In A Man Called Otto, Tom Hanks stars as a grunty older man named Otto, who’s sort of a dick. He’s a little bit of a busybody. He lives on a quiet street in suburban Pittsburgh where everybody seems to know each other and where you need a parking permit …
Read More »Austin Butler and the SNL Cast Serenade Cecily Strong With Elvis' 'Blue Christmas'
Just prior to tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, the show’s Instagram account announced that it would be the final episode to feature celebrated cast member Cecily Strong, one of the show’s last remaining veterans. Over the course of her 11-year run, Strong would prove to be one of the …
Read More »Austin Butler's Full Concert Performance as Elvis Presley Will Be Released, Baz Luhrmann Promises
Austin Butler’s full performances as Elvis Presley — a fraction of which were captured in the Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis biopic — will “one day” see the light of day, the director promised in a series of recent interviews. Related: How to Watch Elvis Online During the shooting of the film, …
Read More »Brandi Carlile, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Join SZA as Final 'Saturday Night Live' Musical Guests of 2022
Brandi Carlile, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and SZA help Saturday Night Live close out 2022 as the musical guests for the last three shows of the year. SZA (as previously announced) will return to SNL for her second musical performance on Dec. 3 with first-time host Keke Palmer. Carlile will …
Read More »Elvis Presley Died 45 Years Ago. Has 'Elvis' the Movie Finally Revived Him?
Forty-five years ago, on Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead in the bathroom of his palatial Graceland estate in Memphis — officially of cardiac arrest, but the medicine cabinet of prescription drugs in his system surely didn’t help. In the decades since, reviving Presley and his legacy has …
Read More »What's Up With Austin Butler's New Southern Drawl?
Baz Luhrmann‘s Elvis, a biopic starring Austin Butler, has created a resurgence of criticism of the late icon — from his grooming of Priscilla to his affair with Anne Margret to his appropriation of Black music. But there’s one thing people can’t seem to get over: the actor’s continual use …
Read More »Baz Luhrmann Says Harry Styles Was Already Too Much of an 'Icon' to Play Elvis in New Biopic
Harry Styles is perpetually plagued by the burden of being too iconic. During a recent appearance on the Australian radio podcast Fitzy & Wippa, director Baz Luhrmann revealed that he ultimately passed on the pop musician for the lead role in Elvis, his first film in nearly a decade, because …
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