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Is There Any Way for the Roseanne Spinoff to Succeed?

Let’s imagine a world where ABC’s Roseanne spinoff The Conners is not an eleventh-hour financial decision by ABC to salvage a catastrophe and plug a giant hole in their fall schedule. Let’s imagine a situation where The Conners is a passion project, a just-so-strange-it-might-work idea for a sitcom that speaks … More » Source: Ent […]

Roger Rabbit Changed the Way Hollywood Animates

When Who Framed Roger Rabbit hit theaters in June of 1988, there was no telling exactly what impact it would have on pop culture. But now, 30 years later, the three key animation techniques animator Richard Williams and his team implemented are still being used to create the CGI characters … More » Source: Ent […]

The Late-Night Generation Gap

Digital video has changed late night from the libido-crushing activity of old married folks to a viral video factory for attention-span-deprived youths. Many of the guests on the shiny floor shows this week — Cher, Sir Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg — appealed to the former demo, while the things they … More » Source: Ent […]

The 38 Best Queer YA Novels

While queer-lit history stretches back to the days of Sappho mooning over girls, queer YA is significantly younger. It was less than 50 years ago that the first queer YA novel was published: I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip, by John Donovan. This tragi-queer novel set the … More » Source: Ent […]