Fresh off a Best Original Song Academy Award nomination, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper performed their A Star Is Born hit “Shallow” live together for the first time Saturday at the singer’s latest Enigma concert in Las Vegas. Cooper, who co-starred in and directed the Best Picture-nominated film, was in …
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Recently, Josh Malerman was able to splurge in a way many indie rockers can’t. At a book store in East Lansing, Michigan, he stumbled upon a copy of Stephen King’s 1977 novel Rage, a school-shooting tale written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym that’s been out of print for years. Despite …
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A decade ago, Conan O’Brien’s future was uncertain. He’d lost the Tonight Show to its former host Jay Leno in an embarrassing coup, and announced he was moving his late-night show to TBS. Now, O’Brien is doing fine. His new podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, is currently the Number …
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Mike Patton was an unexpected choice to deliver the National Anthem prior to Saturday’s NFL playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. However, the Faith No More singer ultimately pulled out of the high-profile performance hours before kickoff. “Sorry, football folks, I woke up feeling horrible,” …
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As Tom Sawyer learned when the people of St. Petersburg, Missouri gathered to erroneously mourn him, Huck Finn and Joe Harper, funerals are wasted on the dead. Better to say all those nice things to the ones you love while they’re still around to hear them. Last spring, Brooklyn Nine-Nine …
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When Low Cut Connie frontman Adam Weiner was invited to meet his hero Bruce Springsteen backstage at the singer’s Broadway show, he was practically in shock. “I grew up in New Jersey in the Eighties, so you do the math,” says Weiner. Turns out Springsteen is a fan of the …
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So what’s shakin’ on the old tube this month, you ask? NBC re-introduces a cult sitcom yanked back from the brink of cancellation; Showtime’s got a snazzy period piece set in the coke-fueled world of high finance; Comedy Central pulls back the curtain on a new project from a pair …
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It’s been a pretty big week on the Cher front. Not only did she receive the Kennedy Center Honors alongside Philip Glass, Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter and the creators of Hamilton, but her Broadway musical The Cher Show opened on Monday night. The show received fairly mixed reviews, but most …
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