Posts by Zach Dionne
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Is Bill Cosby Ready for a Comeback? Is the World Ready for Bill Cosby to Come Back?
It looks like no one’s readier for the Bill Cosby revival than 76-year-old Bill Cosby. After a decade that only really yielded the divisive pound cake speech and a brilliant Late Night With Jimmy Fallon appearance, Doc Huxtable’s readying his first televised stand-up special in three decades. Premiering on Comedy Central just before Thanksgiving, it’s resolutely […]
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Box Office Top Five: Thor: The Dark World Reigns Supreme
1. Thor: The Dark World, $86.1 million (opening weekend) I’m not saying Thor “smashed” the box office, because that’s just not respectful to Thor/how Thor conducts himself/the enemies Thor opts to use his smashing abilities against. But the young Australian god did better than his first time out, earning almost $21 million more than his […]
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Afternoon Links: The Onion, America’s Paper of Record, Mercy-Kills Its Print Edition
December 12 is the Onionpocalypse, friends: the date when the funniest newsweekly in the known universe will cease physical publication in the face of sagging ad revenues. The Onion was founded 25 years ago in Madison, Wisconsin; its website shall stand strong. “It’s sad to see a print edition no longer exist, but it’s important to […]
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Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill Is Heading to Broadway
It says something about 1995’s Jagged Little Pill that I can’t make a single lyric-based joke about this news — “Isn’t it ironic this is happening?” “You oughta know about this!” “Are you ready to live, learn, love, learn, cry, learn, laugh, and learn?” — without feeling like a schlub. And I’d express curiosity about […]
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Sounds Like Batman vs. Superman Might Feature Wonder Woman
Variety hears there’s a new female lead in the mix for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel sequel, Ben Affleck vs. Superman. No, it’s not an Amy Adams replacement (not necessarily, anyway), but rather a course correction for the fact that Wonder Woman has been missing from the screen since … well, since forever? Three actors reportedly testing […]
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Afternoon Links: Mark Your Star Wars Calendar, Jawas
Best … early … Christmas present … EVER … (hopefully): Star Wars: Episode VII, December 18, 2015. (Sorry I called you all Jawas back there, too. Maybe you’re protocol droids. Shouldn’t have assumed.) A new Disney press release says pre-production is in “full-swing.” The recent exit of Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3, Little […]
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Congratulations, Netflix: You’ve Just Won Four New Live-Action Marvel Series!
Here we are, only six episodes into ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the rumor about Marvel readying several more TV shows all at once has come true. Disney (which owns Marvel as well as Grantland) and Netflix will pair to present no less than four 13-episode series starting in 2015. Daredevil will be the first; […]
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New Girl Asks Damon Wayans Jr. to Stick Around
After returning for what was planned as a four-episode arc, Damon Wayans Jr. is now going to ride out the rest of New Girl‘s third season. Wayans appeared in the pilot as Coach, then vanished to try keeping the ill-fated ship known as Happy Endings afloat. According to Deadline, this week’s New Girl ratings jumped […]
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Afternoon Links: SNL’s Wes Anderson Parody Was Quite the Gambit
Don’t even tell me you didn’t catch SNL‘s immaculately detailed Wes Anderson tribute/homage, The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders. (It happened on Ed Norton’s episode a couple Saturdays ago, and it’s embedded again here for the uninitiated.) Despite an insane amount of work going into the short film, the final product barely made it to […]
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It Is the Most Logical Thing in the World That Lady Gaga Will Try to Sing in Space
You and I have both read about plans to jettison celebrities into space — not because an international tribal council voted them off the earth, but just ’cause. They’re rich, space is there, they probably hadn’t seen Gravity before signing up, and maybe Richard Branson threw them some money. Who knows? I’m not even sure if […]
