Last week, radio host Charlamagne Tha God and Kanye West were meant to have a live interview for a TimesTalk on mental illness. That interview, however, was abruptly canceled just two days prior with Charlamagne saying it was his decision to scrap the interview because “to have that conversation with
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Writer-director hyphenates are ubiquitous in comedy today, but it was virtually unheard of during the studio film era until a popular playwright named Preston Sturges convinced Paramount to let him direct. One of the first to hold both roles in talking pictures, Sturges actually began his career on Broadway before
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After Liam Neeson said a horse from a previous movie remembered him on the set of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Russell Crowe confirmed that the same thing happened to him. A horse from Gladiator, Crowe said on Twitter, recognized him on the set of Robin Hood. When Crowe walked
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What comes to mind when you think of indie in 2008? The year was, on its surface, a watershed moment that sat squarely in the middle of the loosely defined genre’s three-year evolution in the late 2000s — a transitional phase in which “indie” as a term mutated from a
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Uh-oh. It’s that time of year when white people “debate” whether or not blackface Halloween costumes are racist or at all acceptable. In today’s edition, Megyn Kelly is wondering aloud, “But, what is racist?” about a white person darkening their skin and dressing up as a black person on a
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I have always loved witches. Whether it’s the fiercely determined detective Rowan Black from Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott’s comic Black Magick, the gloriously evil Michelle Pfeiffer in Stardust, or the teenage hellions of The Craft, witches at their best are a potent excavation of female power, matrilineal progression, and
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It seems like nearly everyone from Lady Bird is in Boston filming Little Women right now — or maybe it just feels that way to us laypeople who were cruelly uninvited to join. How does Lucas Hedges feel about Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, and Timothée Chalamet reuniting without him? “I’m
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In a some very British news, Emerald Fennell — a name, not an ingredient in a GBBO recipe — will play the young Camilla Shand (later, Parker Bowles) in the upcoming third season of The Crown. TVLine reports that Fennell, known for her work on Call the Midwife, will enter
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