The Roast: A History
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 8 minutes
| 1522 words
| Elina Uphoff
The cancellation of Comedy Central’s Roast of Kid Rock has already led one writer to bemoan the odiously unclassy state of today’s roasts. Jake Kroeger makes the very good point that the original Friars’ Club roasts honored sincerely respected entertainers, while modern Comedy Central roasts often target celebrities already scorned by a lot of people and tend to feel like a “hate-filled comment thread on YouTube.” How exactly have roasts changed over the years, and is there anything defensible about today’s roasts?
[Read More]The Rom-Com Puzzle
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 83 words
| Aldo Pusey
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The Royal Hotel Will Give You a Secondhand Hangover
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 923 words
| Aldo Pusey
The Royal Hotel is a bar, and if there were ever a point in its history in which its name was not intended to be ironic, ironic is very much how it reads by the time Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) show up to work there. It’s a battered joint in the Australian outback, a dive standing alone in a vast stretch of scrubland. The clientele at the Royal Hotel is almost entirely male, made up of workers at a nearby mining site the girls never see.
[Read More]The Serpent Queen Season-Premiere Recap: Somethings Afoot at the Palace
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1399 words
| Elina Uphoff
The Serpent Queen Grand Tour Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » The Serpent Queen Grand Tour Season 2 Episode 1 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next « PreviousEpisode Next Episode » If you can remember everything from season one, I am so impressed. The three-minute-long “previously on” means absolutely nothing if you have never seen the show and left those of us who watched it a year ago going, “Wait, who was that person again?
[Read More]The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window Is Moving to Broadway
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 1 minutes
| 184 words
| Zora Stowers
Sidney Brustein is moving to Manhattan. The BAM production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is engaging in a limited Broadway run. Oscar Isaac will be making his Broadway debut in the production, alongside his BAM co-star Rachel Brosnahan. This is how we’re gonna get Oscar Isaac his EGOT. Anne Kauffman directs the Lorraine Hansberry revival, both off-Broadway and on-. The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window was received poorly in its original run, as critics thought it too far a departure from Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
[Read More]The Signature Looks of Riverdales Very Fashionable, Very Retro High-Schoolers
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 5 minutes
| 872 words
| Zora Stowers
In terms of teen programming, the CW’s Riverdale isn’t that relatable for the modern youths these days: To our knowledge, there isn’t a black-hooded killer roaming around a sleepy suburban town that also doubles as a major heroin mecca. But when it comes to the show’s fashion, things take a nice turn from its usual escapist aesthetic. The simple, chic looks of Betty and Archie are quintessential “youth in America,” while the more refined looks of Cheryl and Veronica tend toward aspirational glamour.
[Read More]The Star of Pride 2023? Clarabelle Cow
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 2 minutes
| 377 words
| Janel Helmers
Disneyland held its first ever official Pride event this month, in what feels very much like a “neener-neener, you can’t tell me what to do” move. The Walt Disney Company has been the target of far right politicians like Ron DeSantis lately, and things have escalated to the point that the company is actually suing DeSantis over their right to free speech. It’s also escalated to the point that Disneyland got a whole queer makeover.
[Read More]The Story Behind Captain America: Civil Wars Mark Fuhrman Joke
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 4 minutes
| 775 words
| Elina Uphoff
Sam Wilson and Mark Fuhrman. It’s official: The O.J. Simpson murder trial is canon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Late in Captain America: Civil War, African-American hero Sam Wilson, a.k.a. Falcon (played by Anthony Mackie), finds himself jailed after a fight with Tony Stark’s pro-government forces. While Stark is questioning him about Captain America’s whereabouts, Wilson asks if Stark is supposed to be the good cop, then says he’d better go get the bad cop, because “you’d have to go Mark Furhman on my ass to get information out of me.
[Read More]The Story Behind Kevin Harts Self-Aware Appearance in J. Coles Kevins Heart Video
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 7 minutes
| 1374 words
| Zora Stowers
Scott Lazer was just an aspiring filmmaker and J. Cole fan when he went to see him perform in Charlotte in 2013. Eager to impress, the Rutgers University grad brought storyboards, and through a chance encounter on the loading dock, presented them to the Dreamville team. That meeting produced little, but five months later in Los Angeles, they reconnected at a production house tasked with editing a now-shelved documentary about Cole’s life and career.
[Read More]The Story of Harold Ramis and Amy Heckerlings Secret Daughter
Posted on June 11, 2024
| 19 minutes
| 4027 words
| Sherie Connelly
Amy Heckerling and Harold Ramis. The following is an excerpt from Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life With My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel, out today. Mystery Baby One afternoon in September of 1985, in the midst of my parents’ separation and the official beginning of his relationship with Erica, my dad picked me up from school and told me we were going to visit a friend of his, Amy, at the hospital.
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