Near the end of the 50th anniversary Saturday Night Live special on Sunday night, original cast member Garrett Morris sat on a chair at the show’s primary stage (a.k.a. home base) to introduce “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” a 1978 SNL short that imagined an elderly John Belushi as the …
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Biff Wiff, the beloved character actor who portrayed multiple roles on the sketch comedy series I Think You Should Leave and had a supporting role in the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once died following a battle with cancer, his talent management company Entertainment Lab confirmed on Friday. “It is …
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Kim Sae-ron, the South Korean actress who appeared in the Netflix series Bloodhounds, has died at the age of 24. Kim was found dead at her home in Seoul, South Korea after a friend discovered her body after she missed a scheduled meeting, police told the Yonhap News Agency (via …
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Will Ferrell and Ana Gasteyer revived their Saturday Night Live music teacher duo the Culps during the SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert, with “Marty and Bobbi” delivering a medley of pop hits that included a take on Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” “It’s actually Valentine’s Day. So we invite you …
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Critics have written off Saturday Night Live as “Saturday Night Dead” countless times over the past half-century. But the haters always underestimate the genius of Lorne Michaels and the show’s undying cultural capital that has us hardwired to tune our TVs to NBC every Saturday night. (Or at least catch …
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Maya Hawke discussed the blurring lines between being an actor and how celebrity and social media plays a factor in the mix during a recent Happy Sad Confused podcast. Hawke has considered deleting her Instagram, but apparently it matters big to some producers, and can influence whether or not a …
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Netflix has broken its silence on Karla Sofía Gascón‘s controversial tweets, which have derailed Emilia Pérez‘s Oscar campaign. The streaming service’s chief content officer Bela Bajaria responded to the situation on The Town podcast, saying Gascón’s history of racist tweets took away from the film’s success. “I think it’s really …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Severance, “Trojan’s Horse,” which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Among the most disorienting aspects of last week’s spectacularly weird field trip was that it came immediately after an episode that ended with Reghabi reintegrating Mark’s innie and outie selves. Why …
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It’s a sight familiar to anyone who’s been nurtured on a steady diet of international films: Children are sitting in a classroom, getting lectured by an irate teacher. The conversations are in Farsi, which suggests we’re somewhere on the outskirts of Tehran. The fact that one of the students is …
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In an episode from the third season of Yellowjackets, two characters cook a meal while singing and dancing along to Cass Elliot’s 1969 hit “Make Your Own Kind of Music.” For TV fanatics, it’s a song that will forever be associated with the second-season premiere of Lost, where Elliot’s soaring …
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