“They fuck you up, your mum and dadThey may not mean to, but they doThey fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you.”-“This Be the Verse,” Philip Larkin “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”–Norman Bates Someone may want to start a Kickstarter for Ari …
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Jeremy Renner was in excellent spirts as he walked with a cane onto the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday. Fresh from his interview with Diane Sawyer, Renner sat across from Kimmel as the late night host introduced him as the “indestructible Jeremy Renner” and declared him the “toughest …
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Michael Lerner — the actor who appeared in numerous stage, film and TV roles and whose portrayal of movie mogul Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination — died on Saturday. He was 81. Lerner’s nephew and The Goldbergs actor Sam Lerner confirmed his …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “Connor’s Wedding.” Logan Roy is indestructible. Logan Roy is eternal. This is the ethos on which he has built his empire, and was seemingly the one on which Jesse Armstrong had built Succession. Everyone keeps making moves against Logan, and …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, which we recapped here. This week’s Succession was a seismic one for the entire cast of characters, since it involves all of them responding to the shocking news that Logan has died in the middle of a flight to Europe. …
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Netflix’s Beef, which began streaming last Thursday, is already one of the most exciting television shows of the year. As strangers who can’t let go of a road rage incident, no matter how much people get hurt in the process, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong deliver incredible performances, alone and …
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THIS POST CONTAINSspoilers for this week’s episode ofSuccession, “Connor’s Wedding.” On last night’s blockbuster episode of Succession, Logan Roy dies doing what he loved most — missing a major life event for one of his terrible children to go take care of business. In the wake of the episode, actor …
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On the Saturday night before Easter, live from Studio 8H, Saturday Night Live kicked things off with an Easter Sunday cold-open spoof of the Last Supper. “Alas, one of you will betray me… and though I have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried, and found guilty,” said Mikey …
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Following a cheeky cold open mocking the Trump arrest, with the accused criminal game show host turned president comparing himself to Jesus Christ, and a monologue that featured a cameos from Martin Short and Lorne Michaels, this week’s Saturday Night Live host (and former cast member) Molly Shannon brought back …
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While this week’s edition of Saturday Night Live took aim at the Trump arrest during its cold open, with James Austin Johnson’s Trump crashing the Last Supper to compare himself to Jesus, “Weekend Update” also teed off on the former president for being arrested in New York on 34 felony …
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