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This week in pop culture handed us a resurrection, a suggestive pair of shorts and a movie you physically cannot get a ticket to: Mel Gibson is bringing Jesus back for round two, Bad Bunny broke the internet with a single hip roll, Christopher Nolan wants us watching The Odyssey at 2 a.m. and Kelly Clarkson said the quiet part loud about life at NBC. Plus, I caught up with Crystal Methyd, the newly crowned RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 11 winner, to talk about the comeback, the crown and what comes next.
Television: Chaos Crowned
There’s a new winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and she swears there’s a method to her madness for going on the show.
“I just wanted to feel prepared and have more life experiences as an entertainer,” Crystal Methyd told Newsweek. “I am just going to crank it up, making bigger and badder looks.” Methyd just announced her one-woman The Enchanted Forest tour, “a whole stage show with dancers and puppets and chaos.”
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Movies: Faith Franchise
Mel Gibson is making a sequel to his 2004 hit The Passion of the Christ. It has been more than 20 years since it came out, so this is less a sequel than a resurrection in every possible sense.
The follow-up, titled The Resurrection of the Christ, arrives in two parts, one in 2027 and one in 2028, and it will tackle the resurrection of Jesus, which the Bible places three days after the crucifixion. Gibson reportedly wanted to de-age the original cast, but the cost and the scheduling turned that into his own cross to bear, so he went with an entirely new ensemble instead. Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen steps into the sandals Jim Caviezel wore the first time around.
If the original’s $600 million box office haul is any indication, The Resurrection of the Christ is bound to rise again.
Performance: Short Story
A recent Bad Bunny concert performance went viral, and it had very little to do with the music. Instead, the Puerto Rican superstar sent social media into a thirsty tizzy by doing what has quietly become his signature move: gyrating in a pair of very small shorts.
The suggestive hip work went down during "EoO" at the July 14 Warsaw, Poland stop of his DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour, and it left fans seeing exactly how bad he can be, with very little left to the imagination. The blue shorts got so much attention that the brand behind them reportedly renamed them "Bad Shorts."
One viewer summed up the whole thing in five words: "I got pregnant just watching."
Movies: A Masterpiece Nobody Can See
Christopher Nolan wants you to see The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX. Noble goal. Good luck actually getting a ticket.
The film, the first movie shot entirely with IMAX film cameras, is a genuine event, but for a lot of fans, the main event has been trying to find a seat. Very few theaters in the United States can even project the 70mm format, so demand has turned tickets into a blood sport. AMC is now running 2 a.m., 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. screenings to keep up, which means the truest Nolan experience currently involves watching a three-hour Greek epic at an hour when even Odysseus would have called it a night.
Hopefully Nolan can forgive those of us simpleton movie fans who do not want to sacrifice a full night of sleep to honor his vision. Here's an idea: Either build more IMAX theaters, or make the movie a little more accessible for the rest of us mortals.
Celebrity: Exit Interview
Kelly Clarkson has not been thinking about NBC since she's been gone, and honestly, she sounds more than ready to break away.
The singer announced back in February that The Kelly Clarkson Show would wrap this fall after seven seasons, and at a recent stop on her Studio Sessions residency at Caesars Palace, she made clear she is not exactly mourning the corporate side of daytime TV. "I would get fired [by] NBC, but I don't work there anymore," Clarkson joked.
She then took aim at the workplace ritual she clearly will not miss. "It's funny, you go to those HR meetings and you're like, 'Nobody on the road would last,'" she said. She even broke into a quick singsong of "No more HR meetings" before catching herself with an "I'm just kidding."
She kept it warm, calling it a fun show and admitting she is sad to see it end. Still, we all know that inside every great joke there is a little bit of truth, and Miss Independent sounds ready for whatever comes next.
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