Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Arnold Schwarzenegger sets another action comeback… James Franco gets kinky with James Dean… Doris Day draws love from the critics… Michael Shannon teases a bit of General Zod… and more.
After the success of Hugh Jackman’s WWE cameo last month , Disney has partnered with the wrestling juggernaut to bring the Muppets to tonight’s live Halloween episode from Atlanta. “I can only imagine what will trend this week with the Muppets guest starring, especially when the audience sees what the Muppets are going to do,” said a WWE executive. Anything short of Miss Piggy busting a folding chair over Vince McMahon’s head will be a failure. Any other dream scenarios? [ Variety ]
Sure, it’s a tough sell. But Anonymous has plenty going for it both behind the camera (director Roland Emmerich and screenwriter John Orloff posit the legitimacy of Shakespeare) and in front of it as well, where a sterling cast including Rhys Ifans , David Thewlis, Mark Rylance and the estimable mother-daughter combo of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson — playing Queen Elizabeth I some 40 years apart — dig into the historical, political and romantic intrigues with relish.