This week鈥檚 Nose believes that everything happens for a reason. Call it luck. Call it fate. Call it karma.
On , 鈥淲e Don鈥檛 Talk About Bruno,鈥� from Lin-Manuel Miranda鈥檚 song score for Encanto, becomes the No. 1 song in the country. It鈥檚 the second song ever from a Disney animated movie to get to No. 1, after 鈥淎 Whole New World鈥� from Aladdin, 30 years ago. The Encanto Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is also No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It鈥檚 the first Disney animated movie ever to top both charts at once.
On a slightly different note: The Build-a-Bear Workshop, this week, . I don鈥檛 know what to say about that. I just report the news here, folks.
And finally: Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the first Ghostbusters sequel in more than 30 years and the fourth movie in the franchise. It鈥檚 directed by Jason Reitman, whose father, Ivan Reitman, directed the original movies in the 1980s. It stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, and Paul Rudd, with appearances by many of the old favorites from the Ghostbusters universe.
Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:
- SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on the NFL franchise that鈥檚 clumsily begging for anonymity
- The word game, released in October, has millions of daily users.
- In 鈥淣ightclub Comedian,鈥� Ansari fixates on how the Internet shapes our lives and longs for the pre-digital past.
- Psychologists and tweet-deleters help explain my favorite pastime (that weirdly makes me feel a little guilty).
- In advance of a show of his drawings at New York鈥檚 Pace Gallery, the polymathic performer answered T鈥檚 Artist鈥檚 Questionnaire.
- Venus is white. So is the sun. They鈥檙e beautiful anyway.
GUESTS:
- Jim Chapdelaine - An Emmy-winning musician and a patient advocate for people with rare cancers
- Carolyn Paine - An actress, comedian, and dancer; she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance
- Tracy Wu Fastenberg - Development officer at 海角换妻 Children鈥檚
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Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.
