Blissful Friday! Hope all the pieces goes okay for you and yours. Personally, I wish to SCREAM INTO THE ABYSS.

Anyway.

Large information: The Oscars are SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY. We might be internet hosting a reside chat through the crimson carpet and ceremony for paid subscribers at Drinks With Broads. You don’t want to overlook this, so improve earlier than Sunday in case you haven’t already, so you possibly can have entry to the reside thread! Will probably be enjoyable! Clearly, we’ll have full crimson carpet protection right here on Monday in addition to DWB’s e-newsletter round-up of occasions, too, so be sure to swing by to see all of the seems.

Additionally at DWB this week:

We had a rollicking reside chat through the SAGs!

We additionally coated the perfect, worst, leasts and mosts of the SAGs!

We’ve got a recent Severance recap! (Not of final night time’s episode but, the earlier episode. If solely we obtained screeners!)

There’s a brand new White Lotus recap! We’ve got THEORIES.

And paid subscribers obtained to fill out (and talk about!) the DBW Oscars poll on Thursday.

Additionally right here at GFY, we rounded up zip-top tote luggage for all of your carry-on wants. I do know many individuals aren’t shopping for something in the present day — Friday — from main retailers, so make a psychological notice for later if you already know you want one! We additionally talked about the stuff we are able to’t resist shopping for.

Associated, whereas we’re right here: We’ve obtained a ShopMy storefront now! ShopMy is our new affiliate buying companion. This received’t change something in your finish, besides that it’s additionally very cool as a result of all of the merchandise we embody in these buying posts will reside there too — so in case you vaguely do not forget that you noticed a tote bag (or an eye fixed cream or some tights or no matter) on the positioning however can’t keep in mind what or when that was, you possibly can test there and hopefully discover what you search extra simply going ahead. (We’re additionally attempting to back-fill the shopfront with stuff that’s been really helpful right here earlier than however that’s an ongoing undertaking.) As at all times, in case you purchase via one in every of our affiliate hyperlinks, we might obtain a small fee from the acquisition (however the costs for you’re the similar). We recognize your assist!!

Elsewhere:

No matter occurred to Gene Hackman and his spouse, Betsy Arakawa, is horribly unhappy. This can be a nice remembrance of what a towering expertise he was. [The Ringer]

And the information about Michelle Trachtenberg is ALSO terrible. This can be a nice piece within the NTY (gifted) about how TERRIFIC she was on Gossip Lady. 

This isn’t for me. At Curbed: 6 Roommates, 5 Bedrooms, and a Meticulously Organized Chore Chart Life on the Harbor, a communal home in Crown Heights.

Monica Barbaro and Andrew Garfield are allegedly relationship? I like them collectively! [Lainey]

SO cool: These Books Are Completely Unreadable. That’s the Level.

I can’t take care of this proper now: There’s a Spoon’s Price of Plastic in Our Brains. Now What? [NY Mag]

That is actually humorous to me: Carrie Coon Form of Denies the Open Marriage Rumor She Mainly Began

So attention-grabbing: “Visiting the set of CBS’ ‘Past the Gates’ to see the way forward for cleaning soap operas: Why would a Black-centered cleaning soap be the primary results of a manufacturing partnership between CBS and the NAACP?” [Switching Codes w/Eric Deggans]

Actually an excellent learn, at Elle: Why Is Younger Hollywood Going So Previous Hollywood?

Whoa, I didn’t notice this was taking place: Sunday’s Moon Touchdown May Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream—or Finish in a Nightmare. [Texas Monthly]

At Vulture: Last Oscar Predictions: Who Will Win the Most Unsure Race in Years?

I’ll positively watch the sequel to A Easy Favor, which I cherished. [Lainey]

Enjoyable, at The Stripe: A White Lotus-Impressed Edit.

Photograph: HBO