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Is streaming destroying the music industry? It’s hard to say, but Spotify certainly wants to destroy the enjoyment of music with its rampant enabling of music snobs. The company has unveiled a new tool called “Found them First” that lets users find which artists they were listening to before the rest of the world caught…
The lady from Misery is having quite a month: Kim Davis has gone from your ordinary born-again, thrice-divorced civil servant to a media lightning rod to an anti-gay political martyr, all by doing absolutely nothing. (In case you’ve been away from the internet for a while, Davis rose to fame for refusing to issue marriage…
Legend is a movie about a pair of notorious London gangsters, twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray. It stars Tom Hardy, who fills the shoes of both brothers, but, according to The Guardian, the film is “a disappointingly shallow take on a fascinating period of time and leaves us sorely uninformed, as if we’ve skim-read a pamphlet.”…
Photo Stephen Colbert outside the window of his office, which overlooks Broadway and his new marquee at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times On a recent Monday night, Stephen Colbert was about as high atop the Ed Sullivan Theater as one can be, looking out over the 200 or so employees…
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Start Article Post Content Former “True Blood” showrunner Mark Hudis and director Barry Sonnenfeld have signed on to steer Netflix’s adaptation of the Lemony Snicket “A Series of Unfortunate Events” fantasy book series. Hudis will serve as showrunner and exec producer of the series, while Sonnenfeld will direct and exec produce….
On her first day shooting her first feature, Zoë Kravitz wasn’t allowed to work. Cast as a goth babysitter in the Catherine Zeta-Jones romcom No Reservations, the teenager couldn’t go on set until her designated guardian had signed in. But Lenny Kravitz was running late, and when he eventually arrived, the rock star caused such…
I woke up at 4am the morning after Thanksgiving in 2014. I had been staying the night at my friends Liz and Rob’s house after imbibing what can only be called a festive amount of alcohol. The couch, comfortable as it was when I settled in to sleep, was a nightmare to wake up in…
Few West Wing characters are as loved as President Jed Bartlet, Martin Sheen’s folksy, Nobel Prize-winning commander-in-chief. Bartlet’s charm is partly rooted in his many quirks of personality—his professorial air, his lofty quotation of the Bible, his tendency to pepper staff with impromptu tests of erudition. Another, more subtle character trait is the way the…
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A handful of people saw a ghost during Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ performance during last Sunday’s broadcast of the VMAs. Following Macklemore’s moped-centric first verse to “Downtown,” who looked and sounded strikingly like Queen’s Freddie Mercury appeared in frame. The singer was Eric Nally of on-hiatus Foxy Shazam, but Twitter only saw the miraculous Mercury: Who…