Can’t Hardly Wait

For the last week and a half, people in Cannes have been trying to figure out the tastes of Steven Spielberg’s jury – and now that the festival is reaching a conclusion without any one film asserting itself the way “Amour” did last year or “The Tree of Life” the year before, the guessing game has gotten more difficult and more feverish.

Everyone's still going nuts about Manti Te'o's "fake" girlfriend--the one practically every media outlet in the country was obsessed with, the one he tweeted with, the one he talked on the phone with for hours every night. This girlfriend, everyone is now saying, was a complete fabrication. She didn't exist!

It appears that some anonymous person told Heliemann and/or Halperin that Ted Kennedy told him that Bill Clinton said to Kennedy, of Barack Obama, that “a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.” In the interests of selling books, some of found it useful to read this as a comment about race—like that forty years ago Obama would be getting coffee for important politicians, not serving in the United States Senate.

"Short Term 12" was the most popular movie at South by Southwest, winning top awards from both the festival's jury and its audience. Yet Destin Daniel Cretton’s second feature-length film, based loosely on his own experience working at a foster care facility, was never supposed to get made. Cretton had made a short, and that was supposed to be that.

Lisa and Bryan are moving in together and, against everyone’s better judgment, are documenting it on the internet. Lisa’s terrible with money, and Bryan is great with money. Click here to catch up on The story so far. 

By Alyssa Rosenberg

(Triborough)