“If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” “This is nothing for the radio,” Drake proclaimed at the beginning of his 2013 album, Nothing Was the Same, “but they’ll still play it though.” Like any good rap boast, it was a bit of an exaggeration — after all, we’re talking about an album that featured such obvious hits as the puffed-chest anthem “Started From the Bottom” and the tuneful, twilit ballad “Hold On, We’re Going Home.
The Simpsons is the funniest show of all time, but it’s also one of the most tragic. Think about it: Homer is an overweight drunk who hates his job; Marge gave up her dreams for her husband; Bart is “underachiever and proud of it,” meaning he’s already stopped trying, even in elementary school; Lisa is a clinically depressed eight-year-old; and Maggie is only a toddler and she’s already shot someone. And that’s not to mention the lives of Milhouse, Hans Moleman, Martin Prince, Nelson Muntz, and so on.
For the love of basketball! On April 4, 2012, we said goodbye to One Tree Hill, the WB turned CW teen soap that felt like it would be around forever. On this, the fifth anniversary of its finale, we take a trip back to that small North Carolina town to rank all nine of its sometimes earnest, sometimes wack-a-doodle seasons.
In case you need a refresher (all nine seasons are currently streaming on Netflix, if you feel so inclined), One Tree Hill is about half-brothers Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan (James Lafferty) Scott, who share a villainous father and not much else.
Bonanza Creek Ranch, the set of Rust, is seen closed Friday, the day after the shooting. Alec Baldwin has finally finished filming Rust, about a year and a half since news of the shooting on the set of the film on October 21, 2021 set off a wave of speculation. As reports trickled in, the situation began to clarify: Two people had been shot during a scene at Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico.
The thing about shooting a movie set in 1970s San Francisco in 2023 is that those two time periods are actually not the same. The world changes! So when Fairyland, a movie based on a memoir of the same name by Alysia Abbott about growing up with a gay dad during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Fran, decided to shoot on location, the team had their work cut out for them.
They call it “the wild west” for a reason. Yeah, because of all the gunfights and train robberies, but also because of the hygiene. In Variety’s Actors on Actors, Faith Hill discussed the realities of portraying a pioneer gal with Courteney Cox. Taylor Sheridan demands verité from his actors, and that apparently includes armpit hair. Sheridan apparently had Hill’s husband and co-star Tim McGraw break the news: “Taylor actually called my husband.
The 46th season of Survivor has been an absolute mess. There was Bhanu, the simpering do-nothing who was eventually put out of his misery but shouldn’t have been cast in the first place. There was Q, who seemed to shift his entire strategy and betray his alliances based on stray comments. Not a single member of the cast executed an idol or advantage successfully. We’re now five years into Survivor’s “new era,” and few of its tricks and twists are still working.
Neil Portnow. Neil Portnow, the former Grammys CEO who left amid controversy in 2019, has been sued by a musician accusing him of sexual battery. An unnamed female instrumentalist alleged that Portnow drugged and raped her in June 2018, according to the New York Times. Portnow had announced plans to leave his Recording Academy position that May, after his much-criticized comment that women in music need to “step up,” but was still acting as CEO at the time.
Okay, do Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen next. AAAHhhhhh! AAAhhhhh! There used to be one movie and now there’s gonna be two! Could you, like, chill for a second? A sequel to the 2003 version of Freaky Friday, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, is in the works and heading to theaters in 2025, according to a June 24 tweet from Disney. Both actresses are ready to get freaky again, and production is officially on.
On the occasion of Portlandia’s sixth-season premiere — one packed with guest stars like the Flaming Lips, Zoe Kravitz, and Steve Buscemi — longtime friends Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein connected with Vulture to reflect on a busy year, one that pushed the IFC show farther down on their increasingly crowded résumés: Brownstein, 41, authored a biography about her years in Sleater-Kinney, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, returned for season two of Transparent, and cameoed in the Oscar-nominated Carol.