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Staten Island: a whole new world. After arriving in Pete Davidson’s native New York City, Kim Kardashian had an intimate dinner with New York City native Pete Davidson. And get this: She went to Staten Island for the guy. On Tuesday night, the mother of four joined Davidson at a location of a local Italian chain restaurant called Campania. A restaurant source told “Page Six” that Davidson arranged a private rooftop dinner for the actual billionaire, who hosted Saturday Night Live last month, most definitely dazzling her with breathtaking views of local sights including — depending on the Campania location — the strip mall Carvel and Cohen’s Fashion Optical, or the hollowed-out carcass of a permanently closed competitor restaurant across the street called “Michael’s Martinis and Meatballs. [Read More]

DUNST-PLEMONS 2024. Kanye West, you picked the wrong smiling-blonde-lady.jpg to put on your campaign posters. On August 18, the independent presidential candidate tweeted a “KANYE 2020 VISION” poster featuring stock imagery of smiling people of all walks of life, including a close-up of a happy, sun-dappled Kirsten Dunst. The photo, it turns out, was taken by photographer Mario Testino and was from a Vanity Fair photo shoot in 2002. [Read More]

George “Funky” Brown, drummer and founding member of Kool & The Gang, died on Thursday at age 74. A band publicist confirmed to the New York Times that Brown died at a hospital in Long Beach, California. The cause of death was cancer. Kool & The Gang’s Facebook page also posted a tribute confirming the news, writing, “In loving memory of our dear brother, co-founder and the funkiest drummer the world has ever seen. [Read More]

Kris Jenner and her former bodyguard Marc McWilliams are expected to start hashing out the 2020 sexual-harassment case he filed against her in closed-door discussions. News of this development emerged Wednesday in a Daily Mail report, which revealed that the judge in McWilliams’s lawsuit told his lawyers to “expeditiously” start the arbitration process. The case against Jenner has been quietly handled in the midst of other high-profile lawsuits and cases involving the family and their partners (the Astroworld lawsuits, the Tristan Thompson paternity suit, and Kim Kardashian’s alleged involvement in a crypto scam, to name a few). [Read More]

Last night on Late Night, Julianne Moore discussed her Cannes Film Festival Toemaggedon. Apparently, she’d practiced the art of “stately walking” in her heels, but she’d overlooked the pivot. Her solution? “I needed to prevent this from happening again so I cut my toes off,” she told Jimmy Fallon as she gifted him a little box of her little, pedicured piggies. Plus: Jimmy Kimmel and his sidekick Guillermo teamed up against the National School Scrabble champions. [Read More]

In case you were trying to decide what to ask God when you die and are offered the answers to all the secrets of the universe, don’t ask him/her/it about Home Alone. I mean, ask him if you really want to, but Slate’s interview with Home Alone production designer John Muto pretty much has you covered. Muto, who might as well be an honest-to-God human wizard, talks about the nonlethal stunts he and his team devised for the film’s half-hour climactic booby-trap scene. [Read More]

Jon Snow is dead. Long live … his burlesque alter ego, Eva Braun? We dare not ruin the fun and recap what SNL convinced Kit Harington to do for the sake of comedy this week, so let’s just say this whole sketch hinges on the premise of a man surprising his fiancée with some sexy, sexy, sexy moves. And he also brought his teacher-prostitute for moral support, how nice! [Read More]

Like all episodes of Black Mirror, the end of “Hang the DJ” offers up a closing twist that forces the audience to rethink everything they’ve seen so far. The setup and the flip work like this: Two attractive young people named Frank and Amy meet on a date, and we learn they’ve been matched together by a compatibility algorithm known as the “System.” They have a really good first date, but the System also gives their relationship a quick expiration date, so they part ways and move on to seeing other people. [Read More]

This is a story about the ending of First Reformed: spoilers to follow, obviously. The ending of First Reformed, Paul Schrader’s remarkable new film, is a puzzle worthy of the great struggle that comes before it. For an hour and 45 minutes, Schrader charts the downward trajectory of Reverend Toller, teasing explosions and redemption, only to reveal — what, exactly? It’s important, before we get into a detailed discussion of the plot, to understand the main influences Schrader is channeling. [Read More]

Warning: Spoilers ahead. From the moment The Sixth Sense blew audiences’ minds with a shocking conclusion so well conceived it helped mainstream the phrase “no spoilers, please” — M. Night Shyamalan’s name has been synonymous with the twist ending. Old, his latest film, recalls the strengths the auteur first displayed on The Sixth Sense: An advanced ability to hook viewers with a mystifying premise plus the capacity to explore big themes like mortality and regret in the space of a fright. [Read More]