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Babygirl Star Harris Dickinson on Bonding With Nicole Kidman, Being Propositioned After Screenings, and What He’s Cooking This Christmas

Ahead of Babygirl’s relase this Christmas Day, Dickinson stopped by The Run-Through with Vogue to chat with Chloe Malle and me about his cat, George Michael’s “Father Figure,” red carpet-dressing, and the ragù he can’t wait to make this season. Read excerpts from our conversation below.

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Andiamo! Emily in Paris Season 5 Will Soon Go Into Production

However, it was then reported that the fifth season had not actually been greenlit, with the auction website being updated to say that the winning bidder would “have the opportunity to spend a day on set in Paris during filming, contingent upon season five pick-up.” Now that we’ve finally had the official confirmation, fans can breathe a sigh of relief.

An Obsessive Wicked Fan Breaks Down the Movie Version’s Soundtrack

Beginning from the top: “No One Mourns the Wicked” may have one of the most iconic opening chord progressions in all of musical theater. However, in Jon M. Chu’s film, the intro fans know so well is briefly interrupted with—if you are quick enough to catch them—the strains of “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” from The Wizard of Oz. And that’s just one of Wicked’s many brilliant allusions to that 1939 film, starring Judy Garland.

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The Long Shadow of Kate Winslet’s Nude Scene in Titanic
Escape Your Troubles With the Horny Hedonism of Rivals

Nominally, the story is about two rivals. On one end is the petty bourgeois turned artisto-by-marriage Lord Tony Baddingham (a delightfully peevish David Tennant), who is as nefarious as his Dickensian name suggests, scaling for power and prestige as the managing director of a commercial television station. Across the aisle is rakish, titled, and ravenous Rupert Campbell-Black (Alex Hassell), an Olympic show-jumper turned Thatcherite Minister of Sport, who, together with Declan O’Hara (Aidan Turner), a hot-blooded Irish broadcast journalist lured from the BBC to the countryside, forms a competing station.

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Timothée Chalamet Makes an Extraordinary Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.

We first see Chalamet’s curmudgeonly, withdrawn young Dylan in 1961, as he’s stuffed into the back of a car hurtling towards Manhattan, aged 19. He’s left his midwestern hometown on a pilgrimage: His idol, the pioneering folk singer Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), is recovering at a psychiatric hospital in nearby New Jersey, and he’s determined to meet him. Before you know it, he does, playing him a simple tune on his guitar—the elegiac “Song to Woody,” which would end up on Dylan’s self-titled debut album just a year later—and blowing him away, along with his visiting friend and fellow luminary, Pete Seeger (Edward Norton).