Comedian-actor Bill Burr will host the first post-election “Saturday Night Live” with musical guest guitarist, producer and vocalist Mk.gee. Charli XCX is also coming up.
Burr, on tour with his “Bill Burr Live” show and who will join Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk on Broadway this spring on a revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” makes his second appearance as host on Nov. 9.
Charli XCX will do double duty on Nov. 16 in her first appearance as “SNL” host and third appearance as musical guest. She’s fresh off the hit album “Brat” and two connected albums.
Mk.gee will perform as a musical guest for the first time. He is currently on a world tour prompting his debut album, “Two Star & The Dream Police.”
“SNL” returns Nov. 2 with already announced host John Mulaney and musical guest Chappell Roan.
The 50th season has featured Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris, James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump and Jim Gaffigan as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Film academy adds handwritten “Pulp Fiction” script, Miyazaki art, more to vast collection
No one knew what Quentin Tarantino had in the duffle bag.
He and many other A-listers were gathered recently at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles for its glitzy annual fundraising gala. Tarantino was among the honorees. And as he approached the podium to make his speech, the bag did not go unnoticed. At the very least, it was unusual.
Then he opened it up and presented its contents: It was his original handwritten script for "Pulp Fiction," with mistakes, misspellings and all. He was giving it to the museum.
"The script is legendary," said Matt Severson, the executive vice president of academy collection and preservation. "No one was expecting it. This was not a coordinated effort on the part of the academy. This is Quentin thinking what can he do to make his stamp on the museum?"
It's one of many high-profile acquisitions to the Academy's vast film memorabilia collection that the organization announced Thursday, including original "Ponyo" art by Hayao Miyazaki, glasses worn by Mink Stole in "Pink Flamingos," Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken costume from "John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.," animator maquettes of Figaro and Geppetto from Disney's "Pinocchio" and six storyboards from "The Silence of the Lambs."
The organization has also acquired personal collections of filmmakers Paul Verhoeven, Barbara Kopple, Nicole Holofcener, Oliver Stone and Curtis Hanson, as well as 70mm prints of Christopher Nolan's best-picture winner"Oppenheimer," and David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Ryan's Daughter."
"We want items from the history of cinema that relate to all ages and levels of interest," Severson said. "We are preserving this global film history. And it's something that the academy has been doing since its founding in... Read More