland </em>(North Macedonia)<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Les Misérables </em>(France)<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pain and Glory </em>(Spain)<br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parasite</em> (South Korea)</strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Original Score<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker</em>, Hildur Guðnadóttir</strong><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Little Women, </em>Alexandre Desplat<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marriage Story, </em>Randy Newman<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917, </em>Thomas Newman<br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, </em>John Williams</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Original Song</strong>“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Toy Story 4</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rocketman</em></strong><br />
“I’m Standing With You,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Breakthrough</em><br />
“Into the Unknown,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Frozen II</em><br />
“Stand Up,” <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Harriet</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Director</strong>Martin Scorsese, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman</em><br />
Todd Phillips, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker</em><br />
Sam Mendes, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917</em><br />
Quentin Tarantino, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: Bong Joon Ho, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parasite</em></strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Actor in a Leading Role</strong>Antonio Banderas, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pain and Glory</em><br />
Leonardo DiCaprio, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em><br />
Adam Driver, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marriage Story</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: Joaquin Phoenix, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joker</em></strong><br />
Jonathan Pryce, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Two Popes</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Actress in a Leading Role</strong>Cynthia Erivo, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Harriet</em><br />
Scarlett Johansson, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marriage Story</em><br />
Saoirse Ronan, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Little Women</em><br />
Charlize Theron, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bombshell</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: Renée Zellweger, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Judy</em></strong></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best Picture</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ford v Ferrari</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Irishman</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jojo Rabbit</em><br />
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">1917</em><br />
<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Once Upon a Time in Hollywood</em><br />
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">WINNER: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Parasite</em></strong></div>
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Some almost-famous <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><a href="https://ew-az.blogspot.com/p/american-idol-ew-z.html" target="_blank">American Idol</a></b></em> hopefuls are paying homage to a classic scene from Cameron Crowe‘s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Almost Famous</em>.</div>
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Like in that 2000 movie, where the characters played by Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, and more break out into 2020 Oscar nominee Elton John‘s classic hit “Tiny Dancer,” some contestants from the upcoming season of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Idol</em>, are riding in a tour bus driven by show host Ryan Seacrest. One by one, they all join in for a rousing cover of the 1971 track on their travels to Hollywood.</div>
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During the 2019 Oscars, when the Queen and Freddie Mercury biopic <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bohemian Rhapsody</em> was a big winner, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">American Idol</em> contestants covered Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.”</div>
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The new season of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ew-az.blogspot.com/p/american-idol-ew-z.html" target="_blank">American Idol</a></em> — with returning judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan — premieres Sunday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.<br />
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Watch the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Almost Famous</em>-themed preview above.</div>
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Eminem seized his second opportunity to be on stage at the Oscars.</div>
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Seventeen years after winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the rapper appeared for a surprise performance of “Lose Yourself,” the memorable anthem of his semi-autobiographical film <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">8 Mile</em>.</div>
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As Eminem tweeted after his performance (with the help of a tweaked “Lose Yourself” lyric), this was a longtime coming, considering he didn’t make the trip in 2003 to accept his trophy.</div>
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Heading back, she goes over everything she has. She hears about Tracy Powell, the man she encountered at Heath’s gravesite, being killed by the police in a deadly standoff where his gun wasn’t loaded. She spends the night on the bus home and sees a vision of Tracy telling her to look out the front window. She sees the bus hurtling towards a truck. She runs to the front of the bus screaming, but of course the impending collision is in her head. It’s all part of whatever’s going on; the supernatural being trying to stop the investigation.</div>
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Before getting to the actual meeting where Gibney lays out her evidence, we get a lot of the same old stuff. Everything involving Glory is particularly frustrating. Jeannie heads over to her house to invite her to the meeting with Gibney, hoping to give her some sense that things are progressing, and while she’s there she asks permission to get Jessa to describe the figure she saw on three occasions. Jeannie has her suspicions confirmed: it’s the same man she saw in her dining room. But then, after<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> just</em> allowing this to happen, Glory scolds Jeannie for putting her kids through it, saying that she hopes it’s all worth it in the end. How many times do we have to watch Glory agree to something and then immediately turn around and talk about the trauma it’s causing? It’s getting old; she’s a one-note character.</div>
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There’s also more slow-moving stuff in terms of Jack and his descent into whatever he’s becoming. He picks up Gibney to take her to the meeting, and she can tell he’s having a tough time. “You look like you’re going through some kind of hell,” she says, and Jack nearly breaks and tells her about what he’s been experiencing. Of course, whatever’s inside him stops him from doing that. But no worries, it won’t be long before Gibney finds herself confronted with the truth about Jack. Thankfully, both Jack and Glory get better moments to close out the episode, but we’ll get there in a minute.</div>
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So, we get to Gibney presenting her case, showing how all the alleged killers were in different places when the murders happened, and how each of them had contact with each other. “I think they’re victims,” she says, before going on to detail how she believes some sort of “evil entity” has been going around killing children and inhabiting different bodies. She urges everyone to “expand your sense of what reality might entail,” but it’s all for naught. Glory loses it, completely pissed off that this is what everyone’s been up to. Howie can’t believe his ears, and Ralph is angry that all this time has been wasted on a theory about the boogeyman. For what it’s worth, Jack wants to hear her out, and Pelley has a similar belief in the potential for something demonic to be happening here.</div>
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This episode is better than the last, which suffered from some sluggish pacing. Here, the storytelling is a little brisker, and the events just a little more exciting. It feels like we’re getting to the meat of the story. Things are getting weirder. Jack is seeing “STOP HER” written on his hands, like a demonic case of stigmata. Gibney is seeing more connections and posits that this entity is shedding skins like a snake, and is currently in a vulnerable state. There’s evidence that shows someone really was sitting across from Jeannie in the dining room, and Jack has a physical confrontation with his dead mother that’s more hilarious than it is terrifying.</div>
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Then, the episode dives into two of the season’s best moments. First, there’s Glory sitting with Ralph and telling him that it shouldn’t be this hard to clear her husband’s name. Then, after struggling to get the words out, she wonders out loud if Terry did kill that boy. Her reaction to uttering those words is both relief and betrayal. It’s a stirring moment, and one rooted in everything she’s been through.</div>
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Then, the final scene of the episode. Jack has essentially lured Gibney into coming to the barn where Terry’s clothes were found, promising to show her something that will help all of this make sense. Gibney’s suspicious of him in general; he’s acting strange, his face is beaten to a pulp, and she doesn’t quite trust him. Then, when he bends over to pick something up off the floor of the truck, she sees the boils on the back of his neck, the same ones she’s seen before. She knows she’s in trouble, but she has nowhere to go, and the episode ends on the chilling overhead shot of the truck driving into the distance, towards an unknown fate.</div>
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There’s nothing that <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><a href="https://ew-az.blogspot.com/p/opens-new-window.html" target="_blank">Homeland </a></b></em>loves more than waiting so long between one season’s finale and the next season’s premiere that it becomes an Olympic feat just remembering where the show left off. Keeping the peripheral characters straight from one 10-month-long dry spell to the next is a feat akin to memorizing an actual phone number. But, now that we’ve completed this final obscenely-long-time-gap I’ve realized I’m quite going to miss all that confusion.</div>
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The final season picks up after Carrie was imprisoned in Moscow (you see, this is the part in which I’m going to refresh your memory to save you the cursory Google searches and recap re-reads) and returned to the Americans a shell of her former self. At the end of season 7 Saul Berenson and his CIA counterparts — remember, he’s still the National Security Advisor! — viewed Carrie’s prison stint as a seeing out of their original plan to return Simone to the States to testify against her fellow Russian spies. To me, a person who has invested nearly a decade of her life in the relationship between Carrie and Saul, this read as classic abandonment. We all try so hard not to project paternal standards onto Saul but then <b><a href="https://ew-az.blogspot.com/p/opens-new-window.html" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Homeland</em> </a></b>is like: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Here he is acting like a disappointing father, good luck dealing with these emotions.</em></div>
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‘Deception Indicated’ opens with Carrie in an Army medical center in Germany, suffering through fever dreams barely softened by Lorazepam and trying to prove that she’s ready to be reinstated at the CIA through a series of increasingly demeaning interviews and prison-yard exercises. But I think it’s important framing to first mention the way we last saw her: Handed over to Saul straight from the Russian jail overseen by Yevgeny-who-I’m-oddly-attracted-to and looking a whole hell of a lot like Brody back when he was on the business end of the night vision camera in Abu Nazir’s underground lair.</div>
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The show is doing another of its now-infamous resets, but instead of finding a new setting (the way they did for Berlin, New York, and so on) they’re circling back to old themes. I don’t think that’s an accident. During one of Carrie’s interviews it’s revealed that she failed a Polygraph test (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">deception indicated</em> on the question “Have you ever conspired with a foreign intelligence officer or service?”) and we begin to see flashbacks of her time in custody — flashbacks that I’m sure we can expect to continue through the rest of the season, as the show toys with the idea of whether Carrie was compromised by her captors and is, essentially, the new Brody.</div>
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Meanwhile, Saul is in Doha negotiating a deal to retreat from the Afghan war — and allowing the writers to establish season 8’s terror plotline. His goal is to convince the Taliban to agree to a deal that consists of, essentially, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">backing-the-f-down.</em> Abdul Qadir G’ulom, the Vice President of Afghanistan, holds a press conference denouncing the peace talks and refusing to ever play by the American’s rules. He happens to be an old acquaintance of Carrie’s and thus: Carrie has a reason to get jumped from the Army hospital, her mental wellbeing be damned. Welcome back, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ew-az.blogspot.com/p/opens-new-window.html" target="_blank">Homeland </a></em>viewers. I’ll spare everyone the lengthy diatribe on the occasional over-convenience of her disease (does it ever feel like she miraculously gets better just when the plot needs her to be better?) but can’t help but point to a recent Claire Danes appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast when she said Carrie is much healthier than she has any business doing.</div>
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Carrie’s mission, should she choose to abandon all rational concern for her health and accept it (she does): Convince VP G’ulom to walk back his anti-peace talk threats. Some of her CIA babysitters are convinced that she might be a Russian agent so they alert Mike Dunne, the Kabul station chief, to be on high alert. He ropes newbie Jenna Bragg into his scheme which consists of the following: Pretend that Jenna is a struggling newbie with a deep need for mentorship, lure Carrie into a friendship, use that friendship to mine her for potential signs of treason. Oh, and listen in to her phone calls. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Homeland </em>does a fabulous job of casting in this regard — we’re supposed to find these two grating and it’s easy.</div>
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Carrie outsmarts them with some old time-y spycraft (quite literally switching a light on and off a couple times) and meets up with an old asset — past Carrie was smart enough to keep a few key contacts secret from headquarters — who fills her in on the current security situation in Kabul (in a word: bad) and delivers her to the home of another asset, Roshan. His widow tells Carrie that the Taliban murdered her husband five ago — before promptly and correctly requesting that she <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">GTFO </em>of her home — because they found out he was working with the CIA. As his only American contact, who also happened to be in a Russian prison under heavy interrogation at the time of his death, that puts her in murky water. Cue more upsetting flashbacks.</div>
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Season 8’s throwback reset also allows the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Homeland</em> writers to bring back a villain from the days of yore: Tasneem Qureshi, ISI agent and infamous Taliban collaborator. If the expository dialogue from Saul during her first appearance is any indication (“I remember Islamabad, the embassy, the two hours you stood down your response team while 36 Americans were killed in cold blood”), she’s going to be a major player this time around. Saul wouldn’t…exposit…like that for much less. We learn that she has a powerful father, currently plagued with M.S., who had lead-ISI-agent dreams of his own, which is what we at EW like to call a foreshadowing piece of backstory. We now know Yasmeen’s motive, friends.</div>
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The C-plot, at least for the first portion of the season, is a combat outpost in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, where Max (Max!) is stationed with an oddly wise-cracking (for this show, at least) group of soldiers and tasked with monitoring Taliban communications on the front lines. The project involves a highly dangerous mission across a riverbed flanked by enemy fire and gives us the Max-as-hero framing we didn’t know we needed, as well as a Max monologue that beget perhaps the most words he’s ever spoken at once — I took the liberty of transcribing it here for your scrolling pleasure (feel free to add your own crescendo-ing soundtrack).</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> “I’m not leaving until I’m done. We don’t have a functional listening device on 14 miles of the Pakistani border. We’re in negotiations with the Taliban in Doha. Our people don’t know if they’re having a real conversation or if it’s just bulls–t designed to get us to release 1,000 Taliban fighters in prison. Hassan Haqqani is down there somewhere. He’s the one calling the shots in a hideout in Pakistan that we can’t find on a phone that we can’t tap. He’s the guy that slaughtered 36 of our people in Islamabad. I watched him do it.” </em></div>
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The soldiers that Max is stationed with are, understandably, moved by his monologue and, after they make it through the aforementioned riverbed with zero casualties, anoint Max as their good luck symbol and living Buddha. Good for their casualty rate, bad for Max’s sense of personal space. We look forward to more outpost shenanigans in the upcoming episodes.</div>
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To wrap, Carrie is back from her midnight sojourn and questions the increasingly condescending (and, dare I say, misogynistic?) Dunne about Russian involvement with the Taliban and learns that her captors could have easily slipped information to the terrorist group. When she spots <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yevgeny</em> of all people coming out of G’ulam’s office right before her own meeting with the Vice President it becomes very clear to her (and us) that this is all orchestrated…somehow. Yevgeny is the formerly-mysterious man on the receiving end of the psychosis-spawned intimacies shown in her flashbacks and, if you’ve been keeping track of the potential Carrie-as-Brody theme that means that Yevgeny: Carrie :: Carrie : Brody. It seems a stretch but is currently the only narrative thread that ties back to seasons 6 and 7 — and I need a reason to believe those years were important to <a href="https://ew-az.blogspot.com/p/opens-new-window.html" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Homeland</em>‘s </a>end game.</div>
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