Posts by Emily Yoshida
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The Gwyneth Paltrow–‘Vanity Fair’ War Goes Out With a Whimper
In an anticlimax to end all anticlimaxes, editor-in-chief Graydon Carter signed, sealed, didn’t quite deliver on the long, mostly speculative saga that has been Gwyneth Paltrow vs. ‘Vanity Fair.’
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‘Girls’: Like Kathy Griffin on Truth Serum
Now that this show seems to be trending toward ‘Curb’-style cringe humor with a more or less irredeemable protagonist, does that make it easier to watch?
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Your New Lex Luthor: Less Heisenberg, More Eisenberg
Move over, Walter White: Jesse Eisenberg, of ‘The Social Network’ and ‘Really Surly Interview’ fame will go hairless and unlikable in Zack Snyder’s as-yet-untitled Superman-Batman movie as Superman’s archnemesis.
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Girls in Hoodies
Tess, Molly, and Emily chat about ‘Broad City,’ HBO’s ‘Looking,’ and the new Mitt Romney documentary.
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The ‘Under the Skin’ Trailer, SodaStream, and Scarlett Johansson’s Next Chapter
As ingenue-to-serious-actress transformations go, this looks like it could be an artistically rewarding one. We might not even feel like it’s appropriate to call her ScarJo anymore. And then she did a damn SodaStream commercial.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ New Single ‘Abracadabralifornia’ Is Too Good to Be True
Of course, one listen to the song pretty much gives it away as a fake; an ingeniously executed fake performed by comedian Jon Daly. It’s a fleshed-out and Alabama Slamma–fied version of the theme song for the Pepper Men, his and Zach Galifianakis’s two-man RHCP fan club, which first debuted on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast last March.
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‘Girls’: Trying to Process a Legitimately Excellent Episode
So I’m just gonna get this out the way up front: I’m writhing with jealousy that Lena decided to make fun of Gawker and not us. I have friends who write there, and I can just sense them popping early-morning bottles in honor of Lena trying to critique their existence and worth. And what am I left to do? Endure a Monday morning in a world with four-time Grammy winner Macklemore and the reality that Lena dedicated a sizable portion of an episode to making fun of a website that wasn’t ours?
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Tegan and Sara’s Oreo Jingle Is Already the Best Part of the Grammys
Oreo + Cookie Dough / Tegan & Sara = WONDERFILLED!
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Emily Yoshida, Molly Lambert, and Tess Lynch
The girls discuss ‘True Detective,’ this week’s episode of ‘Girls,’ and the film history of downtown Los Angeles.
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‘Girls’: It’s My Birthday, and I Wanna Sing ‘Rent’ Like It’s the Second Time
Rembert Browne: Am I supposed to be treating Girls like a comedy? Or a sitcom, even? I barely even had it in a genre, with the closest probably being “historical magical Y.A. realism fiction.” I mean, I’ve laughed plenty of times, but I’ve also chuckled during Law and Order: SVU.
