Early Buzz: Twinkies, Arcade Fire and more news
Good morning, everyone! I hope you had an excellent weekend — I binge-watched Orange Is the New Black and went to a Bastille Day celebration where I ate my weight in pastries. Ooh, la la.
A few headlines:
- Sadly, Glee star Cory Monteith died over the weekend. He was 31.
- JK Rowling secretly published a crime novel using a pseudonym.
- Twinkies are back.
- A new Arcade Fire album is due in October.
- Lots of former Lost cast members are appearing on Hawaii Five-0.
- Comedy Central will air Bill Cosby's first comedy special in 30 years.
- According to Forbes, Jerry Seinfeld is the highest-earning comedian.
- Watch the trailer for Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster.
- Alicia Silverstone will star in a Lifetime pilot.
- Watch a trailer for Saving Mr. Banks, where Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney.
- Andrea Estella from the band Twin Sister has been cast in the Veronica Mars movie.
- TheNew York Times profiles Aubrey Plaza.
- Flavorwire rounds up "50 Essential Movie Musicals."
- Largehearted Boy rounds up a bunch of covers of Radiohead songs.
- Vice interviews Errol Morris and Werner Herzog.
- A big gathering for Lost fans is planned for 2014.
- The costume designer for Mad Men may get her own reality series.
- John Lennon once visited the set of Happy Days?
- And finally, light saber Pocky sounds delicious.