It’s good to know that even if named World’s Sexiest Man Alive by People, you can still get nervous performing live on television. Idris Elba did well in his first hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, but there were more than a few occasions in which he demonstrated just how …
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What dropped trailer-wise over the past week, you ask? How about action-filled clips for both a cult-superhero reboot and the upcoming redo of the most famous all-powerful-mutant-run-amuck tale of them all? We also get sneak peeks at FX‘s upcoming bio-series about Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, and Netflix’s D.J. Idris …
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(This piece originally ran on January 25th, as part of our 2019 Sundance Film Festival coverage.) There was no gaggle of protestors outside the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah early Friday morning, despite news reports that the Sundance Film Festival had been told to brace for a massive disruption …
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Mike McCready‘s mother taught art for nearly three decades, and she instilled in him a great love of painting and sculpture. But even though he liked art, the omnipresence of works by Monet, Van Gogh and Warhol intimidated him when it came to making his own visual art. McCready would …
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It’s official. The Bern is in. Ending a lengthy period of deliberation, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who won over 1,800 delegates and captured 43 percent of the Democratic Party vote in 2016, announced his candidacy in an email to supporters this morning. “Brothers and Sisters,” Sanders writes. “I have …
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Some parents expect their children to grow up and become doctors, lawyers, CEOs. Ricky and Julia Knight wanted their kids to become WWE superstars. Wrestling is the family business for the Knights, who run an amateur organization — the World Association of Wrestling, we’re sure you’ve heard of it — …
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Murderous doll Chucky is returning to screens this year in a remake of the 1988 horror classic Child’s Play. The first trailer for the movie offers fans a glimpse of the new version, which stars Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman and Brian Tyree Henry, although it doesn’t give us much of …
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Desus Nice and the Kid Mero have just sat down for lunch at an upscale Manhattan bistro when they notice the birdlike gentleman in the slate-blue sweater a few tables over. Desus sees him first: “Is that John Oliver?” It certainly looks a lot like the star of HBO’s Last …
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Maroon 5 will not appear at a customary news conference to promote their performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, the National Football League said in a statement on Twitter. Fellow performers Travis Scott and Big Boi will reportedly not participate either. “Maroon 5 has been working hard on a …
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The blistering 236-minute film Leaving Neverland, which airs on HBO this March, levels damning accusations that the ebulliently childlike and phenomenally talented Michael Jackson was a serial pedophile. In 1993, 13-year-old Jordan Chandler brought charges of sexual abuse against Jackson that ended in a reported $10 million cash settlement. A …
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