After a decade-long run as one of the most layered and tragic characters ever to pilot spaceships in a certain distant galaxy, Diego Luna is finally ready to say goodbye to Cassian Andor. Luna had no idea what he was signing up for when he first popped up as Cassian …
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Until just a couple of years ago, Adam Larson was pretty sure that his reality television days were long behind him. That chapter of his life started in 2001 when he appeared on MTV’s Road Rules: The Quest, and continued through 2007 on Road Rules: Viewers Revenge and various seasons …
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The take was too perfect. Ray Mendoza, the first-time director of Warfare, was watching D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai drag the limp, unconscious body of Cosmo Jarvis away from the wreckage of a massive explosion. Smoke, gunfire, screaming everywhere. And then there was the noise erupting from Woon-A-Tai as he struggled to pull …
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T he president and the richest man on the planet hate Jimmy Kimmel. You would think that would bestow on him a resistance status that at the very least grants a private office in the upper reaches of the Masonic Temple in Hollywood, where Jimmy Kimmel Live! is shot live …
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In the 2004 series premiere of The Apprentice, the reality competition show that laundered Donald Trump’s reputation as a tacky sleazebag and launched his presidential aspirations, the billionaire real estate mogul reintroduces himself to America with a glossy, vague little anecdote about overcoming financial adversity. In a preamble to the …
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In 1972, ABC aired an exposé on the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, which had been accused of abusing and neglecting its intellectually challenged wards. A young, hungry investigative reporter named Geraldo Rivera took a camera crew inside the institution, and gave the country a firsthand look …
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In “Eulogy,” one of the final episodes of Season Seven of Black Mirror, a lonely man named Phillip (Paul Giamatti) learns that an old flame has died, and he’s been asked to contribute to a unique kind of eulogy wherein an AI guide (Patsy Ferran) pulls his consciousness into old …
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T he What About Bob? production crew was deep in the woods of the tiny Virginia town of Moneta when they heard a frightening sound they couldn’t quite identify. They were over three months into shooting the 1991 Bill Murray–Richard Dreyfuss comedy about a mentally ill man who becomes obsessed …
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Everybody’s favorite new hospital drama has received tons of praise within the medical community for its accuracy, authenticity, and attention to detail. This is a show that knows its ECMO from its LUCAS. To the rest of us, the jargon sure sounds convincing, but we’re also left wondering, “Is ‘degloving’ …
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TV is firmly in its reboot, revival, and reunion era. Shows such as Frasier and Sex and the City have been revisited, with varying degrees of success. Some of these exploits, like the newsmaking Fresh Prince reunion, have added valuable perspective to the original show. But with all the nostalgia …
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