Will Ferrell’s Delightful Documentary Is Coming to Netflix

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | February 1, 2024 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | February 1, 2024 |

Will Ferrell’s delightful documentary about his best friend of 30 years coming out as trans has been scooped up by Netflix after being shopped at Sundance. The film locked down an eight-figure-deal, which hopefully means there’s now less money to pay Dave Chappelle for another tired-ass special. (THR)

Aziz Ansari’s film with Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen is actually happening, and now, Keke Palmer is on board. (Lainey Gossip)

Sephora made $10 billion last year, and all its employees got was a stale cookie. (Wonkette)

From Kayleigh: “It seems to me that there is a fundamental discrepancy between the way readers interact with books and the way the hack-your-brain tech community does. A wide swath of the ruling class sees books as data-intake vehicles for optimizing knowledge rather than, you know, things to intellectually engage with.” Maris Kreizman gets it. (Literary Hub)

Rachel Karten interviewed Christina Vittas, the Social Media Manager for Sesame Workshop and the online voice of Elmo. (Substack)

The now-former staff of The Messenger have already filed a class-action lawsuit for failing to give proper notice for their firings. (Daily Beast)

From Jen: Angelina Jolie has opened a new cafe in Lower Manhattan that hires refugees and resides in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s old studio. (Instagram)

And Brad is reuniting with Quentin Tarantino for The Movie Critic, so that should be a neat and not-at-all infuriating press tour. (Deadline)

Chloë Sevigny is sick of your dogs and Lulus. (The Cut)

From James: “Ian Miles Cheong was revealed to be the first recipient of Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain device implant thanks to the inherently low risk that drilling into his brain would damage anything functional anyways.” (Hard Drive)

Bea Pants says that if you haven’t read Tananarive Due, “one of the preeminent voices in Black Horror,” The Reformatory is a great place to start. “Due makes the precarious nature of being a Black child in the Jim Crow South, when just one wrong move can condemn you, palpable.” Have you read any of her books? (Cannonball Read 16)

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