Moving through the lobby of a posh Santa Monica hotel one May afternoon, Jerrod Carmichael is not so much walking as strutting. Tall and slender, he’s wearing a black cashmere sweater, matching pants, loafers, an Afro pick, and an outsize smile. And then there’s the brooch: Stunning gold. Cursive font. …
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Say “Montana” to anyone currently consuming a well-balanced media diet, and they’re likely to immediately think of Yellowstone, the unbelievably popular Dynasty-for-cowboys TV show that takes place in the “Treasure State.” Taylor Sheridan’s modern-day Western doesn’t have a lock on contemporary narratives in the region, to be sure, but it …
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Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise is dipping its toe into the international soft power game, releasing the first trailer for the inaugural season of a new series set in Dubai. The season premieres June 1. Based on the new three-minute clip, the show will feature all the usual Housewives fodder, following …
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Amber Heard testified that Johnny Depp was too “obsessed with dog poop” to think about divorce during a fight in May 2016 that occurred just days before Heard officially filed papers to end their marriage. A sizable chunk of Heard’s testimony on Monday was dedicated to the circumstances surrounding a …
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update focused on the cryptocurrency crash, the baby formula shortage and the Roe Vs. Wade memo leak on the show’s Selena Gomez-hosted episode. “Is it me or does every story sound like the opening voiceover in a Mad Max movie?,” co-anchor Colin Jost said of the …
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A review of this week’s “Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga” coming up just as soon as I tell you why the Five Heartbeats broke up… In the final seasons of Mad Men, the weekly episode descriptions that appeared in TV listings and DVR program guides became hilarious in their spoiler-phobic vagueness: …
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Fred Ward, the versatile character actor who starred in films like Tremors, The Right Stuff and Henry & June during a career that spanned five decades, has died at the age of 79. Ward’s rep, Ron Hoffman, confirmed the actor’s May 8 death in a statement, though no cause of …
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Christopher Walken will portray the Emperor of the universe in Dune: Part Two, the upcoming second installment of director Denis Villenueve’s Oscar-nominated space epic. Walken is the latest actor to join the cast for Dune: Part Two, following Florence Pugh (who will star as the Emperor’s daughter Princess Irulan) and …
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Westworld will return for an eight-episode fourth season June 26 on HBO Max. The sci-fi drama, which aired its third season over two years ago, hinted at what’s to come in an unsettling teaser trailer titled, “It doesn’t look like anything to me.” The trailer, set to Lou Reed’s “Perfect …
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“Happy couples ruin TV shows.” This is a sentiment I have heard a lot over the years from television writers whose series feature a romantic component(*). They believe that the pursuit is much more fun than the actual relationship, and that once the sexual tension gets resolved, it’s harder to …
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