Director and producer Glenn Weiss has walked across Emmy Awards stage 11 times in his career. But number 12 will undoubtedly be the most memorable. After winningOutstanding Directing for a Variety Special for the Oscars, Weiss turned his own acceptance speech into a marriage proposal. “You wonder why I don’t …
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A review of tonight’s The Deuce coming up just as soon as you hear the one about the blind guy at the seder… “They just decided they want to make porn flicks. Like they sat down with their guidance counselors and made a plan.” -Lori This week’s episode, “There’s An …
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Bradley Cooper recently said he would have taken a different approach to adapting A Star Is Born, his new film with Lady Gaga, had he known in advance about the recently resurfaced sexual harassment claims against one-time producer Jon Peters. “If I had known all those things, I would have …
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Half a century ago, when Jimi Hendrix began work on what would become his the final album to come out in his lifetime, Electric Ladyland, he was finding inspiration everywhere. “Jimi was very much in the realm of experimentation,” says one of the album’s recording engineers, Eddie Kramer. Kramer is …
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There’s a new trend in rap: An embattled artist releases an album, faces considerable scorn and decides to host their own interview or radio show to explain away the controversy. It’s supposed to be eye-opening and candid, but usually comes off as simple PR maneuvering. Earlier this year, Kanye West …
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Stephen Colbert addressed the resignation of Leslie Moonves, who abruptly resigned from his position as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS on Sunday. “It’s never a good sign when you’re the subject of a Ronan Farrow double dip,” Colbert quipped during his monologue on Monday’s The Late Show …
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The recording session that yielded Bauhaus‘ goth classic “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” will be reissued in November to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s formation. The Bela Session, due out November 23rd digitally and on vinyl, boasts five tracks from the January 26th, 1979 recording session – which took place …
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Cardi B had an altercation with Nicki Minaj‘s security detail while trying to confront the Queen rapper Friday night at a New York Fashion Week gala. After Cardi B was escorted out of the Harper’s Bazaar event, the rapper was photographed with a large bruise over her left eye, no …
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Here’s a fun idea for a record: Take a veteran singer who also happens to be a lovable goofball with a dirty streak and leave him alone in a room with modern technology. That’s the concept behind Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune, the new album from Swamp Dogg, real name Jerry …
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It may no longer be front-page news, but the Trump administration is still locking kids in cages. Nearly 500 of them, according to court papers filed late last week. Twenty-two are younger than five years old. The deadline to return these children to their families passed more than a month …
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