Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Retailers Think back, if you can, to this time last year, when Wicked-brand products lined shelves near and far. There were Wicked car commercials, makeup collections, and Starbucks drinks. Now? We have Wicked cereal ahead of Wicked: For Good’s November 21 release. Not unlike the text of Wicked itself, the flavors …
Photo: Sabrina Carpenter via YouTube Sabrina Carpenter is, sometimes accidentally but more often on purpose, a lightning rod, the kind of pop star whose art and humor consistently get hoovered up into the overarching fights over women’s promiscuity and desirability. She has long been a familiar face, a 26-year-old industry vet with credits everywhere …
Photo: Jim Dyson/Getty Images We are shocked — shocked! — to find Morrissey being dramatic online. The former Smiths front man issued a blog on his website titled “A Soul for Sale,” offering his stake in the band to the highest bidder. “I am burnt out by any and all connections to Marr, Rourke, …
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Photo: Warner Bros. When you’re in a state of amorous delusion, everything is romantic, which is perhaps why Emerald Fennell uses Charli XCX’s “everything is romantic” featuring Caroline Polachek to set the scene in the first teaser trailer for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Margot Robbie, playing Cathy, zones out reminiscing on tactile memories …
Photo: HELEN SLOAN/NETFLIX Our episode begins with Wednesday behaving hilariously and suspiciously un-Wednesday-like, boppily dancing in sparkle platforms and a rainbow sweater to the tune of “Boombayah.” Enid’s voice-over asks us to admit that “this is the Wednesday Addams you didn’t know you needed.” I don’t know if I’d go that far, but before …
Photo: Eddy Chen/Prime She got on the plane! Unlike Rachel from Friends, thank God, Belly did not let a man lure her away from her Parisian future. Even with Conrad sitting right there at the gate, Isabel Conklin followed through on her half-baked plan to fly to Paris in the middle of the night, …
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Photo: Chantal Anderson/The New York Times/Redux If there’s one thing that supports my belief that John Williams is the greatest film composer of all time, it’s how he brought an almost sacred seriousness to even the lowest-brow movie material. Before Williams, Star Wars was a bunch of actors in Halloween costumes running around wooden …
Photo: Kai Cenat Live via YouTube Sweet streams are made of this. Who are we to disagree, especially given how obsessed the internet seems to be? Kai Cenat began his marathon stream Mafiathon 3, on September 2, the conclusion of his trilogy of subathon events. So far, the headmaster of Streamer University has already …
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Photo: Bernard Walsh/Netflix In accordance with my Inviolable Rules of Television Health and Medicine, fair Wednesday has emerged with only the tiniest, delicate scratches on her otherwise unmarred face after her harrowing night at Willow Hill — where, to review, she discovered the “LOIS” program was a Dr. Moreau–style prison in which rare Outcasts, …
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Photo: Sophy Holland/Netflix Wednesday cast a spell on Lady Gaga. Three year’s after Nevermore Academy’s killer dance became synonymous with Gaga’s Born This Way banger “Bloody Mary,” the pop enchantress guest-stars in Wednesday season two as the ghoulishly fabulous Professor Rosaline Rotwood in episode six. While Gaga is only in part two of the …
