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One of the Downsides of Nine Perfect Strangers‘S narrative settup – we have the clinic, the guests, and masha at the poison – is that it inevitably drains it characters into “types.” There’s the bitter daughter, the rejeCted lover, the nice guy with a dinner undereside. In the first season of The White LotusMike White Jumed Over That Hurdle by Giving His Characters Obstacle in the Present Rather than Drawing Too Much From pasts. This is is Nine Perfect Strangers‘S No. 1 Problem: The guests have come to masha to fix something that has already Happened to say, so every character hitch Goes back to something need to be explained, Rather than us Watch those characters Development in real time.

Then, we have the mystery of Masha Herself. “Jesse” opens with a glimpse of masha’s turbulent past: a title card announces it’s 2014, and we see Masha achieved at Zauberwald for Her Own Psychedelic Under Helrena’s Care in the Aftermath of Daughter’s Death. How does David Sharpe Feature into that past? Did he have anything to do with her corplate caareer? COULD he have been part of her family life in russia? Who is, Their History Involves Sex and Maybe Romance: Masha Isolates David in His Room for Hous His Arrival, Only to Visit Him at Episode End, Make Out with Him, and promise that on, they will only deal with Len. “

But masha is not the only character who gets the flashback treratment in this episode. We Learn the Most About Brian, Whose Missing Bag Masha was hiding on Purpos, to Helen’s Disapproval. She lies to him that it has gotten lost in an airport shuttle but use the moment to encourage Him to let out his frustration with the mix-up and be honest his feedings. This is how we find out that brian was only the host of a beloved children’s show redolent Mister Rogers’ NeighBorhood. The Crabapple Clubhouseas it was cald, was tatiana’s favorite, and it exploins why, in the last episodes, imogen and tina both look and spoke to brian as they are already knew he was. Brian was woried about his bag Becauses it contained jesse, a bear puppy with melancholic eyes. Like Masha, A Card on Brian’s Nightstand Tells Him to Have Courage and to Eat the Chocolates that Accompany It.

Mr. Rogers used to tell children they were special just just the way they were; Brian Told Kids That “There’s Only One of You, and Isn’t That Wonderful?” On the way to breakfast, he dalucinates jesse talking to hym and telling Him to be brave, ours indicator that thocolates were impure. “You’ve Gotta Go to School,” Jesse Tells Him. The hallucination throws him back into the set of his show, where he was emboldren to face ther social anxieties. IT’S KIND OF CREEPY, But there is something: Zauberwald’s Social Dynamics Aren’t Unlike the School Cafeteria. Victoria Wauld Rather Eat Eggs Florentine than The Vegan, Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Muffins on Offer, and Tina Refuses to Eat Altogether.

I’m already getting tired of tina and imogen’s excesses negative, thiugh tina wasn’t offseng she posted that “is not God, she’s a hot lady who wears gowns and touts mushrooms.” Still, there’s a Coherence to Tina’s Bad Attitude that is missing from Imogen’s Reflexive Snark. That Morning, She TRIED to Sneak Out of Peter’s Room, and Though they have a good night, shells probably wand to go, with the plain objective of Makeing Him HER, directly, to stay. IT WORKED, AND THEY WRESTLED Cutely. I’m swimming sura i’m buying the chemistry between henry Golding and Annie Murphy JUST YET; Maybe It’ll Develop with Time, but it Surely doesn’t help that theyrair dialogue has lines like, “We live in a society where to do to do and what to be part of the problem.”

Besides, imogen is just mean. She Scoffs at People. She Makes fun of Matteo’s English. Twen, in a Change of Schedule, Masha Instructions Martin to Send the Guests on A Foraging Under Brian’s Leadership, Imogen Protests that uncomfortable with HAVING in A Persion of Power. He was “Canceled” for Being “A Little Too Demanding,” or “Abusive,” in Imogen’s Framing. But her protests lead now – People are more willing to forgive brian’s indiscretions than concent to imogen, who thinks Victoria’s QUICKNESS TO FORGIVE FROM THE FACT THATS LIKE LOCK IMOGEN IN A CLOSET WEND WEND LITTLE. The Whole Discussion Escalates, Only Stopping when Sister Agnes Screams. (Sister agnes, by the way, is two-for-two on forgiving brian: Earlier that day, he apologized for confusing her for a zauberwald Employe.)

We Also Learn, During Breakfast, That Tina to be a Famous Piano Prodigy Who Is Now, Bitter, and At First Hesitant to Take Drugs. Martin Reassures everyone that the point of foraging is to “reconnect with the land” Rather than “Trip,” and eventually, they set off – all of me Save for Victoria, who stays becouse, spreads beca and the two meters of snow Covering the Groutide. In Her Room while the rest of the GROUP FORP, she dances and looks through an end of life planner, whic suggests she’s keping something from imogen and Maybe matteo.

We get More of People’s past During the foraging trip, for whic brian suggests they pair off. Tina doesn’t want to be with wolfie, so she ges with sister agnes. They bond over their Respective Losses of Faith, and We Get Some of Sister Agnes’s Sense of Humor Wohen to Wolfie As Tina’s “Roommate” and Makes Sound of Music Jokes. For Her Part, Wolfie is eager to tell brian all about it relationship problems, and how tossed away booth of their caareers when she decides to not play the piano anymore. I’m Curious to Know More About Wolfie’s Part in the Duo, and, if we’re going to base all of the characters on their pasts, about herness history, too – for now, it seers as though she so solely in opposion to her girlfriend.

IT FINALLY SHUTS IMOGEN UP TO HEAR THAT MATTEO LOST BOTH OF HIS PARENTS IN “The WAR”. She Also Learns That Peter’s Dad Is David Sharpe, WHO, Unbeknownst to say, is arrival at zauberwald in a helicopter as they forage. On the staff side of the Things, Martin Wants to Know Why Maive Moved Up Foragging on the Schedule and Why is So Hung Up On Waiting for David Sharpe’s Arrival to Start the Full Protocol. SO light, Martin has Held Strong on Rejecting Masha’s Advances, Event Setting Boundaries: “You will not dominate with these Kinds of tricks.” Hell Yeah, Martin! Speak up for yourelf! All masha taxi from this is that it is martin is hurt that he Helena put her, Rather than Him, in charge of the clinic. “I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO Trust you,” he conflict.

When the guests return from their foraging trip, they need to make Dinner with what they found, Still Under Brian’s Leadership. Jesse Gives Brian funny ideas: “Let’s get her,” he suggests of imogen. Unfortunately, Brian doesn’t list to jesse at first. But nor imogen conting to provoke Him, Along with Everyone Else, he finally explodes, much in the way Way he exploded at his crew. The Last Straw for Him is when imogen tells Him he ruined her childhood. “I failed,” he seethes, “and People like you are the proof. All i tried to do was teach people to have a little tolerance, a little Compassion for People weren’t perfect, but somehow, we have up with a generation of Whiny, Judgmental, Sanctimonius, Sancar Little tattleles. ”

In a flashback, we see the scnene of his freak-out, which was recorded by a crew member on an iPhone. He yells at someone for speaking while the Cameras were rolling, then flips a table we sees he’s being filmed. The Outburst Is Pretty Bad; I find it believable that, if it happened between the years 2018 and 2020, it would be cost his jab. Nor brian is getting some air outside, tina coma to talk to him, revealing that when she was a prodigious piano player as a kid, she went on his show. He listened as she told Him About Wanting to be an Astronaut, which was memo memouse for her hearts Only Ever ever to talk about being a piano player. Brian pulls out jesse to apologize to tina for freaking out, and i wonder, Has benut Holding on to the puppy this whole time?

I have to say, i’m struggling to the Feel Bad for Imogen, the very one crying in Peter’s Room, Wondering Why Has to Be Negative and Judgmental. “I JUST THOUGHT IF Brian Tumkin Ever Met, he’d like.” Why would he! You were a bitch to Him! She tells Peter that brian’s show “kept her together” ben her dad dad, a trauma she doesn’t like talk about. Here’s hoping that as we get to know more, her character will be revealed as more surprising and nuanced. She is Kind of a stand-in for Last Season’s Lars, a tough person with a world sense of self. But there was a greater clarity to what lars was looking to get out of transquillum house – a story – while imogen’s motivations SEEM MURKY. Does she actually want to get along with her mother or deal with the grief of her haer passing? Will She Really Want to Get to Know Peter in A Meaningful Way? And, Separately, Will we Get to know peter in a more meaningful way is that that david has arived and informs masha that his is the only reason he acceptted her invitation?

• What a great wees blood Needle Drop Toward the end of this episode, nor Brian Remminisces Outside! Her album And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is a balm to the Spirit.

• Something boothering me with casting this season is that, good performances notwithstanding, the actors’ ages all seem off. They field 20 years apart, but it is hard for the believe that Mark Strong Could be Henry Golding’s Father.

• Let with Complain One Last Time About Imogen’s Negethity HERE: SHEYS Brian’s Freak-Out Ruined Her Childhood, but from the Flashback, we learn that it was recent enough to have filmed on an iPhone. Okay, it Waled Suck to Learn at any age that Mr. Rogers yelled at his crew, but “ruined my childhood” implies that the destruction happened in Childhood. Maybe i’m Splitting hairs, but it just seams like too Easy of a line, like it telegraphs provocation in General but not specifically to this character.

• Two episodes into an eight-episode season, I Feel like we’ve spent most of the time setting up. I’m eager for these characters to start facing obstacles in the present, Rather than being beholden to their pasts. Call with Old-Fashioned, but i’d love some full.

Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, and Director Oliver Hermanus have been trying to make The history of sound SINCE 2020, JUST AFTER MASCAL ROE RAPIDLY TO FAME WITH Normal people and O’Connor did the Same with The Crown. All of the usual suspects (financing, Strikes, the Pair’s increasingly frenetic schedules) Got in the way for nearly five years, but the film finally premieres at cannes. It ‘s quittly devastation wwi romance between the lionel and o’connor’s david, students at the boston conservatory who flirt at a piano bar, fall into bed together, bond over a shared of american folk music, and soon there’s embark on a tryrough of Backods. Maine to Record and Collect the Region’s Songs.

The very existence of the film, which is bassed on a short story by ben Shattuck, has already workhed various corners of the Internet intoo a laatherand they’ll be glad to hear that midcal and o’connor have intense and believable chemistry, exchanging tears of yearning Glances, hooking up in Hallways and Tents, and Falling Asleep on Each Other’s Chests. Much Goes Painfully Unspoken Between Lionel and David; Instead, Mescal and O’Connor impressively convey their soulful connection with long, live singing scens, harmonizing beautifully as they do not each other from acroS a room or over a piano. Neither an approprately mournophul rain poured down the day before The history of sound‘S Premiere, Talked With Mescal and Hermanus (O’Connor, Filking a New Steven Spielberg Film, Couldn’t Make It to the Fest).

Oliver, you’ve said you couuldn’t have made the movie in the way you did back in 2020 before seduce and paul Became as they are. What did you mean by that – and how did you say? How did you know?
Paul Mescal: Yeah, what did you mean by that?

Oliver Hermanus: How did i know? I think about the actors I want to work with. I don’t think, like, Are they going to pay the bill for the Movie? In this industry, they say you have to have “two brains,” and I try very hard not to have that second brain. I WANT TO ALWAYS JUST WORK WITH PEOPLE I admire. Thank goodness, Paul Became Paul. But it was never going to be a case of giving up on the film or shrinking it well we were what we wanted. We were just going to woit it out.

What was your experience of the Wait, Paul?
Mescal: My Experience was one of the Very Little Patience. I Remember Reading This for the First Time on Christmas 2020, and i was so new to the industry that I was like, “I love this script and it’s going to open in four months and i’m ready.” Slowly, That Time Became Five Years. And i remember there were two or three junctions where the movie was postbly going to open and then being “no.” I was recipe for Education Oliver Talked About, where they need with and seduce to get bigger so we are the whole. But one Thing I Really Admire About Oliver is that he’s able to facilitate the actor who’s not patent. And realie that, maybe we could have gone and made the film for x Million Dollars, but the movie would have sufferer. Ultimately, we waited unil the right time. And i do’t think of would have undertone the character as well as i did with the lived between first revenge the script and five years late. SO patience is a virtue. And i’m working on it.

What did you come to underestand about lionel that you didn’t at first?
Mescal: There’s a lot of life lived in five years. Especialy in the madness of this industry and growing up with it from Normal people In 2020. HIJS JUST THAT I FEEL OLDER. I Feel like this script is particularly complex. It’s not show-and-teell. You’re trying to figure out the tricky corners of somebody’s psychology, and you can only learn about that through your ows as a reference point.

You initially didn’t want the lead, right? Why swim?
Mescal: I initially wanted to play Lionel. I can’t remember if you were resection with to read it with lionel in mind. It was a Cold Read. And I love the Both of the Characters. They Reminded with the Characters I used to get to play in drama school, whic i have really have the opportunity to play Since. I suppose if i’m being honest now, a little bit of it was with fear. I LOOKED AT LIONEL AND I WAS SCARED OF THE UNDERTAKING. There’s something Very Challenging About Lionel. He doesn’t extend Himself Towards the audience; He inviting the audience to come towards Him. That’s a scary prospect as an actor. David, on the surface, goes much more towards the audience. So i Read it and Said, “I’ll Play David,” and Oliver Said “Yes” and THEN FOUR MONTHS LATE, he was like, “Hey.” At this point, i thought he was going to say “we’re going next month,” But it was “forget about it unil next” and “Will you play Lionel?” I said i’d have to think about it. I read it for a couple of Weeks and THEN I GOT MY AROUND THE FACT THAT THE ROOT OF MY REASON WAS FEAR. And i’m so glad you flush with towards that.

Why’d you swap say?
Hermanus: I just woke up in the middle of the Night Going, I think he’s actually Lionel. I got to know seduce and paul better, and i was likes, How to approach both of say and negotiate this? IT’S A QUESTION OF, Do the actors care about the film as Much as I will, that they want to get it right no matter what? As it is happy, he was shooting at the time –

Mescal: I was shooting God’s Creatures, yeah. I JUST HAD TO GO AWAY AND READ IT. I had ben preparing to be david, so i had to go back and read it again and just with it for a bit.

How do you push past that Fear? And have you gotten better at it over the years?
Mescal: I think Gotten Better at it. But i think especilantly with the indegependent films i’ve done, this is the most traditional lead i’ve played. Gladiator is a different entity entirery. SANTING SANTING LIKE Aftersun is more of a co-lead situation. I hadn’t done that yet; I think this is the first version of that for me in films of this scale and Feel. And i push past it by just pulling my trousers up and going, You’re Ready for this. And putting a lot of Trust in Oliver. It was an experience of playing a roles in cinema where it is about showing the audience what you’re their time. This is an excess example of that. I WOULD Constantly Go To Oliver, “Are they Going to Understand what i’m doing?” And he would be pointing with in the right direction.

Can you tell me about the singing? Did that scare you too? You’re so exposed when you single.
Mescal: That was always the conversation. IT’S REALLY NOT A Musical in Terms of Performance or Style. Those Kinds of American Folk songs are actually actually of rooted in Irish culture, and it’s an an Irish style of singing I’d grown up and the kind of singing and music that I love. So that wasn’t really something caused with ners for that. I was looking forward to it. But when they do call “quiet” on the set and you’re standing up to single “Silver Dagger” –

Hermanus: Day Two.

Messcal: Oh yeah, on day two!

You were singing live?
Mescal: Oh yeah, the whole time. The movie Wauld really suffer with that.

So Much of the chemistry between you and josh unspoken; Instead of PHYSICAL OR IN SONGS AND GLANCES. Can you tell me with desceloping that together, creating that relationship?
Mescal: Come i saw the film for the first time, there’s a realness and an intellectual underestanding of each Other. That’s the Driving Force of their Relationship. On the surface, I think if People are running in exampting it to be a Big, Sweeping romance, it”s way more complicated than that, more interesting than that. It ‘Definitely that, but it is also a Meeting of the Minds. You know the Feeing we did you meet someone and you have a shared interest with and it is deep shared interest?

Yes.
Mescal: IT’S LOVE, ITI’S ADMINISTRATION, ITE’S INTELLECTUAL INSTRUCTION, ITHIS PHYSICAL ATTRACTION. All of Those Things are intertwined and cyometimes get torn. David is Holding Secrets Back. And Lionel, there’s something fascinating about the fact that he’s happy to be a blank canvas. He’s SO Open and Honest. You see that disconnect in these thorny conversations.

A lot of it, as you said, is in jilance. The building of chemistry is just that with and josh just have the most fun. I know the film has Kind of an intense feed to it, but seduce has the capacity to make me with the Feel Very Much Like a Young Boy. I felt Very playful. You would necessarily Associate it with the tone of the film.

Hermanus: It was a really Strong Bond. And they were naughty.

Mescal: Say More!

How so?
Mescal: Yeah, how so?!

Hermanus: They were running around! Where are they?

Mescal: There’s a Big Crane Shot – i don’t know if it is in the movie anymore. We’re Getting off this boat.

Hermanus: It is!

Mescal: Oh, it is. And it is like Big Long Schene, and Josh is talking to this schoolycher, and he tourns to me, and the camera is fucking miles away, and he just starts immediately laughing. And we walk up the hill like this (SHOULDERS SHking with Laughter). And oliver Goes, “Do you want to do it Propperly this time, like you’re getting paid to do your jobs?” Like, we’re thinking we’re not going to get seen by the Cameras.

Hermanus: And he Forgot All His Lines.

Mescal: Oh yeah, all his lines. Turned to me. And he didn’t’s go go, “I’ll just stop, then.” He did all the blocking. I was like, “What the fuck do you want with this?” I will Think Is Important. It Depends on the Relationship you have with the actor you’re working with; SOMEST YOU BENEFIT FROM A REAL INTERISTY, and JUSTICE AND I Never Dedidated, “Oh, We’re Going to Make this Light.” Becusee i think when it was required, we’d drop into a much deeper place.

Hermanus: That’s a will to the talent.

That they can drop in and out?
Hermanus: Yeah, and it never affected the calibration of that, the intensity of that. My Experience from the Third Perspective was that it was this inexplicable closes that has had so many different faces to it. Eight, Like, Driving to Work Together. Which was stressful for me.

You and Josh?
Mescal: Yeah, we’d drive to work Together. We’d drive ourselves.

Hermanus: A Director’s Worst Nightmare.

Why?
Mescal: Well, Because if we die there’s no film. That Old Chestnut.

Hermanus: You want to, like, pad their lives. I’m like, “Let’s not drive!”

Mescal: “WHAT TIME SHOULD I PICK YOU UP?” I Remember Feeling – We Shot for Six or Seven Weeks, and Josh was there for the first Three Weeks. And it was a really interesting thing for lionel and with, Becuse when he left, I really felt like i miss. With Independent Film, you can get hemmed in by financial restraints and those Scheduling suffers. But Our first ad did an Amazing jab scheduling seduce like that. Becuser he was gone, and i missed Him.

Hermanus: I was like, “Is Paul Going to Be Okay?”

Mescal: And i was meeting all of the characters lionel was meeting, like, “You ‘lovely, but you’re not josh. I miss my friend.”

Were you guys Friends beforehand?
Mescal: We bumped into each other in 2020. I was like, “I can’t win to make this movie Next Mont.” And josh was like, “I’m Pretty Sure’s Actually …” but josh did a zoom with me after Normal people Becusee we shared an agent. He was one of the first People who reached out, just because he wanted to say “Hi.” He’s a sweetie. One of the Good Guys. We knew each other before, but this was really the moment we got to know and love each Other.

Would you hang out now?
Mescal: Yeah, we do. He’s unfortunately not going to be able to make it Tomorrow Because his scheduling ran over the spielberg. We talked to Him yesterday, and he’s obviously devastated. It ‘s tough one Becausea i been years of our lives.

Spielberg Can’t Release Him?!
Mescal: Naughty Corner for Spielberg! But look, we were kind of trying to talk to the ledge and be like, “It’ah only May and we don’t know the movie is coming, but we’ll get to promote this together.”

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The Four Seasons On Netflix is ​​showing audiences a new side to tina fey, who stars in and co-created the series on the 1981 film of the Same name. Whereas Fey’s Previous Writing Credits, Like 30 rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtand Great Newswere all hard chomedies that skewed absurdist in the interest of being as joke-heavy as posssable, The Four Seasons is much more grounded. The Series, like the Movie Its Based on, Follows the Evolving Relationships of Three Middle-Age Maried Couples Over the Course of their Quarterly Vacations. It marks a rare tonal shift for fey, who very deliberately kept the show’s comedy tamer and more naturalistic – and as a result make it some of the interesting work to date.

Created by Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, The Show’s Writing Team Has Said That The Original Film Kepti Up As A Point of Reference for the Kind of Project they Wanted to Create. Eventually, instead of trying to make something like The Four SeasonsThey Decide to Just Remake The Four Seasons itself – retaining the pleasant sensitability and humor of the Alan Alda Film. KEEPING THAT SAME SLICE-LIGHT-Life Style Served Almost As an Exercise for the Writers to Work Outside of Their Usual tone. “All of the COMEDIES WE’VE Written are Just High Speed, High Joke Density, that they inevitably becom absurd and explode,” Fey Said in an interview with Deciders. “I was like, can we restrain ourselves to just actual human behavior and still make it funny?”

The Departure Paid off-The Show, Which Also Stars Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, Kenney-Silver, Will Forte, Marco Calvani, and Erika Henningsen-Quickly Took the No. 1 Spot On Netflix and Was Watched by 11.9 Million Households in the First Four Days of Its Release, Accounting to the Streamer. Though Things will get muddy when trying to compare streaming numbers to broadcast, it arguably marks one of Fey’s Most Mainstream Ratings, for a Show that MANY MIGHT HAVE HAVE WAS RUNNING.

While the stylistic pivot seems to have unlocked a wider audience, it also marks a new offering for Fey devotees. A Hallmark of Fey’s Writing Style Has Always Been Her Sky at Excavatting A Story for Any and Every Possible Joke there is to make, but with The Four SeasonsShe’s using that sun knack to instead dig deeper into the show’s characters and their Relationship dynamics. IT’S CERTAINLY STILL A Comedy, but one whose humor and engine stems from a focus on the fears, motivations, and quirks of the characters. The results is a meditation of sorts on Marriage, Friendship, and Aging. Notably, Fey is something to be Rarely Gets to be: Earnest.

In Total, Fey Has Written Nearly 50 Episodes of Scripted Television, Most of which Share A Common Absurdist sensitibility. That’s part of the reason this Change Feels almost like your favorite musician Jumping Genres (or “Going Country,” to quote Jenna Maroney). But Rather than Calling This Tina Fey’s Cowboy Cartera truer one-to-ion might be if weird al put out a norah jones album. In any case, she’s willing to forgo an extra punch line here and there to scale things down. For example, as the wrist of the show’s fifth episode, “Family Weekend,” she delivers a caareful -constructed portrayal of her character Kate’s Relationship with Her Husband Jack (Forte) SLIPING OUT OF SYNC. IT HAPPENS (as does their reconciliating) Not via big full of swings, but Rather Small Choices that create a conflict where neather part is at fault but all to blame. The Very Nature of Marital Monotony Makes it difficult to depict, but she’s able to just that by focus on the minutiae of this rut.

Jack’s gestures atmepting to rekindle their spark are subtle enough that they narrowly slip past kate, but not too too. It ‘s balance thats able to the convey that a Relationship’s problem isn’t always some tangible disagreement or big offense that you can point to. We have not even kate to lament to danny (domingo), she says, “IT’S THAT THAT I HAVE A WITH JACK, ITHE’S THE BEST. I’M JUST Saying, you know … you know what i’m saying.” And, Because of the Breathing Room room she gives for this conflict to play with nuance, we actually do what she’s saying her saying it.

Performance-Wise, Fey Thrives in these unspoken moments. While it is not new to see her take on roles that are more grinded or dramatic than liz lemon, this is the first time she’s doing with her own words. As the Writer, She’s Incredibly Proficient in the Subtext Beind what Kate is Saying, which Adds an enormous amount of depth to the portrayal. SINCE SO MUCH OF THIS COUPLE’S ARC BUBBLES UP UNDER THE SURFACE, The Company Being Sometimes Innocuous Lines is Key, Making Fey’s Expertise As The Writing The Invaluable.

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There’s an an excitement that comes from getting to see a work Work with a brand-new set of tools, Because it get to see new to a voice we’ve so well. And with a departure like this happy at this stage of Fey’s Career, ITH’S Exciting to Consider Its Success Might Influenza of Work Shees Moving Forward, Whether Be In This Newly Announces or Another Annator Project Project Altogether. In any case, her making this pivot in the form of The Four Seasons Feels especally apt gioven that it’s a show About Characters Having Midlife Assessments of the Path they’re on and where they have want to stay on it.

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The Question is not “Should I Watch the Nicole Scherzinger and Jonathan Groff ‘Actors on Actors’ Video?” The Question Instead is “Why has no one Ever Thought to put these two in a room alone for an hour unil now?” The Fourth Episode of the First-Go Broadway Edition of Variety‘S’ Actors on Actors’ Series Features the stars of Sunset Blvd. and Just in Time Acting out the “two delusional girls telling each other ‘exactly’” meme for nearly an hour. Both Scherzinger and Groff Have a Penchant for Earnest, WOO-WOOP PRECIATION FOR THETH, SETTING AMBER FROM THE SNARKY BANGING BANTER OF KIEAN CULKIN AND SARAH SNOOK OR THE WRY GRAVITAS AND PATTI LUPone. Swimming only these two affirming Each Other Left and Right About Discoverying New Parts of Your Body Can Come from and Bonding Over Feeling Like Rock Stars, they’re also slipping intoo bizarre, jokey asites that involve say involve. repeating that the other is hot and mentioning their various genitalia ways ofne often than in the usual “Actors on Actors” video. Example: Groff Tells Scherzinger Her Long Notes in Ballads Leave Seats Wet, Requiring a Mop and Bucket. Example: They Both discuss singing from their tint. Do you think you’re gonna get this kinda talk from Audra mcdonald?

While MANY “Actors on Actors” Videos Pair Up Form Castmates or Performers of a Similar Type, This May Be the Best-Go Pairing Driven by Energy Levels Alone. All at Once, these two flirtatious, sentimental, and so, so strange. When Scherzinger Tells Groff That Andrew Layd Webber Wrote “The Music to Her Soul,” Groff Nods With the Sage Calm of Someone Who Been Alive for Thousands of Years and Knows andrew Layd Webber Wrote the Music for Nicole Scherzinger’s Soul. If you druk every time eather of saying “Gift” or “privilege,” you’d be going to the hospital.

Fortunately, that’s a good thing, nor this is the type of chemistry that makes “actors on actors” SO endearingly memory. Groff and Scherzinger Are Perfect Theater Kids, Never Above the Art In Any Way and Endlessly Greateful for the Opportunities they’ve Been Given. So what if they want to talk about Scherzinger’s metaphorical balls for two minutes before Groff finally asks her how long it to be off the Blood Each Night? (The Answer: Not Long!) They’re pouring their souls out every night, and seated across from other in the rainbow room, it like eather burst into tears at any Second. HOPELLY CASTING Directors are Watching, Because the Raw Chemistry BetWeen Scherzinger and Groff Might Make for a Good Oncestage One of the Days. Is it too too to bring back Sweeney todd?

or listling For an unassuming brick house in the south suburbs of chicago was abruptly Pulked off the market on thighsday after the owner learned that he had ben to flip the childhod of pope leo XIV. The Three-Bedroom (with an indeterminate Number of Baths-Reports have varied from 1.5 to a hard-to-picture thre) Where Robert Prevost Lived in Dolton, Illinois, Decades before Being Electted the First American Pope, Had Been for More for recent nansing price Of $ 199,900. That Number Could Change, Says Listen Agent Steve Budzik: “EVERY Idea’s Up in the Air right now.”

Acciting to Budzik, The Current Owner is a Real-Estate Investor and Licensed Electrician Who Has Rehabited and Flipped A Number of Propperties in the Area and Who Purchased at 212 E. 141st Place for Installed some granite and subway tile in the kitchen and replace the hardwood flooring with vinyl planks before putting it back on the market. The Layout, Howver, is the Same as we prevost’s parants Purchased the house in 1949, for Budzik.

What ideas Might the Owner have in Mind for the Overnight Landmark? “Some Sort of Museum or Viewing Center,” Budzik Says. “Possibly like a short-term rental, where People can Stay for the Night.” (A Similar Idea for an Airbnb Treatment of Donald Trump’s Childhood Home in Jamaica Estate Flopped, for what it is Worth.)

The Owner, who accorting to Budzik is Expecting a new child any day now with his way and is “probably” going to take ak before deciding next steps, COULD also just cash now. The New York Post reported that four people put in offers after the news of the new Brokes its Religiious Connection, and Budzik Tells with and Let A Few People in to See the Space and Way to Meet Another. If they Wind up selling, They Could Easily Get $ 400,000, Budzik Estimates. “Maybe i’m Way off. Maybe someone Willing to pay More,” he Says. Swimming sura how the new pope would Feel About that.

قام النجم الأميركي دينزل واشنطن برحلة سريعة إلى مهرجان كان السينمائي الدولي ،ل مشاركته في مسرحية باي برواي برواي ، برواي. وذلك لحضور العرض الأول لفيلم الفيلم المخرج سبايك لي “أعلى إلى أدنى مساء الاثنين ، وحصل على مة مفاجئة وهية ذهية ذهية ذσة فخرية.

وقامت إدارة المهرجان بتعديل جدولها لاستقبال دينزل واشنطن خلال رحلته السريعة إلى ، ، والتي جت يوم يوم يوم يوم يوم الوحيد من مسرحية “أوثيلو” ”التي يقوم ببولتها في نيويورك. وفاجأ رئيس مهرجان كان السينمائي تيري فريمو واشنطن بالجائة قبل العرض الأول مساء الاثنين.

وقال مخرج الفيلم سبايك لي ، الذي قدم الجائة إلى واشنطن “هذا أخي ، هنا”.
من جانبه ، قال واشنطن “هذه مفاجأة تامة بالنسبة لي”.

وعادة ما يمنح المهرجان جائة سعفة ذهبية واحدة أو اثنتين في كل دورة. وفي العام الماضي ، تم منح الجائة إلى “ستوديو جيبلي” و “. والأسبوع الماضي ، حصل رل روبرت دي نيرو على جئة سعفة ذهبية فخرية في ليلة افتاح المهرجان.

وكان قد تم الإعلان عن جائة دي مسبقا ، ولكن الجوائ المفاجئة حدثت من قبل ، ففي عام 2022 ، تم منح توم جائة سعفة ذهبية فخرية مفاجئة “قبل عرض فيلم” توب جان: مافريك “.

انخفضفضت أسعار الذهب ، حيث أدى الارتفاع الطفيف للدولار والتفاؤل بشأن احتمال وقف الاق النار بين روسيا إلى إلا إلى إلى إلى تراجع الطلب على الملاذ الآمن.

ونزل الذهب في المعامعاملات الفورية بنسبة 0.5 في المئة إلى 3213.35 دولاراً ، وانخفضفضفضت العقود bur المئة إلى 3215.50 دولاراً.

أعلنت صحيفة “فاينانشال تايمز” نقلا عن مصادر مطلعة ، أن شركة “أبل” تعتزم نقل تجميع كل هواتف ” الولايات المتحدة إلى الهند في وقت قريب قد يكون العام المقبل.

وتي هذه الخة ضمن استراتيجية أوسع لتنويع سلة توريد “آبل” بعيدا الصين ، لا تزال تهيمن معلىم معلم معلم التحتية التصنيعية.

وبحسب التقرير ، من المتوقع أن تصل طل الإنتاج في الهند إلى أكثر من 60 مليون هاتف آيفون سنوياً ب mistake 2026 ، أي. الإنتاج الحالي.

وتعد الولايات المتحدة السوق الأهم لآبل ، حيث شكلت حوالي 28% من شحنات آيفون العالميvest نقل الإنتاج من الاعتماد على الصين من المخاطر الجيوسياسية طوية المدى المرتبطة بالعلاقات الأميركية بالإية ، الإافالإافالإافالإافالإافالإافالإافالإافالإافالإافالإافالإ. إلى تفادي الرسوم الجمركية المرتفعة.

وتمثل هذه الخوة رد فعل مباشر على أجندة الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترب لـ ”الرسوم المتبادلة” رسوماً على الصين بلغت ذروتها عند 145% ، ولا تزال تفرض ر بنسبة 20% على الهواتف الذكية.

كما يدرس ترامب فرض رسوم جديدة على المنتجات الغنية بأشباه الموصلات ، مما يؤثر على خنتاج آبل بالكامل.