Sometimes you can just feel it when a celebrity is entering a flop era. I vividly remember watching Katy Perry using drag queens as props on Saturday Night Live in 2017, accompanied by a rapper who had recently used a homophobic slur, dressed in a hideous Beetlejuice-style striped jacket, and …
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Albert Einstein reportedly said that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Like many quotes commonly attributed to historical figures who have appeared in the Night at the Museum franchise, Einstein never actually said this. But to paraphrase another famous historical …
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About an hour into Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the world’s most active archeologist, a little less active of late, is reunited with a friendly face from his past. Dr. Jones, played by Harrison Ford in what he insists will be his final turn in the fedora, is …
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J onathan Majors was a Hollywood star — and on the cusp of going supernova. The Last Black Man in San Francisco first brought him critical acclaim. Lovecraft Country, The Harder They Fall, and Creed III propelled his popularity. And most recently, early buzz for his upcoming film Magazine Dreams …
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Aaron Paul‘s service isn’t so hot. After all, he’s currently in the wilds of Idaho for the summer, holed up in a little mountain town. “We have a cabin up in this place called McCall, so just going to kind of be floating the river, hanging out at the lake, …
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As the clock struck noon on Saturday, October 8th, 2016, Taylor Mac walked on to the stage of St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The band of almost two-dozen musicians and backup singers led by musical director Matt Ray were already there, waiting for him. His outfit consisted of a tower …
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The opening scene of Bottoms sees a pair of high school best friends getting ready together for the first big social event of their senior year — the “carnival” — horny as hell and fantasizing about finally hooking up with their crushes. It’s a classic teen-movie setup, the kind we’ve …
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Long before Live Nation, Clear Channel, Ticketmaster, Stubhub, service fees, gold-circle seats, and anything that even resembles the live music industry as we know it today, there was Ron Delsener. The 87-year-old concert promoter has been booking shows in New York City going all the way back to the summer …
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David Corenswet may be the first Jewish actor to play Superman, but the Man of Steel himself is as Jewish as matzo ball soup. As you may or may not know, Superman debuted in 1938, the creation of American and Canadian Jewish teenagers, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. But that …
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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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