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NBC YUGE SNL Debate: Alec Baldwin’s Trump Gets Trounced by Kate McKinnon’s Hillary As promised, Saturday Night Live’s 42nd season premiere opened with the highly-anticipated showdown between Kate McKinnon’s Clinton and Alec Baldwin’s Trump. If this past Monday’s first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was the most anticipated political event in modern…
NEW YORK (AP) — In his years as a reality TV boss on “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language, according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talked about which ones he’d like to have sex with. The Associated Press interviewed more…
.entry-header It should come as no surprise that reliance on canon creates an orthodoxy which harms and marginalizes perfectly valid queer readings. – Emma Houxbois, Comicosity (née The Rainbow Hub) The power of stories like these, whether it’s a deep and personal tale wrought with emotion, or some fun and flirty fan art, cannot be…
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb to Remove Actor Ages on Request 4:02 PM PDT 9/24/2016 by Ryan Parker , Jonathan Handel IMDb “On behalf of everyone in the industry who has struggled with age discrimination, whose opportunities to showcase their talent may have been blocked, I want to thank Gov. Brown and the bill’s author,…
It’s Wonder Woman’s 75th anniversary, and the Amazon superhero’s starring in a new title that goes back and forth between her past and present. Part of that past, says series writer Greg Rucka, is the fact that Diana has to have had romantic relationships with women. The current Wonder Woman title aims to represent and…
Don’t let the wide Harlem avenues and neon-lit side streets fool you. Marvel’s Luke Cage is a Western. Its ex-con hero washes dishes and tends bar at a nightspot after dark and mops floors at a barbershop during the day. But in his heart, he’s a gunfighter who swears he’s left that life behind. He…
You don’t need to be Beyonce to drop an album unexpectedly and send the Internets into a tizzy. Today, Tycho (aka Scott Hansen and friends) surprised his loyal, quiet following with his complete fourth studio album, Epoch. “10 years ago next month the first Tycho record, Past is Prologue, was released and it’s been an…
GIF The CW’s original “Fight Club” ad, teaming up its DC superheroes and villains, was a bit of amazingly silly fan service. How could someone possibly improve on it? Three words: Add. Kara. Danvers. The channel has just dropped “Fight Club 2.0”, which bumps up the crossover’s superheroic potential with the arrival of Supergirl and…
We’ve seen brief glimpses of the superteam in various Legends of Tomorrow stills and footage, but now we have them all together in our best look yet at this newest version of DC’s classic heroes. The Justice Society will make their debut in the second episode of Legends’ new season, aptly titled “The Justice Society…
GIF If you can watch this and not desperately wish that there was an Indiana Jones cartoon to accompany it, then you are a stronger person than I. In his free time over the past five years, artist Patrick Schoenmaker has been putting together this wonderful trailer for an animated Indiana Jones adventure, and now…