2001: A Space Odyssey. Stalker. The Man Who Fell to Earth. Under the Skin. All of the best sci-fi movies have excelled by shrouding the familiar elements of a genre — space travel, alien visitors, alternate dimensions — in ambiguity that challenges the audience’s understanding of these concepts. Add to
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As part of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary cover project, contemporary artist Richard Phillips decided to recreate our 1982 “New Queen of the Art Scene” cover with prolific dealer and gallerist Mary Boone — who, in stunning art-world news, recently pled guilty to tax fraud. Here, Phillips reminisces about the
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Judges, outside of recent current events, are rarely the heroes of our stories. They more often act as the literal or figurative hands of fate, something for louder and far more cinematic lawyers to rail at or against. But there’s plenty of moral agony to be tapped from the plight
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Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph are doing the strangest thing they’ve done thus far in their careers: play normals together. In the limited Amazon series Forever, Rudolph and Armisen portray a longtime married couple who reconsider the value of matrimony in the face of a sudden change in lifestyle. (We’d
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In A Simple Favor, Blake Lively wears bespoke suits and seems to appear and disappear as soon as she clinks her martini glass?. As Emily Nelson, Lively is a scheming, self-destructive blonde … not unlike the character that made her famous on Gossip Girl! (Upper East Side socialite-student Serena van
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This week, we observe the 17th anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11, as well as the beginning of a new fall TV season. As unconnected as those are for most Americans, they are totally intertwined for me, and many other MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) actors. I moved to
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Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is Enough Said and The Land of Steady Habits director Nicole Holofcener’s list.
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As Bill Cosby awaits sentencing on his conviction of three counts of felony sexual assault in suburban Philadelphia this month, the comedian’s wife issued a statement asking that the case be thrown out, and at the very least that the judge step down.According to Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s longtime publicist, Mrs.
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