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The 45-year old Blue Öyster Cult song turned undying Saturday Night Live meme took a strange, winding journey to rock classic status. By Rob Tannenbaum August 5, 2021 Donald Roeser, aka Buck Dharma, Joe Bouchard, Allen Lanier, Eric Bloom, and Albert Bouchard of Blue Öyster Cult, July 30, 1976.Michael Putland / Getty Images You may

Michael Douglas knows that comedy is harder than drama. He believed it before signing onto The Kominsky Method, his first episodic TV role in over 40 years, and he certainly thinks it now that it’s finished. It’s why he signed onto the Chuck Lorre show in the first place: to really wrestle with the form.

Adele has a new partner, LeBron James’ sports agent Rich Paul, and she is much more willing to share their love story publicly than she has been in the past. E! spoke to a source close to the singer, who explained why Adele is fine with their relationship being in the spotlight more. The romance

Apparently scaling back the party to just family and close friends, all of whom are vaccinated, isn’t good enough for the GOP.  By Bess Levin August 4, 2021 When the news emerged this week that Barack Obama was throwing himself a giant 60th birthday party on Martha’s Vineyard with a guest list reportedly approaching 500,

[embedded content] Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game Kickstarter has absolutely blown through its $50k goal, and according to CBR, they achieved this within the first 16 minutes of the campaign. With a month left to go, I have no doubt that they’re going to push past the $2 million mark, which they’re already closing in

In a humorous video call, the pair announced plans for 40X40, Archewell’s new mentorship program that will pair women trying to return to the workplace with luminaries including Adele, Stella McCartney, and Gloria Steinem. By Erin Vanderhoof August 4, 2021 Meghan Markle has been out of the spotlight ever since the birth of her daughter,

S&M is like “commedia dell’arte: a stock repertoire of stories, bits, lines, and gags,” muses writer Chris Kraus. Kraus’s short story (“Emotional Technologies”) is one of 15 in the recent anthology Kink, published earlier this year, which thoroughly explores the sexual practice. Suffice it to say, it’s pretty much the perfect companion for Hot Girl

It was one of several bizarre lines of defense, including the one wherein the governor declared “I do it with everyone. Black and white, young and old, straight and LGBTQ, powerful people, friends, strangers, people who I meet on the street.” By Bess Levin August 3, 2021 On Tuesday morning, New York attorney general Letitia

Comedian Kathy Griffin is recovering in hospital following the successful partial removal of one of her lungs. According to the comedian, she was diagnosed with Stage 1 lung cancer approximately two weeks ago, and the surgery involved half of her left lung being removed. She said doctors caught the cancer early and it’s solely confined

J. Allen Brack, the president of game development company Blizzard, has stepped down from the company “to pursue new opportunities.” according to The Verge, though everyone immediately guessed it’s because he’s named in a lawsuit by the state of California that claims that there were multiple instances of sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination at the

There’s a temporal side effect of the elongated COVID crisis, a sort of dislocation of time. Our calendar memories slip up: The marker “last year” has lost its meaning, because 2020 is less last year than a lost year. Twenty years ago, 9/11 caused a related kind of dislocation. The sheer impact of the event

A teaser video shared marks the beginning of a new album rollout. By The Editors of GQ August 2, 2021 The Weeknd at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on May 27, 2021.Courtesy of Kevin Winter for Getty Images / iHeartMedia The Weeknd likes to consider each album an

The medical community thinks the governor, who claims everything is fine despite the state being the biggest COVID-19 hot spot in the country, is a clown. By Bess Levin August 2, 2021 As COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths surge around the country, one state in particular stands out as a place you really don’t want

After a long career spent as the butt of Marvel fans’ jokes, Clint Barton’s Hawkeye is finally preparing to pass the baton—but not before he attempts to prove his worth in one last cinematic showing. He’s more than the guy with the arrows, folks. He’s the guy with the arrows and his own TV show.

A generation ago, the landmark show and its creator blew up our idea of TV. With a new movie prequel, The Many Saints of Newark, on the way this fall, the showrunner returns to the scene of the crime. By Matthew Lynch August 2, 2021 Of all the whackings, beatings, and ritual humiliations served up

[embedded content] The Marvel Cinematic Universe excels at tying events from the past into the franchise’s future. WandaVision illuminated forgotten aspects of the less favored Avengers: Age of Ultron, while Loki tapped into mythology established in Thor: The Dark World. Now, a new behind-the-scenes featurette for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings reveals

The Shop director Rob Alexander on filming candid conversations between some of the most famous people on the planet. By Julian Kimble July 30, 2021 Anthony Davis, 2 Chainz, LeBron James, Antonio Brown and Rob Alexander on the set of The Shop.Courtesy of Nolis Anderson for Uninterrupted. Athletes and entertainers’ concerted efforts to tell their

The former president’s election lies have helped him pool more than $100 million for his political whims.  By Charlotte Klein August 1, 2021 Former President Donald Trump was the Republican Party’s most prolific fundraiser in the first half of the year and finished June with a total “war chest of more than $100 million,” the

A couple of years back, a buddy and I made a trip to New York to see a Yankees game. When we popped up out of the subway near the stadium, I asked him for my ticket. That’s when it got complicated. I learned that the Yankees no longer believed in paper tickets. I had

The kiddie pic goes back to the pound to wait out this phase of the pandemic.  By Jordan Hoffman July 31, 2021 Paramount Pictures has put a leash on Clifford the Big Red Dog’s theatrical release, originally planned for September 17. The reason, as reported by Deadline, is concern over the delta variant of the

Simone Biles’s name has been in the headlines even more than usual this week, after she pulled out of the gymnastics team finals at the Tokyo Olympics to prioritize her mental health. “Simone Biles has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue,” USA Gymnastics said in a statement. “She will be

It’s been 40 years since Lady Diana Spencer — later known as the beloved Princess Diana — and Prince Charles wed at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, England, on July 29, 1981. Arguably, the pomp, the pageantry and the outright luxuriousness of it all hasn’t been matched since, even as the pair’s sons, Princes William

Born to jump. By Jordan Hoffman July 31, 2021 While her parents Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa are doing eight shows a week at the Walter Kerr Theatre, Jessica Springsteen is at the Tokyo Olympic Games, ready to represent Team USA in show jumping. In an interview with PEOPLE, the 29-year-old Springsteen, who has been

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of rape, police announced Saturday, following an accusation the former member of the Korean boy band EXO lured young women into sexual relationships. Wu, 30, earlier was accused by a teenager of having sex with her while she

Simone Biles shocked the world when she decided to pull out of the team event finals at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday but has since told reporters that she could be back for the individual all-around competition this Thursday. During the team finals, the 24-year-old gymnast left the competition floor after performing an uncharacteristically faulty

Bryan Lourd, co-chairman of the Creative Artists Agency, has Black Widow’s back.  By Jordan Hoffman July 30, 2021 Just as Black Widow can always rely on Captain America and the Avengers in times of woe, it appears that Scarlet Johansson can call upon Bryan Lourd and the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), perhaps the only team

Welcome to the jungle. Specifically, it’s the Amazon, where scientist Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt), along with her brother MacGregor (Jack Whitehall), head to find the mysterious and elusive tree petals called “Tears of the Moon.” They only grow on one tree in the entire jungle, so they definitely need some help getting there. Enter: The

It appears that canceled NBC series Manifest might receive a second life, after the first two seasons dropped on Netflix and fast became the streamer’s #1 show for weeks and possibly its most-watched show ever. Manifest’s stars and creatives have been beating the drum to #SaveManifest, and its ardent fandom echoes that call across social media.