Lainey Wilson, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson Lead CMA Award Winners With Two Each
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Country fans got another night of stressing about the outcome of some votes at the CMAs (thanks to that scheduling genius). The awards ceremony, presented by the Country Music Association, took place November 9 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. After leading the nominees with six, Lainey Wilson earned two awards, a rare double-feat of New Artist of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. In an impressive showing for new artists, Cody Johnson also earned two awards, Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year, for “’Til You Can’t.
[Read More]Lana Del Rey Is Fully in the Drivers Seat on Norman Fucking Rockwell
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
She’s your man. Every year in August, there’s a week when the heat breaks and cicada calls supplant the sounds of parties and outdoor barbecues, signaling the imminent departure of the sweaty, sultry dog days. Each year, when that week arrives, I slip on the Doors’ “Summer’s Almost Gone” to try and finish the job; to send the hot season packing once again. The song is a strange outlier in the Doors catalogue, a stuffy, starched-leg blues track that floats almost entirely thanks to an army of piano and organ overdubs from keyboard player Ray Manzarek.
[Read More]Lane, Neuwirth at Addams Family Opening Night
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
All it took was an accent and some facial hair for Nathan Lane to get into the character of Gomez Addams for the new Addams Family musical on Broadway, which opened last night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The accent is “a little combination of Billy Crystal doing Fernando Lamas and Antonio Banderas doing the Nasonex bee,” he explained to us at the opening. As far as his new pencil mustache, he said it’s hard to maintain, but at least his friends like it.
[Read More]Larry Wilmore Knows No Bounds
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
He’s kept the golden age of Black TV comedy alive for three decades. He’ll make any network eat its words. Photo: Andreas Laszlo Konrath Photo: Andreas Laszlo Konrath This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.
If at any point in the past 30 years you were amused by the high jinks in a Black sitcom, chances are Larry Wilmore had something to do with it.
[Read More]Last Night on Late Night: Brad Pitt Cock-Blocked Mike Tyson
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Last night on Conan, Mike Tyson recounted the time the “handsome Brad Pitt” completely deflated his mission for a morning session with ex-wife Robin Givens, and he couldn’t even get up to fight for her — “I was just emotionally comatose because I went from a hard stallion to a wet noodle.” (Hand gestures included.) Plus: Rachel Dratch recalled her date with a cannibalistically curious horsemeat eater; and Maya Rudolph and Jason Biggs had a really awkward hug.
[Read More]Last Night on Late Night: Julie Bowen Addressed the Nicki Minaj Dress Steal
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Last night on the Tonight Show, Julie Bowen addressed the lime-green Emmy dress that Nicki Minaj borrowed for the AMAs two months later. Without a hint of the Joan Rivers–style “Bitch Stole My Look” attitude, Bowen graciously bowed to Minaj and her derriere — “She’s Nicki Minaj, the girl has it going on. Her booty alone … I say that she took that dress to a new level.” Plus: A trained llama at Kristen Schaal’s wedding had drowned out her husband Rich Blomquist’s “I do.
[Read More]Laura Benanti on Doing a Perfect Melania Trump Impression
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airing live, Monday July 19, 2016 in New York. Laura Benanti, with her uncanny resemblance and musical-theater-trained ear, was definitely the right person to do a Melania Trump impression, and the night after the potential future First Lady plagiarized part of her speech at the RNC from the current First Lady was the right time for a Melania send-up. There was just one problem: Benanti wasn’t in the right place to make it happen.
[Read More]Laura Dern on Growing Up With Bruce Dern, the Only Actor to Kill John Wayne
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
Laura Dern. Laura Dern has impeccable acting pedigree: Her mother is actress Diane Ladd, who has memorably played her daughter’s mother twice, in the film Rambling Rose and on Dern’s regrettably canceled HBO series Enlightened. Dad is Bruce Dern, who, thanks to his poignantly funny and spare performance as Woody Grant in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (opening October 8 at the New York Film Festival), is earning the kind of praise that remakes careers.
[Read More]Led Zeppelin - Vulture
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
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The Led Zeppelin Reunion Show: More of What You MissedDespite months of begging and whining, our mean bosses refused to pay the highly reasonable £83,000 (plus airfare, food, and hotel) for Vulture’s editors to attend last night’s Led Zeppelin reunion show in London.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7t8HLrayrnV6YvK5705qerGecmrFuxsSpp56kmaN8
Let It Burn: Assassination Nation and the Cinema of the End
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
The marketing for Assassination Nation suggests an orgy of empowering ultraviolence: “You asked for it, America,” blare the posters, above an image of four young women in shiny red coats brandishing an assortment of deadly weapons. But is it a movie about empowerment, or annihilation? Sam Levinson’s film takes place in the small suburban enclave of Salem (literary allusion alert!), which “loses its motherfucking mind” and is plunged into chaos when a mysterious hacker starts stealing people’s private information and making it public.
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