Good morning, Utah Today readers! Here’s your forecast: 🌨️ 16 – 32° in Logan | ❄️ 60% chance 🌨️ 29 – 39° in Salt Lake City | ❄️ 80% chance 🌧️ 36 – 46° in St. George | 💧 100% chance In yesterday’s email, I wrote a bit about Nicolas Cage. I think he’s an interesting pop-culture icon because even though he is the punchline of many pop-culture jokes, he always seems to be working and has had an incredibly successful career. One of my favorite episodes of the show “Community” portrays one of the characters taking a class exploring whether or not Cage is a good actor. He cannot come to a conclusion and instead goes mad. In another episode of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," Andy Samberg’s character keeps a classy, well-educated witness in a safe house and makes him watch dozens of Cage’s movies. Then the witness finally gets out of the safe house and has an emotional meltdown when he discovers that Cage was in a period drama, “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,” but Samberg’s character kept it from him. And that’s what makes his work interesting: For every unusual film he’s in like “Face Off,” he also does an artistic, critically acclaimed movie like “Red Rock West.” Even Cage seems to be in on the — should we even call it a joke? In 2022, he played a fictionalized version of himself in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.” Tell me: What is your favorite Nicolas Cage movie? Looking for something? Anything related to the 2023 legislative session will have a bee emoji next to it. 👉 🐝 Also on our minds: How Utah led the way in women’s suffrage, do miracle weight loss medicines work and you can pry my diet soda out of my cold, dead hands. | .png?width=1200&upscale=true&name=Utah%20Today%20Banner%20(v2).png)
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