Recently, Dilbert creator Scott Adams had his comic strip dropped by its distributor, Andrews McMeel Syndication, and newspapers across the country when he went on a racist rant on his Real Coffee with Scott Adams program. Adams, who’s morphed into a right-wing conspiracy theorist in recent years, was responding to …
Read More »Tom Sizemore, 'Heat' and 'Saving Private Ryan' Actor, Dead at 61
Tom Sizemore, the talented, but troubled, actor who brought a tough guy bravado to films like Heat, Natural Born Killers and Saving Private Ryan, has died at the age of 61, Rolling Stone confirmed. The actor died Friday after his family made the decision to remove him from life support …
Read More »Netflix's 'Sex/Life' Is Back to Satisfy Your Softcore Desires
As the first season of Netflix’s Sex/Life wrapped up, our heroine Billie (Sarah Shahi) found herself in a bit of a pickle. On the one hand, she had Cooper (Mike Vogel), her drop-dead gorgeous, chiseled husband, a great father to her two small children with a lucrative job that was …
Read More »'Rain Dogs' Is One of the Most Surprising New Shows of the Year
In one of the opening scenes of the new HBO dramedy Rain Dogs, impoverished single mom Costello (Daisy May Cooper) has her daughter Iris (Fleur Tashjian) pretend to be sick so they can skip out on a cab fare they can’t afford. As they run from the irate driver, an …
Read More »'Creed III' Is a Muscular, Punishing Statement on Race in America
The Adonis Creed that we meet at the start of Michael B. Jordan’s Creed III isn’t yet the Creed that we know, a headstrong champion laboring in his father’s shadow. Here, he’s just 15 years old. He’s a sidekick to an older teen named Damian — “Diamond Dame,” they call …
Read More »Not Even Aubrey Plaza Can Save 'Operation Fortune,' Guy Ritchie's Weak Stab at Bond
Quick question: Have you seen The Man From U.N.C.L.E.? We don’t mean the popular TV show of the 1960s, in which Robert Vaughn and David McCallum surfed the era’s espionage-a-go-go wave and brought big Bond-style adventure to the little screen every week. We’re talking about the 2015 movie that wanted …
Read More »See Travis Kelce and Kelsea Ballerini Joke About Their Matching Names in 'SNL' Promo
To Kelce or not to Kelsea: that is the question. Ahead of Travis Kelce’s hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, the Kansas City Chiefs player and country singer Kelsea Ballerini joked about their matching names in a promo with SNL‘s Heidi Gardner. “Kelsea, you should change your last name to …
Read More »Will Smith Delivers First In-Person Awards Speech Since 2022 Oscars
Will Smith returned to the awards stage on Wednesday evening to accept the Beacon Award at the African American Film Critics Association Awards ceremony, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The occasion was the actor’s first in-person speech at an awards show since the 2022 Oscars debacle. Smith accepted the honor …
Read More »How Did 'All Quiet on the Western Front' Become an Oscar Favorite?
Every year, the Oscar nomination announcements tend to inspire shrieks of joy, yelps of surprise, and the loud gnashing of teeth and rending of garments. This year was no different, with gasps soundtracking Andrea Riseborough’s somewhat out-of-left-field (and controversial) Best Actress nomination for To Leslie, some scattered “hell-yeahs” accompanying Paul …
Read More »'Black-ish' Star Marsai Martin on Regina Hall: 'She's a Light Every Time She Walks Into a Room'
F OR ROLLING STONE’S THIRD annual Icons & Influences feature, we asked eight of our favorite artists and entertainers to pay tribute to the women who have inspired them, in life as well as in their careers. Marsai Martin, star of Black-ish and the youngest person to ever produce a …
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