She lived through what newspapers dubbed “The Texas Porn Star Massacre,” a long, dark, Type O-splattered night of the soul that left her fellow purveyors of quality adult entertainment outlined in chalk. Now Maxine Miller — better known by her stage name Maxine Minx — must endure an environment so …
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Nostalgia — it AIN’T what it used to be. Right around the halfway mark of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, a.k.a. the fourth time out for Eddie Murphy‘s streetwise detective, our man Axel strides to the front desk of a posh L.A. hotel. He’s rockin’ his usual Detroit-plainclothes-chic uniform of …
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Kevin Costner is contemporary America’s No. 1 cowboy patriarch, the sort of actor who gives off a strong frontier-zaddy vibe while looking remarkably at home on a horse. He wasn’t the sole reason why Yellowstone became a massive hit, just the biggest; whether you love or loathe Taylor Sheridan’s ranch-style …
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This post contains spoilers for the third season of The Bear, which is now streaming in its entirety on Hulu. But the significant spoilers won’t come for a while, and you’ll get another warning first. The Season Three premiere of FX’s The Bear flashes back to all the kitchens where …
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There are eight million stories in the naked city. Unless, of course, that metropolis is under attack by aliens who’ve fallen from the sky, have extraordinary hearing, and want nothing more than to eat humans and wreak havoc. Then you really just have eight million different versions of the same …
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Like bartenders and baristas, cab drivers can hypothetically double as therapists — service workers who lend an ear for listening and a shoulder for crying. Keep the meter running long enough, and maybe you’ll unburden yourself straight into a breakthrough. At least, the movies’ romantic version of an old-fashioned taxi …
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In the new Netflix drama Supacell, a group of young Black men and women from South London discover that they have superpowers. One is now strong enough to smash open a cash machine with his bare hands, while another can run from London to Edinburgh in only a few seconds. …
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“Hi. I’m going to kill myself if you don’t come and get me.” It’s hard to gauge the seriousness of the threat, given that the speaker is an 11-year-old girl named Lacy (Zoe Ziegler), the delivery is simultaneously end-of-the-world apocalyptic and stunningly casual, and the time and location is a …
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They were the original One-Percenters — not the richest of the richest, the elite within the elite, but “the one percent who don’t fit and don’t care… We’ve punched our way out of a hundred rumbles, stayed alive with our boots and our fists.” That first-hand quotes opens Hunter S. …
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He was initially an ambassador from the Hippie Nation, a force of irreverence armed with a sharp wit and a what-me-worry smile. Which is why, in the late 1960s, right when Flower Power was beginning to bloom in full and the escalating situation in Vietnam galvanized the youth generation, Donald …
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