THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS:  Despite being a beloved movie musical, Gigi was not a hit in its prior Broadway production.  Is a new production starring Vanessa Hudgens going to change that?

WHAT IS ENTERTAINMENT?  NBC is developing a sitcom based around friends who play at a weekly pub quiz.  Somehow, I have not yet been retained as a consultant, even if I am trying to round up a multi-state all-star team for next year's Geek Bowl (it's in Albuquerque next year, so ready the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul jokes).

AWESOME SAUCE:  Vulture's Margaret Lyons makes the reasonable prediction that Chris Pratt should host the SNL season-opener on September 27.

OBVIOUSLY, THIS PERSON HAS NEVER FLOWN USAIRWAYS:  In a classic example of the #slatepitches genre, J. Bryan Lowder wishes you'd dress up a bit the next time you took a flight:

As everyone knows, travel these days can be practically barbaric: Space is cramped, in-flight meals are lackluster, and premiums are charged for everything from checking bags to watching TV to munching snacks. The weary traveler has little control over these things, but he can control his own outfit—and feeling handsome amid all the inhumanities can be powerfully heartening. What’s more, traveling, despite its continuing degradation, should be exciting—it’s a special occasion! Just as you might buy yourself an in-flight cocktail or a frivolous magazine at the concourse newsstand to brighten the experience, you should wear flattering clothes as a small way of marking travel as a singular experience.

ONE MORE PROBLEM:  Inescapable pop earworm artist Ariana Grande has some very specific requests about how she is to be photographed and interviewed.

I NEED HIM LIKE THE AXE NEEDS THE TURKEY:  If you've never seen The Lady Eve, good god, what are you waiting for?  Perhaps my favorite romcom ever. (That, or His Girl Friday.) The Dissolve is giving it a week's worth of discussion, which is well worth your time. Scott Tobias' keynote:

There’s a playful subversion to The Lady Eve casting its lot with the temptress and sinner, and Sturges’ casting of the lead roles really makes it pop. As the title character in 1937’s Stella Dallas, the gold standard of melodramas about female self-sacrifice, Stanwyck played another woman with no regard for social mores, despite her ambitions as a garish status-seeker. She isn’t tentative in pursuing her desires, she doesn’t shrink in the name of propriety, and she’s in full possession of feminine powers—a modern woman, often bracingly so. By contrast, Fonda, who had never done comedy, so throughly embodied forthrightness and down-to-earth decency that he was cast as Young Mr. Lincoln two years before. To stick with the Biblical theme, Sturges found an actress who represented the “sin” in cinema, and an actor who made it seem like he’d never done anything wrong in his life. 

ON A MIDNIGHT RADIO:  Your next Broadway Hedwig?  Michael C. Hall.