Partings, as we all know, are such sweet sorrow, even the ones that seem to go on forever. Over a dozen years, six series, 52 episodes, five specials, and two feature films that played at a theater near you, Downton Abbey looked backwards at a bygone England beating back early-20th-century …
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In an early scene in the official trailer for boxer Christy Martin’s biopic Christy, the boxing promoter Don King (Chad L. Coleman) is fascinated by Martin, portrayed with a particular awards season buzz by Sydney Sweeney. When they meet, she’s on track to become a world champion, one of the …
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Cillian Murphy isn’t taking up the mantle as Voldemort in the Harry Potter series currently in development at HBO. During a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, the actor denied that rumors of him taking the role of the villain have any credibility. “I don’t know anything …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu. After last week’s flashback to all the poor decisions that killed the crew of the Maginot, “The Fly” brings us back to the present-day action at Neverland, where various adults, synthetics, and eyeball monsters conspire …
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As we learn in 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, money talks, bullshit walks, and Fran Drescher will always dominate any scene in which she finds herself. Nine years before her ascension to TV superstardom with The Nanny, a 26-year-old Drescher was unforgettable as Polymer Records label publicist Bobbi Flekman, a …
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I nside a modest room on the northern side of the Chelsea Hotel, as the midday sun pours in through a window, with the noises of the bustling street several floors below bleeding through the walls, Daniel Day-Lewis is in deep concentration. Or rather, the 67-year-old actor appears to be …
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Jerry Seinfeld was invited to Duke University to introduce former Israeli hostage Omer Shem-Tov at an on-campus event. During his introduction, the comedian on Tuesday condemned the Free Palestine movement in a comparison that invoked the rhetoric of the Ku Klux Klan, a violently racist white supremacist terrorist group. “Free …
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Rosie O’Donnell wasn’t at her daughter’s college graduation over concerns of attacks by Donald Trump amid her public feud with the president. The comedian opened up about missing the ceremony during a recent interview with Kate Langbroke for the No Filter podcast. “My daughter graduated college and I didn’t go …
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The salacious birthday card Donald Trump made for Jeffrey Epstein was the main subject of late-night shows last night, with the hosts commenting both on the scandal and on the president’s artistic skill. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert recapped the situation, recalling how Trump initially denied being part of …
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Outgoing Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has kept quiet about her feelings on 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada—until now. Speaking to New Yorkereditor David Remnick during a recent episode ofThe New Yorker Radio Hourpodcast, Wintour reflected on the comparisons between her and Meryl Streep‘s Miranda Priestley. Remnick asked Wintour if …
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