Highlights From The Envelope's Aug. 6 Issue

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Studios and distributors pinch Oscar hopes whitethorn already beryllium asking maine to surface their autumn films, but astatine The Envelope it’s still Emmy season, and nan first of 3 weeks of Phase II sum kicks disconnected this week.

While columnist Glenn Whipp will person much connected screen taxable Rhea Seehorn successful his Friday newsletter, I’ve rounded up nan remaining stories from our Aug. 6 rumor below, pinch a fewer other thoughts astir immoderate of my favorites. Happy reading!

‘John Candy: I Like Me’

John Candy's widow Rosemary, center, and their children Christopher and Jennifer.

Outside of class submissions and telecast accumulation decisions, exclusives don’t travel crossed my table excessively often — aft all, it’s nan quality of covering awards that astir of nan films and TV bid nether information were already released weeks aliases moreover months ago. So erstwhile analogous Jenelle Riley wrote to maine that she had landed the first question and reply pinch John Candy’s widow, Rosemary, astir nan documentary “John Candy: I Like Me,” I instantly jumped astatine nan idea.

And boy, americium I gladsome I did. On a summertime Friday astatine nan Candy family location successful Brentwood, Rosemary and her 2 kids, Chris and Jennifer, posed for photos and said to Riley astir why this project, astatine this time, was nan correct measurement to grant John, and really touched they’ve been by nan consequence — including, successful existent time, their guidance to Josh Gad saying astatine Comic-Con that he would not beryllium taking complete John’s domiciled successful nan caller “Spaceballs” movie.

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John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette -- "The Wedding" -- Season 1, Episode 6

Having officiated 3 weddings, been successful 2 others and attended seemingly countless more, I understand nan plight of nan wedding impermanent each excessively well. Especially if you’re up location pinch nan happy couple, you can’t lucifer excessively closely, aliases guidelines retired excessively much; you want to look good, but not look arsenic if you’re trying to bargain focus.

So, contempt nan differences of clip play and/or people status, I resonated profoundly pinch analogous Emma Fraser’s communicative astir really costume designers are revolutionizing nan TV wedding by putting conscionable arsenic overmuch thought into nan attendees arsenic nan bride and groom. Hear really “Bridgerton,” “The Gilded Age,” “Love Story” and “Hacks” pulled it disconnected this Emmy season. And consciousness free to motion maine up to officiate your Regency-themed nuptials.

‘All My Children,’ redux

I cannot profess to being a soap opera die-hard, but having grown up successful nan 1990s and early 2000s — erstwhile “The Young and nan Restless” and “Days of Our Lives” were sick-day mainstays and “Passions” caught my prurient liking aft schoolhouse — nan shape has ever fascinated me. Never much truthful than now, erstwhile attempts to support it alive against nan taste headwinds often mean imaginative thinking.

Cue erstwhile “All My Children” stars, “Live With...” co-hosts and spouses Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, who dream to revive “AMC” done a bid of Lifetime movies. As analogous Amy Amatangelo reports, nan mates plans to revisit nan lives of beloved characters for illustration Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) and Maria Santos Gray (Eva LaRue) successful nan coming time — and believes, from nan number of “AMC” fans successful nan “Live” audience, that they person nan instrumentality guidelines to make nan bid a success. So don’t count nan soap retired conscionable yet.