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What was meant to be a profile of a band—of British duo The Last Shadow Puppets, for Spin—instead became a thinkpiece: this happened because one member of that duo, Miles Kane, decided to sexually harass the writer, Rachel Brodsky, during their interview. The piece starts out relatively routinely, with the writer, the duo (which also…
The Last Shadow Puppets are exhausted. Splayed on a couch in the lobby of Manhattan’s Bowery Hotel, Alex Turner and Miles Kane resemble a couple of loopy 2-year-olds being rounded up for bedtime. But you wouldn’t know how wrecked they are at first glance — both are styled to the nines in various patterns, textures, and…
With the premiere of Netflix’s Fuller House comes a classic conundrum: How do you mercilessly criticize a product while encouraging the instinct that led to its creation? Because despite the plaintive catchphrase of one Uncle Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos), which reappears along with every other vaguely recognizable zinger from the original series, Fuller House doesn’t…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has left the anticipated adaptation of Sandman, citing creative differences between his vision of the film and that of New Line Cinemas. Sandman was a comic series written by Neil Gaiman, about Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams. The series gained a considerable fanbase and critical acclaim over the 75 issues produced between 1989…
AddThis Button Begin By Julie DiCaro– (CBS) If you want proof that women remain second-class citizens in the world of sports media, look no further than the revelations emerging from the Erin Andrews trial. In July 2009, a video of a naked and unsuspecting Andrews walking around her hotel room was posted online and quickly…
Chris Rock opened the 88th Academy Awards on ABC tonight with a bang, addressing diversity amongst the nominees pointedly and at times, brilliantly. Rock was called on to quit his hosting gig for the ceremony from some observers after the all-white list of nominees was announced by the Academy. The resulting #OscarsSoWhite conversation pushed Will…
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“Luckily, I drank blood. If not, I’d be crazy, calling to prayer from the trees,” says Inong, a thin, old man in a knitted skull cap. “If you drink blood, you can do anything! Salty and sweet. Human blood.” The seventy-two-year-old is the former leader of a village death squad in The Look of Silence,…
Melissa Harris-Perry will not be back on MSNBC. On Sunday morning, two days after the host’s private fight with management went public, an MSNBC spokesman confirmed that the channel is “parting ways” with her. Earlier in the morning, Harris-Perry posted a photo on Twitter and said “Farewell #Nerdland,” a nickname for her weekend show, “Melissa…
We’re just one month away from seeing Batman v. Superman, the long-awaited smackdown between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel. But if things had turned out differently, we could have seen Batman fight Superman back in 2004. Here’s everything we know about Batman vs. Superman: Asylum, and how it would have been different…