When producers or actors new to television claim they’ve just made “a 10-hour movie,” it speaks to the weird inferiority complex TV somehow still has two decades after prestige game-changers such as The Sopranos, The Wire, et. al. But it’s also often a sadly literal comment, suggesting that film people …
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Last week, about two and a half months into lockdown, Miranda (not her real name), a 39-year-old mom from Brooklyn, got a text from one of her friends, expressing her frustration with being alone in the house with a small child during lockdown. “She said, ‘I feel like the curve …
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Lance Armstrong prepares to tell his truth in the new trailer for Marina Zenovich’s upcoming documentary, LANCE, which will air in two parts, May 24th and May 31st, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN (watch with a free trial to ESPN+). The film is centered around an extensive set of …
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Billy Joel made his first public appearance of the COVID-19 era on Monday night at the “Rise Up New York!” telethon to benefit the Robin Hood foundation and their efforts to combat poverty in the city during this very difficult time. The event was hosted by Tina Fey and featured …
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There’s a long tradition in film and TV comedy of the “alt,” where writers come up with multiple jokes for the same moment in the script, wait for the actors to perform them all on camera, then decide which to keep and which ones to cut. So if, say, the …
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Becoming Set to Alicia Keys’ “Girl on Fire,” the new Netflix documentary’s trailer highlights footage from former First Lady Michelle Obama‘s life – before and after her husband’s presidency took their family to the oval office. Going back to her working-class upbringing, she says, “I am from the South Side …
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Hayley Williams has been the face of Paramore for over half her life, so you better believe she knows how to put on a show. When examining pop-rock’s quirky bombast during the 2000s, there’s hardly a more apt representation than Williams wielding a carrot microphone onstage at Warped Tour, with …
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Tones and I takes stock of her whirlwind year of success in her new music video for “Can’t Be Happy All the Time,” released on Thursday. The clip follows Tones’ journey from busking in the streets of Melbourne to her burgeoning popularity at music festivals and the meteoric rise of …
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America’s own troubadour Randy Newman stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night to perform his new quarantine tune, “Stay Away.” “People are saying it’s the greatest song ever written or that they’ve heard,” he says by way of introduction. “A lot of people are saying it. I’m …
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President Donald Trump did not wear a face mask — as is recommended by health officials to aid in preventing the spread of COVID-19 — during his tour of a Honeywell factory in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday. As Trump toured the factory, which is producing N95 masks for the federal …
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