George Wendt, the actor and comedian best known for playing Norm Peterson on the classic sitcom Cheers, died Tuesday, May 20. He was 76. A rep for Wendt confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. An exact cause of death was not given, though the rep said Wendt “died peacefully in …
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The final scene of Cheers — whose series finale aired 32 years ago tonight — is a master class in how to end a beloved, long-running show properly. It’s just Sam Malone and the rest of the gang hanging out, smoking cigars, swapping stories, and reminding the audience why this …
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In 2018, Shia LaBeouf was feeling heartbroken, adrift, in a state of what he called “spiritual sickness.” So the actor did what a lot of us were doing back then when we found ourselves in serious need of help: He went on Twitter. In the video that LaBeouf posted on …
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This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The Last of Us, now streaming on Max. The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann was behind the camera to direct the penultimate episode of the postapocalyptic drama’s second season, and it was an imposing assignment. Within the span of an …
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Elmo’s brief unemployment era is over. Sesame Street has found a new home at Netflix following the expiration of its contract with Warner Bros. Discovery, which began in 2016 when new episodes went into production at HBO after the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, could no longer afford the expenses …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Donald Trump, appearing in the show’s cold open yet another time, walked out of the season 50 finale’s first sketch to flirt with women in the audience and to formally sign off until September–“if we still have a country.” Trump (James Austin Johnson) began by proclaiming how …
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Saturday Night Live seven-time host Scarlett Johansson portrayed a newscaster bringing an edgy approach to how she presented stories of the day–much to her pun-loving colleagues’ disapproval. Whereas those behind the morning anchors desk at Channel 4 New York deployed tame wordplay about lighthearted stories, fill-in nightly news host Denise …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update had their traditional joke swap in the season 50 season finale, with co-anchor Michael Che making amends with SNL host Scarlett Johansson for delivering a certain line about her during last December’s joke swap. “I want to take this opportunity to apologize to someone I …
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Pedro Pascal spoke out about the political climate under the second Trump administration and the current immigration policies during the Cannes press conference following the premiere of Eddington. The Ari Aster film stars Pascal as a progressive New Mexico mayor battling Joaquin Phoenix’s small-town sheriff amid the Covid pandemic in …
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“I bled, I peed, I cried, and vomited.” This sentence comes at the end of the second paragraph of The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch’s extraordinary, extraordinarily raw 2011 memoir about growing up, nearly giving up, and straining to getting a grip on a traumatic past. It follows one of …
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