Friday at last! As always, we’ll have some weekend updates — and Wills And Kate And George Updates Daily, one of which will probably go up tonight, actually — so make sure you pop back in over the next couple of days. But until then:
– We pitted Audrey Hepburn (as herself) against Kim Kardashian (dressed as Audrey Hepburn) in this week’s Vanity Fair Who Wore It Best, and learned that sometimes people on Twitter do not always read an article before responding to it: obviously Audrey herself makes the best Audrey.
– This interview with Jackie Collins, about the magazines and websites she reads, and the TV she watches, is just fabulous. I love her. (The Wire)
– They’ve recently restored this amazing fresco that they found on the ceiling of the Sherry Netherland hotel. I love a hidden fresco. (Curbed)
– And some of you are going to love this SO HARD: Look Back at Preppy Collegiate Styles of Yore. (The Cut)
– This Roger Angell essay in The New Yorker about life in his 90s isn’t super recent (I am always a bit behind on The New Yorker), but it is beautiful and touching and it made me cry. (The New Yorker)
– Behold! 10 of the Most Epic Libraries in the UK. Two of which we namecheck in the new book! (What can I say? You know we love libraries.) (BBC America)
– If everything is online, why do we still get so many catalogs? The answer is really interesting. (Also: I LOVE getting my J Crew and Williams Sonoma and Boden catalogs.) (Wall Street Journal)
– Kevin Williamson reflects on the finale of Dawson’s Creek. It’s quite a good read, and has a lot of interesting Joey/Dawson/Pacey stuff. Ahem: “To me, Dawson and Joey are soul mates. And then I kept thinking, one thing I’ve learned in my life is that my soul mate isn’t necessarily my romantic love.” I find it FASCINATING that he thought people really expected Joey and Dawson to end up together romantically. I guess when I was recapping DC for TWoP, we had SO FEW Dawson/Joey shippers that it literally never occurred to me that anyone would really be rooting for that. PACEY FOREVER! (Entertainment Weekly)
– The “Dumbleron” theory was always my FAVORITE cracked out Harry Potter theory — it was, in short, that Ron was actually a time-traveling Dumbledore — and god bless The Toast for continuing to RUN WITH IT. (The Toast)
– If you follow William Shatner on Twitter — and you should, as he is a delight — you know that he tweets about CW shows ALL THE TIME. WaPo asked him why. (The Washington Post)
– Speaking of, RDJ is on Twitter! (Lainey Gossip)
– There are all kinds of juicy new guidelines for the Met Gala this year. (Which is May 5th — mark your calendars!) (The Hollywood Reporter)
– Saluting Posh’s Signature Lean for her birthday! (Fashionista)
– Daniel Franzese, Mean Girls’s Damian (you may recall Damian as being too gay to function?), gives a great juicy interview to Cosmo. To wit: “I like to say I’m the legendary father of the House of Glen Coco.” You go, Glen Coco. (Cosmo)
– Benedict Cumberbatch has a SECRET GIRLFRIEND? I really hope it’s one of you. (Celebitchy)
– Let me just leave this Pajiba headline here for you: For His Latest Career Move, James Franco Calls the NYTimes Theater Critic a ‘Little Bitch.’ STAY CLASSY, FRANCO. (Pajiba)
– This is great, but DO NOT READ IF YOU’RE NOT CAUGHT UP ON GAME OF THRONES. DO NOT. SPOILERS: If Our Media Reported The Thing That Just Happened On “Game Of Thrones”
