I accidentally forgot to upload this picture of Timothee Chalamet from the Gotham Awards, so I’m sharing it here. He apparently has the mustache because he’s shooting a movie in which he plays a 1950s ping-pong player, and not because he’s decided that it’s his new aesthetic. I think he would be correct not to keep it.
This week on GFY started out HOT, with our holiday gift guide, British Fashion Awards (part 1, part 2) AND the Gotham Awards (part 1, part 2), and we also got a double-barrel of double nipples from Emma Corrin. Over at Drinks With Broads, our free issue on Tuesday talked about Apple Martin’s terrible custom look for her absurd Parisian debutante ball and tucked into Christmas in the Spotlight, Lifetime’s cringefest about Taylor and Travis. Yesterday, the paids got a treatise on Holiday Touchdown and A Real Pain, which might be Kieran Culkin’s Oscar movie. (I promise I’m not going to spend all of December just discussing Christmas movies; it just happened that way this week.) It was chock-a-block with words about stuff over there.
Also: We are running a sale on annual subscriptions to Drinks With Broads — it is currently 20% off, so $40 a year instead of $50. This is a DEAL! So if you’ve been on the fence, now is the time. Save yourself some money and get ready for all the awards season fun on the horizon.
Elsewhere in the Interworld:
– Lainey breaks down the rumors about Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan’s breakup, which appears to involve dueling TikTok influencers? I cannot bring myself to learn about them any more than Lainey already has, so thank you to her for doing the Lord’s work in filtering the gossip for me.
– The trailer for Netflix’s Aaron Rodgers documentary has dropped, and I am in full agreement with Pajiba that Aaron Rodgers is THE WORST; what I can’t decide is whether I can tolerate him long enough to get through this thing, even as a hate-watch. I suspect I might fight through it for Drinks With Broads, but… am I strong enough?
– The Ringer did an amusing oral history of the time in 2017 when they declared Chick-Fil-A fries the best in America: “You have a problem. You have an immediate credibility problem when you trot out a list that purports to be a ranking, and the very first thing that appears on that list is waffle fries.”
– Conan O’Brien is appearing on a New Zealand soap opera? As a surgeon? Fug Nationals from that part of the world, PLEASE watch Shortland Street on December 12 — that’s Thursday — and report back!
– Hailee Steinfeld got engaged to Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen, which is delightful news, except that his ex-girlfriend did not take it well. Or, maybe she took it just fine, and her accounts were simply mysteriously HACKED. Sure. I did laugh when Allen’s teammate Dion Hawkins said that Josh played well last Sunday because he’s engaged now. Enjoy the jokes while they’re here, Hailee; eventually the famous partners of athletes always get blamed for the bumps in the road.
– At the New Yorker, “The New Business of Breakups: After getting dumped (by text), a writer investigates the feverish boom in heartbreak apps, breakup coaches, and get-over-him getaways.” Who has the disposable income to pour into all this right now? I guess… rich New Yorkers?
– Oh Lordy, Bill Lawrence is officially trying to reboot Scrubs. No one is attached yet and it’s not even clear if he’ll work on it himself, but that is not a show I’m nostalgic for; I find Zach Braff intolerable enough when he acts the overgrown imp in his T-Mobile ads. As Bill Lawrence pointed out in Bluesky, if we hate it, at least we can have fun complaining about it! But… while I don’t begrudge anyone jobs, Bill Lawrence did so well with original intellectual property like Ted Lasso and Shrinking! Let’s stay in the present!
– Here is “A Brief History of Egg Nog,” courtesy of Mental Floss. Today I learned that George Washington put THREE kinds of booze in his? I guess he WAS outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered, outplanned; he probably had a LOT of bad-idea coping mechanisms.
– The Hollywood Reporter ran a roundtable with female producers, and there’s a pretty entertaining anecdote about Simon Rex and a prosthetic penis. Never let it be said that producing is all glamour.
– HuffPo did a piece on the perceived mental health benefits of coloring, and that’s not the first time I’ve heard this. Apparently there’s a whole community for this on both TikTok and Reddit — well, that’s not entirely shocking; there’s a community there for everything — and they swap marker tips and book suggestions, and color along with people. I’m curious: Have any of you tried this, and do you think it’s effective? Usually I turn to a puzzle or to my Switch when I really need to chill out, but am I overlooking something better?
Do you have any links you want to share this week? Plonk ‘em in the comments!
