Nearly a week after ABC canceled Roseanne following the star’s racist tweet, co-star Sara Gilbert spoke on her other show, The Talk, about the sitcom’s end. Gilbert was an executive producer on the revival and one of the driving forces to get it to happen. She was one of the
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It’s a deserved if perhaps loathsome burden for James Wood the novelist to be judged in the light of James Wood the critic. Wood’s new novel Upstate, his second, arrives 15 years after his first, The Book Against God, a debut that enjoyed extra scrutiny because of its author’s status
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Dietland is an off-kilter drama about society’s tendency to limit women, and a show that itself defies categorization.If you’ve read Sarai Walker’s novel of the same name, then you’ll have some sense of the tonal shifts in this AMC series, adapted by Marti Noxon of UnREAL and Girlfriends’ Guide to
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Nothing is ever as it seems when it comes to James Franco. The man makes a lot of baffling “artistic” choices, any of which could conceivably be explained away as one of the performance-art pranks he so enjoys pulling on the public, and in a greater sense, on himself. Is
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Since Trump starting running for office, and especially since he was elected, there has been an ongoing conversation about the nature of comedy in these times: what comedians discuss, and how they discuss it. The debate got me thinking about comedy during the last Republican presidency, under George W. Bush.
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It may have been Descartes who first asked how we can trust that the world actually exists and that we’re not just being deceived by some evil genius. But it was writer Andrew Niccol who answered that question, in 1998’s The Truman Show: We don’t. And worse yet, that evil
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You’re not supposed to like the wealthy, entitled, scheming assholes in HBO’s Succession. It’s a testament to series creator Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show, The Thick of It), the other writers and directors, and the droll family drama’s excellent ensemble cast that you do like them.Well, maybe “like” is not the
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It’s shaping up to be a summer of teases from 24-year-old pop star Ariana Grande. Last week, she previewed a new track, “The Light Is Coming,” from her forthcoming album, Sweetener, on her social-media accounts. On Saturday night, ahead of her performance at 102.7 iHeartRadio’s KIIS-FM Wango Tango in Los
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