Posts by Zach Dionne

  • Kanye West and Jimmy Kimmel

    Kanye’s Beef With Jimmy Kimmel Ends Tonight, on Your Television

    Recap: Kanye West donated an hour-long interview to the BBC; some were creative enough to call it “cuhraaazy,” while others tagged it “THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS”; Jimmy Kimmel put Yeezus’s words into the mouth of a charming kiddo for a parody; Kanye drove a Maybach made of caps lock keys straight […]

  • Peter Dinklage

    Peter Dinklage Starring in What Basically Has to Be Called Bad Leprechaun

    Lately, Paramount has been building movies around Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Ron Burgundy. Now it’s Peter Dinklage’s turn, in a project The Hollywood Reporter describes as “deep in R-rated territory but wrapped around an emotional heart.” Dinklage, who has won dragon dunghills of praise for Game of Thrones, will star as a man who […]

  • Afternoon Links: Maybe Don’t Go Into Any Coffee Shops Until Carrie Comes Out

    Any video that opens with “time to fuck with some customers” is good in my book. While this one’s built in the mold of candid-camera shows designed explicitly to freak people out, something about it going down in a New York coffee shop, skewering even the most jaded espresso-swilling souls in the process, elates me. […]

  • Lauryn Hill

    My Emancipation Don’t Fit Your Equation: Lauryn Hill Postponing House Arrest to Go on Tour

    Lauryn Hill’s $1 million tax debt sentence was a two-parter: three months in the Orange Is the New Black prison, three months in home confinement. Now, a few days after Hill headed home and dropped a new track, TMZ reports the house arrest is being postponed to permit a tour. The dates on Hill’s request […]

  • Tom Hanks

    Tom Hanks Will Have You Starstruck No Matter What Kind of Badass You’re Playing

    Tom Hanks popped into David Letterman’s late-night television show on Monday. After a bit of diabetes II chatter (Hanks now has it, but he’ll be all right), Tom and Dave wound up discussing Paul Greengrass’s Captain Phillips. “They were so free-form when we were shooting — I didn’t even meet the guys, my good friends […]

  • Dexter

    Afternoon Links: Showtime Demanded Dexter Be Unkillable

    The Dexter series finale was everything Breaking Bad’s closer wasn’t: namely, pretty lame. Was there any way it could’ve been better? Like, if the guy who killed so many people over the last eight years tasted his own medicine, maybe? Quizzed by Vulture about how the writers wound up with that exact disappointing ending, Dexter […]

  • Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Tarantino Releases Best of 2013 So Far, Shares His Love of The Lone Ranger

    Whether it was to kick off the year-end list-making game earlier than ever or just to get a fan site off his back, Quentin Tarantino has named his favorite films of 2013 so far. The new QT honorees are alphabetized by title rather than ranked, and they mostly fall into neat little quadrants of sensibilities […]

  • George Clooney, Sandra Bullock

    Box Office Top Five: Gravity Sets Records While Rush Falls Flat

    1. Gravity, $55.5 million (opening weekend) Gravity, simply put, kicked ass. It’s Alfonso Cuarón’s second-biggest opening, and the man directed a Harry Potter movie. It’s the largest October opening ever, and, per Forbes, “among the top-ten live-action debuts of all-time for a completely original film (above Ted’s $54 million and behind Valentine’s Day’s $56 million […]

  • Billy Murray and David Letterman

    Afternoon Links: David Letterman Is Sticking Around Till at Least 2015

    “Les [Moonves, CBS CEO] and I had a lengthy discussion, and we both agreed that I needed a little more time to fully run the show into the ground,” David Letterman ​LOLs in a new statement. So now the 66-year-old veteran of so many late-night wars, battles, and skirmishes will find himself squaring off against […]

  • Fiona Apple in Portland

    Do Not Tell Fiona Apple to ‘Get Healthy!’ While She’s Performing, or Ever, Really

    Fiona Apple kicked off a new tour Thursday, and it ended gruesomely enough to make her Texas hash bust look like a game of Candy Land. By a couple of accounts, the duration of the evening at Portland’s Newmark Theatre was sensational. “Apple, who canceled a run of dates last November to be with her […]

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