Detroiters and Joe Pera Talks With You Will Make You Feel Better About America
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 9 minutes
| 1786 words
| Janel Helmers
The Roseanne revival was bit of a Trojan horse. It came in acting like its goal was to tell stories about the people Hollywood forgets — those struggling to get by; those outside of New York, Los Angeles, and increasingly Chicago — when in reality, its motivations were political. Roseanne Barr clearly had an agenda, and Whitney Cummings, the revival’s co-showrunner, wrote for Vulture about hers: “Since tweeting wasn’t working, maybe giving my brain to a show that touched the hearts and got the eyeballs of so many working-class people is how I could finally do my part to help us all make sense of the election.
[Read More]Did You Catch All the Changes in Rent: Live?
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 13 minutes
| 2695 words
| Janel Helmers
Creators and producers for Rent: Live touted the Fox production in the lead-up to its January 27 premiere as the Rent we love on “steroids,” while also clarifying that edits would be made to fit network standards and cut for length. The claims proved more or less true with last night’s mostly pre-taped presentation. While it’s an addition to the live televised musical canon that introduced a whole new generation to Jonathan Larson’s famously unfinished musical, die-hard Rentheads met such changes with skepticism and some downright disappointment.
[Read More]Die Hards Director Breaks Down Bruce Williss Iconic Roof Jump
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 8 minutes
| 1599 words
| Zora Stowers
Bruce Willis in Die Hard. Director John McTiernan has helmed some of the best American action films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Predator, Die Hard, and The Hunt for Red October. Die Hard’s stunts and special-effects-driven set pieces are especially iconic, thanks to McTiernan and his collaborators’ dedication to realism: They shot most of the film on existing locations (mostly at Fox Plaza in Los Angeles, but also at a nearby construction site), used real guns (picked by Predator’s weapons specialists), and filmed actors (and stuntmen) falling from real heights (and often without the enhancement of green-screen technology).
[Read More]Discovery Cancels Dirty Jobs
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| 83 words
| Elina Uphoff
Dirty Jobs has been canceled, host Mike Rowe announced today. After eight seasons and many, many trips inside sewers, Discovery has decided to hang up the trusty headlamp. “Dirty Jobs is a very personal show, and it’s difficult for me to imagine a future that does not involve exploding toilets, venomous snakes, misadventures in animal husbandry, and feces from every species,” Rowe writes in a post on HuffPo. Sigh. Now who’s going to interview avian vomitologists?
[Read More]Disneys Many Court Battles, Explained
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 6 minutes
| 1162 words
| Zora Stowers
On August 23, a group of Disney shareholders filed suit against the entertainment giant claiming that executives had misled investors about the profitability of Disney+ while the company’s stock dropped, causing “significant losses and damages.” The Delaware federal court lawsuit was filed just months after another group of shareholders sued Disney that similarly alleged financial misstatements about its streaming platform. Disney CEO Bob Iger as well as former CEO Bob Chapek and a handful of other company higher-ups are named as defendants in the new lawsuit.
[Read More]Do I Sound Gay - Vulture
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| 29 words
| Janel Helmers
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Does Amy Schumer Have a Blind Spot Around Race?
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| 418 words
| Elina Uphoff
In Monica Heisey’s new piece in The Guardian about Amy Schumer and her insanely good year, the writer praises Schumer’s unapologetic feminist stances, but also criticizes the comedian for racial insensitivity:
For such a keen observer of social norms and an effective satirist of the ways gender is complicated by them, Schumer has a shockingly large blind spot around race. Her lacklustre stint hosting the MTV Movie awards (a rare misstep) featured lazy jokes about Latina women being “crazy” that left Jennifer Lopez as unimpressed as the online commentariat.
[Read More]Dont Leave the House When Youre Drunk and Other Important Life Advice from Lily Tomlin
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
During last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, comedy legend Lily Tomlin used most of her time on the stage accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award offering up some sage life advice to young actors everywhere. “Ironically, this award makes you feel not that you’ve done so much, but more like you wish you had done so much more to receive an honor such as this. In my defense, I wasted a lot of time being ambitious about the wrong things.
[Read More]Drag Race Is Coming Back Home for Season 14
Posted on June 13, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 910 words
| Zora Stowers
After crisscrossing the globe in 2021, from Drag Race Down Under to Drag Race España to Drag Race Holland to Drag Race U.K. to Canada’s Drag Race to Drag Race Italia — with the global Queens of the Universe thrown in for good measure — we’re making our way back to the U.S. for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14. Home sweet werkroom!
The latest season of Drag Race premieres January 7 at 8 p.
[Read More]Drake Dueted With Nelly Furtado, Got COVID-19 at October World Weekend
Posted on June 13, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Looks like one October World Weekend guest was a surprise even to Drake: the novel coronavirus. (Maybe it took a private flight there!) The rapper announced he tested positive for COVID-19 this morning, midway through his Toronto concert series, writing on his Instagram Story (in cheugy italic font) that he was “truly devastated.” The positive test comes days after Drake performed alongside over a dozen other Canadian rappers and singers at his All Canadian North Stars concert turned superspreader event on July 28.
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