BOO!!! Well, it’s been quite a week — the above is a representation of how I feel, and we’re not yet even AT the week I’ve been dreading since, oh, November 2020.
In case you missed any of our nonsense this week, or you need distractions, over at Drinks With Broads the free subscribers got to read about my youthful obsession with landline phones and Lucas Bravo’s dedication to being written out of Emily in Paris — a theme we continued in Thursday’s paid issue, along with a review of The Franchise on HBO and everyone trading their favorite distractions. Also, just now, I wrote that show title as Emily in Pairs, so hopefully in season 5 she becomes part of a figure skating duo.
And here at GFY, we opened the week with the CFDAs, and admired the red gown Selena Gomez wore to go vote before her premiere (I’ve seen the video on her stylist’s Instagram and she’s skipping along delightedly cheering that she voted). And folks have a LOT of recommendations for lip balm, including advice on making your own. We also rounded up a bunch of items you might buy if you wish to spend your feelings.
Elsewhere:
– It’s Halloween — or, well, it was — so The Ringer put out an oral history of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Did you know Wes Craven wrote it in a pith helmet and a bathrobe? Now you do!
– There are rumors, first reported by Puck, that GOOP is struggling. Lainey summed those up this week and wonders, “Will Gwyneth be compelled to ingratiate herself to us?” Good luck with that, Gwyneth. [LaineyGossip]
– They’ve done an NFL game with Toy Story content, and Spongebob, and now The Simpsons will get on board with an alternate stream of December 9’s Monday night game between the Bengals and the Cowboys. If they each remain a bumbling pair of Milhouses up until then, the Springfield denizens should have a great time. [USA Today]
– Jon Stewart will hang around The Daily Show for another year, through December 2025. Considering the way he JUST defended Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist jokes about Puerto Rico and Latinx people, I cannot think of a reward he deserves less, but I don’t decide these things. [Pajiba]
– Three years after its first season took off, Squid Game is coming back on Dec. 26 — a blood-soaked holiday season to you, from Netflix! — and there’s a trailer. [Deadline]
– Well, whether we’re sick of Wicked advertising or not, early reviews are wildly complimentary. [Variety]
– Timely! Architectural Digest reports on A Guide to Ghostbusting Your Haunted House.
– Nobody enjoys trolling their fans more than Scandal co-stars Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn. Now, they’ve roped in Scott Foley for a Challengers parody photo. [Reddit]
– This is cranky and interesting, at The Offcut: “Quick question: has everything become so devoid of chemistry [that] two people bantering in a chicken shop has us foaming at the mouth?” I will admit that I, too, watched the Chicken Shop Date with Andrew Garfield and Amelia Dimoldenberg and did not see what everyone else apparently saw, much less want to watch it AGAIN (I barely made it through the whole thing the first time).
– This is funny. If it doesn’t embed for you, click here to watch Hugh Grant reading lines from horror movies as if they’re rom-coms:
He often seems like a terrible crank, and he’s reputed to be a jerk on the regular, but damned if he isn’t so watchable. Especially when he’s playing a rogue. Perhaps he likes it when art imitates life.
[Photo: John Nacion/WWD via Getty Images]
