Midnights Moonlit Lessons

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2822 words  |  Janel Helmers

Taylor Swift’s tenth album reveals a simpler fantasy: the desire to be truly free. 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. Photo: Taylor Swift 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. [Read More]

Miller Lyte Mcconaughey - Vulture

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  31 words  |  Janel Helmers

the early-evening news May 27, 2008

Oprah Now 7 Percent Less OmnipotentPlus: Rooster McConaughey finally gets his own reality show, and Quentin Tarantino announces plans to make the fastest movie ever.

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Miniature Golf Infractions, by John Carroll & Nick Klinger

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  625 words  |  Janel Helmers

Dear Trevor, I am writing today to file a petition regarding our miniature golf match last Saturday. Since this is a formal complaint, I’ll be sending a carbon copy to Marty, the clerk at the Pro Shop & Sno Cone Stand who checked us in before our game. At the end of our match play, you signed a scorecard of 49 strokes, which handily beat my score of 62. But I contend that you committed several infractions that typically incur additional strokes which you did not assign yourself. [Read More]

Missy Elliott Will Be the First Woman in Hip-Hop Inducted to the Songwriter Hall of Fame

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  185 words  |  Sherie Connelly

Missy Elliott. The Songwriters Hall of Fame announced its 2019 inductees today: Dallas Austin, Missy Elliott, Tom T. Hall, John Prine, Jack Tempchin and Yusuf (Cat Stevens). Missy Elliott will be the first woman in hip-hop inducted into the Hall, and only the second rapper after Jay Z. Elliott is being inducted not only for her own songs, but songs she wrote for other artists like Aaliyah (“One in a Million”), Ciara (“1 2 Step”) and Mya (“My Love Is Like Whoa”). [Read More]

More Movies Should Show Teen Acne

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1039 words  |  Janel Helmers

Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade. I have rules about Glossier, the millennial-pink beauty brand beloved by Instagram: I duck into its showroom after work (and sometimes on my way into the office, shhh…) and head straight for the glass checkout table. I come here for one thing and one thing only: their eyebrow gel Boy Brow, in the brown shade, and literally not one more thing. I divert my eyes from the wall-sized photos advertising their Perfecting Skin Tint (a foundation sheer enough to seem like an ever-so-slightly tinted moisturizer) or their Stretch Concealer (concealer with the same lack of coverage and basically the same consistency). [Read More]

Movie Review: Jack and Jill Is a Disgrace

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  364 words  |  Elina Uphoff

The new Adam Sandler picture Jack and Jill is just the sort of asinine comedy that the movie star played by Adam Sandler disparaged in Judd Apatow’s serious cancer movie Funny People. I don’t think all Sandler’s comedies warrant shame, but this one is a disgrace. The joke is having Sandler play both a producer of commercials and his twin sister, but Sandler is not only the ugliest transvestite ever to appear on-camera (I’m counting Divine), he’s the least committed. [Read More]

Mr. Schue in Neverland: Matthew Morrison on the End of Glee and Going Back to Broadway

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1315 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Matthew Morrison stars as playwright J.M. Barrie in Broadway’s Finding Neverland. It’s late afternoon, halfway through a 12-hour-long rehearsal day for Finding Neverland, the musical version of the 2004 Johnny Depp movie about the playwright J.M. Barrie — creator, 111 years ago, of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, which made his career and also inspired the 1953 Disney animated movie, the 1960 stage-to-screen version starring Mary Martin, the peanut-butter brand, the bus company, the solidly mediocre NBC live event starring Allison Williams last year, and Michael Jackson’s ranch (not to mention the so-called syndrome, which describes commitment-phobic arrested development). [Read More]

MTVs Downtown Is a Hyperspecific Time Capsule

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1532 words  |  Sherie Connelly

I found Downtown — an animated, cinéma-vérité-style series about New York in 1999 that aired on MTV — when I chanced upon a Spotify playlist of hazy, hypnotic, electronic sounds. Massive Attack, DJ Shadow, FKA Twigs. The cover image was of long-limbed kids in big pants/tiny shirts hanging on a couch on the street, the colors all olive and purple, and a sign behind them for the Gowanus Canal. The playlist caption was “this is my favorite show … if u know u know. [Read More]

Myhala Herrold Knows Shes Good

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2881 words  |  Elina Uphoff

The Industry star is just as ambitious as her junior-banker character. The big difference? “I don’t act crazy.” Photo: Ashley Peña. Top by Salvatore Ferragamo; Ear cuff and bracelets by Jennifer Fisher; Ring and earrings by Prounis. Right before Industry’s first season started taping in Wales, Myha’la Herrold, who plays Harper Stern, the show’s chaotic center, was invited to Lena Dunham’s cottage in the Welsh countryside. Dunham was directing the first episode of the HBO financial drama, and she wanted to get to know the cast. [Read More]

Nashvilles Sam Palladio on the Music, Avoiding TMZ, and Gunnar and Scarlett

 Posted on June 12, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1094 words  |  Elina Uphoff

Sam Palladio. He plays the all-American singer-songwriter Gunnar on Nashville, but did you know that Sam Palladio is actually British? And Clare Bowen, who plays his love interest Scarlett, is actually Australian. (Trivia!) The two didn’t meet — let alone harmonize together — until their first day of shooting. And yet, of all the will-they-or-won’t-they pairings on Nashville, Gunnar and Scarlett are the easiest to root for. (Scarlett: Please get over Avery. [Read More]