Ben Affleck revealed on Thursday’s Late Late Show that while Matt Damon might be his good friend and longtime collaborator, he’s an awful roommate. The actor took James Corden down memory lane while reminiscing about their early days in New York City and Los Angeles, where the two then-struggling actors …
Read More »TikTok Is Obsessed With Water. Experts Are Concerned
“I’m on my second water of the day and it is 11:55, so I am cruisin’ with the water goals today!” Tonya Spanglo cheerily announces in her TikTok video. She bounds over to her “water bar,” a collection of sundry Skinny Mix syrups on a Lazy Susan. Cotton candy flavor? …
Read More »Ryan Reynolds Celebrates Rob McElhenney's Birthday By Teaching Us All How to Pronounce His Last Name
Ryan Reynolds pulled out every possible stop he could think of to celebrate his buddy Rob McElhenney’s birthday Friday, April 14 — though the real gift was teaching us all how to properly pronounce the actor’s last name. With the help of songwriters/composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Reynolds staged …
Read More »Travis Barker Recorded Three New Blink-182 Songs With a Broken Finger
Last month, Blink-182 postponed their Latin American tour dates due to an injury drummer Travis Barker suffered on his ring finger. He smashed the finger during rehearsal, leading to emergency surgery and a later-than-expected launch of the band’s first tour with singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge since 2014. Barker offered …
Read More »11 Big Reveals From Scorsese's David Johansen Doc 'Personality Crisis'
In Personality Crisis: One Night Only, Martin Scorsese’s new documentary about the life of New York Dolls frontman David Johansen, the singer makes it clear he doesn’t want to make it easy for the filmmaker: “I think it’s best to leave an incomplete picture of yourself,” he says. Although Johansen …
Read More »Bowen Yang's Spanish Lessons Didn't Come in Handy for Ana De Armas and Karol G 'SNL' Promo
Saturday Night Live‘s Bowen Yang had to pull out his best elementary-level Spanish in the show’s promotional clip for the forthcoming April 15 episode, which features Ana de Armas and Karol G as host and musical guest, respectively. Attempting to keep up with not two but three Spanish speakers, with …
Read More »Toni Collette: 'Mafia Mamma' Is 'a Highlight of My Career'
Watching Mafia Mamma, a slapstick farce about a middle-aged American woman who abruptly inherits an Italian mob empire, you can imagine its star, Toni Collette, in an episode of The Sopranos. She’s got Carmela‘s icy-blonde look and, by the end of the movie, commands a room like Tony. But here, …
Read More »Madonna's 'American Life' Video Was a Bold Statement About War and Celebrity. Then She Spiked It
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Madonna was due to perform one of the final shows on her Drowned World Tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. By noon, the show had been rescheduled and the world had changed irrevocably. After completing the tour, she wasted little time …
Read More »How a Texas Honky-Tonk That Hosted Johnny Cash and Sex Pistols Was Reborn
On May 13, 1975, Ray Benson, leader of the Western-swing heroes Asleep at the Wheel, was readying his band to make their stage debut at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas, when he received the news that Bob Wills, the “King of Western Swing,” had died that morning in nearby …
Read More »Christine and the Queens Reaches for the Heavens With 'To Be Honest' Performance on 'Colbert'
Christine and the Queens appeared on The Late Show to perform their recent song “To Be Honest.” The musician emerged onstage in a pair of angel wings, which they shed mid-track to give an impassioned, dynamic dance performance. “To Be Honest” comes off Christine and the Queens’ forthcoming LP, Paranoïa, …
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