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 musician Liz Phair’s list.
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Is there a less intimidating name for a supervillain than The Shape? Since 1978 that term has struck fear into the hearts of horror fans and babysitters alike, but just as an abstract concept, calling someone The Shape is only slightly more bone-rattling then calling them The Blanket. And therein
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As the third Hollywood remake of a film from 1937, A Star Is Born strives for a kind of timelessness. Outside a pushy fan demanding a selfie, and one brief mention of YouTube, there’s not much in the movie’s version of the music industry that feels like it could have
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Lenny Letter, the website and newsletter created by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, will be shutting down on Friday, Digiday reports. The publication’s contributors were reportedly told last week.Started in 2015 by the Girls co-creators, Lenny Letter first launched as a weekly email newsletter with advice, essays and product recommendations for millennial women, before expanding to
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There’s an incident from early on in Elton John’s career that reminds us how peculiar it has been. The year was 1970. John’s first album, Empty Sky, had been released in the U.K. but had gone nowhere. His label, supportive of him in fits and starts, eventually laid out for
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Decades since she last appeared on Broadway, the renowned actress, writer, and director Elaine May has returned. This fall, at the John Golden Theatre (where she opened An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May in 1960), May is starring in Kenneth Lonergan’s autobiographical play The Waverly Gallery. In it,
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The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week
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This review was originally published during the Sundance Film Festival.We’ve waited a long time for the major Carey Mulligan screen performance that had to be coming, and here it is, at last, in Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.Mulligan plays Jeanette
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