Ridley Scott Doesn’t Want To Hear Russell Crowe’s ‘B*tching’

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | September 3, 2024 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | September 3, 2024 |

Ridley Scott is not in the mood to listen to Russell Crowe’s “b*tching” about Gladiator 2 as the director admits not consulting him about the sequel. “Why would I? He’s dead!” (Variety)

Rachel Weisz joining Daniel Craig in Venice is a rare sight. (Lainey Gossip)

George Clooney on his Biden op-ed: “None of that is gonna be remembered.” (Celebitchy)

Elon Musk is dazzled by the sublime wisdom of a 4chan post. (Wonkette)

From Petr: Unlike Jonathan Majors, Steve Buscemi actually stopped a fight. (NME)

Sony has unreleased a major PlayStation release after just two weeks. Is that bad? That seems really, really bad. (Polygon)

Do not cast Jenna Ortega as “Jamie Bond.” (The Wrap)

Meanwhile, Anya Taylor-Joy’s dream role is… Elsa from Frozen? (THR)

This is Ben Affleck’s response to the butt selfie? Bro. (Page Six)

J calls Rob Copeland’s The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend a delightful, if imperfect, workplace drama . “It feels like wacky story after wacky story, with people dipping in and out. It’s hard to get a sense of narrative flow.” Do you have some books about messy workplaces to recommend? (Cannonball Read 16)

The Pajiba Love channel in our Slack turned into a love fest for “Letters Live,” so I’m just going to post all of them here!

From Seth, who started it all: I’ve recently discovered “Letters” Live, which is absolutely wonderful. Here’s a great example from last year - I would watch Capaldi do this for hours and hours. (YouTube)

And a bonus one - I realize Taika has somewhat overstayed his welcome but this letter itself is particularly excellent and very much in the wheelhouse of his energy. (YouTube)

From Dustin: Huh. Just saw one of these for the first time a couple of hours ago in our comments — Stephen Fry reading Nick Cave’s letter about ChatGPT. (YouTube)

From Tori: The ones with Olivia Colman always show up in my streams because the algorithm knows me and they are always great! (YouTube)

And one more! (YouTube)