WELCOME TO THE B-LIST, YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF CELEBRITY MESS AND POP CULTURE. THIS WEEK: A STRANGER THINGS CAMEO, POLITICIANS IN THE WILD, A POTENTIAL ANIMATION THRILLER AND THE RETURN OF AMERICA’S PASTIME.
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FANS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES WITH STRANGER THINGS FEVER. LAST SATURDAY, ACTOR JOE KEERY, WHO PLAYS STEVE HARRINGTON ON THE HIT SHOW, REPORTEDLY OFFICIATED HIS FRIENDS’ WEDDING WHILE DRESSED IN CHARACTER.
KEERY IS SET TO REPRISE HIS ROLE AS STEVE IN STRANGER THINGS SEASON FIVE, WHICH PREMIERS NOVEMBER TWENTY SIXTH.
ANOTHER UP-AND-COMING A-LISTER WAS IN AN UNEXPECTED SETTING LAST WEEK. ZOHRAN MAMDANI, THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE IN THE UPCOMING NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL ELECTION, MADE AN APPEARANCE AT PINKPANTHERESS’S BROOKLYN CONCERT LAST FRIDAY.
WHILE ON THE VIDEO BOARD, MAMDANI HELD OUT HIS PALMS, WHICH READ “OUR TIME HAS COME. VOTE NOVEMBER FOURTH,” AS THE CROWD ERUPTED IN CHEERS.
ENJOYED REWATCHING CORALINE THIS HALLOWEEN? LAIKA STUDIOS, CORALINE’S CREATOR, RECENTLY TEASED WILDWOOD, THEIR “MOST CINEMATIC JOURNEY YET.”
WILDWOOD WILL FEATURE LAIKA’S FAMED STOP-MOTION ANIMATION STYLE, AND IS A DARK FANTASY ABOUT A GIRL JOURNEYING TO RESCUE HER KIDNAPPED BROTHER. THE FILM IS EXPECTED TO RELEASE IN 2026.
LASTLY, GAME THREE OF THE WORLD SERIES KICKS OFF TODAY AT SEVEN P.M. CENTRAL IN LOS ANGELES’S DODGER STADIUM. THIS YEAR’S MATCHUP, BETWEEN THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS AND TORONTO BLUE JAYS, IS CURRENTLY TIED ONE TO ONE.
ALTHOUGH THE DODGERS ARE FAVORED, WITH STARS ON BOTH TEAMS LIKE SHOHEI OHTANI AND VLADIMIR GUERRERO JUNIOR, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
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THAT’S ALL FOR THE B-LIST THIS WEEK. CHECK IN NEXT MONDAY TO HEAR ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS THIS WEEK IN POP CULTURE. FOR WNUR NEWS, I’M VIDYUTH SRIDHAR
Theme music is from MixKit “What What?! Wowow!” by Michael Ramir C.
