Posts by Tess Lynch
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Afternoon Links: Just Kidding, Randy Jackson Is Coming Back to American Idol
The American Idol producers must be very tired. They’ve been retooling ceaselessly for so long that they’re getting glassy-eyed and confused, the latest example being the return of Randy Jackson, who had hardly exited the old warhorse as a judge before reportedly being invited back as a mentor for next season, replacing Jimmy Iovine. TMZ […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Breaking Down the Bracket, Plus the Taylor Swift Report and Lindsay Lohan vs. Oprah
Today on Girls in Hoodies we kick things off by attempting to explain/pick apart Grantland’s not-at-all-controversial Best Songs of the Millennium bracket. (We would appreciate any and all votes for our theme song, “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,” currently languishing against “Call Me Maybe.”) Molly and Emily recap their Taylor Swift adventure at Staples Center, […]
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Afternoon Links: Jam to the Squishy Sounds of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
The final installment of Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End, hits theaters this Friday. To get you in the right mind-set, DJ Mike Relm has put together this four-minute mash-up of scenes and audio from Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End. Who knew the old blood-squish SFX would […]
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They're All All Right: Checking in on the Cast of That '70s Show on Its 15th Anniversary
That ’70s Show, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of its debut on August 23, was a cheeky recent-past nostalgia series, from the Cheap Trick cover of Alex Chilton’s “In the Street” that opened the show starting in the second season to a blatant disregard for “the space-time continuum” that allowed for more than one Christmas a […]
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Afternoon Links: The Future of Movies, in 1990
Back in 1990, Siskel and Ebert interviewed George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese about “the future of the movies.” At the time, the directors were in their forties; they answered questions about plans for sequels, whether we’re ever going to see Spielberg’s dark side (“I haven’t shown myself my dark side!” — guess he […]
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Afternoon Links: Walter White Pushes Preparation H in This Vintage Commercial
When I was auditioning for commercials, I once saw a poster that reminded the actors of how lucky they were to be there. I can’t remember the specifics of the math on this poster, but it outlined your odds of being called in for the role, and then your odds of getting a callback, and […]
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Afternoon Links: The People Demanded a Live-Action Family Guy Chicken Fight, and a Live-Action Family Guy Chicken Fight They Shall Have
Remember Ernie the Giant Chicken, Peter Griffin’s recurring nemesis in The Family Guy? Of course you do: He has appeared in 13 episodes. Now two stuntwomen, Jessie Graff and Tree O’Toole, have re-created the chicken fight in live-action form after sourcing enough funds (just under $3,000) from their Indiegogo campaign.
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Afternoon Links: Stephen Colbert Profiles Beloved, Kindhearted, America-Destroying Mayor Johnny Cummings
One of the best features of The Colbert Report is the “People Destroying America” segment, and the video above is a prime example. Johnny Cummings is the mayor (and hairdresser) of a small town in Kentucky called Vicco, and he’s openly gay (and openly awesome). His townsfolk love him, testifying to the Colbert reporters that […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Breaking Bad, Kendrick Lamar, Gaga, and Miley
It’s all about Internet beef today on the Hoodies pod, or at least beef with the Internet. From the overmemefication of Breaking Bad (or overevangelizing, for those of us still not hooked on the Blue) to the near-psychotic stan wars surrounding Lady Gaga and Katy Perry’s upcoming album releases, to fallout (?) from Kendrick Lamar’s […]
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Why Orange Is The New Black Can't Lose Laura Prepon
Yesterday Buzzfeed reported that Laura Prepon, the owner of the most critically divisive eyebrows on Orange Is the New Black, was springing herself from women’s prison, returning for the second season only long enough to close the arc of Piper’s hot ex, Alex Vause. An hour and a half after the news had been posted […]
