Yesterday, Norm Macdonald, comedy legend, SNL cast member, and reluctant prose stylist, died after a battle with cancer. It ended in a draw; the cancer is dead too. In one of his acts, Norm said: “When the fuckin’ sickle of death is over my goddamn neck, I’m gonna be so …
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When Saturday Night Live debuted in October 1975, New York City was in such a state of severe disrepair that the cover of the New York Daily Newsone day that month read “Ford To City: Drop Dead.” “It was just after Watergate and Saigon,” says producer Lorne Michaels. “It was …
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Dear White People takes the musical route for its fourth season, as revealed in the new trailer that Netflix released on Tuesday. The show returns Wednesday, September 22nd to the streaming platform. Vol. 4 sees the students returning to the Winchester campus in a post-pandemic world, where the future of …
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Former Saturday Night Live cast member Horatio Sanz has been accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a teenaged girl in the early 2000s in a new lawsuit filed Thursday by the now-adult accuser. The lawsuit — filed by a Jane Doe in Pennsylvania who says she ran a Jimmy Fallon …
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Paramount+ has released a new teaser for its upcoming animated kids’ series, Star Trek: Prodigy, which is set to premiere on the streaming platform this fall. The series is set after the events of the late-Nineties TV series, Star Trek: Voyager, and centers around a group of young aliens, who …
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IFC has shared the latest trailer for Demonic, an upcoming horror film by District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp. Mixing equal parts supernatural and techno-horror, Demonic centers on a woman who somehow unleashes the titular demonic forces after being virtually implanted into the mind of her comatose mother. According …
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In 1989, just months after he earned his first Oscar nomination for Big, and a few years before he went on a run of criticaland commercial success that’s nearly unrivaled in the history of cinema, Tom Hanks starred in a series of middling movies that never would’ve suggested the megastar …
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“Do you believe in ghosts, Ted?” Ted Lasso’s boss, Rebecca, asks him in the first episode of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso. “I do,” Ted replies, “but more importantly, I think they need to believe in themselves.” Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) has hired Ted (Jason Sudeikis) — a second-tier American college football …
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With fewer entries than ever before thanks to the pandemic, the nominations for the 73rd annual Emmy Awards had less room for error than in years. And yet somehow, voters found a way. While the majority of the categories seemed to have a consensus that was largely confirmed this morning—Ted …
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Netflix has released the opening five minutes from the first installment of its upcoming horror trilogy, Fear Street, which premieres on the streaming service Friday, July 2nd. The Fear Street series is set up in part one with a story set in 1994 and centered around a group of teenagers …
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