Scan the wall of Sardi’s, the restaurant and bar in midtown Manhattan that’s served as the watering hole for Broadway’s biggest names over the decades, and you’ll find caricatures of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II sitting side by side. The men are considered the most successful songwriting duo in …
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In the new comedic mystery series The Lowdown, Ethan Hawke plays writer Lee Raybon, who runs a Tulsa used bookstore by day, but cares more about his sideline as a “truthstorian” — a pretentiously on-brand way of telling people that he’s a reporter. Lee is a dogged investigator who has, …
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In the official trailer for Richard Linklater‘s Blue Moon, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) is killing the vibe. The famed lyricist is settled at the bar in the Broadway staple restaurant Sardi’s, following his sorrows to the bottom of a bottle as he watches his former collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) …
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Death is apparently not the end in Black Phone 2. In a new trailer for the horror sequel, from filmmaker Scott Derrickson, Ethan Hawke‘s serial killer the Grabber seems to have been resurrected. In the trailer, The Black Phone star Mason Thames returns as Finney, who is now in high …
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It’s Taylor Swift‘s birthday, and she’s gifting her fans something special to celebrate. Swift’s marketing and public relations company, Taylor Nation, launched an “Eras Archive” site which honor each of the superstar’s musical eras. The archival site features eight videos of behind-the-scenes footage from several music videos over the last …
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You will know the most gleeful, instantly gratifying, oh-this-is-going-to-be-good moment in Gladiator II when you see it. The dopamine peak of Ridley Scott‘s long-awaited sequel to his 2000 Oscar-winning epic isn’t the opening battle scene, in which Paul Mescal and his neighbors unleash hell on Roman centurions attacking them. It …
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Sitting at the Hawke family dinner table, it would probably feel near impossible not to talk about the upcoming season of Stranger Things with Maya Hawke or what it was like on the set of Taylor Swift’s latest music video, which Ethan Hawke made a cameo in. But for the …
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How do you build an acting career you’re proud of? Well, for Myha’la Herrold, breakout star of HBO’s Industry and the standout in Netflix’s latest apocalyptic drama Leave the World Behind, it starts with saying no. “Honestly, I have sort of been the same bitch from like the beginning of …
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Sam Esmail sacrificed his hearing while making his new apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind. You see, in the Netflix adaption of Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel, there’s a noise so terrifying that it incapacitates the entire country — and Esmail had to get it just right. “As a filmmaker, I …
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It starts not with a bang, but a lack of Wi-Fi. The internet goes down, which means no social media, no email, no communications with the outside world, and — because this is a Netflix movie about worst-case scenarios — no streaming. Then satellites are knocked out, which kills any …
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