When 20,000 people start showing up outside Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour stadium shows, it should become clear that something unique is happening. Streaming numbers make it clear as well: Seventeen years into Swift’s career, she’s managed to hit a new height of popularity. Call it Taylormania. In the new episode …
Read More »Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News
A week after his second post-presidential arrest, this one for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House, Donald Trump turned to Fox News host Bret Baier on Monday to make the case for why he should lead the country again. But he ended up essentially confessing …
Read More »'Back to the Future Part II' Changed the Course of Hollywood History
If the rousing strains of a Danny Elfman theme didn’t make it clear, if the image of a jagged batlike aircraft in the sky didn’t do the trick, the sight of Michael Keaton back in black rubber should: The Flash, the long-delayed superhero extravaganza that raced into multiplexes this weekend, …
Read More »From R.E.M. Guitarist to Hollywood Lighting Technician: Nathan December's Wild Ride
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »Joel Kim Booster Is Striking for the Future of Queer Films
Joel Kim Booster is here, queer, and ready for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to give the Writers Guild of America a fair deal. As a producer and writer, he’s one of the comedic voices behind some of the funniest shows on TV. He’s a credited writer …
Read More »Bill Barr: Trump Is 'Consummate Narcissist' Who Will Put 'His Own Ego Above Everything Else'
Donald Trump and his former attorney general, Bill Barr, have been trading public barbs as Barr turns on his ex-boss, calling Trump a “consummate narcissist” who will “put his own interests, his own ego above everything else.” Barr was on Face the Nation just a week after Trump called him …
Read More »Majority of American Voters Shrug at Trump Indictment. 53 Percent Want Him Pardoned If Convicted
When it comes to seeing twice-impeached, twice-indicted Donald Trump in a prison uniform if he is convicted in his classified documents case, a slim majority of American voters are squeamish about the idea. Fifty-three percent of respondents to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll said they would support a Trump pardon to …
Read More »DeSantis Hands Out Beer After Trump Dine-N-Dash
Immediately after his arrest on Tuesday, Trump stopped by a Cuban restaurant in Miami. “Food for everyone!” Trump is said to have yelled after arriving at the restaurant for an impromptu campaign visit shortly after pleading not guilty to 37 criminal counts leveled against him by the Justice Department. He …
Read More »Ticket Companies Told Biden They'd Stop Hiding Fees. One Company's Already Skirting That Promise
SeatGeek made national news on Thursday when alongside Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the ticket reseller had announced with President Joe Biden at the White House that it would adopt an all-in pricing strategy to be more transparent with fans and stop hiding fees until the end of a purchase. Critics, …
Read More »John Goodman Isn't Angry Anymore. Unless He Watches the News
John Goodman has a lot of catching up to do. Over the past six years, the renowned actor has been so busy rebooting his role as Dan Conner on Roseanne and The Conners, and establishing himself as televangelist patriarch Eli Gemstone on the fantastic HBO series The Righteous Gemstones, he …
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