My Compliments to the Chef: Anthony Hopkins’s Thot Headshot

The Friday Post.

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Your weekly Sharon is that of course she liked this Anthony Hopkins-turkey leg post on his Instagram.

I, as devoted Hung Up readers will recall, am obsessed with men demonstrably interested in their own vanity. A lie people like to tell is that only women care about looking good, or only women fuss over their presentation. That is simply not true. Men, even in their current flop era, are just as vain. Men act like they do not care about looking — or being — beautiful; too many male performers equate making an effort to escape their beauty with Good Acting. (Angelica Jade Bastién’s 2016 essay on method acting was incredibly precise about this.) My favorite interview I’ve ever done was with Ve Neill, Bradley Cooper’s makeup artist for A Star Is Born, a movie where he is famously 40% ho…