Posts by Tess Lynch
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SNL, Episode 21: Affleck Joins the Five-Timers While Hader and Armisen Take Their Bows
The 38th season of SNL was not its best. After Mick Jagger sang Kristen Wiig off the show last year in an emotional farewell (Andy Samberg and Abby Elliott departed with her), this season’s exits — both rumored and confirmed — were given a subtler treatment. This season’s 21 episodes were occasionally brilliant, but more […]
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Afternoon Links: The BeyBey Rumors Reach Critical Mass
“Multiple sources” report that Beyoncé is pregnant with her second child. After canceling a performance in Belgium (and citing those old mythological maladies “dehydration and exhaustion” as the cause), rumors began to swirl, as rumors do. Beyoncé has said that Blue Ivy “needs some company” with whom to watch Nets games at her Barclays crib, […]
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Afternoon Links: Zach Galifianakis Is Hungover No More
Zach Galifianakis explained to Conan O’Brien last night why he quit drinking (besides the benefits of a two-ounce weight loss). Crossing the street after a whiskey-soaked evening, Galifianakis made the mistake of clocking the hood of a Jaguar containing “two 6-foot-6 guys — 12-by-12,” angering them enough that they exited their vehicle to spit in […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Idol, Gatsby, and Drunk Gwyneth Paltrow
It’s been a banner week for everyone’s favorite nightshade-averse Hollywood superstar, Gwyneth Paltrow. Great things happen when she mixes her vino with her kale juice and goes on Australian radio to talk about how bad the Met Ball sucked (among other topics), and we’re itching like a post-cleanse rash to talk about how it affects […]
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Afternoon Links: The Angry Birds Movie Is Coming in Summer 2016
Angry Birds the movie is coming, and it’s coming in 3-D. The question is, how relevant will the addictive slingshot-pig-avian formula be in three years (the planned release date is July 2016)? Seven years after the birds were released into the tropical habitat of iOS, they’ll probably be more cranky than angry. You’ll shoot them […]
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Another Salute to the Genius of Bill Hader
Bill Hader was an SNL presence so precious, he merits more than one good-bye. His impressions were among the cast’s best (Kate McKinnon, I see you), but he also brought to life original characters that were layered despite the limits, time-wise and otherwise, of the sketches in which they appeared: Stefon, Vinny Vedecci, Greg the […]
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Afternoon Links: Meet the How I Met Your Mother Mother
Introducing How I Met Your Mother‘s mother, Cristin Milioti. The Tony-nominated (Once) actress’s musician skills helped her land the role (“her ukulele skills are no joke“), a big credit in her relatively thin résumé (though you may remember her as Johnny Sack’s thin daughter, Catherine, or a sexy baby on 30 Rock), which will be […]
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Afternoon Links: Daft Punk Lands Early on iTunes
Daft Punk is playing at your house, your house, because Random Access Memories is now streaming free on iTunes. The duo will launch their album this Friday at the Wee Waa festival remotely, possibly via hologram. How robotic.
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SNL Episode 20: The Return of Kristen Wiig
How long is a year in cultural terms? Or maybe a better question is, when a public figure disappears from a show for a year after a tearful good-bye, at what point does his or her return become what you want it to be? The problem with inviting Kristen Wiig back to host SNL 12 […]
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Survivor: Caramoan Finale: Toothless Justice
I will try not to be smug in this recap, but I have the feeling I won’t be able to help it. I’ve been pulling for my man John Cochran for quite some time. To some degree, all of Caramoan’s favorites had scores to settle or reputations to redeem from their previous seasons: Dawn Meehan […]
