Mary J. Blige Sees Herself Anew
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
The first time Mary J. Blige saw herself onscreen in Mudbound, it made her cry. She’d become someone else, someone unrecognizable, yet — and she had to be told this at first — someone undeniably beautiful: Florence Jackson, a sharecropper’s wife in Jim Crow Mississippi who navigated the narrow path allowed for her life, seeing much but saying little. “The great surprise at Sundance was that people didn’t know it was her until the credits rolled,” says the film’s director, Dee Rees.
[Read More]Masters of Sex Recap: The Reclining Lotus
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Janel Helmers
Masters of Sex All Together Now Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Masters of Sex All Together Now Season 1 Episode 7 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » We all knew where this was going, and last night we finally got there.
[Read More]Masters of the Air Recap: Bombing at Night
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 10 minutes
| 1933 words
| Janel Helmers
Masters of the Air Part 2 Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Masters of the Air Part 2 Season 1 Episode 2 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The sophomore chapter of Masters of the Air opens in media res: The Bomber Boys are being debriefed — “Interrogation” was the foreboding name for this ritual — after their disastrous first mission, the aborted bombing run over the Nazi submarine pen at Bremen.
[Read More]Maxwell and Ashanti Throw It Back With 2021 Soul Train Awards Medleys
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Maxwell did a little sumthin’ sumthin’ at the 2021 Soul Train Awards, where he performed a medley of hits after being recognized with the Living Legend Award. The neo-soul pioneer took the stage for an extra-suave, 11-minute performance that included “… Til the Cops Come Knockin’,” “Bad Habits,” “Lifetime,” “Sumthin’ Sumthin’ (Mellosmoothe),” new single “Off,” and “Ascension.” Between getting the crowd to stand and sing along during “Sumthin’ Sumthin’,” Maxwell added a line to the song about Soul Train’s 50th anniversary.
[Read More]Megan Thee Stallion Joins the Starz on P-Valley Season 2 As Tina Snow
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
A first look at Tina Snow in P-Valley. Great news for Cara Delevingne and other Megan Thee Stallion fans. It might be the season for hot-girl summer, but Megan Thee Stallion is bringing the ice queen back. The rapper is set to star on season two of Starz’s P-Valley as a character called Tina Snow, which happens to be the name of her icy alter ego and her second EP.
[Read More]Megan Thee Stallion Takes Control of Her News Cycle
Posted on June 12, 2024
| 9 minutes
| 1832 words
| Zora Stowers
Craig Jenkins is a critic who writes about music and television and comedy and video games, and he wishes there were more than 24 hours in a day. Craig Jenkins is a critic who writes about music and television and comedy and video games, and he wishes there were more than 24 hours in a day. Pressure makes diamonds, and Megan Thee Stallion’s mountain range of triumphs and tragedies inspires fans who share aspects of her story — loss of a mother and a grandmother, friendships that devolved into violence and court hearings, denial of due respect in an industry long dominated by men — while sparking the interest of guys who think she lied about being shot in 2020 for clout.
[Read More]Melissa Etheridge Is Working on a Musical Adaptation of Mystic Pizza, As Life Imitates 30 Rock
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Someone call Jenna Maroney! In a rare instance of parody preceding real life, Mystic Pizza is getting turned into a musical, years after 30 Rock invented a musical version of the 1988 movie. Today, producers Lively McCabe Entertainment announced the plans for the adaptation of Mystic Pizza, which was originally written by Amy Holden Jones. Melissa Etheridge, of all people, will be writing the songs, while Gordon Greenberg (Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn) will direct and collaborate on the book with Sas Goldberg (best known as an actress in productions like Significant Other).
[Read More]Memes - Vulture
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Zora Stowers
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Meryl Streep and Don Gummer Announce Their Separation (Six Years Ago)
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Elina Uphoff
Guess who else was less entangled than we thought. Meryl Streep and Don Gummer announced that, surprise, they’ve actually be separated for six years. “While they will always care for each other,” a statement from Streep’s team said, “they have chosen lives apart.” The pair haven’t been seen together since the 2018 Oscars. In fairness to the American public, there has been a lot going on recently, so it makes sense one celebrity couple slipped through the cracks of public observation.
[Read More]Metallica Plays Us Out of the Super Bowl With Enter Sandman
Posted on June 12, 2024
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| Sherie Connelly
Metallica’s menacing “Enter Sandman” has had a life of its own in the sports world, a favorite musical cue everywhere from high-school JV games to Virginia Tech. Fittingly, Stephen Colbert had the whiskey connoisseurs themselves as the musical guests on his post–Super Bowl Late Show, and they pulled out that classic to play out the big game. It had all you could want from Metallica packed into five minutes: James Hetfield’s trademark snarl, a ripping Kirk Hammett solo, and Lars Ulrich struggling to sit still behind the drums, all in front of a wall of speakers bearing designs from past Metallica tours.
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