Stephen King is not interested in submitting a ballot for this year’s Academy Awards and called for the whole event to be canceled amidst the ongoing devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires. On Blue Sky, King wrote, “Not voting in the Oscars this year. IMHO they should cancel them. No …
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“I love the logic of dreams… Anything can happen and it makes sense.”—David Lynch The first thing I thought of were the bugs. If you’ve seen Blue Velvet, then you remember the opening — and whether you love or hate David Lynch’s 1986 masterpiece of curdled Americana, it’s not a …
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Brad Pitt (the real one) has issued a statement following news that a French woman was scammed out of $850,000 by someone pretending to be the actor. The 53-year-old interior designer, Anne, was contacted by a scammer disguised as Pitt’s mother, Jane, who told the woman Pitt needed kidney treatment. …
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When it debuted in the spring of 1990, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks was inarguably the strangest show to have ever been made for American television. It was, simultaneously, a gothic horror story, a murder mystery, a supernatural thriller, a throwback to 1950s soap operas and movie melodramas, …
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The second season of Severance, which debuts tonight on Apple TV+, proves that the corporate sci-fi drama has still got it. But it has also been [checks notes] three years since we last got an episode, so you cannot be blamed for feeling a little fuzzy on what was happening …
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How much do you love Saturday Night Live? Can you rattle off your personal Top 10 favorite sketches at a moment’s notice? Have you torched friendships while debating who is the most overrated and underrated cast members of all time? (We’re not touching that first one, but the correct answer …
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Lorne Michaels has given his personal archives — which provide a behind-the-scenes history of Saturday Night Live, as well as the producer’s other shows — to the University of Texas. The Harry Ransom Center announced the acquisition of “The Lorne Michaels Collection” Wednesday, noting that it spans from Michaels’ early …
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Wendy Williams, in one of her first interviews in years, spoke out against her court-ordered conservatorship and the claims from her own team that she’d been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and aphasia. Calling intoThe Breakfast ClubThursday, Jan. 16, Williams was adamant that her mental condition had not deteriorated at all …
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Back in 1993, Conan O’Brien’s career seemed like it might end before it really even began when NBC nearly canceled his fledging 12:30 am talk show, convinced they’d made a mistake by handing over David Letterman’s desk to an unknown comedy writer barely out of his twenties. But they kept …
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Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Demi Moore are among the nominees for the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards, set for Feb. 16 in London. The awards ceremony will stream in the U.S. on BritBox. The Best Film nominees include Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and Emilia …
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