About a week before the finale, the Washington Post ran its own plea to keep the show on the air, with the headline, “A TV Show Worth Saving.” Writer Judy Mann shared her love of the show, which she said offered just as much to her as to her teen …
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This will be the last interview Caroline Calloway gives before she’s officially a memoirist. A scammer? Perhaps. Guided by grandiose ambitions? Definitely. But she’s about to have fulfilled the largest, most infamous promise she’s known for having broken: She finally wrote a book. For those who aren’t terminally online, Calloway …
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“This is Devon. Please call me.” I received semiregular texts like this that sent chills through my body. It either meant my agent had booked me for a photo or video shoot… or that he needed to discuss something he was upset with or confused about. Devon has lived here …
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America is an obscenely rich nation. We have supermarkets with 50 different brands of potato chips and mega-mansions sprouting like buffalo grass across the prairie and TVs the size of barns. With all this wealth, all this bounty, all this stuff — why is there so much hardship and suffering? …
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Britteny Griner is ready to tell her story. On Tuesday, Griner, the basketball star who spent 10 months incarcerated in Russia, announced plans to release a memoir next spring detailing her traumatic experience. “That day was the beginning of an unfathomable period in my life which only now am I …
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Will Sharpe, the writer, director, and actor who most recently starred on Season Two of TheWhite Lotus, is on board to direct the film adaptation of Michelle Zauner’s memoir, Crying in H Mart. Sharpe’s involvement was confirmed a couple years after the film was first announced, back in June 2021. …
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Jason Derulo announced on Monday that he’s been working on a new book based on his career and “wins and losses that strengthened his signature style of creative pursuit.” Published by HarperCollins, Sing Your Name Out Loud: 15 Rules for Living Your Dream is set to release on June 27th, …
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The Oscars have always been a battleground of sorts. In recent years, the ceremony has become a public event arbitrating issues of race, gender, and privilege in cinema and society. But throughout its 94-year history, the Academy Awards mediated some very different battles. There have been attempts to square petty …
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On October 18, 2018, film executive Franklin Leonard’s phone started vibrating and would not stop. His eyes grew wide as his screen filled up with Twitter alerts from strangers hurling vicious, baffling insults at him, hundreds of tweets at a time. He was a rent boy for billionaire Democratic donor …
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When there is a Black principal actor in a scary movie, we all know what their fate entails. Enter Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman and vet movie critic Mark H. Harris, who have made it their duty to hunt down the controversial cultural schisms in horror cinema from 1968 on …
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