Aaaaand now you’re crying. Paul McCartney and Kanye West have been professionally linked for around four years, working together and with Rihanna, but it turns out their relationship actually stretches back a decade and has a touching origin story. McCartney tells GQ that the two were both attending the 2008 European MTV Awards in Liverpool when they broke the ice by getting deep in their feelings. McCartney recalls, “I’d just gone through my divorce [from Heather Mills], and I was kind of a little bit raw from it, and I said something to him about it, and he’d just broken up with someone [Alexis Phifer], and he just pulled out his phone and played this great little track—I don’t even remember what it’s called, but it’s one of his famous ones.
Everyone’s a main character at the anonymous singer’s live New York debut. PinkPantheress onstage at Le Poisson Rouge. Photo: Maridelis Morales Rosado PinkPantheress onstage at Le Poisson Rouge. I know I’m in the right place when I see a large crowd of people dressed in what I’m calling “seventh-grade alternative”: black-and-white checkerboard belts slung over low-rise flares, midriff-baring baby tees with maxi skirts, tiny bags with gigantic boots, bucket hats and more than one cosplay wig.
quarantunes Mar. 16, 2020 Ariana Grande Invented Staying HomeShe has been wearing a sweatshirt for years, exclusively owns beanbag chairs, and her lyrics have long urged us to stay indoors. By Rachel Handler
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Rachel Van Nes. Rachel Van Nes is a Los Angeles–based improviser, writer, and almond farmer’s daughter. She currently performs on the UCB Mess Hall team Powerline, indie teams Dock Ellis and Gossamer, and her sketch team New Hotdog. You can read her comedy writing on the Belladonna website and find an example of her voice-over work, i.e. horrible singing, on a PayPal commercial somewhere in the dark reaches of the internet.
All hail Red. This article discusses aspects of all 13 episodes of Orange Is the New Black’s fifth season and contains spoilers throughout.
There are plenty of characters in the rouge’s gallery of Orange Is the New Black: Black Cindy’s pop-culture inflected braggadocio, the flibbertigibbet Floritza and their vain obliviousness, and of course Suzanne and her world of make believe. It’s hard to pick which one is the funniest, but for season five of this prison dramedy, there is one who stands out: Galina “Red” Reznikov (an excellent Kate Mulgrew).
ben silverman Oct. 27, 2008 Ben Silverman Remixes NBC ChimesT.I., the Flaming Lips, and Richie Sambora have been hired to ‘reinterpret’ the chimes in a series of upcoming promos. By Lane Brown
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Jerry Seinfeld in 23 Hours to Kill. Whatever I am about to say about Jerry Seinfeld’s new special, 23 Hours to Kill, Seinfeld has already preempted. In the best, most carefully honed segment of the hour, he glides into an exploration of things that suck versus things that are great. “‘Sucks’ and ‘great’ are the only two ratings,” Seinfeld says. All things are either great or they suck; they’re great with some sucky parts or they suck except for one great thing, and all discourse has been whittled down to those essential categories.
“I want people to know and appreciate my music as an artist, but to be pleasantly surprised when they find out that I’ve been involved in some of their favorite records for other artists too.” Nearly a year after his collaboration with Dua Lipa came out, SG Lewis is still humble about it. He co-produced “Hallucinate,” the showstopping climax of Lipa’s 2020 disco outing Future Nostalgia. The song began in a casual session with his college friend Sophie Cooke, who performs under her middle name Frances and has worked with Lewis since his 2015 debut single “Warm.
This documentary about Sylvester Stallone leaves a lot unsaid. But it does get at the heart of his career. I was never much of a Sylvester Stallone fan as a kid. I was certainly the right age when his Rocky and Rambo sequels were coming out in the 1980s, but that brand of aggressive, muscle-bound machismo, which found favor in an America eager to refight the battles of the ’60s and ’70s, I found off-putting; Sly and some of his ’roided-up imitators seemed like flesh-and-blood manifestations of reactionary, Reaganite rage.
Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, as he appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. “After December 14, we will live in a world where everyone knows Peter Porker,” says comics writer Dan Slott. “Laymen on the street. Kids with their lunch boxes and onesies. Everyone is gonna know who Spider-Ham is.” He pauses. He laughs at the ridiculousness of it all. “What a world.”
No, those aren’t typos. Slott is not talking about Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man.