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Lovecraft Country Recap: Love, Lore, Film, and War Lovecraft Country Recap: Love, Lore, Film, and WarStephen Rea on The Crying Games Surprise Penis
Welcome to Sexpositions, a weeklong Vulture celebration of sex scenes in movies and on TV.
Is there a more purely surprising cinematic sex scene than the one between Stephen Rea and Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game? Not these days, anyway, when a movie’s secret is often spilled long before its release date. In 1992, though, when writer-director Neil Jordan’s psychological thriller hit theaters, few audience members fully grokked that Rea’s character, Fergus, would be in for a gender-bending twist via his lover, Dil, played by Jaye Davidson.
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Steve Barnes of Cellino & Barnes Reportedly Dies in Small Plane Crash
Partners in law Ross Cellino (L) and Steve Barnes. Steve Barnes, one half of the Buffalo-based law firm Cellino & Barnes and best known for his ubiquitous commercials with partner Ross Cellino, featuringtheir signature jingle, has reportedly died in a single-engine plane crash in New York’s Genesee County. According to the Buffalo News, a female relative also died in the crash, which had no survivors.
The attorneys, who have worked together since the mid ‘90s, expanded their personal injury legal services nationwide over the next two decades.
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Stevie Nicks Memorializes Christine McVie, Her Best Friend in the Whole World
Christine McVie, the prolific soul of Fleetwood Mac, died November 30 at the age of 79 following a short illness. Stevie Nicks, her songbird in music and life for nearly five decades, released a statement to honor their relationship, which began when Nicks joined the band for their Fleetwood Mac album. “A few hours ago I was told that my best friend in the whole world since the first day of 1975 had passed away.
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Stevie Nicks on In Your Dreams and the Duet That Brought Her Back to 1973 With Lindsey Buckingham
Stevie Nicks says writing and recording her seventh studio album, In Your Dreams, was probably the most fun she’s had making music since Fleetwood Mac put out its self-titled album in 1975. The thirteen tracks came together at Nicks’s Pacific Palisades home in early 2010, with producer-songwriter-guitarist Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), hit-maker Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith), and Fleetwood Mac alums Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. Vulture spoke with Nicks about her “magical” communal writing process and how it compared to her contentious collaborations with Buckingham.
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Stop Calling the Interstellar Trailer a Trailer, Because It Isnt
Interstellar is quite possibly the most highly anticipated movie out there. Not only is it the first movie that Christopher Nolan has directed in two years, but it’s a Christopher Nolan movie about space and time travel that stars the freshly renaissanced Matthew McConaughey. Come on — get in our belly, that movie. So, unsurprisingly, the release of the first full Interstellar trailer today, five months after a frustratingly vague teaser, has been received with the right amount of frenzy.
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Stress Positions: Laurie Metcalf Tenses Up Onstage in Domesticated and on HBOs Getting On
Illustration by André Carrilho In 1984, Laurie Metcalf made her New York stage debut with a twenty-minute monologue that still haunts Will Scheffer. The actress, one of the founding members of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, was playing Darlene in a storied production of Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead, directed by John Malkovich and starring, among others, Gary Sinise and Glenne Headly. “I’m sorry to overhype it,” says Scheffer, co-creator of HBO’s new comedy Getting On (premiering November 24), which stars Metcalf, “but you knew you were in the presence of some sort of genius.
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Succession Recap: Jury of Pierce
Succession Tern Haven Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Succession Tern Haven Season 2 Episode 5 Editor’s Rating 5 stars ***** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » There’s so much going on in “Tern Haven,” the fifth and best episode of the second season so far, that it’s hard to know where to begin.
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Sugar Recap: Sea Lions and Patti Smith
Sugar Starry Eyed Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Sugar Starry Eyed Season 1 Episode 4 Editor’s Rating 2 stars ** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » “John, we need to know: You okay?”
Sugar has finally paid Dr. Vickers a visit for that checkup Ruby ordered.
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Super Pumped: The Battle for UberRecap: Reaping and Sowing
Super Pumped Delete Uber Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » Super Pumped Delete Uber Season 1 Episode 6 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** «Previous Next» « PreviousEpisode NextEpisode » The arc of Super Pumped and Travis Kalanick’s run as CEO of Uber is basically the reaping/sowing meme from Twitter. Travis spends the early episodes doing all kinds of sowing (“Haha fuck yeah!
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