we’re gonna need a bigger article Aug. 15, 2012
Jaws Fanatics Gather to Pray to God of SharksBy Rachel Kramer Bussel
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Jaws Fanatics Gather to Pray to God of Sharks Jaws Fanatics Gather to Pray to God of SharksJay Baruchel Broke Apatow Ranks to Make The Sorcerers Apprentice, and It Didnt Work Out So Wel
One of the oddest things about The Sorcerer’s Apprentice — aside, of course, from the general spectacle of Nicolas Cage, human being — is the presence of the Judd Apatow acolyte Jay Baruchel. The reedy Canadian starred in Apatow’s Undeclared (which, it should always be remembered, is so, so good) then cemented his Apatow credentials by popping up as one of Seth Rogen’s sophomoric buddies in Knocked Up. So how did he come to flout the Apatow crew’s unofficial policy of avoiding well-paying blockbuster crap?
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Jay-Z Does Not Return Robert De Niros Calls
Robert De Niro attends the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the State Supreme Courthouse on April 17, 2012 in New York City. Even though he promised De Niro that he would do a song for the Tribeca Film Festival, and poor Bob called Jay six times to follow-up. So De Niro took the obvious course of action, which was to confront Hov at Leonardo DiCaprio’s birthday party and tell him off for being “disrespectful.
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Jay-Zs Decoded Made Michiko Kakutani Realize That Even Rhymes About Guns and Girls Have Hidden
Michiko Kakutani. The Times’ notoriously tough book critic gives Hova’s book a rave in today’s paper: “Decoded is a compelling puzzlelike collage … that places rap in a social and political context … and underscores how the pressures of Jay-Z’s former life as a dealer honed his gifts as a writer, including a survivor’s sense of character, an observer’s eye for detail and a hustler’s penchant for wordplay.” And it even made her look closer at Jay’s lyrics on the whole: “Decoded highlights the richly layered, metaphoric nature of the author’s own rhymes (even those about guns and girls and bling often turn out to have hidden meanings, stashed like ‘Easter eggs’ in the weeds).
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Jen Beagins Novel About Sex Therapy Sparked a Hollywood Bidding War
This article originally appeared in Making It, a newsletter featuring conversations about craft, cash, and compromise, with Emily Gould. Sign up here. This article originally appeared in Making It, a newsletter featuring conversations about craft, cash, and compromise, with Emily Gould. Sign up here. When she got the call that would change her life completely, Jen Beagin was in the middle of using a hair dryer to warm up the freezing sheets of her bed in a beautiful but unheated 300-year-old Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York.
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Jenna Ortega, Wednesday Executive Producer, Has Notes
Jenna Ortega Jenna Ortega’s foot has remained down in the Wednesday writers’ room. In a Variety Actors on Actors chat with The Great star Elle Fanning, Ortega discussed her role as series producer and which aspects of the show fall under the actress’s purview. “With a character like Wednesday, who is so beloved, I didn’t want to get her wrong,” she told Fanning. The phrasing was reminiscent of comments Ortega made on the Armchair Expert podcast in March, when she revealed that she was so concerned about her character’s decisions that she had to “almost unprofessionally” advocate for what she thought was right.
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Jennifer Aniston Looks Like Hell in Cake, and That Is the Point
Someone had to ask the question: What was it like for Jennifer Aniston to act without makeup, and to see herself look like hell onscreen? “I actually found it quite awesome and liberating, to tell you the truth,” Aniston told the audience after the premiere of her new movie, Cake. “It was sort of a big deal, personally, for me to expose that, because I think we’re all very, you know, concerned with how we look on a 50-foot screen.
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Jennifer Lawrence Is a Russian Spy
Would somebody like to buy Jennifer Lawrence a spa day? Maybe a nice therapy dog or something? After a bruising performance in Mother!, J.Law takes on another physically challenging role in Red Sparrow, playing a Russian ballerina turned spy, caught in a tangled web of other covert players, including Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, and Jeremy Irons. Directed by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mockingjay’s Francis Lawrence, Red Sparrow is based on the book by Jason Matthews, though it’s leaving out the parts that involve Vladimir Putin, since nobody wants to be hacked.
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Jerrod Carmichael Questions His New Shows Morality
The HBO docuseries puts all his relationships to the test. He’s still living with the aftermath. Photo: Clifford Prince King “It’s been a wild couple years,” Jerrod Carmichael says. We’re sitting outside the Four Seasons in downtown Austin, where his HBO series Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show will debut at South by Southwest later that evening. It’s a sort of follow-up to Carmichael’s Emmy-winning 2022 comedy special Rothaniel, in which he came out at age 35, only this new project takes his autobiography several steps further without really clarifying what’s organic and what’s a setup.
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Jimmy Kimmel Says Donald Trumps Sleep Farting Was for Naught
Jimmy Kimmel feels bad that Donald Trump’s hard work during the hush-money trial went to waste. “Poor Donald Trump, seven weeks of sleep farting all down the drain, all for nothing,” the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! told audiences on Thursday, the same day the former president was found guilty of 34 felonies in relation to his unprecedented hush-money trial. “You do have to hand it to him, no president have ever been convicted more than Donald Trump.
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