Photo: Taylor Swift/YouTube This article was originally published on November 17, 2021. It has been updated to include examples of disastrous driving found in The Life of a Showgirl. There are certain recurring themes Taylor Swift consistently returns to throughout her discography, like forbidden romances, colors representing emotions, and the absolute worst driving imaginable. …
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Photo: Gotham/GC Images After months of “will she/won’t she/does it even matter” last fall, Taylor Swift posted an endorsement of Kamala Harris on her Instagram ahead of the 2024 presidential election. While most of her statement was focused on the Harris–Tim Walz campaign’s emphasis on reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ issues, she couched the timing …
Photo: Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic Ben Stiller’s new documentary about his parents’ marriage, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, led him to reflect on his period of separation from his own wife, Christine Taylor, from 2017 through 2022. In the film, which debuted at the New York Film Festival on October 6, Taylor and Stiller have a …
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Photo: Getty Images for Uber, X and The Bari Weiss is heading back into the world of “having a boss.” David Ellison’s Paramount is purchasing Weiss’s conservative digital-media publication, the Free Press, and installing Weiss as the head of CBS News, Paramount confirmed October 6. CBS bought TFP for around $150 million in cash …
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Photo: Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images Here’s a time signature we can finally understand: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are reuniting Rush and will embark on a 2026 tour, a celebration of both their 50 years together as a band and the memory of Neil Peart. The tour, which will hit seven cities across the country …
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Copyright 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved. The magic sauce of FX’s English Teacher is nostalgia. The show evokes high-school movies from another time: Its credits are scrawled in a neon-pink cursive that would be right at home against the backdrop of a John Hughes–movie establishing shot of a nondescript municipal building. Evan Marquez (played …
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Photo: Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images While eras and adversaries may come and go, there’s one constant in Taylor Swift’s discography: emotional track fives. It’s long been a tradition for that coveted spot to be reserved for the most personal and vulnerable song of each album, and “Eldest Daughter” takes that slot on The Life of …
Photo: Catherine Hyland for New York Magazine Harris Dickinson’s day job is being John Lennon. The actor has spent the better part of the past year rehearsing for Sam Mendes’s four-part Beatles biopic, expected in theaters in 2028. Occasionally, though, Dickinson, 29, plays hooky from the band to nurture his side hustle as writer …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Penguin Press Shadow Ticket starts with a bang. “The explosion when it comes seems to be from somewhere across the river and nearer the Lake,” Thomas Pynchon writes. “Nobody seems surprised.” In language and sentiment, the lines closely echo the opening of 1973’s Gravity’s Rainbow, his best-known book: “A screaming comes …
Photo: Independent Film Company and Shudder Release Spoilers for Good Boy ahead. Good Boy is a novel concept in the haunted-house genre — it’s told entirely from the point of view of a dog, and it’s got a surprisingly moving twist in its tail, sorry, tale. Co-written and directed by Ben Leonberg, who is …
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