Thirteen months after the George Clooney-directed adaptation of Catch-22 was first announced, Hulu has shared the first trailer for the six-part limited series based on Joseph Heller’s satirical World War II novel. The minute-long teaser was released as part of Hulu’s Television Critics Association presentation. Hulu said of the series …
Read More »The Anger Inside Gary Clark Jr.
It’s already past midnight, but Gary Clark Jr. wants to keep going. The guitarist is standing in the center of a darkened room at Arlyn Studios, an unmarked building hidden behind a housing development in South Austin. Clark has been hard at work all night teaching his band a new …
Read More »George Clinton Reflects on Five Decades of Funk, Retiring From Touring
“What’s happening, man?” a spry-sounding George Clinton asks when he picks up the phone. The Parliament–Funkadelic mastermind is turning 78 in July, but says he still feels like he did when he was just starting out in the Fifties and Sixties. Despite this, he’s announced that his upcoming run of …
Read More »Hear Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' as If Sung by Jim Morrison, Annie Lennox
Musician Anthony Vincent, who has made a cottage industry out of performing hit songs in 20 different styles, takes on Metallica‘s “Enter Sandman” in his latest video. Over the course of six minutes, he interprets snippets of the song to sound like David Bowie, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder and P-Funk, …
Read More »Op-Ed: On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, We're Still Fighting for Access to Safe, Legal Abortion
In January of 1973 — after years of delays, arguments and questioning from an all-male Supreme Court — the world changed for women. Up until then, women didn’t have the right or freedom to control their bodies, lives or future. Up until then, a woman’s ability to access a safe …
Read More »Fyre Festival Doc Director Talks Fest's Epic Failure, Employee PTSD
In 2017, director Chris Smith was wrapping up Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond, his documentary on Jim Carrey’s transformation into Andy Kaufman forMan on the Moon, when he added a simple line to “a bunch of half-baked ideas” he had written down: Fyre Festival. Organizers of the inaugural luxurious …
Read More »HBO Reveals 'Game of Thrones' Final Season Premiere Date in New Teaser
Winter is finally here. HBO has revealed that the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones will premiere Sunday April 14th at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The announcement came during the third season premiere of True Detective in a teaser trailer titled “Crypts of Winterfell.” The teaser, directed byDavid Nutter …
Read More »Birth Control Coverage Is No Longer Guaranteed in 37 States
Update 5 p.m. ET:Pennsylvania Eastern District Judge Wendy Beetlestone has issued a nationwide injunction, blocking the Trump administration’s birth control rules from taking effect anywhere in the country, citing concerns that states could be impacted by fallout associated with residents losing contraceptive coverage. In a statement, HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley …
Read More »R. Kelly's Estranged Daughter Calls Him a 'Monster' in New Statement
R. Kelly‘s estranged daughter, Buku Abi (given name Joann Kelly), has spoken out about her father in an Instagram story posted on Thursday, E! News reports. Her emotional statement followed the airing of Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kellydocuseries last week, where several of the singer’s alleged sexual assault victims and others …
Read More »Can the Bad Internet Apologies Stop Soon, Please?
On Wednesday,The Hollywood Reporterpublished astoryfrom guest editor Lena Dunham for their 2018 Women in Entertainment Power 100 issue. In this letter, Dunham apologizes to actress Aurora Perrineau, whom she accused oflyingwhen Perrineau accusedGirlswriter Murray Miller of rape. (Miller denied the allegation.) “I wanted to feel my workplace and my world …
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