Abby Schreiber, Alex Bedder and Gary Pini
1. Queen of all media (and essentially all things)
Oprah is teaming up with
HBO to develop a new series penned by playwright
Thomas Bradshaw about the life of the first black president of a liberal arts college. In mathematical terms: Oprah + HBO + famed playwright = Emmys. [
THR via
Vulture]
2. There's a very cool proposal to "update" the thousands of ugly electric towers that cover the globe. "The Land of Ghosts" is the work of Massachusetts-based architects
Choi + Shine and -- though it has never come to fruition -- the idea has won several awards. (H/T to
Instant Joy)
3. Word is
Mick Jagger has signed on to produce a biopic about the life of
James Brown. The Rolling Stones idol will work alongside
Brian Grazer who reportedly was in talks with
Spike Lee about the project and (
yuck, cringe!) considering
Chris Brown for the lead role. Mick: turn this ship around! [via
Spin]
4. Our favorite questions from
Neil Young's Twitter version of Ask Me Anything.
5. Here's a confession: we're suckers for a good period drama and thus are quite intrigued by this new
Mary Queen of Scots show headed to CW that's described as "
Game of Thrones meets
Marie Antoinette." [via
Deadline]
6. Go inside an insane-looking 75,000-square-foot museum/restaurant/karaoke bar in Moscow that was formerly a nuclear bomb bunker over at
Eater.
7. Read about the creepy new Big Brother-type surveillance project in Williamsburg posing as a "hipster fashion blog." [via
Gawker]
