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Metro
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
This horny book adaption's cast guarantees we'll all be obsessed with the film
A fresh casting announcement has absolutely thrilled fans and convinced me that the film in question could end up as one of the most popular and anticipated movies in years. It could also signal the early era of another rom-com giant, à la Richard Curtis, or the coming of a film about love with the power to impact pop culture like When Harry Met Sally or xx. I am, of course, talking about the announcement via Deadline of Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman to play the romantic leads in the movie adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's best-selling novel (and – I cannot stress this enough – actual BookTok sensation) The Love Hypothesis. For those who haven't been wrapped up in the quite astounding way TikTok has revived the publishing industry since lockdown, even garnering its own name for that corner of the social site, The Love Hypothesis was one of the platform's biggest breakout successes following the novel's formal publication in 2021. But what has now shifted this film up a notch in terms of anticipation is how the casting has seemingly leaned into the famous early inspirations of Hazelwood's book. And it's this which makes me confident everyone's obsession is about to go stratospheric. The Love Hypothesis follows PhD student Olive Smith (Reinhart), a rising star in Stanford University's biology department, who ends up in a classic fake dating situation with a hotshot professor, Adam Carlsen (Bateman). Everything kicks off when she does the totally normal thing of panic kissing him at the lab to convince her best friend she has a boyfriend. And he does the totally normal thing of agreeing afterwards to maintain the lie for… reasons. However, The Love Hypothesis actually began in 2018 as Head Over Feet, a piece of Star Wars fan fiction published online by Hazelwood, which was inspired by the 'Reylo' shipping many fans did between the characters of Rey (Daisy Ridley) and antagonist Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). This is a romance that actually almost bore fruit in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – and it's one that now has another fascinating link to The Love Hypothesis, for Bateman in the role of Adam is Rey actress Ridley's husband in real life. Although some were holding out for Driver to take on the role his character inspired, many are tickled pink by this meta casting move – 'I'm cackling' posts are littered across social media – whether it was deliberate or not. 'The concept of playing the love interest in fan fiction about your wife is kind of insane, I think Tom Bateman won in life,' tweeted Alysa, while @rejectedcarebear wrote on Reddit: 'This is actually the best part of the entire movie.' 'They had a chance and they took it for sure haha!' added another fan, while @pertifty shared: 'I love this timeline we are living. I wonder why she didn't want to play Olive if her husband is playing Adam??' (As many then explained, there is such a thing as too on the nose.) The excitement alone that's been drummed up by the casting announcement of two semi well-known actors – Reinhart made her name on Riverdale and Bateman appeared in Da Vinci's Demons as well as Sir Kenneth Branagh's star-studded Murder on the Orient Express – confirms this is a watershed moment for TikTok and cinema. Because now we've gone from mild interest that this adaptation is happening to fully seated for it. And Reinhart is a canny operator, fueling fan excitement with lots of fun posts about the film on – where else – but TikTok. Yes, there have been popular BookTok adaptations previously, such as Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue and Robinne Lee's The Idea of You. Both, co-incidentally, star Nicholas Galitzine and were made for Amazon's streaming service Prime Video. The Love Hypothesis is going a step further, being produced by Amazon MGM Studios. This suggests the company's confidence in the movie's cinematic success but also means its streaming home will likely end up being Prime Video too. Could this company be the next rom-com powerhouse, snapping up the major romance book titles that capture the zeitgeist? @lilireinhart Olive Smith 🩷 #thelovehypothesis ♬ Lover – Taylor Swift And let's not beat around the bush, The Love Hypothesis will be bigger than those previous films anyway because it's hornier – don't let the cartoon humans on the book's front cover fool you, Hazelwood likes a lot of detail in her sex scenes. Many audience members will be pulled in simply by curiosity over how that might look onscreen; let's call it the Fifty Shades of Grey factor. If The Love Hypothesis does well, there's also several other Hazelwood novels ripe for adaption – from Love on the Brain to Problematic Summer Romance and Deep End (for the uninitiated, that one will truly have you blushing). More Trending Hazelwood, a real-life former neuroscience professor has made a name for herself as a 'STEMinist' author thanks to her female characters often being in science and tech fields and academia, drawing upon her own experience. She's also an expert at the genre's tropes of pining and misunderstandings but puts them in modern workplace settings. This could easily be what the next wave of rom-coms looks like if they're inspired or directly drawn from the pen of Hazelwood. We'd be moving on from Richard Curtis's bumbling, British and sweary romances to Hazelwood's quirky, introverted and often American heroines. And I think the world of onscreen rom-coms is more than ready to embrace The Love Hypothesis as the start of its next phase. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. 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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Legendary Actor, 77, Unrecognizable 36 Years After 'When Harry Met Sally'
Legendary Actor, 77, Unrecognizable 36 Years After 'When Harry Met Sally' originally appeared on Parade. Billy Crystalwas unrecognizable in new photos 36 years after starring in When Harry Met Sally alongside . Earlier this week, the legendary actor, 77, was spotted while out and about in New York City in pictures obtained by the Daily Mail. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 For the outing, Crystal donned a black long-sleeved shirt, gray pants, white sneakers and a black hat. He accessorized with a pair of sunglasses while carrying a grocery bag in each hand. Crystal's facial hair and natural gray locks made him look unlike his character, Harry Burns, in the beloved 1989 addition to When Harry Met Sally, Crystal is known for appearing in the TV series Soap, voicing Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University, and starring in City Slickers (1991), Forget Paris (1995), Analyze This (1999) and more films. Crystal and Ryan reunited in January for a Hellmann's commercial in which they reprised their characters at Katz's Deli—the setting of the iconic scene where Sally proves that women can fake pleasure during intimacy. At the end, actress was the one who said, "I'll have what she's having." Next: Legendary Actor, 77, Unrecognizable 36 Years After 'When Harry Met Sally' first appeared on Parade on Jul 18, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 18, 2025, where it first appeared.
Indian Express
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Friendzone isn't a dead end. It's where empathy and affection blossom
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship,' noted Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's Fan. In Bollywood speak, that would be 'Ek ladka aur ladki kabhi dost nahin ho sakte' — a dictum generations of Indians have grown up with and that has been the default script for friendships between men and women in films and IRL: Doomed, delicate, and perpetually flirting with something 'more'. But a recent NYU Stern-Meta study, which analysed 1.8 billion friendships across nearly 200 countries, finally bursts that bubble. It turns out that men and women do forge genuine, deep friendships, especially in societies where gender equality is strong. And the more liberated a culture is from old-fashioned gender roles, the more natural it becomes for men and women to simply enjoy each other's company without a romantic subtext. The implications are more radical than they appear — and rooted in the long arc of feminism. Given the deeply entrenched gender inequality, in the 18th century, early feminists like Mary Wollstonecraft recast friendship between the sexes as a revolutionary force — the emotional and intellectual bedrock of equal relationships, and the foundation of a happy marriage in which partners enjoyed more than just physical compatibility. It would take another century and another wave of feminism to get sex out of the way and push it into the realm of the platonic — not very successfully, going by popular culture. To paraphrase Nora Ephron's blockbuster When Harry Met Sally, 'the sex part' still 'gets in the way'. But what if it didn't? What if friendship between the sexes could finally shrug off its nudge-nudge-wink-wink baggage? When men and women meet as equals, they model respect, empathy, and emotional openness in workplaces, families, and communities. Sure, attraction can flutter in the background, but mature friendships absorb it with grace. As the study shows, affection doesn't have to moonlight as romance. Sometimes, it just shows up as camaraderie. And honestly, isn't that happily ever after enough?
Time Out
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Katz's Deli's world-famous pastrami is coming to Chicago for one day only
You already know that Chicago loves its signature beefy sandwiches, those juicy umami bombs of piquant giardiniera, savory jus, squishy sub and tender ribbons of slow-roasted beef. But next month, you can taste one of the star sandwiches of another great city: the classic pastrami from New York icon Katz's Deli. Yes, the famed Lower East Side restaurant—a meaty NYC mainstay since 1888, which has been immortalized in everything from When Harry Met Sally to Law & Order to Across the Universe —is bringing its primo pastrami to Chicagoland via this year's Windy City Smokeout, the country music and BBQ festival coming to Chicago's United Center from July 10 to 13. As part of the wider festival, a Katz's Deli pop-up will be hosted at Bub City (435 N. Clark Street) in River North on Wednesday, July 9. Tickets start at $45 per person (with tax, though gratuity is not included) and include the one menu item on offer: that iconic Katz's pastrami sandwich ("The brisket sings with horseradish, and the thick-cut pastrami stacked high between slices of rye is the stuff of dreams," says our pals over at Time Out New York) as well as pickles, steak fries and your choice of Dr. Brown's Soda (Root beer, Black Cherry, Cream Soda or Cel Ray Soda). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bub City (@bubcity) You can sink your fangs into that beefy bit of food history all while tapping a toe to live country music. (That should certainly help with the meat sweats.) The ticketed event will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 9, with limited quantities available—guests must select a timeslot when purchasing tickets. One of Chicago's most popular summer events, the Windy City Smokeout brings together some of the most powerhouse pitmasters from all across the country, including homegrown 'cue experts from Chicago itself. This year's festivities will feature more than 20 musical performers, including Baily Zimmerman, Old Dominion, Kane Brown and Megan Moroney.
Buzz Feed
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
'80s Female Celebs, Then And Now
One of my all-time favourite activities is seeing what famous celebs looked like years ago. There's just something so mind-bending about seeing their transformations. So for a bit of nostalgia and fun, I thought I'd compile a ton of "then and now" photos of female from a decade that needs no introduction: the '80s. You'll definitely recognize some of the ladies on this list, so get ready for some surprises. And you'll also have to tell me what you think afterward in the comments below. They were gorgeous then, and they're gorgeous now! Ready to see some '80s beauties? Here's Michelle Pfeiffer from Scarface in the '80s: And here she is today: Here is Meg Ryan from When Harry Met Sally in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Molly Ringwald from The Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Kim Basinger from 9½ Weeks and Batman (1989) in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Debra Winger from An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Phoebe Cates from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Paradise in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Stevie Nicks from the band Fleetwood Mac in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Elizabeth Shue from The Karate Kid and Cocktail in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is model Cindy Crawford in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Lea Thompson from the Back to the Future trilogy in the '80s: Here is Heather Locklear from Melrose Place and Dynasty in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Catherine Bach from The Dukes of Hazzard in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Heather Thomas from The Fall Guy and Zapped! in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Nancy McKeon from The Facts of Life in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is singer Diana Ross, known for "Endless Love" and "I'm Coming Out," in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Ally Sheedy from The Breakfast Club and WarGames in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Kelly McGillis from Top Gun in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Kelly LeBrock from The Woman in Red and Weird Science in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jennifer Beals from Flashdance in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Geena Davis from Beetlejuice and Thelma & Louise in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Diane Lane from The Outsiders in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Christie Brinkley from National Lampoon's Vacation in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jennifer Grey from Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Goldie Hawn from Overboard in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jackée Harry from 227 in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Jaclyn Smith from Charlie's Angels and The Night They Saved Christmas in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Catherine Mary Stewart from Night of the Comet and Weekend at Bernie's in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is singer Janet Jackson, known for "That's the Way Love Goes" and "State of the World," in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Rebecca De Mornay from Risky Business and Feds in the '80s: Here is Jennifer Jason Leigh from Fast Times at Ridgemont High in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Lysette Anthony from Krull and Ivanhoe in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Lisa Bonet (AKA Lilakoi Moon, AKA Zoë Kravitz's mom) from The Cosby Show and A Different World in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Diane Franklin from The Last American Virgin and Better Off Dead in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Bo Derek from Tarzan, the Ape Man and Bolero in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Betsy Russell from Private School and Tomboy in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Melanie Griffith from Working Girl and Body Double in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is singer Joan Jett, known for "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and "Bad Reputation," in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Daryl Hannah from Splash and Steel Magnolias in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Deborah Foreman from Valley Girl and April Fool's Day in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Nastassja Kinski from Paris, Texas and Tess in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Ann Jillian from It's a Living and Mr. Mom in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Sean Young from No Way Out and Blade Runner in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Sissy Spacek from Carrie and Coal Miner's Daughter in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is Debbie Allen from Fame and A Different World in the '80s: And here she is now: Here is The Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle, also known for "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" and "Our Lips Are Sealed," in the '80s: Who's your favourite bombshell from the '80s? Which celeb's transformation shocked you the most? Tell me all your thoughts in the comments below! And there's lots more where this came from — so check out BuzzFeed Canada on TikTok and Instagram!
