Posts by Emily Yoshida
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A Guide to the Rest of Ryan Reynolds’s Romantic Career
It appears that Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively got married. If your first reaction was a brief eyebrow lift, possibly paired with an audible “huh,” congratulations: That is the correct answer. At the age of 35, Ryan Reynolds has now been married twice (Lively, Scarlett Johansson for 10 minutes two years) and engaged thrice (Alanis […]
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Overplayed Song of the Week: Demi Lovato, ‘Give Your Heart a Break’
Welcome to the Overplayed Song of the Week. Every week, Hollywood Prospectus editor and masochistically devoted mainstream radio listener Emily Yoshida will pick an aging Top 40 hit that she has heard enough times to render meaningless, and thus ripe for having otherwise inaccessible epiphanies about. Weeks on Chart: 24 Peak: No. 1 on Billboard’s […]
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Q&A: Britt Daniel and Dan Boeckner of Divine Fits
Britt Daniel (Spoon) and Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs) have been mainstays in the world of indie music for years, but their new band, Divine Fits, is still a baby. This week marked the release of their very good debut LP, A Thing Called Divine Fits (Merge Records), as well as their ninth ever live […]
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Overplayed Song of the Week: Kirko Bangz, ‘Drank in My Cup’
Welcome to the brand-new column Overplayed Song of the Week. Every week, Hollywood Prospectus editor and masochistically devoted mainstream radio listener Emily Yoshida will pick an aging Top 40 hit that she has heard enough times to render meaningless, and thus ripe for having otherwise inaccessible epiphanies about. Weeks on Chart: 53 Peak: No. 5 […]
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The Cast of The Newsroom Do Not Want to Drink Your Milkshake
The sun may have set on the first season of The Newsroom, but that just means we’ve got a full nine months for all manner of mash-ups, supercuts, and general subversive reappropriation to make their way onto the Internet before Season 2 premieres in June 2013. Vulture already has a state car on this train, […]
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‘Shipping Newsroom Season 1, Episode 10: ‘The Greater Fool’
Sloan & Don Shut. It. Down. I seriously gotta hand it to Sorkin and his “writing staff” — this ‘ship has been built up so sneakily and subtly that the the whole “I’m single because you haven’t asked me out, Don” (really, aren’t we all?) moment felt like the best kind of going-away present. Seriously, […]
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Game of Thrones’ Jon Snow and Ygritte Apparently Keeping Each Other Warm IRL
Of all the mysteries that lie north of the Wall, the greatest of all is … LOVE. TMZ has just released pictures taken earlier this month of Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, a.k.a. Jon Snow and Ygritte, enjoying each other’s company at London restaurant Rossopomodoro without the impediments of rope, celibacy oaths, […]
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‘Shipping Newsroom Season 1, Episode 9: ‘The Blackout Part 2: The Mock Debate’
Editor’s note: As evidenced by last week’s slew of Jim/Maggie fanvids, the Newsroom fan community has been more and more prolific as the season has worn on, which is why, in lieu of hot speechification, this week’s ‘shipping report will feature the hot fanworkification that has been the fruits of their labor. If you don’t […]
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bunheads
I was never a big Gilmore Girls fan, but my mom was. Much like Rory and Lorelai, we were a single mom/only child duo, and back in the show’s WB heyday, I would often coast through the living room as she settled in with the denizens of Stars Hollow, lingering for a few minutes before eventually getting […]
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast’s Reality TV Friday: Gallery Girls, The Real World, and Bachelor Pad Dream Casts
Even though the reality czar is on vacation, reality TV does not stop. In fact, this week brought us the fresh new joy of Gallery Girls, the latest docudrama from the geniuses at Bravo. Hollywood Prospectus editor Emily Yoshida and I got to know the new art-loving ladies, and then moved on to Bachelor Pad […]
