Meegan Read

No woman can forgive this.

Chad Maxxington on how to achieve peak male form

This is the America I grew up in. I hardly recognize her.

We miss Barrack Obama 💔

7-year-old Drew Barrymore casually removes her fake teeth on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson while promoting E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).

William Shatner is 95 today! Bill’s Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963) remains one of TV’s most iconic moments. Shatner captures sheer terror and unravelling paranoia locked in a metal tube miles high, seeing something no one believes. Just brilliant.

Andy Weir wrote a novel nobody wanted, posted it on his blog for free, then sold it on Kindle for 99 cents. It sold 35,000 copies in a month. This weekend, the movie based on his third book opened at $141 million worldwide. Weir was a software engineer who started posting The Martian chapter by chapter on his website in 2009. Readers asked him to put it on Kindle. Within days of it hitting the bestseller list, he had a literary agent, a publishing deal, and Fox bought the film rights. The Martian cost $108 million to make and grossed $630 million. Drew Goddard wrote that screenplay. He wrote this one too. Project Hail Mary cost nearly double at $200 million. And the studio behind it isn’t Fox. It’s Amazon MGM, which exists because Amazon wrote an $8.45 billion check to buy MGM in 2021. Four years and several expensive flops later, this is the first time that bet has looked smart. Amazon MGM’s 2026 started ugly. A Melania documentary earned $16 million on a $40 million budget. Crime 101 managed $65 million worldwide against $90 million in production costs. Then Hail Mary opened to $80.5 million domestic, the second-largest non-franchise debut in a decade, behind only Oppenheimer’s $82.4 million. Here’s what makes Amazon’s math viable: 200 million people pay for Amazon Prime, mostly for shipping. Prime Video is included. Every movie they put in theaters is a marketing campaign for a streaming service their customers already have. Their distribution chief said it in 2024: if they cover marketing costs theatrically, the movie pays for itself again on streaming. Traditional studios need a film to gross 2.5x its budget. Amazon just needs to cover the ad spend. The film earned a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and an “A” CinemaScore (an audience exit poll that predicts how long a movie keeps selling tickets). If it tracks anything like The Martian, which had a similar audience profile and word of mouth, it could push past $600 million globally. Same screenwriter adapting both books, for a studio that didn’t exist when the first one came out.

I woke up and was greeted by my son, C, wearing a gnome hat, holding a homemade beard to to his face, and all the gnomes he could find on the table next to him. “Happy Gnome Day!” Apparently he came up with a new holiday while I was sleeping. Happy Gnome Day everyone!

Ron Weasley yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy 🤣

Christopher & Georgianne Walken have been married 57yrs 👏🏻

Jennifer Aniston is celebrating her longtime friend and co-star Reese Witherspoon as she marks her half-century 🎉 “She’s 50 and still my favourite little firecracker 💥 My sister, my partner, and my heart for 30 years,” wrote Jennifer, 57. “Please join me in wishing this very special woman a birthday she’ll never forget… I love you, honey!” ❤️ ✨ #friends 📽️: #jenniferaniston

Ryan Gosling: "Soap opera actors, in general, don't get the love they deserve." Ryan is playing my favorite song! Courtesy of Happy Sad Confused. #DAYS

I love this. Marlena getting possessed on Days was A plus content in every way.

This helicopter shot in Sound of Music is truly insane. Beyond the visuals, what actually went into getting this shot? Apparently the "monstrous helicopter" repeatedly knocked Julie Andrews to the ground because of its downwash. There is zero chance you could get away with such a stunt using your lead actor with today's safety protocols, unless of course you used a drone. Who wants to try this? Much respect to the pioneers for this act of bravery and to Julie Andrews who is badass for this.

Just saw a Ryan Gosling interview where he says he liked the story of Project Hail Mary because it has the message that the future isn't something to be feared, it's something to be figured out. And that's a message he wants his kids to hear. Awesome.

At the 1976 MDA Telethon, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were reunited after 20 years without speaking to each other. Kids today won't understand what an epic moment this was. Sinatra, Martin & Lewis... what a time to be alive.

girl i'm bored let's run around paris in givenchy while solving a murder mystery with cary grant

When you're watching Ryan Gosling's new movie and Ryan Gosling walks in 😮 The Canadian actor surprised a theatre full of people in New York City on opening weekend of Project Hail Mary, proving just as lovable in person as he is onscreen 💙 #ryangosling 📽️: projecthailmary

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim having the same birthday will never not be hilarious to me