Before director James Mangold began production on his Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown,the subject of the film asked him a pointed question. “The first time I sat down with him,” Mangold says, “Bob said, ‘What’s this movie about, Jim?’ I said, ‘It’s about a guy who’s choking to death …
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Homicide: Life on the Street is on the verge of abdicating the title of the Best TV Show You Can’t Stream. The network series and follow-up film Homicide: The Movie will premiere Aug. 19 onPeacock. On June 17, David Simon — whose nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing …
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After six weeks of around-the-clock drama in Fiji, the hit reality show Love Island USA Season Six ended on Sunday with viewers choosing the coupled-up Serena Page and Kordell Beckham as the $100,000 prize winners. Leah Kateb and Miguel Harichi were declared the season’s runners-up. While Page and Beckham, together …
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Tony Bourdain died six years ago, ending the near-decade I spent as his assistant. I have yet to disable my “Anthony Bourdain” Google Alert, which is how I became aware of Omnivore, the Apple TV+ deep-dive food series executive produced by René Redzepi, chef of the world-renowned Noma restaurant in …
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Newhart, Bob Newhart‘s second CBS sitcom, ran for eight seasons and 184 episodes from 1982-1990, neatly surpassing the run of his first CBS sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show, which ran from six seasons and 142 episodes from 1972-1978. But the second show always lived in the shadow of the first. …
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In the universe of The Boys, redemption arcs usually aren’t a thing, as the dark fate of the Deep’s octopus lover this season makes clear. But Jessie T. Usher‘s fastest man alive, A-Train, whose impenetrable arrogance has been melting away season by season, looks to be a major exception. With …
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Some things about the Emmys are predictable. Every awards observer figured that FX’s Shōgun and The Bear would get lots of nominations today, and they did: 25 and 23, respectively, the latter a record for the comedy categories in the case of The Bear. But unexpected things, both good and …
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Nandini Bapat wasn’t raised a quitter. She began acting in 2012 and has since juggled full-time gigs while landing small roles on Fox’s Scream Queens, HBO’s Barry, and Apple TV’s Physical. And after last year’s nearly four-month-long actor’s strike and work stoppage, she still believes her acting career is worth …
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Rest in peace, Shannen Doherty — the quintessential Hollywood bad girl of the Nineties, the Heather-est of the Heathers. Doherty made her legend on Beverly Hills, 90210, the best TV teen drama ever by a mile, playing teenage chaos agent and drama factory Brenda Walsh. The world is mourning the …
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Lost began streaming on Netflix last week, which meant the Internet was once again legally obligated to lose its collective mind about Lost. Practically since it debuted on ABC 20 years ago this fall, the sci-fi drama about survivors of a plane crash who find themselves trapped on a mysterious …
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