Posts by Zach Dionne

  • Donald Glover

    Maybe Donald Glover Is Having a Harder Time Than We Realized

    Earlier this week, Donald Glover took to Residence Inn stationery to vent seven pages worth of capital-letter concerns, dumping them all on Instagram and giving the Internet plenty to work with. The messages lean in a naked, melancholy direction, with sentiments like, “I got really lost last year,” “I feel like I’m letting everyone down,” […]

  • Afternoon Links: Paranormal Activity’s Latino Spin-off Will Ring in the New Year

    Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is Paramount’s bid to expand its low-cost/high-yield franchise while appealing specifically to the Latino market, and maybe, from the looks of this first trailer, refreshing some of the series’ original verve in the process. It’s the sophomore directing effort for Christopher Landon, who wrote the last three Paranormals as well […]

  • Idris Elba

    Stringer Bell Is Actually Shy As Hell, and He Hasn’t Seen The Wire

    Idris Elba is Playboy’s latest 20 Questions target, and it turns out TV’s slickest drug lord of the pre–Gus Fring era, BBC’s baddest badass, and the potential heir to the James Bond franchise … is one bashful dude. “As soon as the spotlight’s on me, I feel awkward,” Elba says. “Idris feels like he doesn’t […]

  • Matt Stone, Trey Parker

    17 Seasons in, South Park Misses Its First Deadline

    It happened, people — South Park didn’t finish its homework on time. This might not shock anyone who has seen 6 Days to Air, the documentary that details the insanely tight turnaround Trey Parker and Matt Stone impose on themselves, but it’s indeed a new occurrence in the show’s 16-year, 240-episode history. “It sucks to […]

  • Afternoon Links: Fred Armisen Is Now a Part of Clash History

    You know when you feel like you’ve got a pretty good fake accent down, then you meet someone who has that real accent and you’re all sweaty and terrified because you know you’re a sham and they’re going to rip you apart as soon as you say half a sentence? Fred Armisen does the exact […]

  • Bob Odenkirk on 'Breaking Bad'

    Things We Now Know About the Breaking Bad Spin-off, Thanks to Vince Gilligan

    Breaking Bad methstermind Vince Gilligan is the subject of a lengthy cover-story profile in The Hollywood Reporter and is being asked NOW WHAT?, probably feeling like I dunno, man, maybe some naps, a glass of juice, a Leaves of Grass re-read? But he eventually gets down to speaking fairly extensively about Better Call Saul, that […]

  • Kurt Cobain

    Nirvana, Hall & Oates, the Replacements Among Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees

    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced 16 nominees this morning, and a few of the biggies include Hall & Oates, Nirvana, the Replacements, the Zombies, N.W.A., Kiss, and LL Cool J. This is the second year fans get to vote online, joining “historians and music industry insiders of the Rock Hall voting body.” […]

  • Drake

    Afternoon Links: Do Not Ever Insult Drake’s Album If You’re Touring With Drake

    Drake was going to bring auto-tuned messiah Future on the “Would You Like a Tour?” tour, everything was looking great, and then Drake found out that Future — like lots of us — wasn’t crazy about Nothing Was the Same, Drizzy’s third straight LP of rap-singing about social media. (The money quotes, from Billboard writer […]

  • Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

    Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Will Host the Golden Globes for Two More Years

    Finally, a trilogy everyone actually wants to see. (If this doesn’t sound like you, please locate the X on your browser and click it. Or just grab a Sharpie and mark a fat X over your screen — that will also work.) Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, humor empresses and superlative Neil Patrick Harris hecklers […]

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

    Marvel Eyeing Paul Rudd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Ant-Man, Reportedly Developing Four More TV Shows

    Let’s start with the starrier side of this superhero news. Evidently since Parks and Rec’s Chris Pratt won the lead in Guardians of the Galaxy, it’s all systems go for comedy-bred actors to lead future Marvel properties. To be fair, Ant-Man was always bound to be weird and stylistically detached from the big-screen Marvel universe. […]

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