Gossiping About Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart With Living Legend Angela Allen

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2127 words  |  Zora Stowers

The African Queen. As the last surviving crew member of classic films like The African Queen and The Third Man, Angela Allen is getting used to being the last woman standing. But standing she is, with clear eyes, a trim figure, and a fluorescent-orange pedicure as she plans her 90th birthday celebrations. Allen’s career in movies spanned more than 50 years, and encompassed working on films ranging from the swoony passion of Ken Russell’s Women in Love to the indie cool of Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer. [Read More]

Great Audiobooks to Listen to in 2022

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  48 minutes  |  10117 words  |  Sherie Connelly

The audiobook category is expanding every day, and we certainly can’t listen to everything. The goal of this column is to steer you toward audiobooks that we hope will provide the best experiences, pop-culture value, and something to talk about at your cocktail party. For December, we’re looking back at a few notable titles released earlier in 2022 that we missed along the way. December Picks The Boys from Biloxi, by John Grisham $31 $31 Photo: Random House Audio Read by: Michael Beck [Read More]

Green Day Answers Wake Me When September Ends Internet Joke with New Song Idea

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  91 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Every September, with the same predictability of the fall equinox that has preceded it for millennia, Twitter users ask that somebody, anybody, wake up that guy from Green Day. Because after writing the song “Wake Me When September Ends,” that guy, Billie Joe Armstrong, is believed to have been suspended in an indefinite slumber. We caught up with Armstrong and asked whether he had anything to say to those Twitter users, and, to our surprise, he had some strong words and suggested a possible track we truly hope he produces. [Read More]

Greys Anatomy Recap: A Wedding Under the Stars

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1539 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Grey’s Anatomy Girlfriend in a Coma Season 15 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy Girlfriend in a Coma Season 15 Episode 12 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Holy hell, a lot goes on in Seattle between Christmas and Valentine’s Day. [Read More]

Greys Anatomy Recap: Half-Baked

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1600 words  |  Zora Stowers

Grey’s Anatomy I’ll Cover You Season 18 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Grey’s Anatomy I’ll Cover You Season 18 Episode 17 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » It’s a real grab bag of story lines on the latest Grey’s Anatomy. One has to hope that at least some of these are going to pay off in big, emotional ways by the time the season finale (and 400th episode! [Read More]

Grimes Used Elon Musks Own Platform to Reveal Their Third Child

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  397 words  |  Janel Helmers

Grimes and a random man from South Africa. Grimes has got this baby-announcement thing down. First, literally hide your child from a magazine reporter; next, mention your new child while attacking her ex/co-parent on his own social-media platform? The musician confirmed reports of her third child with Elon Musk in a deleted tweet (sorry, a deleted X) to his biographer Walter Isaacson, writing, “tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer. [Read More]

Gwen Stefani Doesnt Really Regret That Harajuku Girls Phase

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  458 words  |  Sherie Connelly

If you were of conscious mind in the mid-aughts, you might remember when Gwen Stefani was utterly obsessed with Japanese culture. So much, in fact, that she enlisted four “Harajuku girls” to be her backup dancers in music videos and on tour, while also accompanying her to various public appearances. The girls — four dancers named Jennifer Kita, Rino Nakasone, Mayuko Kitayama, and Maya Chino — were also given nicknames after the title of Stefani’s album, and apparently contractually obligated to only speak Japanese in public. [Read More]

Gwyneth Paltrows Bestie Bowel Blowout, Explained

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  732 words  |  Aldo Pusey

View from the plop. So, you were offline this long weekend enjoying the actual world, and now it’s Monday, you’re back at your desktop, and everyone is talking about this guy Derek Blasberg, who allegedly diarrhea’d all over Gwyneth Paltrow’s guesthouse bathroom at one of her properties in the Hamptons or possibly Montecito, California. You want to know what’s going on without having to ask someone or click on a Daily Mail link. [Read More]

Haim Cancels European Tour to Finish New Album in Herculean Feat of Procrastination

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  136 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Haim. Anyone who’s ever procrastinated can identify with the desperate process of abandoning other plans at the last minute in order to finish up the thing you really were supposed to have done by now, but Haim’s just taken it to the next level: On Wednesday the band canceled a bunch of European tour dates in order to finish their long-awaited second album. As the sisters explained on Twitter, “We’re at a critical point in finishing up and need to stay close to home. [Read More]

Harry Potter Fans Memorialized Alan Rickman at Platform 9 3/4, Universal Studios

 Posted on June 11, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  275 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Alan Rickman. Harry Potter fans honored the late Alan Rickman on Thursday by turning London’s Platform 9 3/4 shop into a touching memorial. Visitors of King’s Cross station used scarves, flowers, and notes to decorate the site and pay their respects to the man who played the saga’s menacing potions professor. “So much love for our Snape,” tweeted one user. “Potterhead solidarity.” The beloved movie and theater actor’s death was announced early Thursday morning, eliciting near-immediate responses from J. [Read More]