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AP Photo CNN’s three-hour debate from hell Marathon encounter tried the patience of candidates, operatives, and viewers. By Hadas Gold 09/17/15, 02:12 AM EDT By the third hour of CNN’s GOP presidential debate, the candidates looked like long-distance runners fading in the final lap: A sweating Marco Rubio ran his hands through his hair, Chris…
Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A…
Bitch Planet is the best kind of fucked-up: a comic that entertains, breaks hearts and wields the power to change the way you look at the world around you. Kelly Sue DeConnick writes something incredibly cruel in the first issue of Bitch Planet. There’s a scene in the comic—written by DeConnick, with art and design…
John Oliver announced on Sunday that Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, the official megachurch of Last Week Tonight, will have to close because they were receiving too much semen in the mail. Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was founded in a brilliant segment on televangelists, who trick followers into sending them “seeds”—i.e. monetary donations—that they’re…
Now that summer’s over, it’s official: Jurassic World wasn’t just the biggest movie of the season; it’s the biggest summer movie of all time. But Jurassic World’s box office success belies a different trend: Hollywood is actually losing revenue in the US. And Jurassic World, which was criticized for its portrayal of women, may not be the best model for the film…
Garden State has long served as a watered-down gateway to alternative culture for young, emotional fuckboys to be. The soundtrack introduced countless suburbanites to synthesizers and vocal fry, and undoubtedly inspired teen bands across the Northeast to write songs about that one Quirky Girl in their class who no one seemed to appreciate but them….
Yesterday marked the 44th anniversary of the release of John Lennon’s goody-goody solo album Imagine, on which he softly bleats for world peace and borderless harmony. Described by Rolling Stone as Lennon’s “greatest musical gift to the world,” the song of the same name fantasizes about a mankind without qualities of evil and suffering,…
Last night was the fourth season premiere of HBO’s Project Greenlight—a Matt Damon and Ben Affleck passion project where they give first time filmmakers the chance to make a movie. It also provided a platform for Matt Damon to deliver a masterclass in whitesplaining—a whitesplaining sermon, if you will. They enlist a group of producers…
Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres may not see eye to eye with reality TV personality Caitlyn Jenner when it comes to their views on same-sex marriage. On Tuesday, DeGeneres told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show that she thought Jenner “still has a judgment about gay marriage.” DeGeneres, who interviewed the Olympian gold medalist…
So Scalzi has been ranting on Twitter about this proposal for a new F&SF award — it’s more fallout from the Hugo mess, and this person proposes more gatekeeping, requiring membership in a “web of trust” in order to vote for a new award. I’m not impressed with the idea — it seems to…