Spinning Out Waiting for You
To pull me innnnnnnnnnnnn.
Cheerio, mates!
JK, I promise I wasn’t one of those people who studied abroad and came home with an Australian “accent”—but my god, weren’t those people the worst? I am, however, extremely excited to hit up another country for the first time in WAY too long in less than a week.
London is most definitely calling, but first a couple days in NYC and a couple more in the Hamptons. Life is certainly not bad, that I can say. But of course there has to be something happening to make me low-key anxious. Like discovering I never got my monthly delivery of contact lenses or dropping my phone in the toilet after forgetting it was in the back pocket of my jeans.
But…I know it’s all gonna work out.
It’s too early to call the eye doc at at the exact moment I’m typing this, but I’m sure they’ll have some samples for me and I had, perhaps, the best Genius Bar experience of my life yesterday. The vibrations over in my corner of that Apple store were indeed immaculate. Was my Genius a Harrie and a Directioner who I could chat about everything from Harry’s House and Liam’s messy life to how scary Carries are and general fangirl life? YOU BET SHE WAS. Because one thing I’m always going to do is find my people out in the wild.
Did they also replace my phone for an extremely minimal fee? ALSO YES. Bless AppleCare always and forever. Then the couple across from me—who thought they were going to have to shell out to have not one, but two cracked screens fixed—found out said cracks were actually on the screen protectors. IMMACULATE VIBES I TELL YOU.
We simply love to see it. The highly strategic packing for myriad temperatures and plans is another matter, but I’ll sort that this afternoon too. (Update: Contacts secured! I know you must have been deeply concerned.)
Since I’ll be traveling, no new pod or newsletter next week. But I'll be all over Instagram, I’m sure.
But there is a fun (I hope!) lil hodgepodge of an episode up now wherein I dive into everything from soft swinging Mormon moms, how deeply uncomfortable former Mormon Julie made me on Real World Homecoming: New Orleans (and her castmates agree that she is the WORST…see a couple posts below), Fire Island and the whole Bechdel kerfuffle, The Deep End, Neve Campbell + Scream, Austin Butler, the royals, and more. I also got to pop onto NECN to chat with Sue Campbell about the pod which was super fun. You can watch the interview here.
And, as promised on the pod, here is that adorable photo of Harry and Meghan’s sweet one-year-old, Lilibet Diana aka Lili. This wee ginger has stolen her father’s entire face and she is extremely cute.
Also, congrats to Britney Spears on her wedding yesterday—even though that asshat Jason Alexander (who she was married to for about five minutes) tried to ruin it!
Parts of the guest list don’t make a ton of sense to me, but I am so happy for Brit and she looks amazing and blissful. (The wedding dress is Versace and Donatella was in attendance.)
I do think Drew Barrymore is a great person to have around her because she really has been Through It™ in her life as well…and come out the other side in a way that continues to impress. I was just saying the other day that I need to get my hands on a copy of Little Girl Lost to reread. That was a fundamental tome to my generation.
There’s also a chance new Beyoncé music coming this weekend or in the v. near future as she’s removed all her profile pictures from her socials—and rumors have been swirling to this effect for a while now. And Ms. Tina posted, “I miss your singing.” As you can imagine, the internet is in a tizzy.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! RING THE ALARM!!!!!!!!!!!!
We Can Sometimes Have Nice Things
Sure Twitter is filled with insurrection chatter, but some things still amuse.
Hard agree on this point.
And this one.
I’m a DC girlie for life. Every time I quit, it pulls me back in.
The way this tweet went viral, it would appear a lot of people never figured out what “This Little Piggy” was actually all about. I also thought they went shopping as a kid, but I didn’t know so many among us hadn’t rethought the premise.
Did Somebody Say Future EGOT?
This week brought us our first official look and the release date (October 21 in theaters/November 4 on Amazon Prime) for My Policeman, starring the British man, Emma Corrin, and David Dawson. I have spoken about this devastating and beautiful novel by Bethann Roberts often and of course will be seeing the film opening night as an early birthday present that may also cause my demise.
I love a rollout that involves a Vanity Fair exclusive—you can smell the awards campaign all over it. And even though H himself has said there is a naked “bum bum” involved in at least some of the sex scenes, the early marketing is not WATCH HARRY STYLES GET RAILED, which is a little different than what we’ve seen so far involving a racy Watermelon Sugar-y scene with Florence Pugh in Don’t Worry Darling.
I love this for him. What can’t he do?
A few choice quotes from the VF story:
“He [Styles] had read the script so many times that he knew every single beat of it at that meeting. I found that incredibly impressive. He knew other people’s lines; he knew all of his lines. He knew why he wanted to talk about it, why one scene worked this way and another worked.” —Michael Grandage, director
“This story is about two people that are in love with Tom, slightly obsessed with him…Harry—the world is so transfixed on him, on his every move.” —Robbie Rogers, producer
That rehearsal also gave the cast a chance to work through the film’s the sex scenes. Grandage says that they were carefully choreographed to avoid prurience: to “quite literally show something that was about ‘lovemaking’ in the broadest sense of the word, something that was choreographically interesting and not just some kind of thrusting sense of sex going on.”
My heart might not be able to handle this. The book left me with physical chest pain.
The most heartbreaking part of My Policeman, says Grandage, “is that these two men, when they’re together, seem to be free. And then when he has to have an act of lovemaking, or a sexual act, with his wife he seems to not have that freedom, just even in his body language.”
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
“Because he hasn’t done much, he hasn’t developed the ability to work out tricks or even lie. He can only do it truthfully and as he knows it.” —Michael Grandage
Ugh, I cannot wait.
You Don’t Have to Be Cool to Rule My World
My friend Tia posted this the other day and I was instantly transported back in time because of course I was also OBSESSED with the movie Kiss Me Goodbye back in the day.
It should shock not a single person that I had a wicked crush on James Caan, even as a kid. He was so smokin’ hot. His shoulders really do it for me.
Anyway, the basic premise is that (a charming-as-ever) Sally Field is the widow of Caan’s Broadway actor/dancer Jolly, who is about to get remarried to a nerdy archaeologist played by (an also v. handsome) Jeff Bridges when Jolly shows up as a ghost in their house (where he also died) to fuck with her life.
I loved it SO much and T and I were lamenting that it’s not easy to find on streaming. Though it does appear to be available via a Starz subscription on Amazon Prime. This led us to get mad all over again about other faves of ours that aren’t regularly available like…
Irreconcilable Differences
Shag
And the TV show Sisters. I want my Teddy and Georgie and Frankie and Alex…and eventually Charley!!!!!!
I know how spoiled we are now because I am old enough to remember when there were like three channels. But it’s RUDE that I can’t get to everything I want, lol.
Which shows and movies are you annoyed you can’t find?!?
Oh, and…
Obviously super clever and interesting and funny people are obsessed with pop culture. Duh. Thanks for noticing, The Guardian … Harry’s isolated vocals on “Daydreaming” and “Satellite”. You’re welcome … Deshaun Watson is such a fucking creep and I’m so glad that my team decided to make Matt Ryan our QB1. Sorry to all the nice Browns fans out there who I know are upset that their team is paying this man SO much money … Day Drinking with Seth is one of my all-time favorite late night franchises … According to Variety, Julia Garner is maybe going to play Madonna in the biopic that Madge herself is directing. I just have a lot of doubts about if and when this project is actually going to make it to our screens … I am all the way in on a Brad Pitt Formula One movie, co-produced by Lewis Hamilton and directed by Joseph Kosinski, who just did Top Gun: Maverick … Color me intrigued … I loved this Joel Kim Booster profile on Vulture.
Until next we chat, here’s the photo that made my feelings for Austin Butler, um, change—and the Harry energy it’s giving. Let’s just say I don’t think he’s only going to be “Vanessa Hudgens’ ex-boyfiend” in my head from this point forward. (I’ve heard mixed things about Elvis as a movie, but that he’s quite good…we shall see. I do know he looks fine AF. And tall.)
xA
DYING for the policeman!!