At Least Sylvester Stallone Is Honest About His Nepotism

While most celebrities will try to hem and haw about getting their nepo babies jobs in Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone is refreshingly honest about casting his daughter on Tulsa King: “Of course it’s nepotism, you idiot.” Doesn’t get much better than that. - (The Wrap)

Steve Martin first hosted Saturday Night Live 50 years ago. You really can’t think of one without the other. - (LateNighter)

Last week I mentioned all the reboots, but missed that Jessica Biel wants to “modernize” the 7th Heaven reboot. - (AVC)

I’m not familiar with the show Young Sheldon, but apparently the characters are supposed to be the same age as the actors who play them. 30-year-old Emily Osment requesting an Intimacy Coordinator to protect her 18-year-old co-worker during kissing scenes is fantastic! - (Variety)

Noah Wyle says Donnie Darko gave him ‘street cred,’ but jokes that he still doesn’t know ‘what the movie is about.’ No one does, dude. - (PEOPLE)

Also, I do not know what this is all about: Seán McGirr’s final Alexander McQueen collection. - (GFY)

Our hearts go out to the young actor Matthew Lamb (High Potential) and his family. - (Deadline)

The AI-ification of restaurant menus has been getting out of hand everywhere. Local joints used to have pictures of their actual food. Now it’s pictures of, I don’t even know what it’s of. Just Eat, a popular food delivery service, had to remove some bizarre food images after they tried to use AI to generate images for some of their smaller restaurants. - (Country Updates)

Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train AI models - (The Guardian)

Two Fox News Entertainment personalities got married this weekend. - (I’m not linking anything here because I don’t care. You can find it if that’s something you’re interested in.)

Billy Corgan cites his Christianity as he defends his longtime friendship with Marilyn Manson… insert your own eyerolls. - (EW)

Elderberrywine has the perfect collection of stories for Spooky Season, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood. She especially recommends “The Man Whom the Trees Loved” as a creepy tale. “Let us say the trees are not malignant. Instead…they are supremely indifferent towards the wife. Somehow, that’s worse.” What are you recommending people read for creepiness? (Cannonball Read 18)

The dogs were SO good again! Helpful hint: You might want a tissue nearby for #1.