This week: Hallmark is about to take over your life . The funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. Not happy about the Devil Wears Prada sequel.
Kim Kardashian is starring alongside who ?! An ad for the ages. If You Can, Go See Oh, Mary! It’s an easy route to sell stories about pop culture in 2024. Did you happen to like something? It’s a masterpiece! Roughly five movies and nine TV shows end up being called the best of the year.
Histrionics and hyperbole garner interest, and I don’t feel bad about it because, at the end of the day, we’re drawing attention to great things at a time when there are so many things that excellence can get lost. I can’t imagine anyone in New York ignoring the excellence of Oh, Mary! It just opened this week. (Read the review by The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman, heartily endorsed by me, here .
) I still laugh about the day Tim and I were leaving to go to the press preview, and our brilliant colleague Michael Daly asked where we were going. I prefaced the explanation with, “This will sound ridiculous, but it’s the best thing in New York right now..
.” before explaining the whole Oh, Mary! thing: A cult-favorite comedian wrote and stars in a play about Mary Todd Lincoln, who in this version was a former cabaret star desperate to circumvent her possibly gay husband (President Abe) and return to the stage. “‘This sounds ridiculous’ is how every brilliant thing is made,” Daly said.
Conrad Ricamora and Cole Escola Emilio Madrid There’s s.