An Apology to The Bear
Also: Is the A-list movie star dead? And updates from the celeb wedding desk.
Last week, we covered how the CW screwed over Nina Dobrev financially, and I touched on my general belief that she should be way more famous than she is. (Something I’ve been banging on about for years, in fact.) I started thinking about celebrities in general earlier this week, in the wake of Robert Redford’s death, and how it feels like we don’t really have movie stars the way we used to. Anyone I’d consider a Movie Star, capital letters, is honestly probably older than I am — Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Clooney, Denzel, Meryl — and it doesn’t feel like we’re making them that way anymore, not to sound like Old Man Yelling at Clouds over here. Some of this is definitely just because we are less of a monoculture now — there are so many more kinda famous people, and so many more places to become kinda famous, that I think it is exponentially more difficult to become Famous Famous anymore, especially if you’re an actor. The two most Famous Famous celebrity women…

