Last week I wrote about Lil Nas X being a social media genius as a video circulated of Montero appearing on Maury. The clip had all the components you’d expect to see on Maury, from Montero confronting his lover’s wife to a delightfully absurd amount of dramatic running backstage. Despite me knowing that Lil Nas
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In Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum’s character Dr. Ian Malcolm, while on a rather bereft tour through the facilities, asks sarcastically, “Eventually you might have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right?” That’s how Ghostbusters: Afterlife feels. For a movie that’s supposed to be about the supernatural, we get few ghosts or even spooky things. Basing it
Five years after her death, several of Hadid’s extraordinary buildings are finally opening across the Middle East, where her reputation is having a remarkable afterlife. By Joseph Giovannini November 19, 2021 In the fall of 2009, city buses rumbled through Rome plastered with close-ups of a windblown Zaha Hadid, promoting the opening of her National
Deadheads and prestige cinema loves rejoice. By Grant Rindner November 18, 2021 NEW YORK, NY – MAY 11: Jonah Hill on May 11, 2018 in New York, New York.Courtesy of Say Cheese! for Getty Images Deadheads and prestige cinema lovers rejoice: the Grateful Dead are finally getting the kind of high-caliber biopic one of rock’s
On Wednesday, Manolo Blahnik celebrated their 50th anniversary with an intimate soirée at the Carlyle. Inside the famed hotel’s Dowling’s restaurant, guests were greeted with champagne before nestling into the cozy space, comfortable and reminiscent of a friend’s home, for high tea on a brisk fall afternoon. That same feeling of familiarity and ease is
As the ’90s and early-aughts make their pop culture resurgence, is it really any surprise we’d eventually make our way ‘round to Pam and Tommy? On Friday, May 7, Hulu first released sneak-peek photos of its upcoming limited series about former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, starring Lily James and
How the wild details of the most memed shipping crisis perfectly illustrate our global trade dilemma. By Jeff Wise November 18, 2021 As headline-grabbing catastrophes go, it was a delight. A quarter-mile-long ship, decks piled with 18,300 containers full of capitalism’s miscellaneous desiderata, skidded out of control and jammed itself sideways in the Suez Canal.
From Entertainment One, LeVar Burton will be hosting his very own game show (so stop asking him about Jeopardy!). News broke that Burton will be hosting a Trivial Pursuit game show of his very own! You know, the game that tests your knowledge in all things and usually results in families fighting with each other? According to Yahoo!,
The years-long feud apparently came to an end last night at Drake’s house in Toronto. By Grant Rindner November 17, 2021 Drake attends Drake’s Till Death Do Us Part rap battle on October 30, 2021 in Long Beach, California.Courtesy of Amy Sussman for Getty Images. Call it the Treaty of Toronto. Though their animosity has
The Fox News owner said Wednesday that the ex-president is an embarrassment to his party and should stop living in the past. By Bess Levin November 17, 2021 If you’ve had the unfortunate opportunity to turn on a TV, log onto the internet, or open up a newspaper in the last 10 months, you’re more
Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are reuniting with other cast members from the blockbuster film franchise for a special 20th anniversary TV retrospective, movie studio Warner Bros said on Tuesday. But Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will not be among those making a personal appearance on the show. Read more:
Two figureheads have parted ways with the University of Austin barely a week after its founding—and more growing pains are likely ahead. By Caleb Ecarma November 16, 2021 The University of Austin, an unaccredited anti-cancel-culture academic project launched last week by former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss and a number of her intellectual compatriots,
Riverdale season 6 is premiering into a new world of possibility. The show where anything can happen has inevitably connected to the otherworldly—which offered a perfect crossover opportunity with The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, another TV universe born from the Archie comics. The Riverdale character channeling the most of this new power is maple syrup
Peter Parker isn’t having an easy time. The last we saw, Mysterio gave away his identity to the world in one last trick, and now on top of trying to keep himself hidden from the world (because they think he murdered Quentin Beck) he also has the multiverse to deal with. Wow, really what a
The ex-president insists he’s only fighting Congress to help out future presidents. By Bess Levin November 16, 2021 One of the saddest things about Donald Trump’s continued attempt to block Congress from obtaining records detailing exactly what he was doing before, during, and after the January 6 Capitol attack is his continued insistence that he
GQ traveled around the country with the star comedian for a month as he refined his new Comedy Central special, Imperfect Messenger. By Kevin Hall November 15, 2021 Roy Wood Jr. performs his new special Imperfect Messenger.Courtesy of Sean Gallagher “You think people know that Bo Jackson is from Alabama?” The comedian Roy Wood, Jr.
The Republican leader wanted to have Trump disinvited from the event. By Bess Levin November 15, 2021 On January 20, 2021, Donald Trump became just the fourth president in U.S. history to skip his successor‘s inauguration, following in the footsteps of John Adams in 1801, John Quincy Adams in 1829, and Andrew Johnson in 1869.
It is true that shooting stars, while impressive to behold, burn themselves out. They dazzle us for a time and leave behind glittering but slender evidence of their presence. I am a fan, as we all are, of such phenomena, but ultimately prefer artists with staying power. The actors, actresses, bands, and singers, et al,
Adele is coming back in a major way. To celebrate her long-awaited return—her next album, 30, arrives Nov. 19—the singer is producing a primetime TV special that will include live performances and an exclusive tell-all interview. The production is a big one fit for a superstar like Adele: It was filmed on the top of
“This is going to be the misdemeanor from hell,” the former Trump adviser told reporters after leaving the federal courthouse, after livestreaming his surrender to authorities earlier in the day. By Caleb Ecarma November 15, 2021 Steve Bannon, the bombastic former Trump adviser and right-wing media host, made the most of his day in court
If you existed on the internet this weekend, you probably saw Taylor Swift trending. Sure, the pop singer trends pretty frequently because of her music or references in her songs, but this weekend was special: It was the release of Red (Taylor’s Version). Currently, Swift is rereleasing her old albums after recording them again, so that
The actors talk about Shiv and Tom’s fertility charts, Logan the “piss-mad king,” and letting the imaginary cat out of the bag. By Joy Press November 14, 2021 In each Succession season, there’s been an episode in which all the meme-able phrases and salty looks begin to coalesce into something grander than the sum of
The self-proclaimed “guy known for bacon and mustaches” talked to GQ about non-toxic masculinity, his new book, and why you don’t need to own a gun to have a ton of sex. By Clay Skipper November 12, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz; Getty images Nick Offerman, it might not surprise you to know, is a
Swift gives fans a re-recorded Red, an SNL appearance for the ages, and now an upcoming music video from her movie star pal. By Jordan Hoffman November 14, 2021 The Autumn of Taylor Swift just got even livelier. After her record-demolishing release of Red (Taylor’s Version) and appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Meyers before a triumphant 10-minute performance of
On Saturday night, Taylor Swift continued her Red (Taylor’s Version) album promotional spree by appearing as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Swift sang the ten-minute version of “All Too Well,” a song rumored to be about her brief relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal. But in the audience at SNL was another ex of Taylor
This is a story that begins shortly after 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968. It was my sixth birthday, a big deal according to my parents because that meant I would start Grade One in the fall. Among the presents I got, I only remember one: a Lloyds transistor radio from my grandmother. I
Newly-released correspondence from 2018, part of Markle’s lawsuit against British tabloids, sheds light on why she reached out to her father. By Jordan Hoffman November 13, 2021 London’s Court of Appeal released a series of texts and emails between Meghan Markle and her former communications chief, Jason Knauss, on Friday. The messages reveal how Prince Harry’s family pressured him over Meghan’s relationship
Later this month, a new Ghostbusters movie is on the way that will continue the story of the original movies in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, but as that approaches, it’s hard not to think about the modern Ghostbusters sequel we already got—in part because of the toxic fandom uproar around it. It’s now been over five years
There’s another hour-plus of ore Kanye talking to N.O.R.E. about Drake, Jay-Z, Kim and more. By Grant Rindner November 12, 2021 Ye arrives to the fight between Jamel Herring and Shakur Stevenson at State Farm Arena on October 23, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.Courtesy of Brandon Magnus for Getty Images. Just like every hit album gets
Celebrate World Kindness Day by watching Gaga’s short film on mental health. By Jordan Hoffman November 13, 2021 November 13 is World Kindness Day, so hopefully, on Saturday, you held off on screaming at your lousy no-good upstairs neighbor for at least 24 hours. Someone who did not forget was Lady Gaga, who deployed the