It was a night of laughs that’s still whispered about in comedy circles. During the last writers’ strike in 2007, Michael Cera hosted a DIY version of Saturday Night Live at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater in New York City for around 200 people. The show was comprised of old …
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Hollywood reunion content has been milked dry in a major shift toward playing into audience nostalgia. Early in the pandemic, casts reunited over Zoom for table reads. While that happens less now, it’s only been replaced by revivals and years-too-late sequels missing the core of what made the film and …
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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 …
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Someone’s family bloodline is in trouble. On Sunday night, Jenna Ortega and Aubrey Plaza slipped into scheming mode while presenting the award for Actor in a Television Movie/Limited Series at the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Perplexed by their seemingly random pairing as presenters, the two actresses quickly found that …
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Former NBC page Aubrey Plaza gave the Saturday Night Live audience a tour of Studio 8H as part of her monologue, at one point coming across former SNL cast member Amy Poehler. Donning a jacket similar to the one she wore while working as a “bad page,” Plaza headed through …
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Anna Kendrick is tearing up. Only two months ago, her father passed away following a long battle with liver disease. And now, the Oscar-nominated actress is in the throes of promoting the most personal film of her career — one that’s required her to revisit the past “emotionally and psychologically …
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Saturday Night Live saw the entirety of the internet thirsting over Pedro Pascal this week and decided to do everyone a favor and let him host the Feb. 4 show. As the third host of the year, following episodes helmed by Aubrey Plaza and Michael B. Jordan, Pascal will be …
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Aubrey Plaza loves chaos — and she has her own messy insight into what really happened between Harper and Cameron in that hotel room at The White Lotus. In the penultimate episode of White Lotus last week, Plaza’s character Harper disappeared into a hotel room with her husband Ethan’s friend …
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If there is one incontrovertible truth, it is that Yale produces some of the worst people on planet Earth. I’m talking about Cameron (Theo James), the lecherous creep terrorizing Sicily’s Four Seasons Taormina in The White Lotus Season Two. That scholarly revelation is perhaps the least surprising one in the …
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“I survived!” exclaims Theo James. Indeed, the Season Two finale of Mike White’s The White Lotus contained a number of deaths—four of them, to be exact—but none of the fallen was Cameron, James’ lecherous Yalie who not only cheats on his wife Daphne (Meghann Fahy) with a pair of escorts, …
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