Posts by Tess Lynch

November 27, 2013
Pretty Woman Producer Arnon Milchan Is Finally Talking About His Past As an Arms Dealer

On Monday, producer Arnon Milchan announced on the Israeli investigative news program Uvda that he’s a former Israeli spy, acquiring nuclear weapons and information for the top-secret intelligence agency Lekem until the mid-’80s. Milchan, who produced (among many others) Pretty Woman, Heat, and L.A. Confidential and founded New Regency Productions, has been surrounded by secret-agent […]
November 26, 2013
The Genius of the Ron Burgundy Press Tour

A regional inevitability in Los Angeles is finding yourself at The Grove. Maybe you need something that is only available at one of The Grove’s many shops, or you’re starving and brain-blocked and are enticed by the options of the farmers market, or your friend bullies you into it. You can try to avoid it, […]
November 25, 2013
SNL: Josh Hutcherson and the Cast Get Weird

I was worried for my man Josh Hutcherson. After a series of SNL episodes hosted by people with big-name recognition and/or scrolls of juicy press — Gaga! Miley! Edward Norton! — and plenty of material to spoof, Hutcherson is mostly known for playing Peeta in The Hunger Games (or perhaps you were a Laser-head fan […]
November 21, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: EastBound 2, Gaga, and R. Kelly

With Molly on pod leave for the week, Tess and Emily bid farewell to Eastbound & Down — clearly reluctantly, because we’re already longing for a version of Kanye West’s “Bound 2” video starring Kenny and April. We then dig into the video and the strong reactions it has elicited, defending it against the haters […]
November 21, 2013
Silly vs. Stabby: Where Do We Draw the Line With Internet Pranks?

Most Internet pranks can be classified depending on what role you, the viewer, play: You’re either the victim, one of the pranksters, or just a member of the audience. As with offline pranks, there’s an extreme moral spectrum covered here: On one end is the 2001 shark-ladder photo composite, on the other is Tuesday’s stabbing […]
November 20, 2013
For a Price, You Can Now Invite Your Favorite Top Chef Into Your Home, If That’s What You’re Into

Top Chef, recently declared too “serious” for the Grantland Reality TV Fantasy League (because, as David Jacoby wrote, it didn’t contain enough “concealed erections or denied coitus” — a solid argument), has added another territory to its vast empire: your house. The show has joined forces with Kitchit, a goop-endorsed rent-a-chef service that allows you […]
November 19, 2013
Sesame Street Sneaks Pop Culture Past the Baby Gate of Parenthood

Every morning for the past three months I have watched The Best of Elmo. It’s only 30 minutes long, so I usually watch it two or three times in a row. I watch it again after dinner. After 300 viewings, I now can’t hear a tapping sound without humming “Happy Tapping With Elmo,” and whenever […]
November 18, 2013
SNL: Lady Gaga Works Hard for the Applause

This weekend, Lady Gaga hosted SNL for the first time. She had appeared as a musical guest twice, once with Ryan Reynolds and once with Justin Timberlake, and popped up in couple of digital shorts (“3-Way (The Golden Rule)” always deserves a link), but it’s kind of surprising she hadn’t been a host before, especially […]
November 14, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Lady Gaga, Bronies, and Internet Fandom Culture

We’ve been talking about Lady Gaga’s third studio album, Artpop, for what feels like years by now, and for a while it seemed pretty touch and go — would it break out of its egg fully formed, or be weighed down by its own pretense, a beautiful but flightless bird? Well, we finally sat down […]
November 14, 2013
The Lust in the Machine: Do We Really Want Sex Robots?

We have been waiting a long time to have sex with robots. We don’t know if we will enjoy it, or if the experience will be one we want to repeat, but even if we, personally, don’t want to have sex with a robot, we all want to know what it’s like to have sex […]

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