The Brothers Patterson — Dan, 48, Joel, 45, and Andy, 43 — all work together making doors, tables, hearths, and other works of art out of metal and spend their spare time playing heavy metal music together. It’s early on a Wednesday and there’s plenty of work to do (Andy …
Read More »Andrew Garfield Is Having the Time of His Life
Andrew Garfield is hungry. Sitting down at a restaurant in the heart of TriBeCa around the same time that commuters are rushing off to work, the actor immediately fires off an order for a Capital-B Breakfast: scrambled eggs “with all the stuff,” very crispy bacon, home fries, toast, jam, an …
Read More »Mikey Madison's Cinderella Story Is Just Beginning
M ikey Madison has come bearing snacks. The Anora star and I are scheduled to meet in Woodbridge Park — a blip of a green space in Studio City, California, with picturesque benches, a sprawling playground, and plenty of trees. Toddlers wobble about the play area with their moms (or …
Read More »The 'Real Housewives' Wealth Divide Is Redefining What It Takes to Be a Housewife
“Shannon lives way beyond her means,” says the aptly named Tamra Judge in the latest episode of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Orange County. “She throws money around as if she’s a multi-millionaire, and she’s not.” The women of RHOC are on a cast trip to London, where questions about money …
Read More »How Rachel Bloom Battled — And Made Peace With — Death
For the record, if there is a cosmic one, Rachel Bloom would like audiences to know that she’d much rather be making raunchy jokes about foliage that smells like bodily fluids. Instead, in her new Netflix comedy special Death, Let Me Do My Special, Bloom tackles the Covid-19 pandemic, giving …
Read More »'Outer Banks' Star Rudy Pankow Is Shocked by JJ's Story Line, Too
Between shipwreck treasure-dives, murder cover-ups, and love triangles, still moments on Outer Banks, the Netflix series about teenage treasure hunters operating off the shores of North Carolina, are hard to come by. So when filming for the second half of Season Four moved to the western coast of Morocco, Rudy …
Read More »Anna Kendrick Says 'Woman of the Hour' Is Her 'Most Revealing' Film Ever
After leaving a toxic ex, everyone strives to find ways to heal. Anna Kendrick does it through her films — and in heartbreakingly poignant form. Her latest foray into understanding her own trauma comes in her directorial debut, the thriller Woman of the Hour (premiering Oct. 18 on Netflix). The …
Read More »Today, 'Saturday Night Live' Is an Institution. In 1975, It Was Pure Anarchy
Saturday Night Live wasn’t Saturday Night Live, both literally and spiritually, when it premiered on Oct. 11, 1975. Weeks earlier, ABC had debuted a prime-time variety show called Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell. So Lorne Michaels’ late-night creation had to go by, simply, Saturday Night — the same title …
Read More »A Poisoned River, a Father's Sacrifice: New Documentary Tells Story of Peru's Toxic Mining
A poisoned river runs through Espinar, a province in the southern highlands of Peru,where lead, arsenic, cadium, manganese, and mercury have been found in the blood of members of the Cusco region’s Indigenous K’ana Nation. Mountains once majestic against the blue horizon have been erased and swallowed by vast pits …
Read More »'Pavements' Is Exactly the Type of WTF Rock Doc the Band Deserves
Alex Ross Perry was approached to make a documentary about Pavement. There was a slight hitch: The band kinda sorta did not want a documentary made about them. Or rather, they didn’t want one of those things where fans of the band talk about how amazing the quintet were, in …
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