The State of Scary TV
‘The Returned’ and ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ join ‘The Walking Dead’ in offering high-quality horror.
May 29, 2014
Battle of the Summer Jams, Mariah Carey Special Edition: The Elusive Singleuse
‘The Elusive Chanteuse’ is tailored for summer barbecues, with roller-skating jams and make-out ballads to spare.
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The Week in Gossip: The KimYe Wedding of the Century, a Mayweather Fight at Fatburger, and Angry X-Men
Plus: Rihanna, Biebs, and The Cloon.
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Do You Like Prince Movies? Podcast: ‘The Moviegoer,’ X-Men, and Maya Angelou
This week, Alex and Wesley kick off their book club with a discussion of ‘The Moviegoer.’ They complain about the new X-Men film and celebrate the life of Maya Angelou.
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Colin Trevorrow Clarifies ‘Jurassic World’ Plot Rumors, Adds Some of His Own Info
“With all this talk of filmmakers ‘ruining our childhood,'” says the director of ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ “we forget that right now is someone else’s childhood. This is their time.”
Read moreMay 28, 2014
Oh, F— Yeah: Danny McBride Is Coming Back to HBO
Also in the Afternoon Links: 50 Cent’s terrible first pitch at Citi Field, Coldplay has the biggest album since ‘Beyoncé,’ and the ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ doppelgangers imitate each other.
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The Teacher and the Students: Remembering Maya Angelou in Culture
Maya Angelou died this morning, 86 years young. The news is devastating for innumerable reasons, one of which is that she was a teacher to so many, in so many different ways. Whether through her autobiographies, her poems, her speeches, her private conversations, or as an actual professor at Wake Forest University, she always seemed to be teaching. And advising. And guiding.
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The Moment Podcast: Brian Koppelman With Dan Soder
Comedian Dan Soder tells Brian Koppelman about dinner with Amy Schumer, writing Bill Simmons a mailbag, and how telling jokes saved him.
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Did ‘Blended’ Bombing Finally Blow Up the Adam Sandler Empire?
Remember when Adam Sandler was a Teflon-coated moneymaker? Well, no longer. This Memorial Day weekend, ‘Blended’ went over like a fart joke at a TED talk with a paltry $18 million haul.
Read more‘This Is Where I Leave You’ Trailer: We May Have Found a Good Movie for All These Great Actors
Directed by Shawn Levy (‘The Internship,’ ‘Night at the Museum’), the story is to death in a dysfunctional Jewish family what ‘August: Osage County’ was to death in a dysfunctional Midwestern family.
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The ‘Undateable’ Comedy Tour: How to Launch (or Not Launch) a TV Show in 2014
My name is Bill Lawrence, I’m 45 years old and have not done stand-up comedy in 20 years.
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We Went There: At the Beastie Boys vs. Monster Energy Drink Trial, Ad-Rock Swears to Tell the Whole Truth
On Tuesday afternoon, at the stately Thurgood Marshall courthouse in downtown Manhattan, Beastie Boys and Monster Energy Drink finally squared off.
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In Memoriam: Pouring Out Some Heavy Water for Don Levine, the Father of G.I. Joe
Conventional toy-industry wisdom was that nothing could convince boys to play with dolls; Levine and his team sidestepped the issue by referring to G.I. Joe as an “action figure.”
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Los Angeles Plays Itself: The Surprising Rise of Ty Dolla $ign
It is best to consider Ty$ in the context of pop music, where effortlessness is a construct and not necessarily a reality (unless you get lucky). He was never going to look good projecting spontaneously in a dark room by himself. Environment is important. The studio is there to isolate variables, to eliminate impurities. That’s where Ty$’s merits make sense.
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Can ‘Houdini’ Help Johnny Depp Escape Hollywood Jail?
It’s an adaptation of the controversial biography ‘The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero,’ which deviated from the handcuffs and water torture cells to delve into the magician’s life as a spy and his acrimonious relationship with a group of Spiritualists (led by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
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Hollywood Prospectus Podcast: ‘Mad Men’ and ‘Fargo’
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald talk about the ‘Mad Men’ midseason finale and FX’s ‘Fargo.’
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Who’s That Guy? Charlie Cox, Star of Netflix’s Upcoming ‘Daredevil’ Series!
Perhaps you’ve seen the 31-year-old Brit in ‘Boardwalk Empire’ or Matthew Vaughn’s 2007 Claire Danes movie ‘Stardust’?
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