Fugs & Pieces, October 20th, 2023

Hope your week was peaceable and productive, and you’ve got a enjoyable and secure weekend. The information these days has been powerful, and I hope one thing right here can carry you some leisure:

Such an fascinating learn at Selection, about the heyday of Hollywood studio commissaries.  I’ve eaten at a couple of commissaries in my day and it’s STILL enjoyable.That is SUCH a selected listing, at GQ: Ranking the Greatest Acting Performances by Musicians in Martin Scorsese Movies

The Hollywood Reporter writes that “under newly announced Halloween costume rules from SAG-AFTRA, being seen online dressing as popular TV and movie characters is prohibited.” Fran Drescher does NOT need to see your Nanny costume on Instagram!

These Paul Mescal adverts for Gucci usually are not for me, however if they’re for you, I hope you love them. [Socialite Life]

Attention-grabbing: “When a Novelist Carries On What Another Novelist Started: Elizabeth Hand’s Haunting on the Hill is a licensed follow-up to a Shirley Jackson basic. However haunting another person’s home comes with perils in addition to perks.” [The New Yorker]

Do we need velvet trousers??!! These are cute…. [affiliate link to J.Crew]

This sounds like a great new album from Dolly Parton; I actually love the included “Wrecking Ball” duet with Miley. [EW]

We had a VERY enjoyable chat this week talking about what we were all weirdly obsessed with as kids. We additionally talked about great workout clothes, which was very inspirational for me. Talking of inspiring: I rounded up a bunch of cute sweaters! (I discover knitwear inspiring.)

Helpful, at WaPo: The best apps for making your group trip easy (and fun). [gifted link]

I cannot believe I didn’t figure out this blind item immediately.  I’m shedding my contact. (The commenters at FauxMoi nailed it, in fact.) [Reddit]

At Lainey: Has Justin Timberlake bought himself a bunch of bots?!? 

I can’t enhance on this headline, simply as it’s: A Deep-Fried Pho Sparks Scandal at the State Fair of Texas. [NYT, gifted link]

I’m LOVING these excerpts from Kim France’s memoir, over at her Substack.

Shopbop still has a HUGE sale going, in case you’re feeling shoppy. (Or, I suppose, boppy.) [affiliate link]

At The Ringer: “Trouble Sleeping? Meet the Legion of Fans Who Drift Off Every Night Watching Frasier.” I watched numerous Frasier in the course of the pandemic, and it WAS soothing.

I like an inventory AND I like cookbooks, so I enjoyed this list of the 23 best fall cookbooks at Bon Appetit.

This was a wild trip at Am I The Asshole: “AITA for getting our neighborhood dog Olympics canceled instead of bending the rules for a neighbor?“

Eater brings us, and I quote, a round-up of “The 19 Most Funnest, Most Wildest, Most Unbelievably Extra Restaurants in America.” I need to go to all of them!! That one in Denver seems to be like a hoot.

Lainey also brings us some Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce updates. I agree together with her prediction there, FWIW.

At Drinks With Broads: On Tuesday, Heather took us to the Eras tour concert film and I took a look back at this past season of RHoNY. Thursday’s version introduced us a trip to Cher’s gelato truck — YES THIS IS REAL! — as well as five haunted French chateaux you might want to buy! (Additionally naughty appendixes and migraines and Britney and another stuff.)

Associated, on the NYT, is this round-up of great concert films. [gifted link]

(Picture by Ken Hively/Los Angeles Occasions through Getty Photos)