Less than a week before the annual Met Gala, Kim Kardashian posted a selfie with Choupette, the notoriously pampered cat who belonged to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld. While selfies with fellow social media stars (Choupette currently has more than 150K followers on Instagram) are par for the course for Kardashian, the snap appeared to be a response to a recent rumor that no one from her famo…
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Two weeks before the 2023 Met Gala, the team behind the High Fashion Twitter Met Gala sent out a tweet that stated that they would not be holding their usual digital companion event to the annual Costume Institute Benefit, which is often referred to as “fashion’s biggest night.”
“As we approach the first Monday of May, the hf twitter met gala team would like to ann…
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the new biopic from filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, is filled with recreations of the singer’s iconic performances—like her 1991 rendition of the national anthem at the Super Bowl. But the film closes with a scene that pays tribute to one of Houston’s lesser-known appearances: a 1994 performance at the American M…
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I know, I know. We’ve all been joking for the last year: what if bumbling Greg ends up on top at the end of Succession? It doesn’t seem realistic for Greg to be named head honcho. He’s incompetent. He’s awkward. He’s young. This is a smart show that makes smart decisions. His victory seems like more of a Veep subplot than a Succession end…
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Taylor Swift will not be in attendance at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that will address Ticketmaster’s fiasco managing her ‘The Eras Tour’ concert ticket sales. A lesser-known musician, Clyde Lawrence, will instead speak on behalf of artists.
The hearing titled “That’s the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Li…
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This story contains spoilers for all Marvel movies and television series
Marvel movies have become obsessed with parent-child relationships. Recent Marvel Cinematic Universe projects have seen just about every adult superhero step into the role of a mentor or guardian. Wandavision‘s Wanda created and nurtured her super-powered sons, Billy and Tommy…
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The last time I saw Sinéad O’Connor perform, maybe 10 years ago, someone in the crowd asked her to play “Troy,” her furious ballad to a lover who is also someone else’s lover. And she laughed and said that she had done a lot of therapy to not have to sing “Troy” anymore. At least I think it was “Troy.” It might have been “The Last Days of Our Acquaintance,” about a different breakup. …
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Less than a day into the strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA)—the union representing 11,500 writers of TV, movies, and other entertainment—an article and tweet from Variety revealing that House of the Dragon Season 2 plans to continue filming prompted a fierce debate over the fate of TV scripts.
“All scripts were finished,” read the tweet. Bu…
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You, me and everyone we know: whether you’re aware of it or not, you’re in a relationship with a monster.
There is surely some artist whose behavior, known to …
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For Troye Sivan, putting it all out there is pretty much second nature. In 2013, he broke out with his coming out video on YouTube and over the decade since, has continued to share pieces of himself through music and performance. Sivan got his start on the internet posting YouTube videos with other popular creators in the early 2010s, but soon pivoted from a career solely in social media to pur…
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