In the past several months, Donald Trump has had a burning question for some of his confidants and attorneys: Would the authorities make him wear “one of those jumpsuits” in prison? As the criminal cases against him have piled up, the former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner has wondered aloud …
Read More »Talking Sex and Death at the Chateau Marmont With Slayyyter
S layyyter is sitting on a couch in Room 49 of the historic Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood. She’s bare-faced, barefoot, and sporting a silky, off-white nightgown as she takes sips of her iced coffee. “I feel like if you die here, you’re immortalized in Hollywood culture,” she muses. …
Read More »Letterman's Staff Remembers His Generosity During the Writers' Strike
The actors’ and writers’ strikes have left countless people out of work for months as the two unions, SAG-AFTRA and the WGA, fight with the studios for better working conditions for their members. The strikes have also pushed the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards (originally set for Sept. 18) to January, …
Read More »Alex Cooper Went From Raunchy Podcaster to Gen-Z's Barbara Walters
“I’m an open book,” Alex Cooper, the host of the wildly popular Spotify podcast Call Her Daddy, proclaims at the start of our conversation. It’s an afternoon in late May, and she’s lounging in a tasteful écru chair on the ground floor of her recording studio in West Hollywood, her …
Read More »The Celeb Apology Has Gotten Cringe
As long as there have been celebrities, there’ve been celebrity apologies. It’s a common cycle, one that’s fed the entertainment gossip pipeline for years: a famous person messes up, people are disappointed in them, and then they apologize, free to live in uncanceled bliss until, you guessed it, they mess …
Read More »Martin Scorsese's Stunning Tribute to His Late Friend Robbie Robertson
W HEN THE BAND ended their original run with a farewell concert in San Francisco in 1976, Martin Scorsese was there to capture it for his brilliant documentary “The Last Waltz.” The project marked the end of Robbie Robertson’s tenure in the group, but the beginning of a collaboration with …
Read More »The GOP Is Coming After Your Birth Control (Even If They Won't Admit It)
Last November, voters in Kentucky turned out in large numbers to reject the idea of adding an amendment outlawing abortion to the state constitution. But almost a year later abortion is still illegal in Kentucky — thanks in large part to Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who defended against a challenge …
Read More »How Olivia Rodrigo Avoided a Sophomore Slump
Olivia Rodrigo paved her own way for her excellent, guitar-drenched second album, Guts. It’s impossible to imagine a major pop artist pushing this hard into rock if she hadn’t already opened the door with the hardest-hitting moments of her 2021 debut, Sour. (That said, she doesn’t see herself as a …
Read More »How TikTok Brought Back 'Ugly Betty'
How do people watch their favorite TV shows? Using a cable provider? Bought season by season direct on demand? Switching on whichever streaming service has it at the moment? Well, on TikTok, one of the most popular ways to consume media right now is watching episodes broken up into dozens …
Read More »Neo-Nazis Gloat as Florida Becomes a Magnet for Hate
Neo-Nazis have been ecstatic in the wake of their headline-grabbing action outside Orlando earlier this month. White nationalists with handles like “Dietrich,” “Red Pill,” and “Scotty Big Balls” greeted each other with shouts of “Hail victory!” on a Sept. 10 Telegram livestream. Echoing the sentiments of many participants, “Combat Carl” …
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