Now everyone knows that Tony Soprano was last seen in a booth at Holsten’s ice cream parlor on June 10, 2007. But what a 14-year-old video that just got released to the public this morning presupposes is… maybe he wasn’t? In 2010, NBA superstar LeBron James was entering free agency …
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In the early days of the Covid lockdown, you heard a lot about people taking up new hobbies: making sourdough bread, learning to knit, mastering Peloton —whatever it took to stay occupied and relatively sane while stuck in our own homes, isolated from the rest of the world. In my …
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Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was sentenced to 18 months in prison after beingconvicted of involuntary manslaughter in the accidental shooting death ofcinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty in the on-set accident in March and was ordered to remain at the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility while awaiting the …
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Saturday Night Live host Ryan Gosling and fellow co-star of The Fall Guy, Emily Blunt, each bid farewell to their respective characters in last summer’s blockbusters, Barbie and Oppenheimer, by channelling Taylor Swift‘s “All Too Well.” Gosling, hosting SNL for the third time following his cameo appearance last week, took …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update, which famously saw Norm Macdonald make O.J. Simpson the target of many a punchline from behind the desk some thirty years ago, marked the former football player’s death with a quite different tone. “O.J. Simpson died this week at the age of 76 after a …
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Ryan Gosling, this week’s Saturday Night Live guest host, teamed up with SNL alum Kate McKinnon and Sarah Sherman in an opening sketch in which they described to government investigators their experience being abducted by aliens. While Sherman’s and Gosling’s characters played it straight, McKinnon’s portrayal of Colleen Rafferty–a staple …
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Ryan Gosling’s return as Saturday Night Live host allowed for the actor to appear in some sequel sketches, including reuniting with Kate McKinnon in an alien abductee support group and, perhaps more notably, reprising his role as a man haunted by the Avatar font. The first “Papyrus” originally aired in …
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“Exterminate all the brutes!” With these words, borrowed from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Hunter S. Thompson concluded his violent, macabre 1967 book Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Thompson had spent months with the outlaw biker gang and ultimately paid for his persistence when members gave him a …
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“I’m Just Ken” almost didn’t make it to the 2024 Academy Awards stage. During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Ryan Gosling admitted that his first response when the offer to perform the Barbie song was brought to him was: “100 percent no.” The actor eventually …
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Paul Walter Hauser will slip into the life and mind of late comedian Chris Farley in a forthcoming biopic. The film, set to be directed by Josh Gad, is currently in development. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber will provide the screenplay based on the book The Chris Farley Show: …
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