Bernie Sanders is recovering well from a procedure to place stents in a blocked artery, according to a statement put out by the candidate’s wife, Jane Sanders, on Thursday. “Bernie is up and about,” Jane Sanders reported, adding that the 78-year-old Bernie has been “cracking jokes with the nurses and …
Read More »Stephen King, Ewan McGregor Talk Danny's Trauma in New 'Doctor Sleep' Interview
Stephen King discussed the impetus behind his 2013’s novel, Doctor Sleep, the sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining, which has been adapted into a film of the same name that opens on November 8th. Director Mike Flanagan and Ewan McGregor joined King for a behind-the-scenes interview for Entertainment Weekly. …
Read More »Watch Sammy Hagar and the Circle's New 'Space Between' Short Film
Sammy Hagar & the Circle have released their new short film, Space Between. The nearly 37-minute movie serves as a companion piece to the supergroup’s album of the same name, which was released in May. The visual centers on a character named John, whose life traverses the album’s themes of …
Read More »'The Deuce' Recap: Just When I Thought I Was Out
A review of this week’s The Deuce, “They Can Never Go Home,” coming up just as soon as I charge you one wig for half of my pie… The title phrase of “They Can Never Go Home” comes up quickly, a warning Mike gives to Reg as they and Vince …
Read More »Future 25: Brooke Michael Kain, Chief Digital Officer at AEG Presents
Brooke Michael Kain spends a lot of time thinking about what annoys people in crowds the most. What do they find frustrating? Ineffective? Ridiculous? She then preaches the same question over and over to her team: How can we take these things away? “Did you stand in line for a …
Read More »'SNL': See All-Star Democratic Town Hall Sketch With Larry David, Maya Rudolph
As a follow-up to Saturday Night Live‘s cold open featuring Trump anxiously making calls about his impeachment, an all-star cast portrayed the wide field of Democrats to discuss the Ukraine scandal. The sketch featured host Woody Harrelson as Joe Biden, Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris, Larry David once again taking …
Read More »The Replacements' 'Don't Tell a Soul' Gets the Second Life It Deserves With a New Box Set, 'Dead Man's Pop'
At first glance, a deluxe, four-disc reissue of the second-worst Replacements album might seem like kind of an odd idea — albeit a uniquely Replacements-y one, utterly in keeping with the Minneapolis punk-rock icons’ gift for subverting even the simplest music-industry rituals to the point of needless self-sabotage. Maligned at …
Read More »The First Time: Kal Penn
Kal Penn has been kicking around in Hollywood for a long time — since many years before the 2004 movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle made him famous. As his new NBC sitcom Sunnyside, which he co-created and stars in, makes its debut (September 26th at 9:30 p.m.), …
Read More »Kanye West Delays New Album 'Jesus Is King'
UPDATE (9/27): Kim Kardashian announced on Friday night that Kanye West’s new album will arrive on Sunday following a NYC listening party. “Just a few final tweaks to the mixes,” the rapper’s wife wrote on Instagram. ** Less than a month ago, Kim Kardashian announced, via Twitter, the impending release …
Read More »Impeaching Donald Trump: Why Ukraine Delivers Where Russiagate Failed
The floodgates are open. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced “an official impeachment inquiry,” including an investigation of demands President Trump reportedly made of Ukraine to hamper a 2020 political rival — Joe Biden — while simultaneously holding up hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the Eastern …
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