Earlier this month, Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham ahead of their world tour, with rumors swirling that it was the result of a “disagreement.” But if the band is to be believed, it wasn’t the big blowout you were hoping for, and just the old scheduling conflict that did it.
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In the parking lot of the Sportsmen’s Lodge, an unpretentious Studio City haunt once favored by Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, and John Wayne, J. Cole sits behind the wheel of a rented Bentley Bentayga. The Bentley costs $700 a day, and Cole’s in Los Angeles for eight weeks. He’s been
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In 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld published her first novel, Prep, a snarky Midwesterner’s foray into boarding school, a world quite apart from her own. The book was praised for its incisiveness; its protagonist, Lee Fiora, is something of a modern-day Lizzy Bennett, riffing on rituals that her peers never bothered to
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After the filmmakers exercised a buy-back clause to pull the movie from Lionsgate last fall, the Gotti movie has found another backer. MoviePass Ventures, MoviePass’s film finance end, is taking an equity stake in Gotti, directed by actor-director–Pussy Posse member Kevin Connolly. The movie will keep its summer release date,
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Everyone at Spring Studios in downtown Manhattan last night had been braced for controversy. The Tribeca Film Festival scheduled a back-and-forth between Alec Baldwin and Spike Lee, two consummate New Yorkers well known for their outspoken opinions on politics and America, practically ensuring a did-he-really-say-that soundbite or two. But both
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Get a bunch of acclaimed writers in a room together and delightful things will happen. That was the premise — and outcome — of the PEN America Festival’s recent “One Book, One New York: Authors in Conversation” panel, featuring writers Hari Kunzru (White Tears), Jennifer Egan (Manhattan Beach), Esmeralda Santiago
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High-pitched screaming for everyone! Keep it going! Shriek some more! Because Aidy Bryant, who’s been a cast member on SNL since 2012, is expanding her television horizons over at Hulu. Per THR, Bryant and SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels are adapting Lindy West’s popular memoir, Shrill: Notes From a Loud
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What are friends for if not to remind you of your absolute worst flaws and broadcast them for all the world to see? Kevin Hart stars in the new video for J. Cole’s “Kevin’s Heart,” which gets its name from the comedian and is inspired by Hart’s infamous cheating scandal
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