Geraldine Viswanathan and I are not in front of each other—in fact, she’s called from L.A., the other side of the country for me—but I can still sense her warmth and openness over the phone, her unabashed laughter coming through even when she’s poking fun at herself. It’s why she was a natural choice for
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Drew Barrymore is bringing a taste of late-night to daytime television with her new Global talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show. Speaking with ET Canada‘s Cheryl Hickey ahead of the show’s Monday premiere, Barrymore revealed what fans can expect, including a Charlie’s Angels reunion 20 years after the film’s release. Looking over the past 20 years,
American viewers in search of comfort food will have a new season of The Great British Baking Show—also known as The Great British Bake Off—to consume beginning next week. On Tuesday, Netflix announced that the show will return September 25, the same day the new season debuts on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. As
[embedded content] In an interview today on CNBC, Mad Money host and failed prop comic Jim Cramer insulted Nancy Pelosi, calling her “crazy Nancy.” Cramer immediately apologized as soon as the sexist slur left his mouth, claiming that he was parroting Trump’s nickname for the Speaker of the House. Cramer stumbled over his words, saying
Carole Baskin, made into a household name on Netflix docuseries Tiger King, debuted on reality show Dancing With the Stars Monday night, and in true Baskin fashion, there was drama — though not caused by her. The family of her long-missing husband, Don Lewis, paid for an ad seeking help in solving his disappearance, and
Lastly, Dior men’s artistic director Kim Jones—who last week added Fendi womenswear to his design duties—took home the award for International Menswear Designer of the Year. His innovations in men’s couture and ability to translate subcultural obsessions for mass audiences have won him rave reviews in the fashion world; over five million people tried to
Legal advocates are lining up on both sides of actor Bill Cosby’s appeal as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court prepares to review his 2018 sex assault conviction. Cosby was the first celebrity to go on trial in the #MeToo era, and his appeal could resolve lingering questions about how the cases should be tried. For starters,
“People think it’s easier these days,” a gay man says to the titular character of Good Joe Bell, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 14. The men are at a gay bar, discussing the ways that kids like Joe’s late son are still, even in this supposedly enlightened era, bullied and
Few scenes in the United States and abroad can compete with the general output of the New York underground, and this September, it’s presenting us with yet another one of its finer prodigies in the form of native east coaster Ty Blue, whose latest single “Occasionally” is causing quite the stir among critics this season.
When I think of the visuals that came to me while listening to Punk Goes The Velvet, I think of the black and white newsreels of screaming teenagers in full Beatlemania hysteria. The faces of music lovers thrilled like it was the second coming….while Punk Goes The Velvet is not in black and white, it’s
Alex Trebek is back in the studio. The new season of Jeopardy! premieres Monday night. The show released a preview of Trebek’s usual intro, welcoming everyone back to the studio — but with a few key changes. RELATED: Alex Trebek Will Return To ‘Jeopardy!’ Sept. 14 With New Producer Ken Jennings Who else got super
When Ellen DeGeneres returns to host her highly rated self-titled syndicated talk show next week, she’ll find herself playing defense after weeks of controversy. “I can’t wait to get back to work and back to our studio. And, yes, we’re gonna talk about it,” DeGeneres warned last week, a reference to the numerous allegations of
Luca Guadagnino, the Oscar-nominated director of Call Me By Your Name, is returning to Italy for his first foray into television. His eight-episode drama We Are Who We Are, premieres this September on HBO and will stream on HBO Max. Early reviews of the series have drawn Euphoria comparisons and spawned the label “high-art Riverdale.”
Kate Middleton has unveiled the final 100 portraits of her Hold Still digital exhibition. Kensington Palace shared the images on Twitter: Introducing, the final 100 portraits. The images present a unique record of our shared and individual experiences during this extraordinary period of history, conveying humour and grief, creativity and kindness, tragedy and hope. Read the stories:
With Schitt’s Creek finally finished, everyone wants to know what Dan Levy is doing next. The answer? HBO’s Coastal Elites, a film featuring five monologues about living through the pandemic in New York and Los Angeles, starring Levy, Issa Rae, Sarah Paulson, Bette Midler, and Kaitlyn Dever. The film is directed by Jay Roach (Austin
There are few marriages of artist and repertoire that make more sense than Aaron Sorkin and the Chicago 7. With mouthpieces like the impishly radical Abbie Hoffman and the stately elder liberal Dave Dellinger primed to bite into Sorkin’s dialogue, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and its high water mark of late 1960s counter-culture
Welcome to another edition of Grooming Gods. This week: hair with deep texture, skin with big glow. Donovan Wildfong An extremely Timothee Chalamet (which is to say, extremely good) haircut on this young Fear of God model. Jaden Smith Nothing better than a clean high fade on coil-y or curly hair textures. Or virtually any
President Donald Trump, who is pushing a “law and order” reelection message, appeared to encourage violent retaliation by law enforcement against a suspect in a crime. “This guy was a violent criminal, and the U.S. Marshals killed him. And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution,” he
This pandemic is bringing a lot of heartache with it, but it’s also bringing candid celebrity interviews and cast reunions. It’s pretty great to see the cast members of your favorite old shows getting together, drinking wine and cocktails on Zoom, and chatting from their living rooms. Celebrities actually are just like us right now.
Despite the initial fanfare surrounding Tenet crossing the $100 million mark in global markets, Warner Bros. has taken unusual steps to make determining the true numbers of the Christopher Nolan film’s domestic take difficult, according to a report in Variety. Red flags concerning transparency began last week. BoxOfficePro referred to the North American sneak preview
Last week, legendary journalist Bob Woodward revealed that he had tapes of a conversation with Donald Trump where the president admitted that he was playing down the severity of the coronavirus. Trump told Woodward, “I wanted to always play it down, … I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a
White House officials are advising Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, to promote messages that prioritize political positions over scientific findings, an attempt to bolster Donald Trump’s misleading claims about the coronavirus. The pressure is apparently coming from Paul Alexander, a Trump appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services who,
Never judge a book by its cover and never assume anything about the women adorning the cover of fashion magazines. Nor should you presume anything about the stranger sitting across from you on the subway every week, the song “Victoria’s Secret” subtly infers. Singer/songwriter Rohan Solomon knows how to conveys a complex story of looking
In the new video for Drake and DJ Khaled’s “Popstar” single, Justin Bieber gives an Oscar-winning performance. On the track, Drake suggests that songs usually don’t get this big without a “Bieber face,” so he enlisted his fellow Canadian to stand in for him in the video. Bieber parades out in full matching Versace sets,
NEW YORK — Toots Hibbert, one of reggae’s founders and most beloved stars who gave the music its name and later helped make it an international movement through such classics as Pressure Drop, Monkey Man and Funky Kingston, has died. He was 77. Hibbert, frontman of Toots & the Maytals, had been in a medically-induced
An autopsy report released Friday says “Glee” actor Naya Rivera raised her arm and called for help as she accidentally drowned while boating with her 4-year-old son on a California lake. Once his mother had helped him back on to the boat, the boy “noticed the decedent put her arm up in the air and
Millennia from now, when some unfathomable entities go sifting through the fossils of our lives, the new film Ammonite will be fine evidence of a particular time in cinema history. Directed by Francis Lee, the film (which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11) has many trappings of contemporary indie moviemaking: it’s
Cover albums can actually be a lot harder to record and produce than originals are, primarily because of the high bar set by the composers who made the material famous in the first place. It takes nuance and finesse to put something like this together properly, and for Jeff Coffey, it apparently comes as second
Just when you think 2020 couldn’t get any wilder, Addison Rae Easterling signs on to star in a gender-swapped remake of She’s All That. Variety is reporting that the viral TikTok star, who has over 58 million followers on the app alone, will star in He’s All That. Yes, it’s a re-imagining of the hit
On Thursday night, after 37 days in the Big Brother: All-Stars house, Bayleigh Dayton became the fifth person to be voted out. The 27-year-old was evicted by her fellow houseguests by a vote of nine to zero. Despite the avalanche of votes against her, and a new controversy brewing around the all-stars, Dayton was at