The sixth episode of Homecoming, which reveals the Geist company as a household behemoth on par with Johnson & Johnson, recalls one of my favorite Onion stories: Corporate Philanthropy-Misanthropy Ratio Holding Steady. The “ratio” here for national corporations is 1:770, determined by a Department of Commerce report stating that “for
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Even Crazy Ex-Girlfriend diehards could be forgiven for forgetting that Rebecca has a 13-year-old half-brother named Tucker. He’s only been mentioned a couple of times on the show: in the pilot, when Naomi recalls Rebecca going off on her stepmom at his seventh birthday party, and again in the season-two
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While 2018 could have closed out as just the year BET canceled Robin Thede’s late-night show, now it’s the year she created an autobiographical sitcom for ABC. Not too shabby. According to Deadline, the former host of The Rundown With Robin Thede is currently developing the comedy series, which she
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Rachel Pegram (@rachelpegram) is a comedian, writer, actor, singer, and general dumb/cool bitch from around the block (kind of like Jenny). Rachel lives in Brooklyn and hopes to someday find a nice rent-stabilized one-bedroom to settle down in somewhere in Fort Greene.This week, Pegram talked with me about crying at
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One of the chief pleasures of the Homecoming podcast is its sound design. Without images to supplement the story or a narrator to set the scene, the creators had to think about specific sounds that might bring the world of the show to life. Yet the sound work is minimal:
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Shut Up and Dribble is a three-part Showtime documentary about the modern history of political activism in basketball. It is also a big ol’ middle finger to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who uttered the words that give this mini-series its name.The trio of hour-long episodes — executive produced by
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Les Moonves was forced out at CBS following allegations of sexual misconduct and assault, but right now he’s insisting that he’s not coming back to TV because he’s “retired.” TMZ ambushed Moonves and his wife Julie Chen, as they are wont to do, and asked Moonves if he has any
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With the first exultant chords of the notoriously troubled Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody and the first sight of the snake-hipped Rami Malek sashaying onto the stage of a roaring Wembley Stadium, it’s clear that this movie itself will have to be very bad to lose us entirely — and
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