At first, Pen15 plays like a sketch comedy idea ill-advisedly stretched out to sitcom length. Co-created (along with Sam Zvibleman) by stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle — you might vaguely recognize them from… that thing, or… that other thing — the new Hulu comedy features the31-year-old actresses playing themselves …
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Music videos rarely make sense. A great song can transport the listener into a new world, but it’s generally enough for a music video to simply say: “Your world sucks. Here is one that a label paid a lot of money for, with a generous helping of special effects from …
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After five decades of life on tour buses and Motherships, George Clinton is ready to retire from the road. The U.S. dates of his long goodbye, which he’s dubbed the One Nation Under a Groove Tour, will kick off this spring and run through August. “It’s coming right on time,” …
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“If you look at the first five years of CBGBs and Cuba, there might be an analogy to be drawn,” Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tells Rolling Stone. “Both were very isolated. One of the strong points of the CBGB scene and the New York rock scene was that it was …
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Cardi B confirmed in a new interview that she declined to perform at the Super Bowl LIII halftime show due to her support of Colin Kaepernick. Speaking to the Associated Press two days before Super Sunday, the rapper admitted she had “mixed feelings” about turning down the NFL’s invitation but …
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Big Mouth previews a surreal Valentine’s Day for the show’s permanently aroused tweens in a trailer announcing the “My Furry Valentine” special, which hits Netflix on February 8th. The wacky clip includes make-out sessions, romantic meals, dance sequences, Coach Steve showing off his “girlfriend Reese’s Wertherspoons” (a hodgepodge of candy …
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Before he learned to tell stories of his own, Jordan Peele was a scared little kid, cringing from monsters in closets and other products of an imagination that would one day reshape Hollywood. As theUs and Get Out director explains in our new cover story, a key moment in his …
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“When I met Jessi, I was pretty well at my lowest point. I weighed 138 pounds and I was bent on self-destruction. Wallerin’ in self-pity was the biggest part of it, stayin’ depressed all the time and stoned. Jess was the best thing that ever happened to me.” That’s Waylon …
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UPDATE: Dr. Luke‘s lawyers said of Lady Gaga‘s unsealed deposition in a statement, “Being passionate about a topic that concerns us all is admirable. However, Lady Gaga has no knowledge of what happened on the night at issue because she was not there. The actual evidence shows, among other things:Kesha …
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“The universe is trying to fuck with me, and I refuse to engage,” announces Nadia, played by Natasha Lyonne, early in Netflix’s new comedy Russian Doll. Co-created by Lyonne (along with Amy Poehler and Sleeping With Other People director Leslye Headland), the series centers on Nadia, a video game designer …
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