As ticket-holders for The Drew Barrymore Show lined up along the CBS Broadcast Center entrance Tuesday, Writers Guild of America members and Barrymore’s three co-head writers circled the block chanting and cheering in protest. According to the WGA, the daytime talk show is “a WGA covered, struck show that is …
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Dunkin‘ Donuts superfan Ben Affleck is back in his ad campaign for the brand (now technically known as Dunkin’). In a new commercial, which aired during the VMAs, Affleck is joined by rapper Ice Spice to promote Dunkin’s fall-themed frozen pumpkin spice drink, which inexplicably features ground-up pumpkin spice Munchkins …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Reservation Dogs, “Send It,” which is now streaming on Hulu. If you’re a Reservation Dogs fan who didn’t know that there are still two episodes to go, it would be hard to blame you for assuming that “Send It” was the …
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The new documentary Mr. Jimmy tells the story of a Japanese kimono salesman named Akio Sakurai, who worships Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. For three decades, Sakurai has adopted the persona of “Mr. Jimmy,” playing guitar like Page and attempting note-for-note recreations of Led Zeppelin concerts in Tokyo clubs. After …
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Visual effects workers at Marvel Studios have voted to form a first-of-its-kind union with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. The Marvel VFX shop not only enjoyed a historic victory, but a landslide one as well: All votes cast in the election — held by mail between Aug. 21 …
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Bill Cosby is facing another sexual assault lawsuit, this one filed by Linda Ridgway-Whitedeer, who accused the disgraced actor of forcing her to perform oral sex on him during an audition in 1971. Ridgway-Whitedeer, 77, was part of an early wave of Cosby accusers, first accusing him of assault in …
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Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland has been accused of sexual assault and direct messaging underage girls in a new report that comes six months after domestic violence charges against Roiland were dismissed. Even though the Orange County District Attorney’s office dropped the case due to insignificant evidence, the charges …
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As The View audience members formed a line along the show’s 66th Street entrance in Manhattan, a dozen Writers Guild of America members marched around ABC Studios holding signs of protest. When Mikey Day, a Saturday Night Live cast member and former writer (as well ashost of the hit Netflix …
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It usually starts around “Burning Down the House.” That’s six numbers into Stop Making Sense, the 1984 Talking Heads concert film, and the first number to feature not just the central quartet — David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, and Chris Frantz — but the whole expanded band they were …
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Soon you, too, can nailthe art of playing a bastard. Having bid farewell to the darkly funny HBO drama, Successionstar Brian Cox is set to impart his acting skills on the education platform,BBC Maestro. “I believe everyone is an actor, but the difficulty is turning it into a career,” says …
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