The Viral Success of the Yodeling Kid Seems Awfully Familiar

In the age of social media, the entertainment industry has been prone to spend money on new and sometimes questionable ideas quicker than a T1 connection would’ve ever dreamed of. (Ava, we’re still waiting on that Rihanna heist movie based on a single meme.) Even by these arguably reckless standards,

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Kathy Griffin’s 10 Favorite Books

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 comedian Kathy Griffin’s list.

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R. Kelly Defends Himself, Says Media Is Destroying His Legacy

R. Kelly has broken his silence. In a statement issued on Friday, the R&B singer says he’s “heartbroken” over allegations that he has sexually abused women, has sex with underage girls, and holds women prisoner in a cult. Following a statement from Time’s Up calling on corporations to cut ties

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The Sexual Tension Between Priyanka Chopra and Sebastian Stan in This Interview Is Almost Unbearable

On Thursday night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, it became clear that Priyanka Chopra’s plus-one to the royal wedding should be — drumroll please — Gossip Girl (and, okay, Avengers) star Sebastian Stan! What started out as your run-of-the-mill late-night appearance quickly turned into a thirst-quenching

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The Most Anticipated Movies at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival

The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival begins early next week, and your faithful Vulture staff will be on the Croisette watching movies, doing interviews, and concocting an elaborate, Parent Trap–like scheme to make Cannes and Netflix fall back in love. (Listen, anything to get the new Alfonso Cuaron

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Vida Is a Fresh, Latinx Take on Gentrification

Scripted TV has tackled the subject of gentrification a lot in the recent past. Search Party, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, She’s Gotta Have It, Girls, the web series The North Pole, BoJack Horseman, The Last O.G., High Maintenance: In ways large and small, all of these shows and others have

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Who Monologued It: Dolores From Westworld or June From The Handmaid’s Tale?

At this particular moment, nothing says prestige television like shows about harsh dystopias with grim lighting, overserious monologues, and rebellions against patriarchal authorities by intense brunettes. I’m talking of course about Westworld — wait, unless I actually mean The Handmaid’s Tale. One is an extended metaphor about the dangers of

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Junot Díaz Accused of Sexual Misconduct and Verbal Abuse

Last month, author Junot Díaz wrote a widely lauded piece for The New Yorker about his experience of having been raped as a child, and how this trauma continued to affect him throughout his adult life. The legacy of this abuse was particularly apparent in his romantic relationships, he wrote, which were characterized by repeated

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