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Even if ordering a Negroni Sbagliato doesn't come as easily as the words tumbling out of Emma D'Arcy's mouth, the preferred cocktail of Princess Rhaenyra won't disappoint, as a drink or as a meme. In a recent TikTok on HBO's House of the Dragon account, D'Arcy and their costar Olivia Cooke (who plays Rhaenyra's rival Queen Alicent) showed none of the animosity of their characters while chatting about what they love to drink when they're not locked in competition for the Targaryen throne.

D'Arcy differentiated the typical Negroni cocktail made with Campari and sweet vermouth from the Negroni Sbagliato by highlighting its use of gin as the third ingredient instead of sparkling wine. And not just any sparkling wine - they were careful to specify prosecco in a throaty delivery that had just enough drama to light a fire under meme creators. Or was that Syrax?

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The title of Jill Gutowitz's debut book feels less like a title and more like an observation: "Girls Can Kiss Now." I was in college when same-sex marriage was legalized in the United States - a year after I came out as bisexual - and it's hard for me to imagine a time when girls couldn't kiss. That's exactly what Gutowitz is trying to figure out at the heart of "Girls Can Kiss Now" (17): what caused such a clear shift in how the pop culture zeitgeist talks about queerness, and when did it happen?

Gutowitz doesn't have to dig far into her past to find her own queer beginnings in the '90s and early 2000s. In her (hilariously titled) chapter "One Day, You'll All Be Gay," Gutowitz outlines what it was like to watch movies in the early aughts, including analyzing "Bring It On." In the film,...

Exclusive: Tony Amendola (Stargate Sg-1) will topline Rough Magic: Exit Shakespeare, a new film from veteran TV director Andy Wolk (The Practice) and Silver Spring Road Films that has recently wrapped production.

The film is set in 1611 on a single night where Shakespeare (Amendola) is at a crisis point in his career. It’s about how writers age, their jealousies, resentments, and regrets, why they can’t revisit their old glories, and how their writing can overwhelm their life. Shakespeare has sacrificed much of his family life for his theatrical success and now—haunted with guilt about missing his young son’s death to the plague—he is forced to reflect on the price at which glory comes.

WGA and Humanitas Award winner Wolk directed from a script he wrote with Elliot Krieger, and produced alongside Matt Handy.

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Exclusive: Lisa Ann Walter (Abbott Elementary), Jaren Lewison (Never Have I Ever...

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Ammonite (2020)

With Ammonite's trailer now familiar and the film and Kate Winslet continuing on the festival and press rounds, there's been buzz aplenty for Francis Lee’s follow-up to the excellent God’s Own Country. That said, there are some who have a quibble or two. Jill Gutowitz expressed mild annoyance, asking:

Does every lesbian movie have to be two severely depressed women wearing bonnets and glancing at each other in british accents?”

(She followed up by saying she’ll be seeing Ammonite.) It is a good question. And why are so many recent Wlw-themed works period pieces?...

Paradigm has promoted four agents across the company’s New York and Los Angeles offices, the agency announced today. The new agents are Melisa Baloglu, Len Chenfeld, Brittany Miller and Ryan Theobalt.

The company additionally announced that Natalia Williams, an La-based Content Dept. agent, will now work across both Content and Motion Picture Literary departments.

Baloglu, an La-based Motion Picture Literary agent, joined Paradigm in 2018 as the Motion Picture Literary department coordinator. She began her career in New York, working in film and television development for producers including Meryl Poster and Scott Rudin, before moving to Los Angeles to work in representation. Clients include journalist Jill Gutowitz, filmmaker Sontenish Myers, author & Instagrammer Lauren Garroni, Cat Grieve and writer Halia Meguid.

NY-based Music agent Chenfeld began his career at Apa before opening his own agency, Modern Sound Entertainment. He joined Paradigm in 2018 as a coordinator in the Music division, working with agents Lee Anderson,...

Paradigm Talent Agency has hired Ashley Hanley as a talent agent, and promoted three New York-based trainees to agent: Valerie Champeau (talent), Katelyn Dougherty (book publishing) and Rachel Ellicott.

Hanley will be based in the company’s Los Angeles headquarters. Clients include Sinqua Walls, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Yvette Monreal, Tracy Ifeachor and Darren Mann. She joins from Apa.

“We are committed to growing the next generation of agents and are proud to announce the promotion of three new agents based in our New York office,” said Scott Metzger, co-head of talent at Paradigm. “Valerie Champeau, Katelyn Dougherty and Rachel Ellicott have displayed an outstanding commitment to the artists we represent in Talent, Book Publishing and Theatre Lit & Content.”

“Ashley Hanley brings an incredible track record of discovering and nurturing talent across all formats,” he added. “We welcome Ashley to the team and congratulate our new agents on their well-deserved promotions.”

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Paradigm has hired Ashley Hanley as a talent agent and promoted a trio of New York-based trainees — Valerie Champeau (Talent), Katelyn Dougherty (Book Publishing) and Rachel Ellicott (Theatre Lit & Content) — to agent status.

Hanley, who had been at Apa, will be based in Los Angeles and brings with her clients including Sinqua Walls, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Yvette Monreal, Tracy Ifeachor, Emeraude Toubia (Freeform’s Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments) and Darren Mann.

Champeau’s roster of clients include Austin Crute and Jacob Tobia, whose memoir Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story is in development with Legendary TV and Michael Lannan.

Dougherty’s clients include Tim McKeon,...

Paradigm has hired four female talent agents after Debbee Klein, one of the agency’s top agents, pledged that the company would be committed to hitting 50/50 gender parity by 2020.

Paradigm announced on Tuesday that Ashley Hanley has been hired as a talent agent and that three more New York-based trainees have been promoted to agent, including Valerie Champeau, Katelyn Dougherty and Rachel Ellicott. Champeau will serve as a talent agent, Dougherty is in book publishing, and Ellicott joins the theatre lit and content department. Hanley will be based in the company’s Los Angeles headquarters.

Klein made the promise at TheWrap’s Be Conference in April, saying that the goal was to reach 50/50 by the end of this year.

Also Read: Top Paradigm Agent Debbee Klein Pledges 50/50 Gender Parity at Her Agency by 2020 (Video)

“At Paradigm, we’ve made a big commitment to 50/50 by 2020 and I hope we get there.

Joe and Anthony Russo sent the internet into a tailspin this week by revealing that not only will there soon be a gay superhero in the McU, but that it’ll be someone who we’re already familiar with. Of course, they wouldn’t say who exactly it’d be, but they strongly suggested that this mysterious individual is one of the already established heroes and that they’ll soon come out as gay.

Obviously, this has led to a whole bunch of fan theories and speculation about who the directors are referring to, and while a lot of people would assume it’s Valkyrie, a good portion of the internet actually thinks it might be Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel, and over at ScreenGeek, they’ve put together a pretty compelling case for why that is.

First up, they point our attention to comments from the actress herself, who...