Last week’s book news cycle had a clear winner: Nico Walker’s Cherry. Within a few days of the book’s release, pieces ran in the Washington Post, Esquire, NPR, Mother Jones, AV Club, Entertainment Weekly; the New York Times books beat reporter Alexandra Alter wrote a profile. A New Yorker feature
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In Netflix’s upcoming docuseries Dancing Queen, Alyssa Edwards, Rupaul’s Drag Race star and stage name of choreographer Justin Johnson, returns to teach the next generation at Johnson’s Beyond Belief Dancing Company in Mesquite, Texas. Based on the trailer, Dancing Queen seems like an extremely good combination of Drag Race and
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“We don’t have any other footage!”“There has to be SOMETHING ELSE we can air! Did you look through all the back-up cameras?”“All they caught were crabs crawling around the hot tub! What are we gonna do? This is bad. This is really bad.”“No, no, we can make this worse. What
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We’ve been celebrating Blake Rosier’s pranks for some time, and yet, I didn’t think I’d be covering another.These days “Gotcha!” videos are seen as old hat, reminiscent of the kind of hacky, broad, or even homophobic and sexist fare that helped YouTube rise to prominence among the masses. They’re least-common-denominator
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The Tribeca TV Festival returns for its second year next month, offering an array of season premieres, celebrity sit-downs, and Meryl Streep from September 20 to 23. Included in this year’s offerings is the first episode of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown’s 12th and final season. The only episode completed prior
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Actress Emma Loman has filed a lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, alleging he raped her at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, The Guardian reports.In a lawsuit filed on Monday in Los Angeles, the German actress states that she first met Weinstein at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 —
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Mira Sorvino has responded to reporting from the New York Times that Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento is alleged to have sexually assaulted a minor. “I have been heartsick over the recent allegations against Asia Argento. Time will clarify things and perhaps she will be exonerated, but if true, there
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Despite being a 1970s period piece, Mindhunter feels eminently of the present moment. We’re living in the midst of a true-crime renaissance, and the David Fincher–helmed Netflix series stands out not only as a (heavily fictionalized) example of the genre, but as a critique of it. As FBI agents Holden
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