Sarah Ramos embracing inner fan
Sarah Ramos hasn’t let being stuck in quarantine stop her from acting.
Ramos, whose TV credits include “American Dreams” and “Parenthood,” has spent her downtime re-creating popular TV and movie scenes and posting them to social media. She calls them quarantscenes and aims to release one a week.
Sometimes a friend such as Dylan O’Brien, Aubrey Plaza or Elle Fanning appear, but Ramos usually acts out all the parts herself, like when she played both Jughead and Betty in a scene from “Riverdale.”
Ramos said she has long been the kind of fan who will watch things over and over and memorize lines.
“I definitely am a person who reads, watches and listens to something obsessively. And I grew up obsessed with pop culture,” she said.
Ramos used to keep her inner fan a secret but making quarantscenes has helped her to think differently.
“I’ve had moments where I’m like, ‘Oh, I can’t really be a fan. You won’t take me seriously if I’m a fan.’ But I’ve really come around to the other side of that where I feel like everyone in this industry got into it because we were fans of other people. And remembering that keeps it fun and exciting,” she said.
Bear Grylls brought to tears by competitors:
Bear Grylls said he was brought to tears by the determination of competitors on “World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji.”
The series’ new season, hosted by Grylls and with 66 teams from 30 countries, will debut Aug. 14 on Amazon Prime Video, it was announced Wednesday. The nonstop race with 330 competitors was held for 11 days and across more than 400 miles. It was difficult to see racers drop out after spending so much time and energy in preparation, Grylls said.
“But at the same time, those that endured, whether or not they won, it wasn’t really about the winning,” he said. “This is an expedition with a stopwatch, is how I always kind of see this, and just to complete it is a huge achievement.”
“I unashamedly wept at times, seeing the effort and what it meant to these people,” said Grylls, an adventurer who starred in the series “Man vs. Wild.”
Grylls also noted the field’s diversity, including the first fully African American team competing internationally.
Don DeLillo novel ‘The Silence’ coming:
Don DeLillo, 83, an author known for imagining disaster in “White Noise,” “End Zone” and other works, has a novel coming in October that takes place in 2022 amid a digital shutdown in New York City. The book is called “The Silence,” Scribner announced Wednesday.
“I began writing the novel in 2018, long before the current pandemic,” DeLillo said in a statement. “I started with a vision of empty streets in Manhattan. The idea of the silence grew from sentence to sentence, from one chapter to the next.”
DeLillo’s many honors include a National Book Award and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
June 25 birthdays:
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59. Actress Erica Gimpel is
56. Actress Angela Kinsey is 49. Bassist Mike Kroeger is 48. Actress Linda Cardellini is 45. Actress Busy Philipps is 41.