Autumn — especially the autumn of a bizarre midterm-election year — is the season of fierce competition in publishing. Some books only want enough fans to be prize-winners, or cult favorites, or genre best sellers. But some want to command readers’ most precious commodity: well, money, to be sure, but
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The thing to keep in mind about the version of Aaron Sorkin that created and ran the two-season ABC dramedy Sports Night, which premiered 20 years ago this week, is this: He was not yet a name. A respected playwright, sure; an accomplished screenwriter, definitely. But he was still relatively
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Michael Moore is in two modes tonight. In this particular moment, he’s on CNN jousting with Chris Cuomo, who’s tanned and ready with opinions and pointed fingers. It’s Tuesday night and they’re discussing the just-breaking news that Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh
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Catherine Keener must have an attraction to odd universes. In Being John Malkovich, she worked on the mysterious 7 1/2 floor. In Where the Wild Things Are, she was the mother of a boy who escapes to a magical land with Maurice Sendak-ian monsters. In last year’s Get Out, she
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg is reading me some numbers. As the seasons of BoJack Horseman progressed, he had his team create some quantitative data to look at the show’s hiring practices for voice actors: over five seasons, 35 percent of the people cast have been nonwhite actors. Not bad, he explains, but
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It may be PSL season, but the flat white is all year round, baby. Over the last three weeks, Eminem, G-Eazy, and Machine Gun Kelly have been beefing. Not all with each other, but all at the same time, making for a whole tangled web of confusion. Who’s mad at
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You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. Your host: Jordan Peele. CBS announced Thursday that Peele will host and narrate CBS All Access’s “modern reimagining” of The Twilight Zone. Peele will also executive-produce, and his company Monkeypaw Productions will produce. “Rod
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Daredevil is returning to Netflix for season three, and it looks like he’s lost his flashy suit — at least for now. We don’t get much information from this new teaser, but Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) is taking this whole crime-fighting dog-and-pony show back to the basics. He’s bleeding pretty
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