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 …
Read More »Alden Ehrenreich's Behind-the-Scenes Photo Diary of the Tribeca Film Festival
When Rolling Stone asked me to take photos of my experience at the Tribeca Film Festival, where I was releasing my directorial debut Shadow Brother Sunday, I expected to come back to them with lots of behind-the-scenes shots from the point of view of a filmmaker in the middle of …
Read More »The Super Fun 'Barbie' Soundtrack Is About to Take Over the World
Barbie opens with the world’s favorite doll having the perfect day: She has her perfect world full of other perfect Barbies who may look and dress differently but act exactly the same. And there’s the doting love of Ken, whose existence is mostly an accessory to Barbie’s. The next day, …
Read More »'Vanderpump Rules' Stars Stassi and Katie Knew Tom Sandoval Was Trash
Stassi Schroeder may have been let go from Vanderpump Rules back in 2020, but she isn’t holding back from giving her opinions on Scandoval, the drama surrounding her former cast members, and her own past moments on camera. At the final show on her Straight Up With Stassi Live — …
Read More »'Past Lives': A Tour of New York City With Greta Lee and Celine Song
G reta Lee is squinting in the sunlight, staring intently at a street corner in the East Village. There’s a look of intense concentration on her face. “Wait, is that…” “Yeah, that’s the corner,” director Celine Song says. “I thought it was!” Lee replies, lighting up. “We’d just finished doing …
Read More »Inside 'The Bear' Season 2: Damaged Souls, A-List Cameos, and That Finale
This post contains spoilers for Season Two of The Bear, which is now streaming on Hulu. Late in the finale of this extraordinary season of The Bear, Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) runs out to the alley behind the FX dramedy’s eponymous restaurant to puke. She still has PTSD from the incident …
Read More »Boots Riley's Anti-Capitalist Revolution Will Be Televised
When Boots Riley was 12 years old, he wanted to be a superhero. Growing up in the Eighties in East Oakland with a civil rights attorney father, the younger Riley was drawn to a different version of justice. He remembers losing himself in comic books — he loved Daredevil, and …
Read More »The Screen Legend That Inspired Cate Blanchett and Jessica Chastain
The cover of Time magazine once proclaimed Liv Ullmann “Hollywood’s new Nordic star,” a designation that never sat well with the Norwegian actress. She was a committed performer, starring in some of Ingmar Bergman’s greatest films of the Sixties and Seventies. She was an accomplished director, with a résumé that …
Read More »Kim Cattrall vs. Sarah Jessica Parker Is TV's Greatest Feud
There is a meme format currently doing the rounds that, if you’re still subjecting yourself to Twitter, you must have seen. “WITHOUT GOOGLING. Name a historic battle,” the original prompt-tweet reads. Underneath, there are a few earnest replies mentioning actual battles from history, but most of the 100,000 quote-tweets are …
Read More »The 'Vanderpump Rules' Scandoval T-Shirt Heating Up the Internet
“Sandoval, have you slept with anyone else since you and Raquel started sleeping together?” Andy Cohen asks Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval at the show’s Season 10 reunion. Only weeks prior, it was revealed that Sandoval and Raquel Leviss were having a monthslong affair behind Ariana Madix’s back, despite Sandoval …
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