The Fallon Theory of Virality states that, in order for a musical parody video to blow up Facebook, it needs three ingredients: one normal thing, one super-popular thing, and one weird and unexpected thing. The roles aren’t quite as defined in this video of Mean Girls’ Daniel Franzese singing a “Stay With Me” parody about unpleasant one-night stands, and that might be why the effect of this one is slightly muted.

64 terrible fan bases go in … but only one will come out. This year, not unlike every year prior, was a big one for terrible fans. Furious Game of Thrones fans created a petition to have season eight remade “with competent writers,” Louis C.K. fans fully supported his consequence-free comeback, and Friends fans went after a writer who dared to say the show is not good. That’s just a tiny slice of the bustling, rabid fan activity of 2019.

On being misunderstood, working with Ryan Adams, and the dawn of Girlville. Photo: Radka Leitmeritz / New York Magazine Photo: Radka Leitmeritz / New York Magazine On a recent afternoon, Liz Phair walked into her manager’s office in Beverly Hills, exasperated by the day’s social-media controversy: a Jezebel article that revisits Alanis Morissette’s 1995 debut blockbuster, and craps on it. “I honestly can’t believe that at this time in our political history, people are going to be venomous about Alanis Morissette and Jagged Little Pill,” she sighed.

The director on his films, marriage and infidelity, and the deaths he didn’t mourn. Peter Bogdanovich. Photo: Robert Maxwell Peter Bogdanovich. Photo: Robert Maxwell Peter Bogdanovich. This interview originally ran in 2019. We are republishing it following the death of Peter Bogdanovich on January 6, 2022. Peter Bogdanovich is often held up as a cautionary tale of Hollywood arrogance, Icarus with big frames and a neckerchief. In a hurry since adolescence, at 16 he talked his way into acting classes with Stella Adler; at 20, he persuaded Clifford Odets to let him direct one of his plays Off Broadway; and he went on to befriend and write about the golden-age movie directors he idolized, like Orson Welles and John Ford.

Florence Pugh in Dune: Part Two. Critics have dug their heads out of the sand to share what’s happening on Arrakis. Dune: Part Two, out March 1, is a triumph of vision, according to the early reports, but that doesn’t mean director Denis Villeneuve’s monumental scale and formal austerity have pleased everyone. For select reviewers, the film amounts to sand, beautiful sand, and some tepid anti-imperial themes. Other, more satisfied critical responses argue that Villeneuve’s casting and craft alchemy, juiced by a story with far more interesting beats than the first one had, make for an arresting watch.

Activist and actress Jane Fonda has lived her life to the fullest in many ways, except for one, apparently. The 82-year-old actress revealed the one person she regrets not sleeping with (and which pesky husband prevented her), as well as her one-word review of Marlon Brando, to the New York Times. In a lightning round, Fonda says she doesn’t “think about” passing on Che Guevara. Instead, she mourns her opportunity with the Prince of Soul.

Julianna Margulies. Last month, in an effort to be transparent about the salaries women make on television, Julianna Margulies revealed CBS “refused” to pay the fee she was requesting to appear in a three-episode guest role on The Good Fight, the spinoff series of her original show, The Good Wife. At the time, Margulies said she was “really excited” to reunite for a few episodes with her pals Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, but on principle, she had to ultimately pass because of CBS’s dismissal of her fee.

Omega X Omega X has taken steps to press charges against Spire Entertainment’s former CEO, accusing Kang Seong-hee of verbal and physical abuse, including sexual harassment, the K-pop group announced in a November 16 press conference. The legal action — which includes a filing to terminate their contract with the company — comes a little over three weeks after a fan of the boy band posted an alleged eyewitness account of abuse at the hands of then-CEO Kang on Twitter.

Once you toss your wilted flower crown in the trash and put on jeans that are not cut off, but instead fully finished with a machine-sewn hem, a certain post-music-festival malaise starts to creep up on even the most ardent Coachella lover. So it was with Lana Del Rey, who, like you, had a hard time cutting loose this weekend with the threat of increasing hostility between the U.S. and North Korea looming on the horizon.

Spoilers for the entirety of The Bear’s third season ahead. There are many ways to interpret the term “motherfucker.” It can be celebratory, like, “Yes! Motherfucker! We did it.” It can be an expression of wonderment. Or it can be angry: “Motherfucker.” When Carmy says the word in the final moments of The Bear’s third season, its meaning is left open to interpretation but seems to lean toward the angry variant.