Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty Images Among the unexpected names for this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction class was Carol Kaye, the peerless session bassist who played on some of the most important recordings of all time. (Just try the one-two punch of “Good Vibrations” and “Wichita Lineman” and see where the day …
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Photo: Amazon MGM Studios/Courtesy Everett Collection Light spoilers for The Accountant 2 follow. With his marriage to Jennifer Lopez fraying, Ben Affleck had the same first instinct as many Hollywood stars: Focus on an action movie. Sure, Affleck was already developing The Accountant 2 before he even married Lopez, but the action sequel became …
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Photo: Shutterstock Will life ever be as good as it was in February of 2024? All in one night, we got Taylor Swift down on the field at the Super Bowl, the first look at Wicked, and the first-ever American commercial for Chinese e-tailer Temu. The brand’s slogan “Shop like a billionaire” was put …
Photo: Disney+ Spoilers follow for the second season of Andor through its sixth episode, and the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We probably weren’t meant to love Saw Gerrera. The rebel leader played by Forest Whitaker in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (the inspiration for Andor and the narrative point …
Photo: Marc Piasecki/WireImage/Getty Images The Virgin Lorde hath birthed a new album. Following the release of her first single since 2021, “What Was That,” Lorde confirmed on social media and on her website that her next album, titled Virgin, is coming out June 27. “The colour of the album is clear,” she wrote in …
Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd/Disney + Andor is a complex tale of rebellion and revolution across a vast sci-fi galaxy, so there’s a lot to keep track of — especially since season two is coming out a few years after season one. You’d be forgiven for thinking, as I did, that one of the main characters …
Photo: Evan Zimmerman At the end of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the soprano Elza van den Heever stayed onstage to accept the uproarious ovations with a weepy smile and a grateful tap on her heart. That moment of curtain-call niceness came as a shock on opening night, because for …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Getty Images Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist currently polling a fighting second in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, and the only candidate who appears to be having any fun on the campaign trail, is tight on time these days. Running for mayor is an all-consuming task, after …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images Barbra Streisand is going back to the way she was — that is, duetting with whomever she damn well wishes. The legendary performer is readying a sequel to her 2014 album, Partners, titled The Secret of Life. And oh, is it star-studded. This time, Streisand tapped rock icons like …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images Tom Cruise can hang off the sides of flying planes and motorcycle-jump off cliffs for Mission: Impossible, but the franchise’s parent companies can’t seem to merge with the same finesse. Bidding wars, a CEO reshuffling, a new presidential administration, and other roadblocks have plagued Paramount Global as it has …
