Posts by Tess Lynch

  • Afternoon Links: Mad Men Season 6 Gets a Sketchy New Poster for You to Obsess Over

    Free-associating on the official poster for Mad Men‘s sixth season: Draper crosses paths with Draper (maybe the embodiment his Dick Whitman persona?) as they head in different directions (past! Present! Future! A spring suit and a winter suit!); we have entered the fashion era of bad sheer sleeves; the moral or actual police are on […]

  • Timberlake

    SNL, Episode 15: To Hell With the Hater Base, We Loved Timberlake

    After I finished taking my SNL notes but before I sat down to write this recap, I decided to take the temperature on Justin Timberlake’s fifth ride on the host pony and check in with some of the other media responses to last weekend’s show. Despite the glowing tweets and my own enjoyment of this […]

  • Afternoon Links: Revisit a John Ford Classic With Martin Scorsese

    Here is Martin Scorsese reviewing The Searchers: “I go back to The Searchers all the time. A few years ago, I watched it with my wife, and I will admit that it gave me pause. Many people have problems with Ford’s Irish humor, which is almost always alcohol-related.”

  • Afternoon Links: The Atlantic, Gordon Ramsay, Faux-Documentarians Engaged in Acute Hateration, Holleration

    Someone is always mad on the Internet, but this week has been quite a doozy. First we had Nate Thayer versus The Atlantic, a contentious back-and-forth about freelance payment and digital publishing that launched roughly 5 trillion think pieces across the web. Then there was this very! long! rant from the director of the faux-documentary […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: We Need to Talk About Taylor

    This week, Molly, Tess, and Emily try to get inside the mysterious mind of Taylor Swift, in light of some of the more problematic moments of her recent Vanity Fair interview. Are we all being played by Swift’s elaborate music/lyrics/tabloids game? We then move on to discuss the new Bravo reality show L.A. Shrinks, which […]

  • Survivor

    Survivor, Episode 4: Big Hairy Wildebeest People and Jerk Trophies

    This season of Survivor is so Mean Girls. Over at Gota beach, the fans return from tribal council minus Hot Hope, their nerves frayed. Eddie and Reynold are all that remain of the popular alliance, and they can’t wrap their brains around Hot Hope’s sexy torch having been snuffed because she was just too threateningly […]

  • Afternoon Links: Terrence Howard Talks About Oprah’s ‘Volumptuous’ Figure, Makes Us Feel Weird

    Terrence Howard, who is coming to get you, got really creepy when he started talking about Oprah’s “tig ol’ bitties” in an interview. I guess he’s just trying to live his breast life.

  • Afternoon Links: Jon Stewart’s Taking the Summer Off to Direct a Movie

    Jon Stewart is taking a 12-week hiatus from his Daily Show desk to direct Rosewater, a feature-film adaptation of Maziar Bahari‘s Then They Came for Me. Stewart wrote the script, then “quietly optioned the book through his Busboy Productions banner” like the sneaky overachiever that he is. John Oliver will take over hosting during Stewart’s […]

  • Afternoon Links: Harrison Ford Is Going to Be an Anchorman

    Harrison Ford has been cast in Anchorman 2. Aw! Wow! Hey! It’s a sequel, why not throw in a Wookie playing a flute just because? They dabble.

  • Hart

    SNL Episode 14: Kevin Hart’s Magical Z-Shirts

    First of all: We missed you, Don Pardo, and I really hope you’re recovering from your broken hip. I’d send you an edible arrangement of candied Z-Shirts if I could. Feel better. I am familiar with Kevin Hart, and I like him. His energy and delivery have the effect of making me slowly scoot toward […]

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