Stanley Tucci spoke up in defense of straight actors playing gay characters, so long as it’s done “the right way,” and doesn’t slip into stereotypes, during an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs” program. Tucci, who is straight, has played a handful of gay characters over the course …

Hip-hop has lived and thrived for 50 years, and some of the genre’s pioneers are reflecting on the genre’s cultural influence. Speaking at Essence Fest over the weekend, KRS-One and Ice-T looked back at the genre’s longevity and its future. “Fifty years ago, some of us knew this was going …

YouTuber Grace Helbig has been diagnosed with breast cancer. In a seven-minute-long video shared to the nearly three million subscribers on her channel, Helbig expressed optimism about her medical team’s proposed treatment plans. In the video, she said she received her official diagnosis more than a month ago, but only …

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. One thing that’s objectively true about Tim Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave sketches: They were meant to be quoted. This isn’t a show that you can watch …

“OK the past few weeks have been MANICCC,” Masoom Minawala Mehta, a lifestyle and fashion influencer with 1.3 million Instagram, posted in her stories on Sunday. In addition to dealing with events in her personal life — a canceled trip to Spain, and a husband with a broken leg — …

The Supreme Court ruled last week that Harvard’s admissions process, which factored race into decisions about which candidates to accept, was unconstitutional. The college is still allowed to consider whether applicants are relatives of alumni, though, which has led a civil rights group to file a complaint in light last …

The Weeknd’s controversial, 5-episode show The Idol is over. And with it, viewers of the HBO series got to hear Troye Sivan reimagine “My Sweet Lord,” the beloved, guitar-backed 1970 song by Beatle George Harrison, during the final episode. Sivan’s sweet vocals hum and echo over a haunting, synthy organ …

For a writer who spent most of his career outside the limelight, the outpouring of public admiration in the wake of Cormac McCarthy’s death on June 13 at 89 testified to the power of his work. An obscure figure with a cultish following for much of his writing life, McCarthy …

The seven-year production of the latest Netflix animation feature, Nimona, was a rocky one. The film, based on ND Stevenson’s webcomic about a sadistic little shapeshifter sidekick with a heart of gold, survived biblical hurdles in its leap from ND’s panels to TV and big screens, including a studio acquisition, …