Out of what seems to be the endless parade of whackadoos, smackbrains, rockheads, fanatics, lunatics, and general shit-for-brains that has been following El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago ever since he rode down the escalator and sent the American idea of self-government on an express escalator to hell, none have been more ridiculous than "Doctor" Sebastian Gorka. Remember when Newt Gingrich got caught doodling notes of himself as "leader (perhaps) of the civilizing forces"? Well, ol' Seb believes he already has the gig. |
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Hardcore Dune fans are hard to please. But after the smash success of Denis Villeneuve's cinematic duology, everybody's a Dune fan now, right? And because Dune has newfound mainstream appeal, it's the perfect moment for HBO to step in and take the goodwill towards those mega-hit films and turn that energy into a prestige TV show. Enter Dune: Prophecy, a six-episode HBO series starring Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Mark Strong, Travis Fimmel, as well as a few younger actors. Dune: Prophecy wants you to think this is The Game of Thrones of the Dune franchise. But really, it's more like The Rings of Power. Because if Dune: Prophecy feels, at times, like fan fiction, that's because it quite literally is. Here's why it's still worth your time. |
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Two years ago, Drew Starkey was eating breakfast in L.A. with Luca Guadagnino, the Italian director behind Call Me by Your Name and Challengers. Starkey was in disbelief. Guadagnino is an Academy Award nominee who's worked with Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, and Zendaya. Starkey had spent the past three years on Netflix's Outer Banks—a wildly popular show (now in its fourth season) that bears little resemblance to Guadagnino's moody, hyper-stylized films. But the director had seen the actor's audition tape for an unrelated project and asked him to breakfast.
The topic of conversation that morning: Queer, a movie about a gay heroin addict living in Mexico City in the 1950s, based on the William S. Burroughs novel of the same name. It was Guadagnino's next project, and he was eyeing Starkey to play opposite Daniel Craig. "Halfway through the first meeting, I was like, 'This is amazing, and I don't really care what comes of it,' " Starkey says. "I'm getting to sit down and have deep conversations with a director—an artist—that I really look up to? That's incredible. The whole time, I was thinking, 'It's not gonna happen.' " |
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