Keanu Reeves, Kevin McHale, Carly Rae Jepsen, Andy Cohen, Ballet Hispánico, Ken Burns, Zack Snyder, and MORE: #GAYNRDDAILY
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#GAYNRDDAILY Our sometimes daily, but always relevant round-up of news, art, tweets, anecdotes, and ephemera from around the world and social media for September 16, 2022. Photo above a pier in Huntington Beach California.
COVERS for Nightwing #99 by Dan Mora.
SNYDER CUTS Zack Snyder was the guest star of 365th episode of Teen Titans Go!
Don’t forget to watch the 365th episode of Teen Titans Go! today on Cartoon Network at 2PM (PDT) #TeenTitansGo #CartoonNetwork pic.twitter.com/ddRib0ouCa
— Zack Snyder (@ZackSnyder) September 16, 2022
And he gave the kids Snyder cuts!
BALLET HISPÁNICO’S “DIÁLOGOS” conversation series exploring the interconnections of the arts, social justice, and Latino culture. This Hispanic Heritage Month, Ballet Hispánico has partnered with The Ali Forney Center and the Stonewall Initiative to create a discussion about Reimagining Heteronormativity in Dance. The discussion will feature panelists Eduardo Vilaro, Sergio Trujillo, Sam Ratelle, Jason Rodriguez, Angelica Torres, and Dre Torres, moderated by Tamia Blackman-Santana.
Ballet Hispánico has been the leading voice intersecting artistic excellence and advocacy and is now the largest Latinx cultural organization in the United States and one of America’s Cultural Treasures. The organization provides the physical home and cultural heart for Latinx dance in the nation. Ballet Hispánico has developed a robust public presence across its three main programs: its Company, School of Dance, and Community Arts Partnerships. Through its exemplary artistry, distinguished training program, and deep-rooted community engagement efforts, Ballet Hispánico champions and amplifies underrepresented voices in the field. For over fifty years Ballet Hispánico has provided a place of honor for the omitted, overlooked, and oppressed. As it looks to the next fifty years and beyond, Ballet Hispánico seeks to empower, and give agency to, the Latinx experience and those individuals within it.
HE WASN’T ALWAYS GAY
GRAMMY Juno- and Polaris Prize-nominated singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen releases the infectious new single “Talking To Yourself” from her forthcoming album The Loneliest Time. “Talking To Yourself” is available now at all digital retailers. Watch the official visualizer for “Talking ToYourself”. Produced by Captain Cuts, and co-written by Jepsen, Ryan Rabin, Benjamin Berger, and Simon Wilcox, “Talking To Myself” follows the release of “Beach House” and “Western Wind.” All three songs will be featured on Jepsen’s fifth studio album The Loneliest Time, set for release October 21 on 604/Schoolboy/Interscope Records. The Loneliest Time is available for pre-order.
Photo by: Meredith Jenks
Jepsen will give fans a taste of the new album when she hits the road next week on The So Nice Tour, kicking off in Cleveland, OH. For a complete list of tour dates, and to purchase tickets, visit www.carlyraemusic.com/tour
MARVEL VS DC FANS
TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF
HELLBLAZER Keanu Reeves is returning as John Constantine. It’s official y’all! According to Deadline: Warner Bros will develop another installment of the 2005 supernatural thriller Constantine, and the studio is re-teaming star Keanu Reeves and director Francis Lawrence, who made his helming debut on the original. Akiva Goldsman will write the screenplay and produce the project through his Weed Road Pictures, alongside Bad Robot’s J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella.
Into The Light one more time!#Constantine2 pic.twitter.com/g92iXSRIlP
— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) September 16, 2022
When it opened 17 years ago the Reeves-starring pic based on the intricate DC character grossed over $200 million in 2005 box office dollars worldwide. It opened a world of potential, and fans have long been hot on a sequel. Reeves will reprise as supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine, who in the original is dying but stays around to save his soul by keeping demons from hell from breaching earth. He also gets between a battle between the archangel Gabriel and Lucifer.
COVER BOY
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SUNSET Carlsbad State Beach Campgrounds.
GRAY SWEATSUIT SEASON IS HERE
OUT Magazine showcases 15 sexy pics of Glee legend Kevin McHale.
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER Damian Wayne and Tim Drake.
WEIRD FOOT STUFF
SNAP SNAP SHOT The World’s Most Liveable Cities.
OK SO BOOM!
DOCUMENTARY DRAMA The Hollywood Reporter: At which “America First” rhetoric and anti-immigrant, anti-refugee sentiment remain fervent, as one state after another uses coded language to outlaw the teaching of any piece of our history that dares to deviate from a discernibly false narrative of American exceptionalism, The U.S. and the Holocaust stands as one of the most vital projects in Burns’ five-decade relationship with PBS.
Smartly constructed and packed with avenues for future research and investigation, the three-night series may be the most viscerally affecting film to carry Burns’ name. It isn’t surprising how much sadness it induces, nor the sheer amount of anger it generates. But it’s a tremendous relief that the filmmakers find sources of inspiration and heroic interludes to stave off soul-draining exhaustion.
One of the interesting things about Burns’ career at this point is the way that he’s told so many stories that each new film feels at least partially like it’s communicating and intersecting with an earlier project, either filling in a crucial gap or germinating what was previously a small seed. The U.S. and the Holocaust could be a sequel to Burns and Novick’s 2007 The War, an expansion of 2016’s Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War (directed with Artemis Joukowsky), a largely missing chapter from 2014’s The Roosevelts: An Intimate History and a career-arcing complement to 1985’s The Statue of Liberty, all while standing devastatingly on its own.
The first installment of The U.S. and the Holocaust has a lot of groundwork to lay, and I’m suspecting there will be at least some viewers who are impatient to jump into the multi-tiered tragedy without the historical refreshers on waves of American immigration restriction — “Exclusion of people and shutting them out has been as American as apple pie,” historian Peter Hayes says — and the Nazi rise to power.
FAIR TRADE
GRATUITOUS SMOKER
ANDY COHEN and NBC are teaming up for a comedy based on the Watch What Happens Live host, producer and former Bravo executive’s childhood. The Hollywood Reporter: The project is called Most Talkative and inspired by Cohen’s memoir of the same title. It comes from Universal Television and Blumhouse Television. Theater veterans Gordon Greenberg (Holiday Inn: The New Irving Berlin Musical) and Michael Weiner (First Date on Broadway) will pen the script, and Emmy winner Todd Holland (Malcolm in the Middle, 30 Rock) is set to direct.
Most Talkative is a coming-of-age comedy that will follow a fictionalized, 13-year-old Andy Cohen growing up in 1980s St. Louis. He’s gay, loves the Cardinals, has a stoner for a bar mitzvah tutor, and his soap opera-fueled imagination makes him both the life of the party and a source of endless drama. Per its logline, the potential series is about “not fitting into any one box and figuring out how to build your own.”
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