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The actor Benicio Del Toro was spotted grabbing a quick cup of joe at Capitol Coffee last week. El Mitotero is not sure if he’s in town to film, or whether he’s in the area because shooting Soldado, the Sicario sequel, gave him a taste for the great Southwest. Or is Del Toro, a Star
Wars Episode VIII co-star, here because [lengthy drum roll] El Mitotero’s grand theory about the finale of the current Star
Wars trilogy shooting in New Mexico is starting to take shape?!? Take that piece of unverified, wishful-thinking fake news, haters!
Shirley MacLaine, a Santa Fe mainstay and beloved oddball, has a new film project. She’ll star with Anna Kendrick in
Nicole, described as “Disney’s female Santa Claus film” by Variety.
Kendrick, it sounds like, has to step in and save Christmas when her father, Ol’ Saint Nick, retires, and her older brother gets cold feet the night of. Honestly, crossing the globe in a single night does sound like a lot. Topping off the eggnog and not doing that? Much better. El Mitotero is with older brother here. Anyway, MacLaine will play an elf named Polly who was Kendrick’s character’s nanny. Billy Eichner and Bill Hader are also on board. Sounds good!
Sci-fi fans, buckle up. The Jean Cocteau and proprietor George R.R. Martin have planned a massive multi-author book signing and panel discussion and Q-&-A centered on the Wild Cards sci-fi anthology series Martin edits. It’s set for next Sunday. In a news release, the Cocteau Wild Cards extravaganza was described as “the greatest mass book signing to ever hit Santa Fe.” As of press time El Mitotero had not yet heard back from the local Guinness World Record outpost, so we’ll just go ahead and rate that claim: True. Events begin 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, at the Cocteau, in the Railyard.
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