It’s late. My eyes are bleary, bloodshot. My thumb aches with regret. I’m tired of this life—this endless scrolling, bouncing from show to show, all to stay one step ahead of the Netflix autoplay feature where they show you an incredibly irritating trailer if you stay on the tile for more than a second or…
Singer Cissy Houston performs onstage during the 2012 BET Awards in Los Angeles, California. Michael Buckner/Getty Images For BET hide caption toggle caption Michael Buckner/Getty Images For BET Singer Cissy Houston performs onstage during the 2012 BET Awards in Los Angeles, California. Michael Buckner/Getty Images For BET Cissy Houston, a singer whose career began in…
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In 1973’s The Wicker Man, British policeman (Edward Woodward) visits a remote Scottish island to find that the locals have embraced a form of paganism. Archive Photos/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Archive Photos/Getty Images It’s October. Some of your neighbors will spend this, the official first weekend of spooky season, going all-out with inflatable…
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Brad Pitt and George Clooney play competing Hollywood “fixers” in the Apple TV+ film Wolfs. Apple TV+ hide caption toggle caption Apple TV+ For most of its history, Hollywood made its money by putting stars the public liked to watch in stories that wouldn’t be worth watching without them. These days, such star-driven films are…
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Dear Pepper is an advice-column comic by Liana Finck. If you have questions for Pepper about how to act in difficult situations, please direct them to [email protected]. Questions may be edited for brevity and clarity. Dear Pepper, I am thirty-one years old, happily married, with a career and two children. I am currently on maternity…
You might expect the world’s biggest Elvis Presley festival to be in Las Vegas, or Memphis, Tenn. One small seaside town holds an annual — and possibly the worlds biggest — Elvis Presley festival. AILSA CHANG, HOST: You might expect the world’s biggest Elvis Presley festival to be in Las Vegas or Memphis. But in fact,…
John Amos poses for a portrait on May 11, 2016, in New York. Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84. Amy Sussman/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Amy Sussman/Invision/AP LOS…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he’s the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department. Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates says he long felt the pull to visit Africa — and yet it was a trip he kept putting off. “When you’re Black…
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Ben Whishaw: Paddington actor to star in Waiting for Godot. . . . Whishaw has previously played gadget guru Q in the James Bond films. —BBC.com. Act I A railway station. A hat. Mr. Brown sits on a bench. He is trying to open a pot of marmalade. He gives up, exhausted, tries again. Enter Mrs. Brown. MR….
Ken Leung as Eric. Simon Ridgway/HBO hide caption toggle caption Simon Ridgway/HBO This piece contains spoilers for Industry Season 3. Even by the standards of an inherently stressful show like HBO’s Industry, Sunday night’s Season 3 finale was an absolutely diabolical doozy, the kind of conclusion that makes you sit up in your seat and…
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