The Real-life Heist Caper Behind American Animals

Near semester’s end in December 2004, four Kentucky college students — and one dropout — staged perhaps the most stunningly inept art heist in the history of art heists. Inspired by a love of heist movies such as Ocean’s 11 and Guy Ritchie’s Snatch, and compelled to action less by

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This Week in Comedy Podcasts: Joe Pera, H. Jon Benjamin, Gillian Jacobs, and More

The comedy-podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our

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Shia LaBeouf and His Comb-over Are Unrecognizable in This New Biopic

Shia LaBeouf is starring in Honey Boy, his upcoming biopic but not as himself: LaBeouf is playing his father, Jeffrey Craig LaBeouf. In photos snapped from the Honey Boy set, Shia can be seen in costume as Jeffrey, a former radio clown, with receding hairline, thinning locks, and all. Lucas

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Rachel Van Nes on Writers’ Brains and Low-Stakes Social Rejection

Rachel Van Nes is a Los Angeles–based improviser, writer, and almond farmer’s daughter. She currently performs on the UCB Mess Hall team Powerline, indie teams Dock Ellis and Gossamer, and her sketch team New Hotdog. You can read her comedy writing on the Belladonna website and find an example of

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Lindsay Lohan Says Alleged Sex List Was Part of Her AA Recovery

Back in 2014, In Touch got its hands on what it claimed was Lindsay Lohan’s list of men she’d had sex with, and investigative journalist Andy Cohen is trying to get to the bottom of the story.* On Watch What Happens Live, he brought up the list to Lohan during

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Roseanne Claims She ‘Begged’ ABC to Keep Her Show on Air

Roseanne Barr took to Twitter on Thursday evening to announce that she “begged” ABC execs to keep her show on the air after the network canceled it — which was, clearly, not enough.On May 29, ABC president Channing Dungey announced that the network was taking Roseanne off the air, following the sitcom star’s decision

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How Broadway’s Tiny Musical Made Its Big Song

The Band’s Visit runs 90 minutes. It doesn’t have an intermission. It doesn’t have an 11 o’clock number, partly because it doesn’t have a second act. The Broadway musical adapted from the 2007 Israeli indie film eschews flash and theatrics in favor of subtlety and silence. What it does have

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The Blistering Vulnerability of The Americans Finale’s Best Scene

The heart of The Americans series finale, which aired Wednesday night, is a single, stripped-down scene in a dank parking garage. Here, the lies that festered between two friends — the conflicted Russian spy Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) and the obsessively focused FBI agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) — erupt

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