The third single from The Marshall Mathers LP earned Eminem some of the highest praise of his career, but back when “Stan” was grabbing VMA nominations and giving a three-year-old Dido single a piggyback ride up the charts, who would’ve guessed the song’s lasting legacy would be lexicographical? “Stan” is literally…
The Time-lauded “Silence Breakers” movement started in September 2016 with revelations about sexual harassment and assault accusations against Hollywood uber-producer Harvey Weinstein. Although the original New York Times article containing those revelations led to a virtual avalanche of stories about other alleged…
The John Candy movie Uncle Buck turns 30 today, and it remains an excellent watch. Writer/director John Hughes wisely put the charismatic Candy front and center as the title character, maker of giant pancakes, and driver of a car called the “Beast.” When the parents of three kids have to leave town unexpectedly, with…
A significant portion of the new Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood deals with the Manson family. At one point, stuntman Cliff Booth gives a member of the family a ride home to the Spahn ranch, where he meets other Manson family members like Squeaky Fromme (Dakota Fanning), Gypsy (Lena Dunham), and…
Marc Cherry has made a career out of writing about and creating series for women—from his earliest days writing Golden Girls episodes, to crafting the scandal-filled world of Desperate Housewives, to the tight bonds that united Devious Maids. In Cherry’s latest series, Why Women Kill, he’s still writing about women,…
As mere mortals, we can only imagine that when you’re a retired sports legend you have some time on your hands. How to fill the hours, stretching ahead of you like an all-day sucker? You watch a lot of TV, apparently.
As the saying goes, you have your whole life to make your first album, and then about a year to make your second one, thus accounting for the dreaded “sophomore slump.” The third album, then, is a crucial litmus test, one when many artists hit their stride and prove if they’re really in it for the long haul. Testing…
The ’80s were a strange time: Instead of merely working out at the gym, you would dress up in your brightest-hued stretchy wear, put your hair in a high ponytail, and strenuously dance in a room while a lycra-wearing instructor would yell at you to “feel the burn.” Leave it to Jimmy Fallon to bring this horrific era…
The Disney empire definitely has its fans, but devout viewer TheDeadlySquid has compiled a video that features “every single variation of the Walt Disney Pictures logo, starting from 1985’s The Black Cauldron and going all the way until 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns.” The logo usually kicks things off with the…
In the wake of last week’s mass shootings in Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; and Dayton (not Toledo), Ohio, Lady Gaga has announced that she will be donating to classrooms in those three areas. MTV News reports that she posted on Facebook that she’ll be partnering with DonorsChoose.org and her own Born This Way…
The Crown’s first two seasons, showcasing the courtship and early marriage of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, proved to be a huge success for Netflix, raking in loads of awards, especially for Claire Foy as Elizabeth. But with Foy and her co-star Matt Smith only in their thirties, the decision was made to re-cast…
The actor: Thomas Haden Church is one of those actors who seems to have had at least nine career lives. After becoming a familiar face on sitcoms like Wings and Ned And Stacey, he took a powder for a while, moving to a ranch in Texas. Then director Alexander Payne pulled him out of retirement in 2004 to star in his…
Starting with Hear It Is in 1986, Oklahoma City outfit The Flaming Lips had a pretty routine schedule in their earliest years. Every 18 months or so, they’d put out a psychedelic, guitar-infused garage-rock record, with a few almost-single-worthy hits and maybe a fun cover. This output got the Lips signed to Warner…
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe seems like a good sort, so even when he’s drafted by crafty pranksters to make a crank call, you can tell he’s wracked with guilt. For BBC1's “Alphabeticall,” someone calls a poor, unsuspecting establishment and tries to ask questions that all begin with a different letter in the…
These are dark days, so we have to take our laughs where we can get them. As well as our heroes. You can find both in this video posted on Twitter by KVOA anchor and investigative reporter Nick VinZant, from a city council meeting in Tucson. The meeting featured a discussion about making Tucson a sanctuary city for…
You might think that Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina has already taken the Archie comics property about as dark as it can go. But at the the Television Critics Association press tour, show creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told IGN’s The Wrap that things are about to get even darker: “I think it’s safe to say that we are…
