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Arthur Jones, a Republican congressional candidate described as a “neo-Nazi,” was interviewed by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Thursday morning. The Internet was set ablaze on Thursday by an interview on CNN’s New Day morning show. Over six and a half uncomfortable minutes, co-anchor Alisyn Camerota grilled Arthur Jones, an avowed Holocaust denier and racist who will likely be…
My dream of dancing at the Super Bowl came true. And then I became Left Shark. A few moments of improvisation became an instant meme. By Bryan Gaw January 31, 2018 at 2:39 PM That’s me, on the left. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images) It was the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show. We had been rehearsing for…
Audience members wander through dozens of elaborately decorated rooms as dancers perform a blood-and-sex filled adaptation of Macbeth at the immersive theater production Sleep No More. The lighting ranges from dim to very dark; guests are intentionally separated from the people they arrived with. Before the performance, an actor usually declares that “fortune favors the…
close story-meta Credit Cari Vander Yacht MTV’s “TRL” recently welcomed Poppy, a rising star with hologram-perfect skin, an avant-garde Japanese schoolgirl wardrobe and a voice like Betty Boop’s on benzos. For much of the show, she perched silently on the couch and methodically stacked candies on a glass table. A longhaired handler called Titanic Sinclair…
Cover Photo Uma Thurman in New York. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein. close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Yes, Uma Thurman is mad. She has been raped. She has been sexually assaulted. She has been mangled in hot steel. She has been…
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The real Jessica Rychly is a Minnesota teenager with a broad smile and wavy hair. She likes reading and the rapper Post Malone. When she goes on Facebook or Twitter, she sometimes muses about being bored or trades jokes with friends. Occasionally, like many teenagers, she posts a duck-face selfie. But on Twitter, there is…
The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net published a pseudonymous woman’s account of a difficult encounter with Aziz Ansari that made her cry, the internet exploded with “takes” arguing that the #MeToo movement had finally gone too far. “Grace,” the 23-year-old woman, was…
‘I borrowed from the films of Leni Riefenstahl to show that these US soldiers were like something out of Nazi propaganda. I even put one in an SS uniform. But no one noticed’ [if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif] ‘It’s an idiotic story’ … Casper Van Dien in the 1997 film. Photograph: Allstar/Touchstone/Sportsphoto Ltd…
On a less auspicious note, 1986 also marked the nadir of the cocaine addition phase of King’s career in the form of Maximum Overdrive, the first, last and I think it’s safe to assume, only, adaptation of Stephen King’s work to be directed by Stephen King himself. In Hollywood’s Stephen King, King says, with characteristic…