Top Headlines
Olivia Newton-John: Tributes to Grease star and singer dies aged 73 [CNN]
David Phillips on Olivia [AwardsDaily]
Filmmaker Lars von Trier diagnosed with Parkinson’s [AP News]
Anne Heche has slipped into a coma after car crash [WP]
Oscar Stuff
How Best Actor Drives Best Picture
The most influential category for Best Picture is Screenplay. That just means it’s most common that a Best Picture nominee has a corresponding screenplay nomination. A film can miss almost everything else, but if it misses Screenplay it’s very rare that it wins Best Picture. Missing Best Director doesn’t matter as much anymore in the expanded Best Picture ballot era. [AwardsDaily]
NY Film Festival Sets ‘The Inspection’ as Closing Night Screening [HR]
Movie Stuff
Do Revenge just debuted on Netflix:
The Good House with Sigourney Weaver trailer
Brad Pitt on Nightline
Other Stuff
Johnny Depp signs up again with Dior as face of Sauvage [TMZ]
Motown legend Lamont Dozier behind hits including Baby Love and Two Hearts dies aged 81 [Daily Mail]
Jeff Goldblum On How ‘The World According to Jeff Goldblum’ Has Become a Personal Video Journal of the Last Two Years [AwardsDaily]
‘SNL’ Icon Kenan Thompson Named Host of the 2022 Emmy Awards on NBC and Peacock [Variety]
Motown stars celebrate completion of museum expansion phases [AP News]
Famed Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84 [AP News]
Review: Slick crime novel ‘Heat 2’ revisits a classic movie [AP News]
Debra Messing brings ’13: The Musical’ to Netlfix [AP News]
Today in Apology Culture
Sean Bean’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Co-Star Lena Hall Responds to His Comments That Intimacy Coordinators “Spoil the Spontaneity”
Hall, along with Rachel Zegler and Jameela Jamil, took to social media to clarify the importance of the on-set role after Bean, in a recent interview, said intimate scenes can be "ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise." [HR]
Justin Bieber issues apology for “inappropriate comments” on Instagram.
He wrote, “For some reason, I commented on some guys’ page ‘sad existence’ because he was doing something I thought was dumb. Not quite sure why I felt the need to write that. If what he was doing makes him happy who am I to say anything, hope it didn’t hurt his feelings. It’s been eating me up all day. To the dude I wrote it to, man I’m sorry.” [HG Tech]
Amber Heard Supporters 'Boycott' Milani Cosmetics and Demand Apology [Newsweek]
Kultureland Organizers Apologize For Chaotic Festival [iheartradio]
Hyped as “Canada’s biggest Afro-fusion weekend,” the event was plagued by problems – including a string of cancelled acts and an overnight change of venue – that had people comparing it on social media to the infamous Fyre Festival.
FedEx’s Twitter Account Is Sorry About That Body They Lost
Man’s body still missing 3 years after Georgia medical examiner shipped it via FedEx [Gizmodo]
Doja Cat Is Sorry For Her Reaction To Noah Schnapp’s TikTok [The Blast]
Metallica Faces Being Canceled by Many Young Fans Who Just Discovered Them
A TikTok user who goes by the name Serena Trueblood has been posting videos discussing various artists and past controversies associated with them. Over the weekend, Trueblood featured Metallica. She shows video footage of former bassist Jason Newsted appearing to do a Nazi salute onstage, as well as band members making jokes onstage about the then-recent death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. [Newsweek]
Freud Explains Cancel Culture
The superego is the woke part of the psyche. It’s moralistic, but it isn’t necessarily moral. [WSJ]
How 'Grease' became a victim of cancel culture during Olivia Newton-John's tragic battle with cancer - but the star had an incredible comeback for the film's haters
A number of PLC students raised concerns whether the musical was appropriate in modern times…Sunrise reported the girls at PLC told teachers they felt Grease was 'offensive, sexist and anti-feminist' and refused to take part.
Newton-John, “I think it's kind of silly. I mean, this movie was made in the 1970s about the 1950s. It was a stage play, it's a musical, it's fun. It's a fun movie musical, not to be taken so seriously. We need to relax a little bit and just enjoy things for what they are. I didn't see it like that at all, I think it's a fun movie that entertains people.” [Daily Mail]